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Best Mele Poems

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


Adonta Ta Mele
Running cracks of lead flaked paint, spiders across the front door like a grandfather's
forehead. 
Its hinges squeal from years of inattention and forgotten maintenance
Floor boards...

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© Ian Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mele, artlove, space,
Form: Ekphrasis



Mele Melee!
Wind rushes downhill
Tearing into the orchard
Apples ev'rywhere!...

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Categories: mele, nature
Form: Haiku
Mele Kalikimaka
Merry Christmas to all Soupers
Who write all those super-dupers
It seems my muse
Got running shoes
So pardon my silly bloopers!...

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Categories: mele, christmas,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Dawns Gifts
Silver shimmers
   reflected by the sea 
When dawn kisses each 
    silhouetted tree.
As sunrise pierces 
    fleecy...

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Categories: mele, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas in Paradise
One year,  over the ocean, Santa veered  off course
His reindeer were battling a hurricane  force. 
As the sleigh went  spinning and spiraling around,
 an  island appeared far below on the ground,
dotted with palms...

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Categories: mele, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Such Does Exist
I ran out of breath on the road to Mumbai ...

    Not for sake of dust or smog or even health. I...

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Categories: mele, appreciation, beauty, imagery, travel,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Glimpse of Hawaii
A tunnel of branches with leafy green shade
Arc over the winding quiet road
On our windward island’s side
Heading toward the north shore
Where giant waves treat surfers
To...

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Categories: mele, nature, placessea, green, sea,
Form: Free verse
Me Badnaseeb
Mene jab-jab dekha andhera dikha
Khwab bhi mele the dhuan dikha
Mene zindagi ko jeene ki koshish ki 
Jeene ka maksad bhi maut me mila 
 ...

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Categories: mele, dark, hindi, life,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Two Hawaiians, a Sunset and a Memory
Two Aloha-shirted Hawaiians 
of generous girth were strumming 
their ukuleles 
on a small stage in front of the hotel’s poolside bar
in the late afternoon, 
rehearsing...

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Categories: mele, blessing, happiness, memory, places,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Lei
a lei
warmly undulates in the harbor,
scented blossoms in the surf,
welcoming each voyager
with frangipani, plumeria, shells and
haku mele. the ukulele and current
gently pulls with mellifluous undertow.
a...

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Categories: mele, flower, senses, song, travel,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Paradise Island
PARADISE ISLANDS

                       ...

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Categories: mele, paradise,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas Wishes To Poetry Soup Poets
Eid Milad Majid, Joyeux Noël, Frohe Weihnachten
Sheng Dan Kuai Le, Kala Christouyenna, Mele Kalikimaka
Zalig Kerstfeest, krismas mubarak , Buon Natale, Gledelig Jul
Meri Kirihimete, Mele Kalikimaka,...

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Categories: mele, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Satisfying Cold and Hot
***NOTE: Poem posted on the above video. If you need to read it again, just right click on the video and then click on 'Loop'...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mele, image, snow, winter,
Form: Nonet
Premium Member Hawaii's Cursed Rocks
Who’s the lady in the picture Papa Keanu?

“Her name is Pele, Mililani.  The fire goddess of Hawaii.”  

“My middle name, Aiden means (little...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mele, character, christmas, grandchild, grandfather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Adolescence: Apollo's Aria
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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mele, teen, uplifting, voice,
Form: Kwansaba

Book: Shattered Sighs