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Best Phlox Poems

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


Amid the Purple Phlox
I am losing you again

White, oh your skin, whiter than pearls…
I sit here, trying not to stare,
Serene you are, as you lie in your bed,
How...

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Categories: phlox, angst, death, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Peaceful I Love You
An early outing for my friend and I
We walked the winding path down to the springs
The uncut winter hay is now waist high 
And in...

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Categories: phlox, beauty, i love you,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Sonnet For Spring
As days grow longer, melancholy creeps
An uninvited guest, which winter brings
It dims the candle my mind tightly clings
Consuming light, from darkness whence he leaps

In doldrums...

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Categories: phlox, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet
The Hangover
“The death lasts an average of 49 days, starting from the day the deceased realized his death”. Bardo Thodol (The Tibetan Book of the Dead)


I...

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Categories: phlox, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Garden Party
All dressed in green, the rose bush beams
like a child's blushing cheeks and pursed lips;
these debutants jilted by bees
forever wanting to be kissed.
A carpet of...

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Categories: phlox, garden, nature,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member When Our Eyes First Met a Collaboration With Susan Ashley
When our eyes first met, in an evening's glow of twilight
the moon was rising, the world disappeared
I saw only you
we enjoyed a calm merriment
as love's...

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Categories: phlox, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Morning Mist
The morning's mists
mix with the
woodland's scent
To fill me with such
wondrous happiness;
I see her wet but
gentle hands are
bent
And reaching out to
touch with
loveliness
The trees, and fills
my heart...

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Categories: phlox, happiness, life, metaphor, tree,
Form: Ottava rima
Wild Flowers
Larkspur blooming in the garden,
With violets in the dell;
Ask to beg some pardon,
Because their petals fell.

Roses climbing on the wall,
Reach up to find the light;
While...

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Categories: phlox, nature
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Zen Garden
 
On this spring day- the sky is azure blue,
the creeping pink Phlox wants to cascade down;
pretty striped Sweet William seek to spread too,
in my...

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Categories: phlox, garden,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Rhoda and Phil-A Sad Goodbye
Florid hues of soft petaled flowers
cast satin rose splashes of pastel colors
that move within the cool morning shade,
as the brilliance of the smiling sun reflects
its...

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Categories: phlox, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Earthy Love
We danced like dappled light through swaying trees
our golden embers stoked by panting breeze
in bed of canterbury red and phlox.
As lusty wooing coos did float...

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Categories: phlox, jealousy, lust, passion, romantic
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Seeds of Enchantment
Inside my mailbox late last month; nine packs of seeds - a mystery!
I hadn't ordered anything, but curious was I to see
what might become of...

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Categories: phlox, flower, muse, mystery, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Hat Dream
Curled up on the floor. In the middle of the day. I dream.
Images of hats and pills come out of nowhere. 

“I visit my garden...

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Categories: phlox, blue, death, dream, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pretty Little Bluebird
Bluebird…pretty little bluebird, see

all the budding Spring…beautiful 

chiming of melody and spruced up

leaves, shiny and thriving, dewdrop

tingling. Bluebird, come and see -

give us a sweet...

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Categories: phlox, bird, spring,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Autumn
Autumn 

Autumn greets summer on a gusty breeze
Waves farewell as she spins down the sidewalks
Laughs with delight as northern lights she sees
Finds one final bouquet...

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Categories: phlox, autumn,
Form: Pantoum

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