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Best Yawn Poems

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


Premium Member It Matters Not
It hovers here, a moon opaque,
obscuring mountain trails I take.
No other living things appear.
A moon opaque. . . It hovers here.

I follow on along a...

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Categories: yawn, dark, lost love,
Form: Quatrain



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: yawn, adventure, funny, old, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rest, Don't Quit
What happens when the moon isn't up to her best?
She takes a break,
Dozes for a while,
And comes back shining brighter than she ever did!

What happens...

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Categories: yawn, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: yawn, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sex After 40
(WARNING  SIGNS)

You are old and fragile
Claiming to be a lion when in bed
In some way, you remind me of the walking dead
Your bones make...

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Categories: yawn, body, change, confusion, depression,
Form: Free verse



Categories: yawn, society, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member To Touch the Breast of Twilight
Soon, sunlight will yawn on the edge of dawn
and I'll welcome the warmth of his morning rays,
but never could I liken them to the great...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yawn, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frozen-A Collaboration With Shane Cooper
The frozen sap of mirthless trees,
The fractured flow of icy streams.

The howling wind that claws at life, 
The forest shrouded in endless white.

Skeletal ice hangs...

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Categories: yawn, autumn, halloween, winter,
Form: Couplet
At Cusp of Dawn
Mystical Moon, languidly adrift in pallid glory,
is holding night court, clad in gold silk sarong.
Ruling her astral kingdom, amusing with a story
about a cow and...

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Categories: yawn, moon, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gathering of the Golden Girls - Soup Convention
Four “Golden Girls” seated at a table
Grey streaks our hair, but minds remain stable
     Convention is underway
    ...

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Categories: yawn, friendship, funnytime,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Rhapsody In Red
When morning breaks in shades of wine...
  with claret skies to blush the dawn...
     I will stretch and yawn, and...

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Categories: yawn, color, happy, nature, red,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Hound Dog Tale
As the 
story
goes...

A
pesky
fly, 
came buzzing by
to rest and munch
and eat his lunch
and have some fun
on the hound dog's 
nose.

The old dog
snoozed 
without a clue
in the...

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Categories: yawn, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sifting Sand From My Soul
If I had but one last sorrowful day of my life left,
there would be words I would say without delay.
Too long have I struggled, uncertain...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yawn, feelings, for him,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member on tranquil lake -
glass-like smooth of even's yawn
      just I, myself, with one cob swan
        ...

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Categories: yawn, earth, introspection, nature, soulmate,
Form: Rubaiyat
Waking Before I Found Love
I stood on the step by the unopened door
Far from the meadows that precede the shore
Grasped tight the railing I longed to explore 
Searching for...

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Categories: yawn, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs