Short Dappled Poems

Short Dappled Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Dappled by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Dappled by length and keyword.


As Canvas Weeps

Unblemished vellum
Begs the Imagist's pardon:
Forsake not my skin -
Complete my chaste nakedness
With threads of dappled spectra
© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
art
Form: Tanka


Flirtatious Sun

Sun flickered 'pon your eyes
    scintillating as the seas,
dappled with the chemistry
   of a thousand swooning moons
© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.

The Chickadee

Dancing nimbly on the boughs

His song insouciant and joyous

Feathers resplendent with colour

Dappled with the paling light

Premium Member Moon Beams a Wayra

With moon shining bright
casting long silvery shadows
that hide the lovers from sight
as they lay together
by the river in dappled shade
Form: Verse

Premium Member The Rock

Under dappled light
It waits off a country road, 
A short bike from home.

On it rested a boy's world.
Grown up now, my rock I seek.
Form: Tanka


Summer Sunflowers

In summer, sun-flowers wave,
welcoming buzzing bugs
humming among petals, 
around pollen yellow as gold
dappled in puddles of light.

Mourning

Empty lockets
dangle softly
from crooked necks--

dappled granite
faces west
where the sun sleeps--

whispered prayers
linger quietly
as a child weeps.

Premium Member A Pond's Melody

 
Birds tweet and chirp, as I rest by a shaded pond, where dappled sun shines ... It soaks into my body, as the pond's melody sings.
Form: Choka

Premium Member summer has come

dappled sunlight  ~
lands on my shoulder 
as I sip my morning tea
lingers a while then softly drifts away
leaving a warm familiar scent
© JC Brul  Create an image from this poem.

Great Blue Heron

I must tell you this bird:
long thin legs, sharp beak
wading in a dappled stream
grayish blue,  at home in cypress
Curving skyward through Spanish Moss
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Young Man From Bodoni

A Cinquain.

Once a young man from Bodoni
Owned an old, dappled pony.
And he rode to see the show.
Twas Emperors' new clothes.
Said, That's a vanity Felony.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member goose moon

monochrome moonscape
	dappled dawn bedecked with flight ~
		follow the leader

[January Full Moon – Tlingit]
(geese begin migration from the South)
Form: Haiku

Artistic Language

Poets speak in ink,
Musicians speak with music;
Artists speak through dappled paint.

Sculptors speak in stone,
Actors speak in their actions:
While everyone else...listens.
Form: Choka

Premium Member Clouds

Cottony, Cumulus 
Clouds dappled on blue can
coalesce into banks;
creating a dull, drab,
cheerless, depressing day,
consistent with rain and
children's disappointment.
Form: Pleiades

Premium Member Peace In The Woods

When the going gets tough
A fond retreat awaits 
Where firs and pines nestle
Yearning for an embrace,
A sigh, and a deep breath
Bathing in dappled light 
And warmth of gratitude.

Premium Member Memory of Youth

bare limbs reach skyward against cloud dappled ceiling as evening quiet descends its spreading branches speak of hard scrabble farmers and their long lost hopes and dreams
eve
Form: Sedoka

Warm Lilies

fresh lilies blossom dappled sunlight is welcome ~ garden lizards breed 03.03.2022
For Constance La France's "H Forms - Traditional Nature Haiku" contest
Form: Haiku

Premium Member SWIFT CURSIVE

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sun-dappled wings dart swallows stitch the April sky with threads of dawn's light. Their shadows dance on warm stone, writing spring in swift cursive.
Form: Tanka

Glory of Nature

Rose
fragrance
sweetens air
birds chorusing
sun lit dappled glade
gold edged clouds overhead

Profuse floribundas
white petals tipped pink
wild columbine
creep tendrils
abloom 
tree


8/15/21
Form: Verse

Premium Member Generously Helping Indigent Japanese Kangaroos

A big carefree dappled eggplant finished generously helping indigent Japanese kangaroos lovingly manage nine octagonal purposeful quahogs render strawberry tarts under venomously  worried, ‘xcited Yak’s zest.
Form: ABC

Premium Member A Walk In the Forest

warm dappled sunlight flickers like a blazing fire autumn has arrived 5.7.5 checked with how many syllables Bite Size Poem no7 Poetry Contest sponsored by Line Gauthier 06/14/21
Form: Haiku

Ekphrasis of Edvard Munch's Bathing Man

Behold the bather astride the river,
resplendent in rainbow-dappled nudity
his sense of light and air and wetness
ebbs and flows like his emotions,
colors shift and swirl in response
to the universe of his creativity.
© Ben Throne  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium Member Woodland Amour

Laughing liquid lyrics ring
along rough pebbled passage;
dappled light filters lace leaves
kissing smiling lips and cheeks;
summer stain lingers where you touched
soft skin with wild berry fingers.

Copyright, July 8, 2026

Premium Member Sunday Afternoon by Georges Seurat - Tanka

      trees waltzing  in dots
          as boats drift into grey haze;
                folks seek Sunday calm ~
                       hands rest  in dappled sunlight 
                            parasols , like mushrooms, bloom
© JC Brul  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Tanka

A Haiku Trilogy - Green

verdant shades dappled shadows… woodland ways dancing flower flies ~ woodland... a garden an arboretum… parkland fill one's mind with green ~ artists… bemused... which green to fill their brush… gardens inspire
Form: Haiku

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