Best Leisure Poems
Below are the all-time best Leisure poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of leisure poems written by PoetrySoup members
Hard Times
When hard times come they sit a spell,
Like kin folk come to stay
A-packin' troubles, pets an' kids
That always get ‘n your way.
It's drought an' flood,...
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Categories:
leisure, cowboy-western, family, funny, life,
Form:
Cowboy Poetry
Trim Trimmer Chicken Dinner WinnerI don’t know tic tac toe
so I rhyme this with flow,
showing Nick Nac knows
how to serve the perfect dose.
Measuring the rhymes
like I’m pleasuring the...
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Categories:
leisure, character, confidence, cool, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
To Boldly GoMy training at Starfleet was over, they were now deploying me
I was over the moon when they called; I was full of glee
I entered the...
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Categories:
leisure, science fiction, space,
Form:
Rhyme
DandelionsSustained by the frequent spring showers
Adorned by rosettes of dark green
They burst into dense yellow flowers
The florets parading their sheen.
They sway to sensations of pleasure...
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Categories:
leisure, flower, nature,
Form:
Quatrain
In Midst of Life - Fragility of Dreams
A lovely night beneath the stars
with ocean waves glazed by the moon;
nearby, the music of guitars
strums soft, a melancholy...
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Categories:
leisure, assonance, death,
Form:
Quatrain
Finding Happiness In Everyday PleasuresFinding Happiness in Everyday Pleasures
Happiness is bathing in glorious, golden sunshine,
absorbing the beauty of sunsets deliciously divine.
Dancing through cool droplets of silvery rain,
feeling cleansed, refreshed,...
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Categories:
leisure, happiness, joy,
Form:
Rhyme
A Shade From the PastJust as days long ago, when decorum resolved,
before composure, and poise,.. were corsages, unknown
Where propriety mattered, and was favored as gold,
high society, has gathered...
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Categories:
leisure, art, nostalgia, people,
Form:
Sonnet
Hazy Tears BurstMidnight hangs in deepened revelation
as the cry of elegy flows within its waiting,
hazy tears burst to deny sleep’s interval
when baby - lullabies...
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Categories:
leisure, angst, death,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Farmer JoeOn the banks of the mighty Skagit,
where the rushing waters flow,
sat a fisherman of merit,
the one known as Farmer Joe.
Long he sat there, long he...
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Categories:
leisure, fishing, old, time,
Form:
Narrative
Twixt Blaze and ClawAbuses hurled and Alcohol gurgled,
In the vortex of confusion
And blurred vision.
Intoxicated pleasure from surreal leisure.
Fooled senses and numbed conscience.
Wiped existence of love and kindness cuffed.
Lashed...
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Categories:
leisure, abuse, dark, social, sorrow,
Form:
Blank verse
WalmartI want to mingle
with the people of Walmart
as they regally push
their shopping carts
Eclectically dressed perfection
each a work of art
Camouflaged chic
or an old guy...
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Categories:
leisure, art, beautiful, courage, hello,
Form:
Free verse
Tunes of WavesIn waters’ calm leisure, mellow tides drift
Along back strides that always find their sway,
The lighter blues, the deeper jades, that sift
Glimmers of mollusks that twinkle...
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Categories:
leisure, music, nature, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
AtaraxisAs we traverse in happiness of euphoric thoughts
Exuberance of sunrise permeates our avid hearts
Holding hands of leisure on hushed idyllic grounds,
Where pink lotus-blooms lift-up in...
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Categories:
leisure, happiness, nature, peace, silence,
Form:
Tristich
The Rainy DayRainy day
Green and grey leisure
You say
It is a pleasure
Green and grey leisure
Drifting poems in sky
It is a pleasure
Golden kites flying very high
Drifting poems in sky
You...
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Categories:
leisure, color, image, poems, rain,
Form:
Pantoum
Ko Olina Place of JoyPicture a tropical paradise - faraway
Colorful leis of fresh fragrant flowers
Worn by hula dancers that sway
Sandy beaches and leisure filled hours
Soft waving palms on...
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Categories:
leisure, happiness, inspiration, race,
Form:
Quintain (Sicilian)