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Best Sprouted Poems

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


Premium Member Oh, Heavenly Night
That night we kissed, my heart became a butterfly.
It sprouted wings and danced across the velvet sky,
then leapt across the multitude of stars there strewn
along...

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Categories: sprouted, heart, night,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Portrait of Nature
Each element of who she is, is scattered on the grass, 
with the scent of earth, the drop of rain, 
where dew reflects a sky...

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Categories: sprouted, earth, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Before and Beyond the Bed
When 
When did a bed become your prison
I see your strength absorbed
Absorbed by the mattress 
I turn you
Trying to prevent sores
Who would have thought soft...

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Categories: sprouted, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mustard Seed
The mustard seed 

a wild mustard seed took flight 
carried aloft in gathering light 
over thistle'd sage and poppies  
in countless colorful copies

as brash...

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Categories: sprouted, children, earth, flower, nursery
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Abandoned
I'd married at 21 and moved overseas with my husband's work, so it had been many years since I had visited my gran at Rose...

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Categories: sprouted, growing up, house, memory,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Friendship Bread
Dear poet friends departed, as I ponder
the things I learned about you and the way
our time together made my heart grow fonder,
there seems so very...

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Categories: sprouted, friendship, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Leprechauns, Fairies & All That I Need
Way back in the woods all nestled away
I found the place where Leprechauns play

To find the place I had to first find the door
Keeping it...

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Categories: sprouted, adventure, devotion, fantasy, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Upon Dawn's Beautiful Rise, I Was Born, First Dedication Poem
DEDICATED TO BYRON- Double Sonnets--First dedication poem of series 
honoring great poets.
 
(Sonnet 1)

Upon Dawn's Beautiful Rise, I Was Born 
  
  (Sonnet...

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Categories: sprouted, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member They Hang Horses, Don'T They
Once, a strange structure appeared in a barn yard
difficult not to  notice, a scaffold to hang horses
for throwing their masters
Dumb and never protesting they...

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Categories: sprouted, analogy, cute, death, horse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dandilion
With Youth.....

Watch this girl...
she has her eyes
on a rising dandelion
sprouted in high grass,
a pensive girl, 
weaving her way through the fields,
looking past weeds to her...

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Categories: sprouted, age, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beyond the Realm of Wishes
In sun-scorched dunes, beside a weathered sentinel, 
a glint ensnared his weary gaze.
A tarnished lamp / grazed / its secrets unknown / 
a genie unbound,...

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Categories: sprouted, conflict, desire, inspiration, philosophy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Where Mind Soul and Pen, Often Dance and Play
Where Mind Soul And Pen, Often Dance And Play

In a sad blindness, one may yet find hope
Sweet romance is in truth a healing balm
What in...

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Categories: sprouted, appreciation, art, creation, meaningful,
Form: Verse
Premium Member It Started With a Blank Canvas
How endearing the innocence of life was,
When blissfully it started, with a blank canvas,
Cherishing in mother’s love and warmth,
Happy as can be, cuddled in loving...

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Categories: sprouted, life, metaphor,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Christmas in the Mountains
The Franklin Mountains are a succession of jagged peaks, as if the earth had sprouted the spiny backbone of a monstrous, petrified beast. Each tip...

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Categories: sprouted, christmas, december, mountains,
Form: Haibun
Pink Pink Pink
Pink- Pink- Pink-

Every peak has its own attractions,
Like the mountains,
The mounts of a woman,
Have always remained, 
Her pride possessions. 01

It has the charms,
More intoxicating than...

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Categories: sprouted, child, health, life, pride,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things