Best Leaves Poems
Below are the all-time best Leaves poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of leaves poems written by PoetrySoup members
Categories:
leaves, autumn, family, house, life,
Form:
Narrative
A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.
now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...
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Categories:
leaves, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
A Tale of Fire and IcePart I: Ice
He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...
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Categories:
leaves, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form:
Rhyme
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
leaves, introspection, drug,
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:
leaves, abuse, violence,
Form:
Free verse
Past-Life NightmareA child of four suffers recurring dreams,
disturbing parents and siblings with screams.
When she awoke, always sore in one knee;
next to a birthmark, it throbbed painfully.
Night...
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Categories:
leaves, autumn, mystery,
Form:
Narrative
September"September, beautiful month of my birth, is nigh, but I cannot feel glad."
September, drifting in with glow of moon,
you stifle Summer’s ardor. . . and...
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Categories:
leaves, nature, sad, sun, time,
Form:
Terzanelle
The View From a WindowA view of the ragged woodland from
The window:-
Slender branched trees that shed
From high above to low below;
The faint, mauven peaks
Smattered with barely visible
Scatterings of drifted...
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Categories:
leaves, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
leaves, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The Last GoodbyeInviting vibrancy as the season changed
Smiley faces bloomed, reopening dreams.
Seeing you there marked a blessed event
Akin to magical when first time eyes met.
Breezing trees...
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Categories:
leaves, goodbye, imagery, love, nature,
Form:
Verse
PneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisONE WORD~
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my veins,
...
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Categories:
leaves, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form:
Epic
The StoneThe tale below was carved one night
upon the stone, by candlelight
...most won’t believe, but some just might
.........most won’t believe, but some just might
...
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Categories:
leaves, body, death, fantasy, kiss,
Form:
Ballad
Love of NatureWhether ocean or mountain with valley green
or every deep forest in between
My love for Nature fills my eyes
With every creature of Earth and sky
The changing...
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Categories:
leaves, nature,
Form:
Couplet
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
leaves, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun
One RegretNow walking through the autumn of my life
Where maple leaves have turned from green to gold
I watch them fall in breezes turning cold
In a whirl-wind...
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Categories:
leaves, introspection, life,
Form:
Sonnet