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Best Sumptuous Poems

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


Premium Member Petitioning Spring of Tomorrow
Smile, O spring, smile, upon crimson arc of morning
Grinning through willows filtering golden sunbeams,
Sparkling from eyes of dew, glinting realms pristine,
Reveling through prairies, giggling tenor...

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Categories: sumptuous, imagery, spring,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member My Last Poem
Become my air,
pursuing my scent 
  in sweet fragrant  fields,
where devouring tastes 
   of bohemian spirit,
delicately descend 
   ...

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Categories: sumptuous, devotion, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sinuous Melody
Your face
                       ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sumptuous, love, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gothic Love Grind
I find you alone
in your favorite room of sorrow and suspense,
the woman I cherish more than victory or divine sense,
long untouched, you stare into a...

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Categories: sumptuous, gothic, love, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given - a Collaboration With Robert and Teppo
Luscious the fruits, beautiful under moonlit beams
firmly planted roots, outstandingly hot, lush-sent dreams
all in all, glorified visions, heavenly sent
treasured deeply with rapture stored, sweet love-nights...

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Categories: sumptuous, appreciation, beautiful, desire, passion,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...

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Categories: sumptuous, beauty, emotions, love, passion,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Words From the Heart With Collaboration From Susan Ashley
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...

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Categories: sumptuous, love, romance,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Blaze of Autumn
The Blaze of Autumn.
.
She stood there like womanly Venus
Among the mild autumns
Blaze of rustic blaze of copper and hues of gold
Shards of filtered sunlight 
Shone...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sumptuous, analogy, autumn, love, lust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas in Paradise
One year,  over the ocean, Santa veered  off course
His reindeer were battling a hurricane  force. 
As the sleigh went  spinning and spiraling around,
 an  island appeared far below on the ground,
dotted with palms...

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Categories: sumptuous, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member - Begging Sunlight -
A yellow song about autumn
Leaves falling slowly 
May nature embrace me gently

Birds mixing tunes 
Of such ecstatic sound 
Rising a sweet melody 
Creeds and song...

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Categories: sumptuous, autumn, beauty, color, sunshine,
Form: Free verse
Nothing But Words
Sometimes words just aren't enough 
to capture all of the magic that surrounds 
the spill of the rainbow after a good storm 
the twinkles that...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sumptuous, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dangerous Glory
This Aphrodite rose
slowly unfurls
pink ombre balms
of sun-kissed 
springfalls, 
as the luminous 
lake of tears
cascade in 
exotic wreaths 
of honey-soaked
velvety sepals, 
there succulent seeds
of zestful dawns...

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Categories: sumptuous, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Gold Fever
Gold Fever 

History will not record the bloated weight
Of this pious and bigoted race 
Or count the fat and flaccid wealth
Of religions idolatry

Those pages have...

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Categories: sumptuous, faithfaith, political, perspective, ,
Form: Free verse
A Little House of Memories
It was a lovely little house.

Built of white painted timber,

with a gabled roof clad in green tin,

it had never been a rich person's house.

It was...

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© Red Omara  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sumptuous, memory,
Form: Free verse
Shapes of Smoke
   His fragile limbs in a caged body 
    seeking proteins from ivy drips
     vulnerable fears...

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Categories: sumptuous, analogy, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs