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 MaypoleSpring 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
Life Is Like a MaypoleLIFE 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
Life Is Like a MaypoleThe 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
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
Life Is Like a MaypoleThe 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
Life Is Like a MaypoleFrom 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
Life Is Like a Maypole
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 LifeThe 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
SpringLet laughter ring, for here comes Spring.
With warbling birds we gaily sing.
As wizened Winter turns and goes,
March promptly puffs her cheeks and blows!
The Old Man’s...
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Categories:
maypole, spring,
Form:
Rondeau
Another Memory To Keep-First May ContestMay the first is traditionally the beginning of Spring
St Joseph is their patron saint this day to be
the only free day when no...
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Categories:
maypole, day, spring,
Form:
Blank verse
Blessed BeLady, weave Your circle tight
With a web of living light
Earth and Air and Fire and Water
Bind us to you.
MacDermot, the Prince of Coolavin came
to...
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Categories:
maypole, princess, spring, symbolism,
Form:
Ballade
ParoxetineI
I am disinfected, sanitised from touch and eyes
Do not hold me. I am Bakelite and you smolder
Sat solid, the wall cold against my spine. A...
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Categories:
maypole, me, parents, me, parents,
Form:
Free verse
They Healed a Dying OakOnce upon an autumn eve,
faeries danced among the leaves
of a great old oak, deep in the woods,
that sits behind my neighborhood.
So delicate, these sprites, they...
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Categories:
maypole, fairy, nature, poems, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
May QueenAs the music flows in my mind and soul,
I dance around in the sun kissed fragrant fields,
of wildflowers and tall emerald green grass....
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Categories:
maypole, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
Junior SchoolMorning assembly
Classroom hell
Couldn't count couldn't spel
School books and fountain pens
Playing in the playground with all my friends
Gobstoppers and chewing gum
Plastic sandals boys shorts to hide...
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Categories:
maypole, childhood, fun, funny, humor,
Form:
Free verse