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Best Wilderness Poems

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


Premium Member The Age of Poet Destroyer
A diamond in the Frost ... I am Emily, gazing through the years, 
Like Poe from rancid taste and dark smoke shadows
Florescent waste escaping a...

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Categories: wilderness, community, pride, princess, strength,
Form: Epic



Premium Member When I Am Nothing
When I am nothing, a no one,
when nobody remembers my name -
will you give me a purpose to remain?

When I can no longer run,
will you...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wilderness, angst, perspective, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Omen of the Taste of Twilight
Vanished

the wild magic of this place;

this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps 
into 
Afterlife

..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...

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Categories: wilderness, animal, death, fate, grief,
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: wilderness, dream, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse
Little Fire
I witness you fading away,
The winds blow frantically
They are against us, as all are

Little fire, rise in my cupped hands
Be it my life I shield...

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Categories: wilderness, courage, death, fire, growth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Edge of Silence
Those who do not know the trials of love, 
do not ask the state of my heart

I've been left standing in the rain,
feeling like meaningless...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wilderness, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence of a Poet
"When the Grim Reaper asked for my spirit,
I told him to take my poetic pen.
He walked away smiling, leaving me illiterate."

In the mystical wilderness of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wilderness, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member America the Broken
“O beautiful for spacious skies”
yet marred by all it’s leaders lies.
See it’s “amber waves of grain”
beneath them hidden is a stain

I pause  “For purple...

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Categories: wilderness, abuse, america, angst, beautiful,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Abigail's Spring - Potw
Abigail’s Spring - Favorite 

Beneath the shelter of winter’s barren arbor
My winter abused heart
Watches the day’s light linger in the sky resisting darkness -
Begging to...

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Categories: wilderness, life, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To the Flower
TO THE FLOWER

Your scent beckoned my weeping heart to painless flight;
amidst a garden where God dusts His pretty love.

Spring tints are pure and fragrant, free...

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Categories: wilderness, beauty, environment, flower, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Clerihew Soup
I tell you I like, that Wayland a bunch
He'd be the guy, to be there in a crunch
Not afraid of humor, he paves the way
With...

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Categories: wilderness, tribute,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Super Soupers
It was a rainy day so I flipped through a stack of comics
My Amazing Poet series
Finally I picked the fabulous Five
I liked the picture on...

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Categories: wilderness, fantasy, writing, girl, me,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Unforgettable Rose
“Love is like a rose. When pressed between two lifetimes, it will last forever.” – Anonymous



In vast wilderness of emerald summer, rose blossoms brightness,
Like the...

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Categories: wilderness, appreciation, beauty, memory, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Call On Me
Call on me when your boat is sinking,
you’re blown off course, or you’ve run aground,
call on me when you’re lost in the wilderness,
call on me...

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Categories: wilderness, friendship,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Untouched Orchard
She's untouched fruit
from forbidden orchards
barren and wrinkled
with fragmented twigs,
whirling to the beat
of melancholic musings 
of black-winged butterflies 
that croon and reflect
the true tragedy of a...

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Categories: wilderness, crush, cute love, love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things