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Late Summer Poems

These Late Summer poems are examples of Summer poems about Late. These are the best examples of Summer Late poems written by international poets.


Thrill of Late Summer
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Contest: Seasons Now And After
Date of poem: 11th August, 2025
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The noon heat no longer burns like dog days,
Storms now caress the leaves with...

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Categories: summer, autumn, nature, seasons, storm,



The Pause Between Summer And Autumn
Air feels like silk but, outside there’s a chill
The sun hangs low, like it’s waiting to thrill
Heat’s in my skin humming soft and slow
Gold drips...

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Categories: summer, seasons,

Premium Member Thrill of Late Summer
his lips slipped upon mine; into dreaming
in the satellite of fall's chaste shadows
sphered by the last cast of summer streaming
onto our free skin, sunk in...

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Categories: summer, love, romance, seasons,

Premium Member Thrill of Late Summer
Written: August 09, 2025, for contest SEASONS NOW AND AFTER Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud

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Aurora...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: autumn, summer,

Shiver
In another life, we were.

I hope you found
what you are looking for.

Is it too late?
Don’t turn around.

Here and everywhere,
I remember you.

In the summer wind,
what once...

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Categories: summer, break up, death of



Premium Member THRILL OF LATE SUMMER
SEASONS NOW AND AFTER Poetry Contest
Nette Onclaud
8/8/25

As summer winds to an end, there's a pitch
Summer's last breath rocks with school-aged kids
Soon, the air will be...

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Categories: summer, school, seasons,

Premium Member Thrill of Late Summer
Lying in between seasons is a pause,
To look at what's gone on, what's to become.
In Fall, dreading Summer's last curtain call.
In Spring, vaulting to cheer...

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Categories: summer, seasons,

summer and a dog
Summer and a dog

Pure sunlight on a forever blue sky
beaches full of laughing people and
Happy Holiday, by Cliff Richard
Out of the sun glare came a...

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© Jan Hansen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: summer, abortion, abuse, age, best

Premium Member Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall
seasonal clock-work
has early and late comers
wintering cold days
in summer, hot days in spring
inserting as breaks and spells...

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Categories: summer, seasons,

Premium Member Floral Paths of Summer
Flowery paths wildly intersect rich, late summer;
While beautiful flute music plays in green trees,
Amidst song so rife, without drumrolls of thunder.
In butterscotch ease, drift humming,...

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Categories: beautiful, flower, nature, summer,

The Clocks Go Back One Hour
Time changes with life and life changes with time.
October grows too old,
Hobbling backwards
With the burden of years,
On the sinuous alcove of time,
Tenebrous and feathery,
Her hidden...

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Categories: march, october, spring, summer,

Premium Member Summer Dreams
In summer, I would never hear the call
for dinner.  I was having too much fun
when I was at the plate in wiffleball 
and hoping...

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Categories: memory, summer,

A night at a graveyard
A gossamer hung on the graveyard's gate.
A spider clung to steel, consuming its meal.
It had no need to know dinner was served late,
Nor sensed ghostly...

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Categories: summer, death, grave, loss, scary,

Premium Member summer rain
late day summer rain
brings gifts of vibrant rainbows ~
prismatic vision...

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Categories: beautiful, rain, rainbow, summer,

Good To Go
Late one star-crossed summer's night
when I'd had more than enough
and only just in case
I was packing all my hard-won stuff
accumulated over more than several years
up...

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Categories: fun, humorous, silly, summer,


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