Best Rose Poems
Below are the all-time best Rose poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of rose poems written by PoetrySoup members
THE ROSE~THE ROSE~
This is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls ...
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Categories:
rose, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
A Winter Rose - A SonnetI walk through the glistening virgin snow
That covers the sorrow of autumn’s death
Where I find on a bush a frozen rose
Its beauty...
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Categories:
rose, winter,
Form:
Sonnet
Where The White Rose BloomsThe single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...
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Categories:
rose, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form:
Quatrain
A Rose and Her ThornsA lovely rose grew to the garden's delight,
a poem of sunrise surrounded by night.
One day her friend Ivy asked "Why do you mourn?"
Rose answered,...
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Categories:
rose, death, death of a
Form:
Rhyme
Unforgettable Rose“Love is like a rose. When pressed between two lifetimes, it will last forever.” – Anonymous
In vast wilderness of emerald summer, rose blossoms brightness,
Like the...
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Categories:
rose, appreciation, beauty, memory, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
From Dawn's Spirited Breath, See Red, Red Rose(1.)
From Dawn's Spirited Breath, See Red, Red Rose
When Summer rose meets dawning's sweetest hush
Sun comes to bequeath its dawn bathing rays
Red beauty gleaming, rose stills...
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Categories:
rose, beautiful, beauty, flower, garden,
Form:
Sonnet
A Rose In The Heather.So still and beautiful lays the rose in the heather,
Lifeless and dying, given to bring you happiness,
So fragile is this rose laying in heather,
Slowly withering...
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Categories:
rose, loss, lost love, nostalgia,
Form:
Romanticism
The Moon, The Swan, The RoseThe Moon, The Swan, The Rose
I see an enchanted image that you’ve never dreamed of
With reflections twinkling while dancing on wave drops
Of a dreamy blue...
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Categories:
beautiful, bird, moon, rose,
Form:
Terza Rima
The Special RoseShe sits and rocks, so gently back and forth
Her chin leaning heavily on her chest.
In her hands she cradles, one flat waxed rose
And sighs as...
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Categories:
rose, grandparents, lonely, love, old,
Form:
Narrative
Sweet Deathly RoseOh, mild flower I chanced to meet,
A ruby red, yet so discreet.
She'd never seen a hue my blue.
Sweet deathly rose that I once knew.
Her fragrance...
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Categories:
friendship, loss, me, rose,
Form:
Kyrielle
Categories:
death, love, rose,
Form:
Personification
Roses Roses Roses POTD
In all her glory, dawn has burst forth,
With a slight glow of early morning brightness
I sit in the bower, listening to birds in concert
And admire...
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Categories:
red, rose,
Form:
Free verse
SOPHIE
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...
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Categories:
death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form:
Narrative
Wild LoveThe blackberry's love for the garden rose
Brought down the gardener's wrath.
The blackberry sensed the danger
As he wended the garden path.
" A love so true as...
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Categories:
garden, love, rose, sweet,
Form:
Narrative
Creeping Roses
Tender tendrils climb the wall
Up towards the sky
Past the latticed windows tall
Clinging on from high.
Then in springtime buds in red
Pout with lips apart
Inhibitions they all...
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Categories:
rose,
Form:
Quatrain
Breath To Breath
They say, to mend an injured heart, move on,
And thus, I've done so, time-and-time-again,
...
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Categories:
rose, analogy, lost love, metaphor,
Form:
Sonnet
The Flower -part one-“A Flowers Wilt”
Witness the small existence
that abides the beauty of-----------
Freelancers all around,
Just to get a good look.
A baneful abrasion, the flower took
It captivates you...
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Categories:
rose, art, beauty, birth, care,
Form:
Free verse
Sonnet 28 'I Think I Know the Name of Purity'I think I know the Name of Purity,
It is Your Name -- it holds clear water well!
A Chalice carved almost to shattering,
A white rose, that...
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Categories:
rose, for her, innocence, integrity,
Form:
Sonnet
By Any Other NameIf love could have a color, I suppose
it wouldn’t be just any common shade.
I’d name it for the colors of the rose.
In heaven’s hues this...
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Categories:
love, rose,
Form:
Sonnet
September SplendorNourished by garland skies of scarlet blue
And velvet grass in golden green festoon
September wed us; one heart, made of two
Days of turquoise kisses, too much,...
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Categories:
rose, butterfly, kiss, moon, romantic
Form:
Villanelle
Dark Roses
Dark red was the bouquet in white gloved hands
foreshadowing the scarlet stains of dread.
If yellow be the rose of Texas land
why not give her the...
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Categories:
history, rose, violence,
Form:
Sonnet
LONG STEMMED ROSES
Lavish luscious liaison
Orchestrated obsession
Nocturnal nebulae
Gifted graceful gallantry
Secluded sanctuary
Tiffany telltale turtledoves
Effervescent ecstacy
Metaphysical mascarade
Magically manipulated mandolin
Erotic entanglement
Delectable daredevil demigods
Rhythmic romance rhapsody
Openhearted opulence
Secret sensuous seduction
Exquisite...
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Categories:
rose, flower, lust, night, romantic
Form:
Acrostic
High Bred Reality Soul progress
back field in motion
The guff
Chose, chose, live grow leave!...
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Categories:
rose, childhood, faith, family, father,
Form:
Verse
Knowing She Sees How Deeply She Is MissedKnowing She Sees How Deeply She Is Missed
(Tribute To That Greatest Of Love, A Mother's)
Blue-cold morns rising to light a fire
mother, cooked on wood stove...
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Categories:
devotion, love, romance, rose,
Form:
Sonnet
Two RosesOn our wedding he gave a crystal rose
Flowering forever, enrobed in glass
Ballerina's grace in delicate pose
Guardianship of tradition, of class
Witness of first years, of paper,...
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Categories:
rose, flower, husband, i love
Form:
Sonnet