Best Aphonic Poems
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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Categories:
aphonic, peace,
Form:
Free verse
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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Categories:
aphonic, analogy, angst, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Sipping coffee...
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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Categories:
aphonic, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form:
Free verse
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
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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Categories:
aphonic, angst, emotions, how i
Form:
Alliteration
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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Categories:
aphonic, analogy, appreciation, dream, extended
Form:
Rhyme
Rusty Rake...
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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Categories:
aphonic, analogy, appreciation, mountains, rain,
Form:
Free verse
Our effervescence...
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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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
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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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
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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Categories:
aphonic, analogy, appreciation, beauty, together,
Form:
Rhyme
It Is To Be...
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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Categories:
aphonic, appreciation, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Zinnia...
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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Categories:
aphonic, appreciation, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
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