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
Soul TravelSoul 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
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
The Maltese MoonThe 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
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
Kiss of the EagleMany 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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Categories:
adventure, space, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
The Last Love Letter To the WestI can't recall
the day you left
Empty words going west
...
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Categories:
travel, deep, feelings, heart, leaving,
Form:
Free verse
MALTAMagnificent 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
Each Day Takes its TurnStanding 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
The First Kiss or That Darn Ann LandersSon 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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Categories:
me, nostalgia, song, travel,
Form:
Lyric
TRAIL OF TEARSTRAIL 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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Categories:
abuse, sad, sorrow, travel,
Form:
Light Verse
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
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
Where cheerful robins danceGleefully 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
WHITE DEVILWhite 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
Tea Leaves On The BosphorusTea 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
Goodbye, My ChildWhere 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
Old PirateI 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
World above the cloudsFar 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
Fly To MeFly 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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Categories:
travel, flying, journey, love, places,
Form:
Rhyme
My CityOf the Gods own country
of this paradise
where green and blue
merge as one
in the north is a city
that encompass the beauty
where the dream lands meet
lined by...
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Categories:
travel, beach, beauty, city, nature,
Form:
Free verse
JOURNEY TO PETRA
A stairway of tinted boulders reveals
The fable of old gods marking a past,
Etched on tall red-stones divinely claimed…
And as I ascend to touch a warm...
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Categories:
appreciation, places, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Strawberries And CreamDaybreak slipping through these champagne curtains
Red silk; twined aneath crimsons sheets; awakening....
This afterglows mornings dew; her wet moist kisses
Soft sunrise and whom can deny...
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Categories:
love, passion, space, travel,
Form:
I do not know?
Madrid: Circa 1974In mid-June's heat, we wait inside the bus,
and everyone has said their last goodbyes.
The Moorish boy I’ve come to know is sad.
...
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Categories:
nostalgia, travel,
Form:
Blank verse
An Emerald, Most Rare
It was glorious ...
A glorious, glowing morn ...
crimson crept up the sky, as if air-brushed ...
little round globs of fair-weather clouds tiptoed on the reach,
(so...
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Categories:
travel, beauty, color, memory, ocean,
Form:
Narrative
Under the SeaUnder the Sea (English Sonnet)
I’d like to go beneath the sea
exploring wonders down below
where fish and creatures dwell for free
and undeterred the currents flow. ...
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Categories:
imagination, travel,
Form:
Sonnet