Best Breathing Poems
Below are the all-time best Breathing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of breathing poems written by PoetrySoup members
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
breathing, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Healing Power of the Drumyour labored breathing
called out to me
and in my soul I knew
what needed to be done
I reached for the drum
to summon the spirits
called out to ancestors
and...
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Categories:
breathing, inspirational, native american, prayer,
Form:
Free verse
Within Reason- Maurice Yvonne and Seren RobertsWithin reason
lies a house full of ordinary
a chest of bland memories.
...
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Categories:
breathing, life,
Form:
Verse
Love In the Silence of the SoulAs a young boy
Sitting in a pew
The winter darkness pressing down
Candlelight waves from hidden drafts
Shadows danced on the walls
I heard the words destined to me
“Be...
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Categories:
breathing, death, love, sorrow,
Form:
Narrative
Of InkPartial Paper
-A poet in heat-
Ink carries its own tale,
When moonshine intoxicates your pen
Bottles of ink fill your mind
Composing symphonies on every line
Drops of passion...
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Categories:
breathing, beauty, feelings, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Small Bouquet of My Word Groupingsyou were an infant
i would sing a song i created for you
'there's a baby in my arms
there's a baby in the mirror
but honey
there's not...
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Categories:
breathing, appreciation, celebration, childhood, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
breathing, confusion, death, dream, future,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Escape of the Bluesman's SongWithin the frame a sepia scene
a dusty porch a rickety chair
the fabric of your dusky face creased
with ceaseless sunbaked woes
your...
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Categories:
breathing, africa, america, grief, racism,
Form:
Free verse
WarriorsThis one is for the broken,
hiding behind invisible bruising.
For the forgotten and the ones
who have forgotten us,
like the misunderstood misfits.
Who howl at the moon,
look...
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Categories:
breathing, assonance, dedication, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse
In Pursuit of a PromiseA promise should never remain silent.
In pursuit of our principal pledge -
I ponder her secret garden,
within the province of our paradise.
For her love is
an...
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Categories:
breathing, love, romantic love,
Form:
Free verse
Kindness - POTDPOTD 2 July 2018
Humans are capable of ‘Changing their State’. At times, a stressful, negative fusillade can be encountered from an individual wishing to subvert...
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Categories:
breathing, inspirational, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
breathing, garden,
Form:
Concrete
Ancient WarriorI see the wrinkles in your suntanned brow,
You carried burdens then; you see them now.
You’ve heard the cries your people who in pain,
Have shed their...
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Categories:
breathing, angst, culture, native american,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Recording/Re-Playing/Recording/Re-PlayingThe farm
and the porch light hums
the sound of another
orange dawn.
Burnt up – crisp
...
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Categories:
breathing, life, people, philosophy, time,
Form:
Free verse
An Omen of the Taste of TwilightVanished
the wild magic of this place;
this wilderness I now roam alone
as its lifeblood seeps
into
Afterlife
..my mournful howls
across time and distance
go unanswered -
Oh, how I...
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Categories:
breathing, animal, death, fate, grief,
Form:
Free verse