Best Skim Over Poems
Below are the all-time best Skim Over poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of skim over poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Skim-Milk SkyLike a damp bath-towel,
a wet mist wraps itself around my shoulders
and my spine shudders at its touch.
A skim-milk sky retains a bluish tinge
as a yellow...
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Categories:
skim over, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Imagism
The Bard of GortSpringing free from glistening
Fronds
The summers heat leaps for
Height;
Whilst drifting obscurely far
Above
A distant lark now hangs in
Flight.
Floats down his sweet trill,
Accompanied by...
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Categories:
skim over, memory,
Form:
Rhyme
Silver Waves Upon the ShorePushed there for a thousand years
and will be for a thousand more,
pushed there by the gentle winds
the silver waves upon the shore.
Ancient trees who watched...
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Categories:
skim over, death, life, nature, sunset,
Form:
Quatrain
A Miracle of LifeDark night flees,
And the first incandescence rays
Of the glorious golden sun
Skim over the haughty hilltops
And filter through the dew-wet leaves
Of the tall and stately pines.
A...
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Categories:
skim over, life, miracle,
Form:
Free verse
DarknessThere is no more I need to know
We're lost in the night;
Washed in the candle glow
Of shimmering light.
*
In this moment longings flare
The time is now;
So...
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Categories:
skim over, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Night In a Heavenly WayThe sun yawns in the horizon as it flutters its eyes
Honey – yellow, orange, and shades of red
as it goes into a...
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Categories:
skim over, faith,
Form:
Lyric
One Way Ships - Part 1Flings and wings and rings rejected…
Cupid’s arrows fly deflected…
“It clearly is too late” she signed, “to love, adore or pay me mind”
Penciled lines drew...
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Categories:
skim over, lost love, stars,
Form:
Rhyme
The Flush of LivingMy basket lifts from ground; I, eager, stand
inside it as I drift into blue air.
I see below - the slowly shrinking land,
above my head, a...
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Categories:
skim over, happiness
Form:
Sonnet
I Return To Share Poetic GiftsIt was nearly two years ago, that I left the PS site
Bidding my friends fond 'farewell,' I took flight
If the door is ajar, I think...
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Categories:
skim over, poetry,
Form:
Rhyme
Wishing In VainHow I wish my poems could,
Soar higher and higher
Like a bird of limitless wingspan,
Dashing into horizons far!
But they skim like web footed water birds,
Tilting their...
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Categories:
skim over, birth, fantasy, words,
Form:
Blank verse
The Summer FieldBees are buzzing in their hives
A pony tail swish, deters the flies
Long grass waves, majestic in the wind
And over the pond the dragonflies skim
This halcyon...
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Categories:
skim over, animal, poetry, summer, water,
Form:
Rhyme
So I Dance For You| So I dance for you |
Awaiting I'm fixating upon my breath, becoming translucent between the day,
If I could only reach those sea of stars...
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Categories:
skim over, absence, desire, devotion, heart,
Form:
Sonnet
Stormy SeaI watch a coral glow of sky
and see it mirrored by the sea;
I wish for eagle wings to fly -
away from you, away from me,
away...
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Categories:
skim over, abuse, heartbreak, violence,
Form:
Quintain (English)
The CaféI would sit there for many hours
Surrounded by my contemplative silence-
My senses as warm as my latte;
My mind as frosty as my cheesecake
The mixed...
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Categories:
skim over, introspection, passion, peace
Form:
Free verse
AquariusI go where mountain streams converge
And stand with pitcher on the verge
Of a transparent tranquil pool
Where waters merge lucent and cool
There is the grass sparkling...
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Categories:
skim over, imagery, water,
Form:
Couplet