Best Aphonic Poems


Premium Member Quietude
...Quietude
          by Odin Roark

Quietude
Like a tree’s dark shadow
Knows only the absorption of all colors
Rendering the din of senses
A cacophonous silence

How gentle the process
Once resistance ......

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Cuddles In Shadow
...Written: October 09, 2023
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There are no blooms to snuggle in the twilight
No promise that it will ever reach the zenith.
Either the sky is c......

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, analogy, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sipping coffee
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Written: December 31, 2023, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma
As also this dopamine boosti......

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Free verse

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Premium Member Finding the Plot
...Finding the plot

Of lost innocence
engrained in untold memories

The silenced absence 
in past present unspoken
stories well hidden
and therefore evoking
my past and my future
not mine and......

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Categories: aphonic, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I miss who I used to be
...“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi


Upon my quest for quintessence.
I was an amorist, 
positive in poetic philosophies.
Elysian and empyrean effigies,
enlightened i......

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, angst, emotions, how i
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Whispers of Unwritten Absence
...Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest              Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the absence of i......

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Rusty Rake
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Written: December 09, 2023
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solitary slope whispers below
by the vernacular aphonic
with a fierce wind and unbiased rock

buco......

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, analogy, appreciation, mountains, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our effervescence
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Written: August 16, 2025, for contest by Unseeking Seeker

 Line of inquiry: 
 "conjoined with the whole - we play our life role
exuding a scent - granting love consent"

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse
Fighting Nyquil
...'m extinct 
I'm irrelevant 
Rare off day today
Go to to store and see if I can pilfer a couple xmas presents
Raise me this way
My moms ddnt 
But my deviation has allowed me
Woke up this mornin......

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Categories: aphonic, crazy, day, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whispers of the Soul
...Written: August 07, 2023
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Within the depths of soliloquy,
A voice unfolds in a sempiternal plea,
Seeking solace in the sc......

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, appreciation, character, faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Call From a Winter's Night Up North
...I curl up
In the cradle of our cabin
This Friday night in January

The deck out back
Glows
Bright as its own light
With new snow
From my evening muted TV

Cliff an abyss two feet beyond

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Categories: aphonic, dark, forgiveness, god, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Wayfarer Creed
...To what zenith do our chimeras whither?
As we travel across discombobulated shores?
Do we strive to collocate together?
Or breed discord and close the doors?

The wayfarer creed is t......

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, analogy, appreciation, beauty, together,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member It Is To Be
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Written: April 20, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh

Quote "Don't grieve, anything you lose comes round in another form,"by Rumi

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, appreciation, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Zinnia
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Written: April 19, 2024 For Constance la France Z Words Contest

Rumi Quote: "Flowers every night blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace, am I"
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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: aphonic, appreciation, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New Beginnings
...Neoma the marionette dangled on trite puppeteer’s strings

Endlessly performing on minimum wage she deserved better 

Why does this circus enslave me for such trivial performance 


Beware of ......

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Categories: aphonic, celebration,
Form: Acrostic
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