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Best Sinks Poems

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


Premium Member The Daughter of the North Wind Sings In Soprano
In riming realms 
of crystal contemplations -
frozen water-vapor meditations
and chilled flutes 
filled with zodiacal-light musings 
of ancient cosmic dust 
dancing in the arms of Sol..

windswept...

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Categories: sinks, passion, snow, winter, woman,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member The Rowboat On the Marsh
I don't need mawkish photographs to see
the drowning rowboat tethered to the dock,
a withered seahorse clinging to debris
as umber water seeps through feeble caulk.

The cord...

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Categories: sinks, death, imagery, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Dry Mascara
DRY MASCARA

Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my...

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Categories: sinks, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member We'Ll Always Have San Andreas
-rearranging the stars-

How could we agree to separation? 
If you were destined to be my soulmate,
Why would we allow the stars to change our fate?
They've...

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Categories: sinks, depression, relationship, sad love,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A Song For Autumn
Intoxicate me, Autumn, I implore
you! Fall upon me amber as in times
your splendor greeted me outside my door,
enthralling me, inspiring me with rhymes.

Annoint me, Autumn,...

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Categories: sinks, autumn,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member That Period of Life
Orange is more appreciated by the tongue that tastes lime
to do so, if not now, when would be the time?

Senses and instincts are the same...

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Categories: sinks, adventure, life, youth, drug,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Her Soft Canal
The powder of white sand holds her flesh
close to his musk pelvis
as she gasps with the murmured waves
trembling on the coast
of a fragrant mouth against...

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Categories: sinks, passion, places, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunset Sadness
I sit alone
wishing
we’d had 
just one last summer 
to observe the setting sun.

As sol slowly sinks
towards the horizon
I feast my eyes on
a smorgasbord of colour.

Such...

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Categories: sinks, i miss you, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Would You Still Love Me If I Wasn'T a Poet?
Would you still love me
If I wasn't a poet?
If  I was not
a climbing jasmine
 on your window-sill,
a rose-bud in bloom,
the soft zephyr breeze
on an...

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Categories: sinks, fantasy, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shipwrecked Heart
I always hated water,
being in the middle of nowhere,
but it was the only way to be with you..

Now,
I'm helpless, my fingers trembling,
lips quivering, eyes full...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sinks, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Eulogy In My Heart
Out in the middle of a large farmland, I become a girl of old charm and unexpected songs again. Past the flanks where cluttered rows...

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Categories: sinks, beautiful, grandfather, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Haibun
The Message In the Sun
I went to the sun for a favor
and asked it to shine only for you
to grant you happiness though you may be sad
bright yellow 'midst...

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Categories: sinks, girlfriend-boyfriend, hope, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wrapped In Colors
*Inspired by photo

As the sun sinks behind the hills
Color tints snow, where all is still
A bright sky ends a winter day
Into the night, leading the...

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Categories: sinks, appreciation, beauty, color, sunset,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member A Date With Milton
Death comes to all like a great shadow,
servant of reality when the truth of it sinks
in leaving the experience embedded on
one’s soul. Milt, given to...

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Categories: sinks, death of a friend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love
Love that curves with curving roads
Emerges on to shining meadows
And looks back for the message it delivers
To the dawn of fragile tomorrow. 

Love that sinks...

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Categories: sinks, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things