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Best Maypole Poems

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


Around the Maypole
Spring bows to thrill of cayenne summer,    
dreams spiced in youthful glow come May.
Bright ribbons wake my bare feet’s slumber. 
Spring bows...

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Categories: maypole, color, may, seasons, youth,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Life Is Like a Maypole
LIFE IS LIKE A MAYPOLE

Outstretch above are blue skies and golden sunshine
as train of threads is softly thug and braid to a pole.
Behold, this sky...

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Categories: maypole, beautiful, color, imagery, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
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The complexities of life colours our world
We are taken on a long and sometimes complicated journey
Like being on a roller coaster where there are many...

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Categories: maypole, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Life As a Maypole
Life as a maypole, is an interesting theme
where schemes we might plan can get tangled with dreams 

The things I had dreamed of, to better...

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Categories: maypole, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
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The land shrugs off the chill of winter
And emerges into spring’s full beauty.
The things barren bloom hereafter.
People remember me as an icon of vitality
I am...

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Categories: maypole, celebration, community,
Form: Personification
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From a roulette of colored bands,
sewn by the pole of Maytime’s cheer
round and round, we dance lively swirls
encircling the gilded carousels.
Floats of laughter merrily wafts
as...

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Categories: maypole, celebration, seasons,
Form: Rhyme



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In…out…ribbons held
Around, around, the Maypole,
Building as they go…
Around, around, in and out…
Weaving patterns in their dance.

In…out…days of life,
Around, around through the years,
Building as we go…
Around,...

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Categories: maypole, dance, life,
Form: Tanka
The Maypole of Life
The dancers weave, their threads are wound;
some gold, some red, some darkest brown.
Their cords (our lives) spun to the sound
of Mother Earth changing her gown.

Some...

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Categories: maypole, analogy, life,
Form: Pantoum
Life Is Like a Maypole
The web of life, so beautifully woven
by ribbon paths of which we've chosen.

The colors, then so stunningly enhanced
when we answer the call to join the...

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Categories: maypole, life,
Form: Verse
Life Is Like a Maypole
Grab a hold and take a spin
You destiny shall begin

Hang on tight
With all your might

You’ll want to reach
The very end

Pick any color you desire
Red, yellow,...

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Categories: maypole, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
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Life Is Like A Maypole.
In our spring, we are born; 
our dance begins as inter-woven events 
and experiences build our future.

Blood-red trauma,
wraps itself around our...

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Categories: maypole, celebration, may, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose
Life Is Like a Maypole
Life is colorful,
Bright, vibrant and always fun
For children and fools....

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Categories: maypole, allusion, childhood, joy, spring,
Form: Haiku
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I recall the time my parents created a maypole,
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Categories: maypole, celebration, childhood, happiness, memory,
Form: Narrative
Categories: maypole, day, may,
Form: Villanelle
Life Is Like a Maypole
I'll weave my thoughts into dreams of glory.
Just maybe I'll inspire with my story.

This journey long on a pebbled road.
Still the view makes light this...

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Categories: maypole, beauty, dance, joy,
Form: Couplet