Best Aphonic Poems

Quietude
          by Odin Roark

Quietude
Like a tree’s dark shadow
Knows only the absorption of all colors
Rendering the din...

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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 clear or...

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Written: December 31, 2023, For Unseeking Seeker Contest
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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 mine

Quite...

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Written: September 18, 2023
Unwritten Absence Poetry Contest              Sponsored by: Ink Empress
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In the...

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Written: December 09, 2023
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solitary slope whispers below
by the vernacular aphonic
with...

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'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...

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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...

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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...

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Immeasurable,
unlabeled, word-
less by 
studded 
tears
and 
voice,


APHONIC.

Only death by 
tenderness 
swoops down
as eternity
and her hands,
soft as fire;
as time

the flesh;
a billboard
the soul
neon lights.

:: 11-06-2017 ::...

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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...

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Suspending Time
David J Walker 

Step 1
Block the clock  
Obscure its view 
Nothing old
Nothing new
Only now in which the 
Me and the you
Commune as the...

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Written: August 07, 2023
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Within the depths of soliloquy,
A voice unfolds in a sempiternal plea,
Seeking solace in the scintilla of rhyme,
Guiding us through the corridors of...

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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,...

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Written: April 20, 2024

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