Best Summer Poems
Below are the all-time best Summer poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of summer poems written by PoetrySoup members
Summer LaceThe shadows fall like summer lace
Through palm trees fluttered in the sun
The soft caress of dawning breeze
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Categories:
summer, beauty, day, love, morning,
Form:
Rhyme
SummerA hot and humid day floats merrily on the seas
As tiny bikinis amble in sandy footprints
And frolic in the motives of soft ocean breeze
Building...
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Categories:
summer,
Form:
Quatrain
Yet My Mind Holds Invincible Summer HuesYet My Mind Holds Invincible Summer Hues
Bitter cold, ice ravages red-cliffs in my veins
Yet my mind holds invincible summer hues
O' Darkness thy black-hand my spirit...
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Categories:
summer, art, creation, dark, dedication,
Form:
Rhyme
The Age of Summer LoveOur summer love began in Gemini
with sultry eves of wooing escapades,
and as the moon did swoon as it drew nigh
my lust you stirred with...
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Categories:
romantic love, sensual, summer,
Form:
Sonnet
Categories:
summer, beautiful, color, imagery, insect,
Form:
Concrete
Categories:
autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Once Upon a Purple SunriseOnce Upon a Purple Sunrise
Pretty as a Periwinkle,
in your frilly summer frock,
the one with purple polka dots
that matched the cool of early dawn.
Haloed in hazy...
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Categories:
memory, morning, summer,
Form:
Free verse
Just AugustIn my little garden, balmy blooms are on display.
My purple Zinnia wears the crown in August sun
attracting tiny Hummingbirds and butterflies.
Ripe golden mangos blush with...
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Categories:
summer, august, bird, fruit, garden,
Form:
Free verse
To the Dandelion In the ConcreteYou probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn
(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...
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Categories:
summer, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form:
Personification
Walk TallI was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...
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Categories:
summer, america, death, drink, drug,
Form:
Narrative
August RainsThe steadily falling cold August rains
Continue to pour upon Cheshires lanes;
Over flattening fields of soddened wheat,
Soaking the grass, splashing the feet.
Stands the Combine in the...
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Categories:
summer, august, nature, poetry, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
And Sweet Is Her DemiseIn primrose twilight, summer is still near.
She whispers in my ear; I hear her in
the one lone owl that hoots to only me.
I wake to...
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Categories:
autumn, death, summer,
Form:
Blank verse
Midsummer BreezeMidsummer Breeze
How may I extol a midsummer breeze?
As soft as rose petals in cooling wind
That flutters leaves upon the verdant trees,
And endeavors to make...
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Categories:
flower, heartbreak, son, summer,
Form:
Sonnet
One Long Last LookThe moon shimmied up her pole in the sky
Winking at me with her crescent eye
The stars danced in time to a silent...
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Categories:
summer, autumn, longing, moon, night,
Form:
Couplet
From My PorchAfter the end of a long hot day
At the end of my rope with nerves all frayed
I sat on the porch to rest a...
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Categories:
summer,
Form:
Pastoral