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Best Sound Poems

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Premium Member Sound, Hues and Juice
a gentle breeze
   tinkling wind chimes
   her voice

   reflected
   within her eyes
   the sky

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Categories: color, imagery, sound,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member There Will Never Be Enough Time
There Will Never Be Enough Time

There will never be enough time to hear unique
music of nature's songs in its birds, its insects,
in songs of the...

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Categories: sound, earth, mountains, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charm Like Harp Strings - 128 Words
Your mind's in knots,
as stress plagues thoughts.
On hope you cling,
to bloom like Spring.

Its fine my dear,
nerves can cause fear.
Don't be so scared,
gifts must be shared.

Your...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sound, muse, music, silence, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And So It Is
And so it is…
When the trees don’t speak, barely a whisper in the wind,
Wet petals stuck motionless to the ground as if pinned
When there is...

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Categories: feelings, senses, sound, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quietude and Boom
I decorate a grotto for you, Mama
where orchids and holy images
embellish this special place and day,
that saintly icons guard you there
as if they beg me...

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Categories: devotion, mother daughter, sound,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Color of Silence
If you could paint a picture of silence
What color would it be?

Would you use a brush to paint the fog
in shades of gray, a touch...

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Categories: imagination, morning, sound,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence In You
Is there a way you can show me your silence?
This world is deafening to me 
Can I find the words that I'm seeking..

Dream of a...

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Categories: sound, dedication, friend, peace, senses,
Form: Prose Poetry
Her Stilettos
.    The sound of
   Stilettos         coming   home. 
  The...

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Categories: lovesound, sound,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member My Fragile Friends
Please speak to me my lovely friend
With leaves stirred softly by the wind

Under enchanted autumn sky
Where your susurrate sounds drift by.

Sing soft melodies in choir
As...

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Categories: autumn, sound, tree,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Soul Music
This river of melody plays in my soul,
When I awake, I feel emerged in it whole.

In the calm of night, when I'm all alone,
It raises...

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© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: music, song, sound,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Wild Is the Wind
Furious wind from the north hisses louder,
banging against the gaped mouth of  a sky, drenched…
 Haggard, the night wheezes with quack
 of birds waylaid;...

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Categories: howl, sound, wind,
Form: Verse
Complex
thick skin and thin walls~

                sympathetic eyes
   ...

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Categories: abuse, community, sound,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Infinitesimal
Thundering tanks, missiles, bombs
     invade the world with fire's alarms

   Far beneath their horrific rounds
    ...

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Categories: heart, humanity, sound, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nature Sounds
The wind against the trees make a rustling
A sound unlike any other around
The rubbing of the limbs craft a bustling
It’s a subtle music which brings...

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Categories: life, nature, sound,
Form: Quatern
A Forest
The night like clouded charcoal scorched,
A sea of trees with starlight torched.
A night where laws are sound asleep,
Anarchic prayers running deep.

Alone I hear the wretched...

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© Gael Attal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sound, allegory, angst, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things