Best Specked Poems
Below are the all-time best Specked poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of specked poems written by PoetrySoup members
A Vanilla DoveCypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...
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Categories:
specked, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form:
Free verse
The ButterflyEnroling you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally - ...
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Categories:
specked, angel, beauty, butterfly,
Form:
Free verse
Winter WildflowerWinter Wildflower
A billion snowflakes do collect upon a wasteland of neglect
The sky frigid no sun to reflect appears a dot lonely specked
A tear does fall...
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Categories:
specked, beautiful, cool, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
ImagineImagine a black velvet curtain
Pinholed to allow specked light
Now imagine that same curtain
Endlessly stretching out of sight
And there you have the immense
Velvet blackness of outer...
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Categories:
specked, fantasy, imagination, space,
Form:
Rhyme
Oak Tree SwingThere's a swing that is hung from a long oaken tree,
By a string where the young have a longing to be.
Where they fly to the...
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Categories:
specked, children, happy, summer, sweet,
Form:
Couplet
Campers GrandeurFearless flames licking the night
as the glow flickers fire in their eyes
ah the tales round campfires light
of Sasquatch shadows and cougars demise
When sleepily those embers...
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Categories:
specked, fire, holiday, nature, stars,
Form:
Quatrain
Green Leaves of Spring couplets
Surveying green, leaves me somewhat unfazed;
‘til spring leaves appear and my eyebrows raise.
Riddle, ma riddle, ma riddle me green,
how many shades of green...
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Categories:
specked, 11th grade, green, growth,
Form:
Couplet
LondonFeet throb – and blisters swelling –
And specked blood – on leather soles confirm
A sandaled trek beside the Thames –
Surely my highest and measureless...
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Categories:
specked, places
Form:
Free verse
Semi-Grey Sky Rain Specks In the SandThe wind it seems is staying on the ocean whipping up the sea
The waves tumbling to a smart chop on a shelly sea urchin...
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Categories:
specked, animals, nature, places, sea,
Form:
Verse
A Survivor's StoryI wake up to a deserted town
"Where are the people?"
I ask myself aloud.
"Gone." answers a voice.
But no one's here...
but me.
Broken glass litters the street,
a...
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Categories:
specked, adventure, death, depression, history,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Night LightsThe lights at night
have much to say
a different story
than the day
They shine and glisten
here and there
in coolness of
the evening air
The street lamps glow
to light the...
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Categories:
specked, beauty, color, good night,
Form:
Rhyme
In the Autumn of My Years
Memories linger melancholy
as I approach the bridge
to the Gardens de Sol.
...
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Categories:
specked, depression, introspection, life, lost
Form:
Free verse
May Flower of DreamsTwilight sparkled defying its usual gravity,
Sun followed in full riot,
Blue yonder oozed ozone,
making for full soulful breaths,
The slumbering baby in cradle,
forgot about the feed,
as he...
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Categories:
specked, inspirational, life, philosophy, baby,
Form:
Free verse
Seventh HeavenI plunged headfirst, my silly stilted pride
The instant I beheld your Cheshire smile
...
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Categories:
specked, romance, soulmate, true love,
Form:
Blank verse
A Wisp of Transparent MistHe closed his hand to make a fist,
as he stood silently behind bars,
a wisp of transparent mist
specked and sparked like stars,
defiant, and reliant,
as his freedom...
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Categories:
specked, sad
Form:
Dramatic Verse