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Afternoon Poems - Poems about Afternoon

Afternoon Poems - Examples of all types of poems about afternoon 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 afternoon.
Premium Member A FUNTASTIC TALE BY MONKEY TAIL
... For my dearest grand-daughter A fantasy wish for me and you, To dance the whole night through, To rent a clown and laugh all night, Ride star beams that shine so bright, And play with snow......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Cold Case: A Missing Hour of Afternoon
... I step out from a second-story window, float along roads of slow-churning lullabies, raptured in response to ice cream truck’s bellow. A clear case of cold sugar—wide gumball eyes, mobile memor......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, extended metaphor, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member A Boy Who Loved Blue
...He lived on a beautiful, rural farm, back in fond, good old days of yore, With his parents and two brothers; like sun's going in and out the door. He had always adored the color blue, so ......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, blue, boy, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Dusk
...Lightly, almost imperceptibly, dusk quiets and stills the day. The brightness and youth of morning vibrates with exciting expectations of unknown adventures waiting to be discovered, a reach......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, imagery, introspection, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
The River inspired by the poem of Jibonananda Das
... The rye mustard field, glowing with a morning diva, faded in colors within afternoon The river runs just beside ; “O reverie! What shall the song be in the chanting verse, unsung in me and th......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, allegory,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Raining In Summer
... There is nothing quite like rain in summer Summer season looks As young and beautiful as Spring. Petrichor wafts in the breeze. Flowers are bl......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, appreciation, encouraging, imagery, rain,
Form: Lyric
A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
...A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway (route 76) both heading into (and a small number of hours later exiting) center city Philadelphia to Schwenksville on May 19th, 2024. Yours truly......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, adventure, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunstones
...(Sunstones sunrise, 2024) Sunstones We head off into the middle of nowhere To spend a night at Sunstones rock hounding site. The afternoon sun beats down As we wander around the deser......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, appreciation, nature, spiritual,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Real Love
...Love me sweetheart, I love you Let me show you how I do Morning, afternoon, and night Reach over now, turn out the light Fit your body into mine Side by side, it's cuddle time Fall asleep and ......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Raining in Summer
... Acts 14:17 (KJV) “Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.” ......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, appreciation, rain, summer, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raining in Summer, square dancing
..."Join hands, circle left, let’s begin this song," In the valley where Flatirons stand strong. A Chautauqua garden, where joy takes root, Square dancers gather in plaid and boots. Men in whi......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Cookies and Milk
... “Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.” Barbara Jordan There’s not......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, poetry,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Guns and Roses
...It was 1986 I was setting in after giving birth to my first son after wearing wires pregnant for the FBI buying large amounts of weapons ammunition boxes the dealer loaded hand grenades silenc......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, chicago, integrity, poems, power,
Form: Dramatic Verse
What do you mean?
...What do you mean I left everything I know and love and started new What do you mean the few I called friends times are due What do you mean my animals are back at home I’m crying because I feel al......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, desire, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jack, Dare to Believe
...Jack Allen was a serious, shy schoolboy, who worked hard at school lessons; Like mottled skies working hard each day, to convey many color obsessions. Jack was a little small for his age,......Read the rest...
Categories: afternoon, beauty, confidence, fantasy, hero,
Form: Couplet

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