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Color Poems | Examples of Color Poetry

Color Poems - Examples of all types of color poetry to share and read. This list of color poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of color poetry. This list of works about color is an excellent resource for examples on how to write color poems.
Premium Member - Haiku X 331 - bottle green -
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Categories: color, nature,
Form: Haiku



The story of life
If you have a story to tell of how the birds met under the tree, if you have a story to tell of how the wilderness submerge into the sea, the coastguards were not around...Read the rest...
Categories: color, america, best friend, books,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Nature's Poetry
I walk through the woods of words sentences seep as melting snow into rushing rivers of chime and rhyme adventurous animals arch with alliteration with some nibbling on letter leaves I chase leaping lizards who hide limericks irises...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, animal, color, journey,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Wear are You
You ask me what am I wearing A heart full of hazel hope A silver spirit daring and cherry caring My mind is not blind to green ghosts I’m carrying For teal time has designs of destiny I’m ferrying I...Read the rest...
Categories: america, blue, color, food,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Falling
Falling in love is to be lost while finding eternity Lost in conversations about futures that look like constellations Maybe Hercules Strong enough to be gentle Soft to lead us through the fire shielded by my arms so...Read the rest...
Categories: color, dream, i love
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member When Summer Is Gone
When summer is gone, its heart may grieve. The endless breadth of the leaden blue sky and daylight golden sunny rays weave fall days become shorter and unsettled. Temperature's cool sweet breath at play for a playground of dreams and...Read the rest...
Categories: color, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Divine Delight
What a cameo in the hot harmattan eve ! Sweet soursop scents marinated with the haze And all the other ones impasse in my qui vive . Words became satisfying minting juice , Black with currents ,mingled bittersweet...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, bible, color, faith,
Form: Free verse
Hot Chili
Just by your color: Red, makes me hot; how much more Now, you're in my food. ...Read the rest...
Categories: color, engagement, food, perspective,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Foreshadowing
Lavender roses tossed in bright, silver sunlight Chrysanthemum spells. Lilies of the valley ring just when redbirds start to sing. Marmalade clouds roam into pink skies of evening- Jade cactus passion! Moon appeared, fortunes to tell at the moment red sun fell....Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, color, flower, future,
Form: Tanka
Denmark
Denmark What a sweet little country, it's national anthem reflects his kindness when the German army marched in 1940, there was no resistance hence, not one life was lost the old king continued to ride his horse in the...Read the rest...
Categories: birth, boxing day , color,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Writer’s Hot
The pen holds me hostage tonight I feel uninspired unable to write As if liquid lips the paper bite As if with malice the pen is a knife What would I write if I could About more silver strife up...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, appreciation, art, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Night's Many Colors
Mysterious blue as midnight moonlight spills on meandering dreams. Once butterflies' ball is done merlot bliss lies past the sun! Red Mars reveries join nights of mulberry rose camouflaging green. So many are not sleeping when the yellow warblers sing....Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, color, flower, moon,
Form: Tanka
Colorful Stones
Colorful stones Spread at rocky beach shore Delightful to see....Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, color, nature, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Summertime Girls
A delicate framework of filigree curls All dancing in ringlet on summertime girls A picture as fresh as...Read the rest...
Categories: art, beautiful, beauty, color,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I REMEMBER THINGS
Like when the river flowed backwards. These things that come to my mind what is the quartz of this design? There is this Thing also, I remember the roses of blue hue. How very very...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, appreciation, color, desire,
Form: Alliteration

Specific Types of Color Poems

Read wonderful color poetry on the following sub-topics: black, blue, brown, green, grey, kids, pink, purple, red, rhyme, sensory, simile, skin, white, word and more.

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