Get Your Premium Membership

Best Milkweed Poems

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


Premium Member Our Milkweed Pod Sonata
in awe we polka
our milkweed pod sonata
dazzling the pond...

Read more of this work...
Categories: milkweed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Haiku
Milkweed Wonder Pod
I picked a ripened pod
And split open at its seam,
Hundreds of seeds attached to
Fluffy tufts of hair.

I blew gently and sent a
myriad silken little
parachutes into...

Read more of this work...
Categories: milkweed, nature,
Form: Dodoitsu
Milkweed
The capsule burst open
  Fuzzy floss spills out
Soft white parachutes 
  for small seeds that yearn
     to float away...

Read more of this work...
Categories: milkweed, nature,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Am a Lonely Milkweed Pod
I am a lonely milkweed pod
No one is here to see my prettiness
No child has taken me to school
My seeds are almost ready to fly...

Read more of this work...
Categories: milkweed, environment, feelings, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Personification
Milkweed
Mundane indulgence for a prlonged state
of agony in truth of fake lies and synthetic tears,

bloated rendition of angels; the hate crawls
out from the ruins of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: milkweed, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form:
Milkweed and Hydrangeas
The garden you planted is regrowing,
Just like you said it would—
But the desolate husks of last summer’s foliage 
Still stand stark;
Everlasting monuments
Of what once was.

Yet...

Read more of this work...
© E. E. Behm  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: milkweed, death, depression, emotions, family,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Milkweed
The field is full of pods
Ready to let the seeds fly
Milkweed, bursting with life
Waiting to spread growth
Like 100 plants of inspiration
Showing positive change
New beginnings and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: milkweed, appreciation, growth, inspiration, nature,
Form: Free verse
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed
Doubting Thomas luxuriates under Dylanesque milkweed

made fibrous threads...constituting heavy blanket
(crocheted by the missus)
on a cool Autumn like morning...

to stave off experiencing getting
chilblains, goosebumps,
or subjected to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: milkweed, analogy, animal, august, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Afternoon With My Aunt
You came into her house through the kitchen. 
The big door in from the front porch
Hadn't been used for years;
Furniture stood hard against it.
A knock...

Read more of this work...
Categories: milkweed, caregiving, childhood, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse