Best Owl Poems
Below are the all-time best Owl poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of owl poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Little Owl and the WolfA snowy owl sat on her nest
while tending to her brood;
her mate flew out upon a quest
to gather...
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Categories:
owl, friendship,
Form:
Personification
Night OwlSitting by her open window
Was a girl deep in thought,
Lost within a book of Poe
A perfect poem she sought
With a curious eye
He watches her pen,
For...
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Categories:
owl, bird, moon, mystery, night,
Form:
Quatrain
Wake Me, the Owl, When the Moon Does RiseWake me, the owl, when the moon does rise
and his golden beams illuminate the skies,
when the darkness flees and the time just flies
and the cold,...
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Categories:
owl, bird, fantasy, longing, moon,
Form:
Personification
Gnarled ShadowsThrough shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare,
Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...
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Categories:
owl, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form:
Narrative
And Sweet Is Her DemiseIn primrose twilight, summer is still near.
She whispers in my ear; I hear her in
the one lone owl that hoots to only me.
I wake to...
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Categories:
owl, autumn, death, summer,
Form:
Blank verse
Winter Wonderland~ My favorite Thanksgiving memory was, quite simply, a walk at my grandparents house - I'll never forget how nature spoke to me that...
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Categories:
owl, appreciation, beauty, nature, winter,
Form:
Sonnet
Here, Again: the Autumn EquinoxWritten for the Avebury Gorsedd, 24th September 2016
I wish you well...
I’m here, again…
Come riding in, upon the western wave
My hair all wove with...
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Categories:
owl, autumn, england, myth, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Moonlight MagicThe night was fickle as November
A time when all sleep in slumber;
A moist mist hangs over the river,
And a still cold moon hangs as a...
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Categories:
owl, seasons, light, light, silver,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
owl, addiction,
Form:
I do not know?
In Red's Silent FuryMetallic city howls like a wounded animal
scraped by nocturnal vigils
of grandchildren and elders
emaciated like tuberculosis lungs
gasping from chug-chugs of tobacco soot...
and the face of a...
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Categories:
owl, anger, angst,
Form:
Lyric
My Secret SoulA meek Monet, a gentle Van Gogh
I may seem too nice and mild, though
The moon knows my true name
In lust I ascend to claim my...
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Categories:
owl, bird, identity, mystery, night,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Categories:
owl, betrayal, , memorial,
Form:
Rhyme
Sacred GratitudeSacred Gratitude
Rockin and Rollin inside my soul
Beckoning musical notes float within me
My heart surrenders and opens
Expanding
When the world outside dances in tension
Feeling bleak and...
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Categories:
owl, appreciation, beautiful, dream, fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Moon In Pale DepressionMuted evidence proclaimed the subtle oddities of night
Lunar time should have reached the zenith of its height
No chirping crickets were heard, nor...
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Categories:
owl, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
Sol SquintsSol squints as His unblinking eye
slips over the edge of the Earth.
And as Scarlet smears a teal sky,
Dusk dims, awaiting Dawn's rebirth.
Vermilion clouds hang overhead,
hovering...
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Categories:
owl, beauty, imagery, imagination, sunset,
Form:
Quatrain