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Best Travel Poems

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


Premium Member Soul Travel
Soul Travel

To travel amidst the evening stars
Forever mesmerized by their light...
As visions enter my sleepy head
I marvel my interstellar flight.

The universe is mine to explore
In...

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Categories: stars, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Want Your Seeds
**"And his name was Jack"**

No one perceives what abides above the clouds. 
A giant, a harp, maybe golden eggs. 
I demand to see and feel...

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Categories: travel, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Maltese Moon
The Maltese Moon,
she draws my eyes
to shapely orb
in starlit sky
she smiles at me
with wanton grace
and spills desire
upon my face
I'm all awash
in milky glow
sacred secrets
Mine to...

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Categories: beautiful, introspection, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mirrored Reflections
Receive
Listen
Be Still

Whispered words arriving on teardrops of the wind
They call to me
Embracing me so that I may exhale
For a moment in time

I look down to...

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Categories: travel, appreciation, celebration, fantasy, image,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stardust Road
“Stardust Road.”

"Soft defense is driven by my thoughts,
I vanish away into yesterday’s scenic road,
Set the mood among the dark clouds,
Wish I could go back to...

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Categories: adventure, nostalgia, travel,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Kiss of the Eagle
Many eons passed on Earth, who only saw your face
Untouched your virgin body, floating there in space
Waxing, waning, gibbous, crescent, quarter, full and new
Selene the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: adventure, space, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Last Love Letter To the West
I can't recall the day you left
 Empty words going west

~To The West Coast~

My love, my sweet love -- my soulmate
I will cherish our time,...

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Categories: travel, deep, feelings, heart, leaving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Malta
Magnificent scenery
Ancient Architecture
Lovely lovely people
Terrific cuisine
All I wish is to return again one day

Jan Allison
31st October 2014...

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Categories: holiday, travel,
Form: Acrostic
The Sands of Time and Magic Rain
Oh, rain upon me sands of time
               with thoughts and memories...

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Categories: travel, blessing, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Each Day Takes Its Turn
Standing firm 
we live 
we give 
we take 
we learn 
we strive to make sure 
each day enlightens us 
and brightens us
even as light fades...

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Categories: travel, black african american, day,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member The First Kiss Or That Darn Ann Landers
Son of a gun we were still young;
only 15 years gone by.
You were the first my kissing bubble to burst, 
and for you, I think...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: me, nostalgia, song, travel,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Trail of Tears
TRAIL OF TEARS

I've been there once,
I've been there twice
BLUE SKIES, never die!

A day of sorrow,
I can still feel the pain from yesterday,
The pain continues to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: abuse, sad, sorrow, travel,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member The Sage of Glasgow
 ~ I - I Arrive in Glasgow ~

When I arrived in Glasgow town
I knew nary a soul
So tired I's nearly fallin' down
Yet I'd no...

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Categories: friendship, travel, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Repost of Erin Go Bragh
Erin Go Bragh 

At Ben Bulben’s feet Sligo stands,
The home of such creative hands
Where poet William Yeats did grow.
The Nobel Prize his poems did know.

On...

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Categories: travel, beach, beautiful, people, places,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member What Could Be
If I had a clone
I surely would be
exuberant
flamboyant and fancyfree
I would sing and dance
for the whole world to see
aboard every single cruiseship
on every sea
I would...

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Categories: travel, dream, fantasy, imagination, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swaying Slowly
Stepping into the dance
Gently taking your hand in mine
Entering the realm of infinite possibilities
Where passion and desire breathe as one
An eternal hug
Enveloping our laughter and...

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Categories: travel, fantasy, love, passion, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Cheerful Robins Dance
Gleefully you and I smile from a scenic window on life
Enchanted by nightfall befriending quixotic autumn sky
Embossing crimson brushstrokes on vermilion arc
Akin to a painting...

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Categories: imagery, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Whistling Hamlet
A whistling wheezing hamlet, whispering and emanating, tunes euphonic, 
In a remote isolated valley, far-flung from the abode of the temporal, 
Warbling quietly to whistle...

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Categories: travel, community, earth, education, encouraging,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member White Devil
White Devil

Call it what you want!
I call it, his favorite season hunt...
Two hoofs imprinted near the riverfront.
Echoes calling my soul with a loud, ferocious grunt.

I...

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Categories: travel, absence, beauty, depression, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tea Leaves On the Bosphorus
Tea Leaves On The Bosphorus

Seated at a table by the stirring water,
My eyes absorb the shore of Asia.
Minerets and aged worn stone
Stand haphazardly along the...

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Categories: travel, adventure, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Old Pirate
I dream of the past and days on the high seas
With no one to answer to and no one to please
Yearning for the freedom that...

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Categories: sea, travel, heart, old,
Form: Couplet
Fly To Me
Fly to me my love

on the wings of hopes and dreams

come and be my passion

a lover's symphony

Be my guiding star light

show me all of nature's...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: travel, flying, journey, love, places,
Form: Rhyme
World Above the Clouds
Far away from this bonded crowd,
Far away from these layers of 
shroud,
Oh wings of the air glide me away,
To the world, world above the 
clouds.

To...

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Categories: travel, adventure, beautiful, beauty, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Through the Keyhole -
What do you see
Look closer
Go from room to room
To;
The stone in the apple

Adventurous and imaginative
Into eternity or silent death
A landscape
A gentle and warm wind

Bright and...

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Categories: fantasy, mystery, places, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Goodbye, My Child
Where cradled canyons sing
Of ebony wood in the forest
There lies a gurgling spring
Where cockcrows sing their chorus
To the melody of singsong birds
There I’ve concealed my...

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Categories: travel, adventure, allegory, angel, art,
Form: Rhyme