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Best Lilac Poems

Below are the all-time best Lilac poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of lilac poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Lilac Longing
When rooted promises shift through dusts of seasonal change,
from a kyanite blue breeze to whirling wisps of lilac longing.
Memories live on, as nothing of value...

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Categories: lilac, imagery,
Form: Sijo



Premium Member Winsome Wisteria Sonnet
Winsome Wisteria Sonnet

Eden, open your ardent arms to grace 
Wisteria's soft lilac petaled blooms 
Draped stunningly about Spring’s sunny face 
In softest shades of lavender...

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Categories: lilac, beautiful, beauty, flower, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers 
have escaped me ~
grievous gray 
now flows through my veins.

I shiver melancholia,
entombed...

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Categories: lilac, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Garden of Mum
Mum sat in her aromatic garden,
admiring its charm and grace.
It was a cold morning,
but mum never seemed to feel it any more.

Her eyes were tired,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lilac, mother, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Cuckoo
Far away in a
                land torn with war,
  ...

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Categories: lilac, bird, hope, love,
Form: Shape



Premium Member When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the Skies
I 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: lilac, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Day I Became a Poet
I remember the day I became a poet.

In the magnificence of the submerging sun,
I glanced upon her admiring its majesty.
Amidst hues of clementine and lilac,
her...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lilac, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
The Garden That Lives On
The 
        old house
   from my memories 
 opens to a wide porch
adorned by mom with...

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Categories: lilac, garden,
Form: Concrete
Whisper Soft Into the Night
Distant prayers echo through a lilac sky
light flickers brilliantly in angelic eyes
a yellow crocheted blanket falls to the floor
and a growing heart winks inside.

Kindness breeds...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lilac, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Colours of Poetry
Art is abstract
Art thrives with colours
Colours brighten faded coral
Colours highlight black
Black skies with silver stars
Black opal gemstones
Gemstones like amethyst
Gemstones of vivid ruby
Ruby roses and crimson...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lilac, poetry,
Form: Blitz
Premium Member Kaleidoscope Eyes
Round and round I go 
Unfolding my spirit of envy and gold
The nascence of a new stone
Hazel room, vibrant lilac sky, 
Deep orange haze in...

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Categories: lilac, beauty, color, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Were a Flower
A blossom I’ll be on the wreaths for peace
An offering to deity to feed world’s hungry
I’ll be the garden on every troubled street
Preening as gleefully...

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Categories: lilac, flower, friendship, love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Where Do We Poets Go
Ink of life cannot bleed for eternity,
so I place dried petals in between,
crucial chapters of my memoirs.

When we stop breathing poetry,
our crestfallen pen, left in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lilac, death, life, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me?
Tonight my ink is mute
and this quill rests in silence.
I’m searching for the perfumed poem
you’ve placed in my aching soul,
when I found a home 
within...

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Categories: lilac, deep, devotion, feelings, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Feigned Flames
The moon dances 
on lonely nights,
to astral beams of
the clear quartz milky way~
I lay in an olive meadow
designed in fragrant
promises,
hidden between thorns 
and thistles disguised
as...

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Categories: lilac, angst,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs