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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.
Premium Member fire island night
his swimmer's beauty lifeguard oceanic dance fire island night...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, 12th grade, beach, beauty,
Form: Haiku
From Barbados With Love
Take me Samantha I beg you, to your flourishing abode within the idyllic shores of Barbados. To the smoothened sands of the placid beaches of Bathsheba, for our deep romantic adventure and ecstatic surfing. A split second with you in the land of the flying fish, would...Read the rest...
Categories: love, romance, summer,
Form: Free verse



Swift Dorcas
Come with me to the meadows and enjoy the bucolic life of the unruffled landscapes, amidst the low hills by the cosy pool, where we will bask in the summer sun. We will have a summer vacation date that will leave indelible prints in our transient...Read the rest...
Categories: beach, summer, vacation,
Form: Free verse


Miss Sweden's Summer
The moderate warmth, and its attendant humid air, rising mild temperatures on smoothened sands. Tilting towards the warm showers of the tropical sun, and basking on the tranquil beach, I enjoy a sunbath. With my sunscreen lotion, applied gently on my soft and beautifully tanned Scandinavian skin, I...Read the rest...
Categories: beauty, summer, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just Last Hour
Just last hour, an effortlessly blue sky dared me to surmise that never again would chill winds whip up leaves from...Read the rest...
Categories: change, imagery, summer, winter,
Form: Imagism



Premium Member The Fall Of The Spring And Summer Flowers
The sun disappears much, much later, an hour later to be exact. This translates into having more daylight and a longer afternoon, To watch the strolling peacocks in the park, and to have more fun Admiring the baby...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, autumn, beautiful, beauty, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Traitorous Eye by Charles d’Orleans translation
French poems by Charles d’Orleans in modern English translations by Michael R. Burch Traitorous Eye by Charles d’Orleans loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Traitorous eye, what’s new? What lewd pranks do you have in view? Without civil warning, you spy, And...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, death, fear, grave, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Chaucer Translation: Welcome Summer
Welcome, Summer by Geoffrey Chaucer loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch Now welcome, Summer, with your sun so soft, since you’ve banished Winter with her icy weather and driven away her long nights’ frosts. Saint Valentine, in the heavens aloft, the songbirds...Read the rest...
Categories: heaven, sky, song, summer,
Form: Roundel
Premium Member Solstices
* As Winter Approaches The sun ascends From the left of east, And sets due left of west. During daylight hours sits low, After winter solstice, gains height. Peaking when summer solstice arrives Then starts its orbital journey once more....Read the rest...
Categories: summer, sun, winter,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Lasting Summer
butterfly bush blooms such pink and purple colors green like late summer lavender sunshine in floral scents wandering cream clouds pondering striking hummingbird in deep purple and rubies butterfly beauties eternal evening of scenes silver like full moon rosy afternoons ...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, bird, flower, nature, nice,
Form: Haiku
summers
SUMMERS DAYS ARE WRONG WITH HOT HEAT AND SWEAT DO YOU LIKEIT..........Read the rest...
Categories: summer, 10th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Haiku
end of summer stream
. 'long the river bed ...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, allusion, extended metaphor, romance,
Form: Epyllion
soft summer
. 'twuz just az y'all imagined ...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, allusion, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member In Marked Territory
The very hot summer is coming to a close, fresh cool weather is in the air. I love my walks on autumn days, it puts a giddy up in my steps. Off to the pretty park we will go, looking...Read the rest...
Categories: fun, giggle, love, summer,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member How to prepare for Summer reading classes in Florida
Summer reading classes begins June through August this is a great fun way for the entire family to get involved enhancing students ability to stay focus preparing for the upcoming school year I adored summer...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, america, confidence, dream, encouraging,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Summer Poems

Read wonderful summer poetry on the following sub-topics: acrostic, alliteration, beautiful, beauty of, camp, end of, haiku, holiday, kids, late, love, rhyme, school, season, solstice, vacation, and more.

Definition | What is Summer in Poetry?


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