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Sunset Poems | Examples of Sunset Poetry

Sunset Poems
Sunset Poems - Examples of all types of sunset poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for sunset.
Premium Member Cloudy Embers
Cloudy embers ease into evening, Flushing Ferrari fires of day. Nightly nocturnes of nightingales play. Waking star sisters start sky sweeping. Why do I find such daily delight In the sunset blush of every night? Though darkness clears the canvas of...Read the rest...
Categories: sunset, art, bird, day, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Enthusiasm Shows Too Soon
If everything weren't roses gliding on a lonely lagoon and eyes stared at skies ever blue: you wouldn't show your enthusiasm too soon; if nobody played strange games to hurt the other, you wouldn't hang on a clue! Let the...Read the rest...
Categories: sunset, anxiety, emotions, fantasy, feelings,
Form: Lyric



SUNRISES
SUNRISES COOLING FOR SOUL NOT ALL IN ALL FOR THE WHOLE OF MY EXISTENCE...Read the rest...
Categories: sunset, 10th grade, hope, spring,
Form: Haiku
SUNSETS
SUNSETS ONE TAKE MESMERING DEAR TO ME AND YOU ALWAYS LET US SEE IT TOGETHER ...Read the rest...
Categories: 10th grade, angel, sunset,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member strawberry autumn
plump red strawberries the kind we knew last red dusk when time inched by brusque garnet stars flash on scarlet leaves and cardinals mars phenomenal crimson dragonflies when fruitful days are going true colors showing...Read the rest...
Categories: sunset, autumn, beauty, fruit, nature,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member To Touch the Breast of Twilight
Soon, sunlight will yawn on the edge of dawn and I'll welcome the warmth of his morning rays, but never could I liken them to the great love born when I feel your sensuous touch that sets me...Read the rest...
Categories: love, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Poems about Shadows and Darkness
These are poems about shadows, poems about darkness, poems about shades in the form of ghosts and spirits... Shadows by Michael R. Burch Alone again as evening falls, I join gaunt shadows and we crawl up and down my room's...Read the rest...
Categories: sunset, dark, evil, moon, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member signs of autumn
autumn's sky ablaze shades of red orange and pink ~ sunset masterpiece geese in formation flying to warmer climates ~ honking their goodbyes an arachnids silk glistens with the morning dew ~ spider clings in wait...Read the rest...
Categories: autumn, bird, sunset,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sunset
"It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream." – Bern Williams. The spacious vales shimmered in crimson hues The tired, reddish-orange sun tinged the sky, As it yearned for rest and descend Into the...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, river, sunset,
Form: Imagism
Fiery Sunset
I watch the sun set today, And feel awe at the Creator's everyday miracle... The sun goes down in all its glory, The orange rays splash across the sky, Like a bird with huge fiery...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, sunset,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member An Evening in The Tones of Rothko
The last embers of a sunset sink below a dark horizon almost mirroring a Rothko painting in its somber and weighted tones. A sadness has found a place to settle for the evening and is absorbed by the water and sky. It seems...Read the rest...
Categories: art, loss, sad, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The practice
A million emotions arose in our heart, all at once and each was so vividly clear defying translation, thus mind failed to start, paving way for light of wisdom to appear. Melding with the sunset, we became the sky, since...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, spiritual, sunset, wisdom,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member sunset on the beach
sweet time to part sun’s kissmarks blot bring warm seahug ...Read the rest...
Categories: sunset,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member THE DAWN OF DAY
Watching the dawn of day bathes me with an array of emotions, INEXPLICABLE! I am AWED. This dawn has spawned a new being named SUNRISE! Malik Val Brooklyn Rogers Black Panther Jet Blackest Answerer...Read the rest...
Categories: day, sun, sunset,
Form: Free verse
After Sunset
The sun set upon the hill Leaving meadows in the shade, Trees lost their colour bright As also waters of the lake. Flowers too drooped their heads While silent waters lay still, No shimmering on the surface While blazed the setting hill. People...Read the rest...
Categories: sunset,
Form: Rhyme

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