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Summer Poems | Examples of Summer Poetry

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 stroke of summer
wings whispering, lithe in bold hues, purple, gold, blue faded songs, pulsing ...Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, song, summer,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member sands of Heraclee
Peter (my bf) and I are at Heraclee beach for the weekend. It’s a little sliver of heaven, about 11 miles south of Saint Tropez. It’s too early in the season to swim - being breezy and...Read the rest...
Categories: beach, boyfriend, humor, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunrise
A morning sunrise... multicolored flowers stretch welcoming the light, radiating redolence... Summer's attar and essence....Read the rest...
Categories: appreciation, summer, sunshine,
Form: Tanka
Summer’s return
Summer- embraced, like a returning friend- from a distant land. Here warmth descends- here, she’s standing at the green fence. Listen- Summer’s chipping off her snack- rain and leaves crunched, with the cracks, incessantly- stirring a...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, desire, dream, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Jelly Con Fruity
Jelly con fruity Serve for summer drink delight Best for you and me....Read the rest...
Categories: creation, drink, engagement, summer,
Form: Haiku



Bodies Rock
Bodies rock on hot Spreading at busy beach One summer galore....Read the rest...
Categories: beach, engagement, fashion, summer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member baigne de soleil - bathed in sun
(a poem in several Haiku and Senryu stanzas) The molten gold sun on cerulean canvas breeze borne cirrus clouds flawless days stretching like sun-kissed bodies - crisp white linen cabanas lips roughly sore from innumerable kisses we shimmer white hot. Lulling rhythmic waves - heavens extravagant...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, beach, beautiful, boyfriend, romantic,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Grindstone
A red-rimmed sun of summer, of the sweat of the workers, the salt of their brows. Shoulders to the grindstone, hours of their labors. The Lord of their lives and their eternity- gives them a dreamer's sojourn in the welcomed moonrise. ~...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Raining in Summer
I watch my verdant eyes envious as the botanicals blossom in a sandstone sunrise glow, I am a forlorn figure wandering in my fog of fears, I cannot omit my icy turbulent tears,...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, anger, anxiety, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raining In Summer
There is nothing quite like rain in summer Summer season looks As young and beautiful...Read the rest...
Categories: summer, appreciation, encouraging, imagery, rain,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Raining in Summer
- Summer rain is a...Read the rest...
Categories: nature, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raining in Summer
Like a welcome Summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you. —Langston Hughes RAINING IN SUMMER The little teapot leaned over, steam pours out, sizzles on the pavement. Trickles, sprinkles, waters...Read the rest...
Categories: rain, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Raining In Summer
The charcoal cloud miasmic, melts in the ashen scorched sky, summer drizzle descends with the fascinating flotilla that floats in the arid air. The seeping spectrum of the setting scarlet sun sparkles on the slanting splash of the...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, rain, summer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member RAINING IN SUMMER
Raining in summer ! Always nice to bless, whether showers be heavy, more or less. Rains moisten...Read the rest...
Categories: rain, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Raining in Summer
Written: May 22, 2024 For Ink Empress Contest ...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, rain, summer,
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.

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