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Best Calming Poems

Below are the all-time best Calming poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of calming poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member That Starry Night
Like no one before, nor since
 you painted that starry night in oils
  superimposing your life story.

I feel I know this idyllic village
 blanketed...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: calming, art, depression, night, passion,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member Nature Speaks To My Soul
I stand alone in natures beauty,
     in the woods by a trickling stream.
I feel the presence of my destiny,
  ...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: calming, beauty, dream, feelings, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: calming, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Transcendence
When imbalance of life churns hapless poignancy
And the zephyr of inequities breezes melancholy
Dissonance reverberates echoing pathos of grief
Seeking exaltation within metaphysical profundity
As hushed posture conjures...

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Categories: calming, inspirational, introspection, peace,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Eulogy For God
Oh, Lord! Lest one is asleep,
the purge to kill you,yet again,
is quite deep.
Some, who read your word in
the Bible, re-create it, with myths
that are long...

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Categories: calming, abortion, faith, god, poets,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Enlightenment
Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.

Listen to the utterance...

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Categories: calming, deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse
Ravens and Castles
...inspired by and in dedication to ~  Victor Buhagiar, Robert Lindley (my mentors) and the rest of the PoetrySoup Family...thank you for your kindness...

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Categories: calming, dark, deep, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member NOTHING LESS - NOTHING MORE - POTD
POTD 8th Jan 24


 NOTHING LESS ~ NOTHING MORE

The ambushed night when all was still,
Amidst the gloom, anxiety took my will.
Though the moon cast its...

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Categories: calming, deep, emotions, inspiration, new
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Symphony of Soul
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..."  E.E. Cummings

Another day soaked in the melody of...

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Categories: calming, deep,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Adult Lullaby
In my arms you can forget your troubles
Close your eyes and leave them all behind
I’ll sway you tenderly to loving rhythms
I’ll comfort you to sweet...

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Categories: calming, health, love, Lullaby, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Magical Ocean Hs
waves gently caress
washing ashore sea treasures ~
beach scavenger hunt

a flock of seagulls
swoop and steal beach crustaceans ~
crab delicacy

a warm ocean breeze
wafts of beach roses and...

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Categories: calming, beach, beauty, imagery, nature,
Form: Other
Premium Member Golden Shovel
The meticulous melody of my musings is she.
Quietly my quill inscribes intrinsic ink upon the paths she walks.
Profoundly postulated in poems I've portrayed her in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: calming, analogy, emotions, perspective,
Form: Verse
Premium Member From Dawn's Spirited Breath, See Red, Red Rose
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From Dawn's Spirited Breath, See Red, Red Rose

When Summer rose meets dawning's sweetest hush
Sun comes to bequeath its dawn bathing rays
Red beauty gleaming, rose stills...

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Categories: calming, beautiful, beauty, flower, garden,
Form: Sonnet
The Edge of Romance
~
Dressed in a shade that the sun couldn’t find,
all on a cool summer’s eve
Seeking a scarf only meant to unwind,
wrapped in an untangled weave
Picking a...

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Categories: calming, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member swirling seven-stars
Life is never a planned ride
      on a magical carpet,
that awakens jasmine
dreams lost in the brisk air.
We weave our own...

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Categories: calming, emotions, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs