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Ottawa Poems - Poems about Ottawa

Ottawa Poems - Examples of all types of poems about ottawa 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 ottawa.
Premium Member Streets Turned Into Rivers
... it was Spring 2023 that my city of Ottawa, Canada was hit by floods we had so much rain that the rivers overflowed into the streets, forests, and homes the sewer......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse



Rain - Ottawa Valley
...lightning and action rain ripping up the valley thunderous a pause......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, storm,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member My Birthplace As a Poem
... I was was born in Ottawa, Canada and have lived here all my life and have never wanted to leave. It is a beautiful city rich in historic architecture. It is located where two rivers meet, t......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, city, home,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member My Feather
... Fluttering, drifting to and fro it soars it dances in the mighty wind it twirls, it swirls There upon a sheer jagged rocky cliff an Appaloosa horse of many colors stands majest......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, dream,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Opposite of Anadromous - An Eelogy
...The word is Catadromous just in case you need it for your Final Jeopardy and if I was writing rhyme, this is where I’d throw in cantankerous for Eels are a contrary lot, and unlike salmon who ......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, environment, fish,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Canadian Icon, Emily Carr
... "Art is art, nature is nature you cannot improve upon it ... Pictures should be inspired by nature but made of the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts."......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, day, international, women,
Form: Ode
Pulse - Repost - Love Poem For Ottawa
...In the middle In the midst Of this bureaucratic Heart Pumping Paper Ideas The pulse Of this great nation In the middle In the midst Of me Circa 2005 Ottawa born and raised. I wa......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, love, passion, work,
Form: Verse
Convoy of Hope
...Governments have been intent on eradicating our rights one by one Backing us in a corner with countless threats with nowhere to run Under the disguise of an experimental vaccine that has no......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, hope, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ''Not My Time''
...I was driving from Montreal to Ottawa and the snow had just started. But, it was nothing to worry about. However, an hour out the snow was falling quite heavy and a wind was blowing. Around a cu......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, life,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Ties That Bind
... The first train in my city called Bytown, was in 1854 on Christmas day; some off the tracks would stray, and of course, there were many a breakdown. At first the trains were used......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member ''The Lost Feather''
... Something Old April 29, 2016 A feather lost glides, drifting, it soars, in the mighty wind, it twirls and swirls, as if dancing; once, the People owned all the wilderness, th......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, dream,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Visa On My Green Passport
...Time and chance happened to me Opportunity came knocking Canadian visa on my green passport grabbed with both arms ......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, appreciation, blessing, city, heart,
Form: Free verse
Spring's Victory
...Blue butterflies dancing with me, Old stars come down to kiss the earth, The happy birds are flying free, A time for perfume, endless mirth New silver bells ring… Victory! Snowdrops announce the......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, happy, spring,
Form: Ottava rima
August 6th 2020 In Ottawa
...for Hiroshima The Peace Tower tolls today ears ring eternal ***......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, remember, war,
Form: Haiku
Dead Name
...Can someone who lives in the grey areas of Life Still dazzle the soul? In university I had a crush on them. I knew their dead name But never used it. It was the hottest summer in Ottawa his......Read the rest...
Categories: ottawa, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

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