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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 Pillow Talk
Pansies purple on my head Indigo thoughts strongly lead Little kisses in the whimsical wind Lavender perfume I bathe in Onyx hair a kinky cloud Where your fingers are buried now This inspires a fuchsia fantasy Amethyst fire you ignite in me Love...Read the rest...
Categories: black love, boat, color,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member The Color way
The shifting color-way of the sea, from comfortable to extreme in dress. Trash is not carried fashionably, do not slap on this trend of distress. There’s an image we strive to maintain, I promise this does nothing for it. A sad...Read the rest...
Categories: color, earth, earth day, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member On the Verge
pastel spring's coming ushered in by fresh fragrance lemon blooms sunning posh pink flowers peep pearl snowdrops left with the clouds blue roses still sleep buttercups, lilacs green ivy resumes its creep daffodil comebacks pansies rich and bold flutter with peach peonies pink sun marigolds ...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, color, flower, green,
Form: Haiku

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Premium Member thinking about Hysteria
Am I here, am I there ... Am I screaming everywhere, Can't get in, can't get out Snared by what it's all about Beats of blue-green 'round my head Share the space with rockets of red, Splashes of yellow...Read the rest...
Categories: art, color, confusion, crazy,
Form: Rhyme
The Rose
In the garden of the heart, where roses bloom, Your beauty awakens like dawn’s soft perfume. Each petal whispers a tale so sincere, A song of love only we can hear. We are one, entwined in nature’s grand design, Held...Read the rest...
Categories: art, color, feelings, flower,
Form: Free verse



Spring Rain
Painting with words speaking in colors Palette of voices — rainbow Divine (Dreamsleep: March, 2025) ...Read the rest...
Categories: color, rain, spring, voice,
Form: Free verse
PEACE AND WAR COLORS
in peace, multicolored races in war there is...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, analogy, color, peace,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Garden
"A Day Goes Better With Pretty Flowers." By Poet G-Gardens everywhere are starting to be reborn. A-Alive with beauty from town to town. R-Roses and tulips are smiling out loud. D-Dead flowers will be wearing a new outfit. E-Everyone loves...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, color, flower, fun,
Form: Acrostic
towards the exhalting booth
dotherant's hardened mule news of numbers and yearling's pew ardvakians, mustering askance the dairy frolic, adhere, nearer, when forward finding in country beliefs? how have you been beaten? never the please you say smiteful river of dirt you burried? startled priors, trampled by grass...Read the rest...
Categories: cinderella, color, england, eve,
Form: Ballad
Eat teeth
When the purple turtle visits the supermarket the heels are worn in two. Heaviness and heaving are one and the same. The exact trajectory of a star is never the same as reducing a pile of...Read the rest...
Categories: color, angst, business, chocolate, city,
Form: I do not know?
When fun gets easy bail
A festival for all who so to hail, Who freely get anticipatory bail To break all social norms, Turn on head all set forms And get a nod, the powerful to rail. A mixed blur of mischief, Freedom, so what if...Read the rest...
Categories: color, fun, joy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member A Mist Filled Room
Your beloved faces I trace in a mist filled room of treasured yesterday's Amid the puffs of smoke rising to the ceiling reaching out and climbing back down the walls I hear a song of joyous...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, color, devotion, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Noon Sky
“The sky in changing shades enfolds many mysteries of the universe, the shifting clouds, the sun, moon, stars and other heavenly bodies. Its vastness is like the vastness of human mind, shape shifting every now...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, color, sky,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Horse Color Cannot Be Ignored
Horse Color Cannot Be Ignored Intentions, cryptic, in pockets. Fiery darts lampooned in sockets. The bow is a clue; not a sword. Horse color cannot be ignored. Wielding war’s arms, removing peace, Men turn on each other, decrease. Burning core, where anger...Read the rest...
Categories: color, animal, christian, day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fancy Flower Frills
Ruffly and pretty in the colors of warm bliss Windblown and silly. Young, and with life, so giddy Walled garden in the city....Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, city, color, flower,
Form: Tanka

Specific Types of Color Poems

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