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Best Olive Poems

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


Premium Member That Starry Night
Like no one before, nor since
 you painted that starry night in oils
  superimposing your life story.

I feel I know this idyllic village
 blanketed...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: olive, art, depression, night, passion,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Love In the Silence of the Soul
As a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls

I heard the words destined to me
“Be...

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Categories: olive, death, love, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In Pursuit of a Promise
A promise should never remain silent.

In pursuit of our principal pledge -
I ponder her secret garden,
within the province of our paradise.

For her love is 
an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: olive, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
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: olive, 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: olive, beauty, color, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Hero
In a world where hearts ignore compassionate cries.
Acts of kindness become rare, so empathy dies.

As human nature loses the skill to listen,
his mission is to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: olive, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Live for Today
yesterday is a collection
of photographic memories
tomorrow a whirlpool of
                ...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: olive, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Carpe Diem
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: olive, angst,
Form: Free verse
You Know
Yes, my dear, you know,
You are my source of joy, rejuvenation, hope
I need your emotion spread onto my life,
I need your heart to sing among...

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Categories: olive, emotions, friendship, happiness, joy,
Form: Ode
Premium Member To the Flower
TO THE FLOWER

Your scent beckoned my weeping heart to painless flight;
amidst a garden where God dusts His pretty love.

Spring tints are pure and fragrant, free...

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Categories: olive, beauty, environment, flower, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Are God and I Have To Believe
YOU ARE GOD and I HAVE TO BELIEVE


My dear Father God above the heavens high
ever loving and ever faithful in loving me
even though, I am...

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Categories: olive, christian, conflict, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
One For All
God is all colours
And He is no colour,
For He lives in the black
And He lives in the white.
He lives in the mixed,red
Olive, brown and yellow,
For...

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Categories: olive, life, love, peace, people
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Grandma Still Calls Your Name
I will always remember those uneven paths,
which led me to you - 
sorrowful reminder of promises I could not keep.
All you wanted was to sit...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: olive, death, grandfather, grandson,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Message of Peace
Be the night that prompts
A nightingale to sing,
Be the dawn of endearment
Enamored in song of robin,
Be a dove, soothing morning,
Crooning melodies of peace.

Be the land...

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Categories: olive, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Modern Mona Lisa
Leonardo’s Mona Lisa has nothing on you 
with her familiar face we’ve seen for years;
but your young beauty that’s so fresh and new,
leaves men around...

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Categories: olive, beauty, image, smile, woman,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs