Best Perk Up Poems
Joy Comes In the Morning
...Joy comes in the morning
The birds await to sing their hymns
After being lonesome in darkness
The whippoorwill has brought
Them comfort and hope singing
In the stillness of the night
Wildlife ......
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Categories:
perk up, fate,
Form:
Free verse
Effectuality
...myriad of moons
diurnal round - her blithe eyes
perk up planet earth
1/16/2022......
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Categories:
perk up, imagery,
Form:
Haiku
Decayed
...As I stand before this old, dilapidated house,
A structure fast decaying and about to crumble,
With its walls painted grey and white,
And the plaster bearing cracks and marks,
Memories l......
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Categories:
perk up, destiny, house, missing,
Form:
Free verse
Cha-La Cha-La
...
“Chickery Chick Cha-la Cha-la”
Was a happy little ditty
From days gone by, my how time flies
Those words were warm and witty
“Lamsey dotes and dosey doats”
Brings back those days o......
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Categories:
perk up, surreal,
Form:
Rhyme
Kitten and Blue Butterflies
...My life as a Kitten
I perk up an ear as always when I hear the car start
I run and hop as fast as I can, looking like a hare
Not able to contain myself, I rush outside the pet door into the fiel......
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Categories:
perk up, adventure, beauty, change, confusion,
Form:
Pantoum
My Guinea Pig
...My guinea pig
With the black and brown stripes
And the eyes big and black like space
And tiny little ears
That perk up when he hears the food come.
My guinea pig
Who sits on my lap
As I read......
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Categories:
perk up, animal, pets,
Form:
Free verse
What I Want
...(Another old, slightly tweaked Childhood Poem)
What I want
is to wake up in the morning
with the light of the sun
in my eye -
What I want
is to perk up a little --
to try......
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Categories:
perk up, age, appreciation, cat, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
Hunting Season
...I smell a hunter
Now my ears quickly perk up;
Time to be careful.......
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Categories:
perk up, animals, nature
Form:
Haiku
Nobody's Listening
...The world doesn't care unless you're pretty or dead
If you're not a Kardashian they won't care about what you said
I'm unsure if I'm here to stay or if I'm just visiting
But I'll force your ears ......
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Categories:
perk up, deep, emotions, inspiration, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
Harvesting the Cash Crops
...For years and years and a few more years, it now seems clearer to me,
That we’ve lived well, in the nutshell of our small town obscurity.
Life has been grand, on two acres of land of which I can’t l......
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Categories:
perk up, fear, metaphor, political,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Stateless
...
Stateless
…thatched houses catch fire
sparrow tires from romping in the coned-flower chestnut
tree
alights on the road
tires crunch macadam
s......
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Categories:
perk up, allegory, destiny, discrimination, grief,
Form:
Free verse
Arousal Stream
...Human kindness whispering belongings
non filter elements of unbreeded blastphomies
content to wallow in willow bonds of cage happy
stilted mystics pleasure no pain windows
radiate love peace myst......
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Categories:
perk up, dream, fear, journey, life,
Form:
Free verse
The Home Team
...Brainwaves, restless energy, lighting up the stadium. Munching
pistachio nuts, hedging my bets on the home team. Cold skin,
transmitting neural code back to ground zero, to be filed under
Janua......
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Categories:
perk up, loss, sports, winter, home,
Form:
Sonnet
Thoughts On a Spanish Mountainside
...Grey cotton wool clouds enfold the mountain tops,
Creeping forward like an army on the move.
Now and then, dropping their wet cargo
On vegetation, withered from long months of sun.
Gusts of wind ......
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Categories:
perk up, growth, life, mountains, nature,
Form:
Prose
Pretty Flowers
...The flowers I see free my mind
Pretty flowers in a row, red and green
Pretty flowers in the field that I find
I’ll send to a friend in a dream
If I keep seeing tulips and roses
I know my garde......
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Categories:
perk up, beauty, flower, garden,
Form:
Free verse