Best Leaf Poems
Below are the all-time best Leaf poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of leaf poems written by PoetrySoup members
LeafFloating down with grace and ease
Carried off by the Autumn breeze
Rich in hues of orange and red
Landing in the flower bed
What once was buzzing full...
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Categories:
leaf, memory, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
The Red Leafthe raspy whisper
finally
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..
the crisp red leaf
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...
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Categories:
leaf, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Rape - trigger warningOctober: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...
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Categories:
leaf, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Sailing the Seas In a Pecan TreeThe wind billows out from the seat of his britches
With determined blue eyes, skinned knuckles and knees
he climbs up the rails nailed from old cedar...
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Categories:
leaf, adventure, old,
Form:
Rhyme
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in...
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Categories:
leaf, lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse
PneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisONE WORD~
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my veins,
...
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Categories:
leaf, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form:
Epic
My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs
There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…
seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape
of sun-raptured...
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Categories:
leaf, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form:
Free verse
BrokenI wonder about her
as I shave suet and place thistle seed down -
once again
she reveals herself to the corner of my eye
a slight movement caught...
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Categories:
leaf, bird, emotions, fate, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors,
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...
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Categories:
leaf, analogy, how i feel,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Whose Muse Elusive DewThe worldliness within the sphere
reflecting morning light,
as poignant as a single tear
idea bright is crystal clear
and frames...
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Categories:
leaf, destiny, life, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
leaf, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form:
Free verse
My Heart Will Go On - POTDPOTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...
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Categories:
leaf, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
HopeHope is a song of bird
Reassuring forlorn dawn,
The nightmare is banished
And the dream is still alive
Hope is a Lotus flower
Drowning in the night
Yet, rising through...
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Categories:
leaf, hope,
Form:
Free verse
When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the SkiesI see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...
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Categories:
leaf, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form:
Lyric
Tears On Her Pillow - Continued From a Girl Named Sue
Tears for a Mother
Fears for a Father gone
Fate deals an unfair hand
The door to youthful joy closing
on adolescent shoulders imposing
grown up responsibilities instead
Eyes sadly deprived...
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Categories:
leaf, fate, first love, hope,
Form:
Free verse