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Best Surroundings Poems

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


Does Your Heart Share This Moon Tonight
“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”

Silently I find my thoughts illumined by your beauty
In soft shimmers of dancing silhouettes
and patterns...

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Categories: surroundings, longing, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Pirouetting On Cloud Banks
Dancing in space
Waltzing in the universe
Pirouetting on cloud banks
Aah yes
Come with me
Let’s dance together

Ancient flute notes echo
Amidst starshine and lost memories
I feel you there beside...

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Categories: surroundings, desire, fantasy, introspection, lost
Form: Free verse
I Write
Tiptoeing towards the edge of the towering cliff

I flap my wounded wings and fly

over tall two hundred year old oak trees

up to the top of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surroundings, dream, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Infatuated Love Limerence
Lost in your elegance,
if only time could stand still
to capture this memory eternally.

Reflection of the moon shimmers
upon tranquil waters
in congregation with the stars,
as we sail...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surroundings, desire, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Hot Cider Dreams
Fall glides in on the wings
of migrating monarchs,
stained glass visions seeking respite
from a tedious journey
signaling a change in our surroundings

Blushing, the complexion of November
slips from...

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Categories: surroundings, autumn, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Well-Known Stranger
'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst...

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Categories: surroundings, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form: Rhyme
Head On
Heart beats in rhythm to snowflakes 
Cascading in tune to my reality

Like a train travelling through time with no track 
Overwelmed by it's vivid fertile...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: surroundings, endurance, faith, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sacred Gratitude
Sacred Gratitude 
Rockin and Rollin inside my soul
Beckoning musical notes float within me
My heart surrenders and opens
Expanding

When the world outside dances in tension
Feeling bleak and...

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Categories: surroundings, appreciation, beautiful, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nightmare
"You are welcomed to your room at night, everything is in the same familiar place. It's been long day. Climbing in to your comfy bed....

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Categories: surroundings, anxiety,
Form: Abecedarian
A Rose In the Heather.
So still and beautiful lays the rose in the heather,
Lifeless and dying, given to bring you happiness,
So fragile is this rose laying in heather,
Slowly withering...

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Categories: surroundings, loss, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member I See God Before Me
As I lay down to die I can see my soul being taken 
before my eyes.
I see God before me.

I feel the sun shining on...

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Categories: surroundings, death, faith, lossgod, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Shade From the Past
Just as days long ago, when decorum resolved, 
before composure, and poise,.. were corsages, unknown
Where propriety mattered, and was favored as gold,
high society, has gathered...

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Categories: surroundings, art, nostalgia, people,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Jewel That Took the Crown
A coral pink design on glistening ruby tapestry--
Reminiscent of ingenuity of sculptor's blueprints
In scarlet-orange tinges and teal-green imprints
Hanging spectacularly in the cosmic art gallery.

You are...

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Categories: surroundings, butterfly, imagery, sky, space,
Form: Verse
Once She Was
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Racing towards a distant horizon 
I watch as hope fades within the desolate 
shadows of my bleak surroundings

Damp air wafts heavily, silently...
its aroma kindling thoughts...

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Categories: surroundings, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Connected To Nature
As she walks barefoot into her garden, her body connects to earth's healing magnetic fields.
She then sits on a faded wooden bench and is greeted...

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Categories: surroundings, appreciation, earth, feelings, happiness,
Form: Free verse

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