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Summer Poems | Examples of Summer Poetry

Summer Poems
Summer Poems - Examples of all types of summer poetry to share and read. This list of summer poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of summer poetry. This list of works about summer is an excellent resource for examples on how to write summer poems.
For the Land
Atyrau and Mangystau, two twin lands, From the start, we’re kin, united we stand. We’ve endured the heat like a patient steed, And in the frost, like a black stallion, we lead. Through heat and cold, we’ve been thoroughly...Read the rest...
Categories: summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member free spirits
she strummed her guitar and we sang by the glow of the campfire we were free and had no worries we thought the summer would never end Posted on February 26, 2025...Read the rest...
Categories: freedom, guitar, summer, time,
Form: Free verse



Summer Never Lasts
what if what we had was temporary a momentary glance of happiness of freedom of joy of reckless youth a time of love and carelessness maybe that was where our memory is supposed to stay maybe it wasn’t meant to continue...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, childhood, friendship, growing up,
Form: Free verse

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Lake House Meditation
Early afternoon trip all day out on crystalline, mirror lake. the delicate surface that shatters, when I plunge off old dock crafted in clay orange beach, where I can see the shadow of leaves kaleidoscope in the...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, drug, july, memory, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where The Children Go To Play
Where the children go to play Is where the summer grass endures And sunbeams - like a cascade - Pour down upon their bronze shoulders. This - the children have learned well: ...Read the rest...
Categories: children, imagination, summer,
Form: Rhyme



Summer 2025
2025.2.23 Summer heat waves. Checked on the website, Beaurology of Melbourne weather forecasted. The temperatures, the winds, the water and the tides. Would be in the 30°c, calm, fine and low tides. I somehow started to get panic, Not because of the...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, i miss you, miss
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Chilling Winds
I find the coldest of winds move me the least - As I brace for frigid agony. I stand as stone, almost deceased - Ironically enough amongst ebony. We wish for warmer times, warmer winds, A time where we could...Read the rest...
Categories: conflict, memory, pain, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Nature - A Divine Power
Though July hasn't yet made its way, August brings summer's true display. The sun blazes down in its fierce embrace, Scorching with flames that leave no trace. As if the sky...Read the rest...
Categories: summer,
Form: Rhyme
What is forward
The summer sun creeps in As I lay down Looking for other forms of brightness...Read the rest...
Categories: august, confusion, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This Old Road is Wearing Me Down
This old road is wearing me down 7 more miles and I will be out of town Ain’t got no wagon, and holes in my boots Darn me; if the weather never suits Yeah This old road is wearing...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, work,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Joy of summer reading and online summer school florida July 4th 2020
Busy month my family very sunny here in Lakeland during covid July 1st 2020 filled with plans for the 4th of July and celebrating my husband and I wedding anniversary my granddaughter loved baking...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, allah,
Form: Lento
A Summer’s Serenade
Oh, summer, sweet symphony of golden days, Where sunlight dances in warm, endless rays. The sky blushes pink as dusk softly nears, While love blooms eternal beneath the stars' tears. The breeze whispers secrets through fields of green, And echoes...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, cute love, i love
Form: Rhyme
I’ll be gone this summer
I’ll be gone this summer. It’s just a fact of life. One day when the moon settles into the heavens and the hazy heat loses its grip on the day, I’ll walk to the woods and never emerge. I’ll become one...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, death, depression, meaningful, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sweet Summer Day
I found you in that Lackadaisical mood lieing in a hammock the sky was summer blue I loved your style you had nothing to prove a spirit so free so I became you You sang of nature...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, appreciation, beautiful, heart, inspirational
Form: Lyric
Summer of 64
Bussed in is what they call it way back when Busted mouth, broken chin Where we the reason of everybody’s sin Can you please just let me in, Don’t wanna get beaten again . Doors breaking, my knees a...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, change,
Form: Rhyme

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