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Best Travels Poems

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


Premium Member Like Ice --- the Waltz
"Black Ice"

Sorrow flows from the first sunrise 
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before 
At core death awaits
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Categories: travels, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Where Gladiators Fought
Part I

Where gladiators fought for life,
we meet to fight for love
The constellations in the Roman night sky,
celestial spectators, bathe the Colosseum
in the white blood of...

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Categories: travels, passion, places,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Fifty-Three Shades of Grey
in the uncoloured tint of another everyday
amongst the spit polished waxed apples
tightly packed in burlap bags
they walked like minded
in their own burly wrap
oblivious to the...

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Categories: travels, child, community, conflict, dad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Think of You - At the Edge - 3
A reflection of the coloured pencil drawn sky
skates on the glass smooth surface below it.
While a rebellious group of shades take their positions 
on a...

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Categories: travels, introspection, love, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: travels, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cookie Jar
Standing on tippy toes
Top shelf 
Reaching
Stretching
Finger tips edging the jar forward
Imagining the taste of chocolate chips on my tongue
Yumm mom's chewy delicious wait till Saturday...

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Categories: travels, adventure,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: travels, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member On Water and Wing
Cob swan and I have met here many times,
          As heaven's hem is melting pink and...

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Categories: travels, analogy, appreciation, bird, friendship,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Something's Amiss POTD
I was a successful, scientific explorer, traveling to the remote, distant lands,
Bettering noble lives of many, like budding, green spring which understands.

And every day held...

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Categories: travels, dream, fantasy, feelings, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Jesus Was Turkish
A strange claim
Of a man of passion
Of kindness
He said
Let the children come to me
For what man would refuse the smile
The innocence of a child
He parted...

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Categories: travels, age, animal, bible, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That Period of Life
Orange is more appreciated by the tongue that tastes lime
to do so, if not now, when would be the time?

Senses and instincts are the same...

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Categories: travels, adventure, life, youth, drug,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Never Enough
Why does the voiceless canary stare so bleakly?
Why do the sullen grey clouds desert a sombre sky?
As the ugly black smog blots out the valiant...

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Categories: travels, environment, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Tourist
Have I been one among the chain
of those who come to gawk, then strain
to point a finger, poke my nose
into places I don't own?
To claim...

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Categories: travels, appreciation, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Gone, But Not Forgotten
Great sun, your day is drawing to a marvelous close.
The horizon seems ablaze as you slowly spill into the turning of night.
Tomorrow we shall see...

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© Tobey Hill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: travels, absence, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse
Your Man
Your man 

O' fallen leaf of barren branch
doth charge my heart, my aching heart
with missing you, needing you
On sun dried earth I lay,
grasping at my...

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Categories: travels, good night,
Form: Free verse

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