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Summer Poems | Examples of Summer Poetry

Premium Member Seasons
Winter brings cold Demands respect Its word is bold Best to protect Fall offers thrills Tree colors change Nights bring sharp chills Gusts spin windvanes Spring brings new birth And sparks new dreams Birds sing their worth Bright sunshine beams Summer brings heat Strong storms and rain Vacations...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, 4th grade, autumn, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A sundrenched spell
the sun's caress glitters off your sultry skin while a balmy breeze caught in your hair gives way deep in your eyes is where i want to drown basking in the taste of summertime sorbet posted on March 30,...Read the rest...
Categories: hair, longing, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member National Poetry Month
"A writer must use ink from their heart for their readers." By Poet Even as a creative "Ghost" writer, we need "Heart" as we pull an all-nighter. What will our mute want to "Deliver," maybe happy or sad or...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, imagination, poetry, poets, writing,
Form: Rhyme
My Winter, Your Summer
the snow undissolved amid my heart wanders eternal as does my avidity its difficult to accept “to move on to forget” six feet yet unreachable how will this feeling melt my everything lost tomorrow ‘we’ wander, separate, absent as I hang by the blistering icicle I want...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, absence, analogy, angst, death,
Form: Elegy
The End of Summer
Orange sunshine, purple clouds At the seashore - restless crowds Silver coin makes a splash August month gone in a flash March 13, 2025 ...Read the rest...
Categories: beach, sea, summer, sunset,
Form: Rhyme



Fire's Embrace, Ice's Kiss
A shimmer rises, unseen, from asphalt's black skin, a phantom limb of summer, reaching. It warps the world, a funhouse mirror, where distant cars waver, mirages in the making. Heat, a heavy blanket, smothering breath, a slow, relentless burn that...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, snow, summer, weather,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member snow in june
ecstatic midst them ballet beauties white roses summer snow in june...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member perfume
perfume in the air apricots and daffodils summer casts its spell posted on March 26, 2025...Read the rest...
Categories: daffodils, flower, fruit, summer,
Form: Haiku
floweresque
At 13, I used old tissue paper to craft my best friend her wedding veil— a drapery, thrown together in a flurry, taping together parchment scraps, fragile and pale. I ripped my old notes to craft her a crown, to...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, 12th grade, child, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Same scenery different views
2025.3.24 Sixty five days ago, on a sunny Saturday, I came here with some body. It was supposed to be our first time, But it turned out to be the last too. Time flies fast as it passed you. At the...Read the rest...
Categories: friendship, memory, poems, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ottawa Tulip Festival
Dow's Lake boasts a scenic park with tulips by the hundred thousands they bloom for all in springtime jubilee that marks the launch of playful seasons posted on March 23, 2025...Read the rest...
Categories: flower, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mulberry trees and butterflies
summer sings forever in my heart perfume and love in the air evergreen memories of mulberry trees and butterflies unwritten poetry lines floating on dreams whisked ever so gently by a subtle breeze of you coming back to me AP: 3rd place 2025,...Read the rest...
Categories: butterfly, memory, summer, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leo Memories
it was summer and mother had been busy in the kitchen all day making a fancy dinner and custom birthday cake year after year it never got old but I soon would anticipation giving way to fond memories (Leo in title references the zodia sign) posted...Read the rest...
Categories: age, birthday, mother, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Persephone Creates the Seasons
Yet, I do know a little of the law: For all its forms but fortify from flaw. To that which renders beauty must it serve, Nor from this purpose, may it ever swerve. From solemn silence, symphonies upswell, And half...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, autumn, music, myth, seasons,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member At War's End
Therefore, for all seasons shall ye be, Nor winters wild, nor summers only see. And, therefore, shall the gods again as one, Rebuild what ruin this time of war hath done. ...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, god, life, myth, seasons,
Form: Couplet

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