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Best Mountain Poems

Below are the all-time best Mountain poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mountain poems written by PoetrySoup members


On Mountain Nine
Running beauty rippled in crystal white
No whisper in the air, just a wondrous sight
My eyes ascend in awe to a far light
Small and empty observing...

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Categories: mountain, beauty, creation, feelings, heaven,
Form: Monorhyme
Mountain Church
Four friends and I, one Sunday, take a ride.
our church still closed just short of one full year.
We drive, white almond blooms on either side,
instead....

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Categories: mountain, day, devotion, nature, religion,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Mountain Serenade
This oversized wooden chair feels oddly comfortable as we snuggle up on the raised deck of our cabin at the summit of an anonymous mountain...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mountain, nature, romantic love,
Form: Haibun

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member A Mountain From a Pile
How far do the ripples spread, when eventually we die 
Probably stay in the locality, level off, no major outcry
But let’s say we’re famous, suffering...

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Categories: mountain, allusion, corruption, prejudice, truth,
Form: Rhyme
You'Ll Be a Mountain
I know its hard to imagine now
But some day you’ll be the key and not the lock
The exception not the rule
Some day you’ll be a...

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Categories: mountain, anxiety, bullying, child abuse,
Form: Prose Poetry
I Am the Mighty Mountain
I stand, the most statuesque, peeking through the clouds
that lend their softness as my pillow when sun in midnight drowns.

Golden sun, a fitting crown for...

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Categories: earth, mountains,
Form: Personification



Mountain of Regrets
As large boulders weep,
Tears stream down sharp cheeks of stone:
Sobbing precipice....

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Categories: mountain, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Mind and Mountain
MIND AND MOUNTAIN

Life
A climbing process
A gradual, grand ascent to view?
Mind can inveigle such

To go where all manner wild affecting grows
Foothills of some towering height
Mind can...

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Categories: mountain, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mountain Memories
Mountains mirrored on a pellucid lake,
not a cloud in the cornflower blue sky.
At one with nature with each step I take,
I ascend these emerald hills...

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Categories: beauty, mountains, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Mountain Oasis
The trail to the peak was a long and arduous climb
Which skirted a pristine glacial lake about midway.
Shimmering below, it offered a cooling balm for...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mountain, beauty, color, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wild Mountain Honey
Old Mountain tales of love spin 
     'neath dawn's blush,
Elderberries, purple ink drop pearls 
     drawing me...

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Categories: mountain, adventure, devotion, inspirational love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member As I Watched the Fiery Red Sun Slip Behind the Mountain
As I Watched The Fiery Red Sun Slip Behind The Mountain

As I watched the fiery red sun slip behind the mountain
I tossed a silver dollar...

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Categories: mountain, beautiful, fire, heart, love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Mountain-Moving Love
Rumi Verse
("I want that love that moved the mountains.
I want that love that split the ocean.
I want that love that made the winds tremble")
 ...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, appreciation, love, mountains,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mountain Drop
`~ MoUNTAIN DRoP~

I want to be like the mountain top.  
The higher I go, the less room I have to stop. 
A moment to...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mountain, death, depression,
Form: Rhyme
This Mountain Here
I remember the day I got the call.
My world fell apart.
I had lost it all.

I remember the day you were taken from me.
I knew your...

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© Misty Hoot  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mountain, angst, confusion, death, imagination,
Form: Elegy

Book: Reflection on the Important Things