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Cactus Poems - Poems about Cactus

Cactus Poems - Examples of all types of poems about cactus to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for cactus.
Premium Member Full Moon Dream
... In the futile triviality of the desolate wasteland, a sunburnt solitary tree languished a long while, cast nonetheless on the parched ground a sensuous shadow, my secret sanctum. A......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, analogy, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eyes Of The Walls
...A little over a year ago, I tripped over a crack in the sidewalk in front of our house. The fall resulted in a badly torn rotator cuff that ended in surgery. After surgery, I was given some pretty......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, dream, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Can't bring you back
...You are my shadow, If I am without you, That's me in darkness. You are a flower, With beauty and fragrance, Me as cactus in desert. You are a butterfly, Swings ups and downs, Worm first o......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Zone
...You have breached the zone; tell me where else can the children roam? You have planted landmines on every corner and you have disrupted the social order. I hear sirens going off in my dreams and it c......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, bereavement, business, childhood, community,
Form: Narrative
Hard To Pet
...Spines poke out of his skin Like spines on a cactus He's hard to pet, prickly if you will He'll love you like no other Make you purr like a kitten Until you beg him to stop But when all the fu......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, appreciation, beach, love, lust,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Cactus
... In a sunlit corner of the garden a large, proud cactus stood tall in a green pot in front of a gilded mirror admiring itself resplendent in its armor of long spines and crowned with a......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, garden, humor, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gods Grace Apparent
...Stallion had almost forgotten the joy of colt-hood He watches his son gallop down the familiar path Was I ever this young? Stallion whispers to his mare. She assures him that he was, and sometimes......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, god,
Form: Free verse
Cactus Flourish and Beauty Nourish
...cactus is burrish not only do they flourish beauty will nourish.......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
You
...You are my heart you are my soul you are my life you are my beauty because of you I am in this world because of you I can see this world you can make me a flower who has good smell you can m......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spring Sonata Poetry Contest--Snapshots of Spring
...“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” Quote by Rainer Maria Rilke ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Medusa cactus in large blue ceramic pot blooms a burst ......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abiding Truth
... Practice rhymes with cactus piano, with woe Those who've suffered surely know......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, music, pain,
Form: Rubai
Mojave Desert
... Miles and miles of nothing, sparsely vegetated with Joshua trees, desert wildflowers, ocotillo cactus. Not much to look at, but plenty of it to see.......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, environment,
Form: Free verse
Dear Cactus
...Dear Cactus, understood I your real worth, While shielding you from disdain’s cruel mirth. On the plant rack, I placed you so low, Just to save you from eyes that do not know. ......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, growth, miracle, nature, philosophy,
Form: Couplet
Soul of Sea Stars
... "Like a shooting s t a r, plunging from lunar fields of lavenders, to touch the aqua a b y s s a l, I f i d d l e away my c o l o s s a l fears, letting go of......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, dark, death, deep, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cactus
...A cactus, me and full of spines, But deep in side are wet confines, And so they sprout away from me, Protecting from the enemy. Go question all and they will say, That they define my prickly w......Read the rest...
Categories: cactus, allegory, beauty, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

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