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Best Plant Poems

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


Premium Member I Want Your Seeds
**"And his name was Jack"**

No one perceives what abides above the clouds. 
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs. 
I demand to see and feel...

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Categories: plant, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Miss Amelia Havisham's Garden Shed
between the plant pots and the trays
the cobwebs had seen better days
and for all the wood and damp and soil
the smell was one of paint...

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Categories: plant, death, garden, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poem Garden
I have a little garden
growing on a page.
No mint, I beg your pardon.
I hope that there is sage.

It’s ideas I plant there
to see what they...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: plant, garden, metaphor, poems, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Listen For the Drum
listen to the drum,

talking to the dance

listen to the elders, 

whispering their chants

listen to the hooves, pounding on the plain

listen to the birds, prophesying rain

listen...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: plant, appreciation, culture, environment, native
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Told Me You Cried
They told me you cried on the day I died
A sob splintering through a silent dome
Your sorrow a shroud on the catacomb
As I laid where...

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Categories: plant, lost love, recovery from,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there...

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Categories: plant, beauty, celebration, dream, heart,
Form: Epic
Tears To Weep
When I lay me down to sleep,
And cry the tears that sinners weep;
To speak the words of a contrite prayer,
And know that someone listens there.

He...

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Categories: plant, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Think of You - Ground Zero - 1
I Think Of You - Ground Zero (Part 1)

Leaving under a blood moon
            ...

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Categories: plant, introspection,
Form: Free verse
I Will Be the Stars

I will be the stars
The moon will be my mum
The sun will be my dad
The rain will be my brother

The wind will be my sister
The...

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Categories: plant, 1st grade, beauty, bible,
Form: Free verse
Blow Sweet Breeze
With the turning of the green
the fevered hues engulf my soul
rich radiant reds glistening in the sun
as my heart gleams with memories
of the solemn words...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: plant, autumn, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Turnip and the Cabbage
A Turnip and a Cabbage
    are walking down the street.
This may seem a might peculiar 
    as they hadn't...

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Categories: plant, adventure, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Five Letter Words
Noble Souls

Noble souls arise,
build steps,
forge roads,
carry tough loads,
scale peaks,
quell fears,
dream stars which blaze,
clear those black skies.
These souls would tears erase.

Noble souls offer cheer,
avoid wrath
crush their...

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Categories: plant, appreciation,
Form: Verse
There Are No Bounds To Where We Poets Go
Where on Earth or far beyond do we poets go, you ask. 
My thoughts willingly stretch my imagination with this task.
I would reply...in any direction...

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Categories: plant, perspective, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress

Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: plant, anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Counting Seconds-The Rewrite
i sit lonely. 

the crowded restaurant is thick with sound 

i pick away at it 

moving back into the stagnant silence 
of my own comfort

the...

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Categories: plant, mental illness,
Form: Prose

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