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Best Dims Poems

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


Love Passing By
When the crimson rose has faded
And our day at last is done;
In the forest dark and shaded
Blows the tempest, dims the sun.
When the night holds...

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Categories: dims, love, love, pride,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Violin Notes Fall From Heaven No More
Her trembling twilight 
dims with streaking purple tears
bruised by youthful years of bleeding pain
hurting but never hugged --
locked in the arms of atmosphere’s apathy
that smeared...

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Categories: dims, child abuse, death, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Haunting
Cold, so cold, as everything seems to enshroud me 
encasing light, the flame of life - darkness within.
Slivers of blue, ice my lips, like a...

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Categories: dims, horror,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Wood Nymph
She listens to the whispering of trees 
and views the dance of wind on dew kissed leaves. 
Surrounded by tall silhouettes, she sees 
emerging patterns...

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Categories: dims, fantasy, light,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sonnet For Spring
As days grow longer, melancholy creeps
An uninvited guest, which winter brings
It dims the candle my mind tightly clings
Consuming light, from darkness whence he leaps

In doldrums...

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Categories: dims, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet



At Cusp of Dawn
Mystical Moon, languidly adrift in pallid glory,
is holding night court, clad in gold silk sarong.
Ruling her astral kingdom, amusing with a story
about a cow and...

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Categories: dims, moon, sun,
Form: Rhyme
Precious Friendship
Lovingly Dedicated to My Closest Friend, My Mother



My loving friend can caress cares away.
With simple gestures meant to pleasure sway,
She turns my smile upright and...

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Categories: dims, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sol Squints
Sol squints as His unblinking eye
slips over the edge of the Earth.
And as Scarlet smears a teal sky,
Dusk dims, awaiting Dawn's rebirth.

Vermilion clouds hang overhead,
hovering...

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Categories: dims, beauty, imagery, imagination, sunset,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Soldiers Song
I taste an emptiness of love
and weep from pain, in loss befall.
Hope flees in fields of light above
when time casts me its eternal pall.

As darkness...

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Categories: dims, soldier, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Child
A child lights our way in life...
The greatest gift there is to be.
They suppress our selfish inclinations...
They set our passions free.

They give sense to our...

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Categories: dims, children, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Another Time
There was a time when she lit up 
in the firmness of youth-- like a rose on an April
morn greeting daylight with a petal-soft kiss.
And...

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Categories: dims, age, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Flame Once Burned
A flame once burned so brightly everything in sight 
seemed quite beautiful in its blinding light.

Everything I took for truth once upon a time
seemed to...

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Categories: dims, life, passion,
Form: Couplet
I Will Forget You
You have forgotten the times that were tender
You have hidden the wounds that cut deep;
Sweet dreams of the past fade when the splendor
Dims in the...

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Categories: dims, lost love, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Statuary Gray
Winter whitewashes Autumn's array,
but you're confident Spring will soon show.
Yet, as Winter buries Fall's decay,
depression deepens like falling snow.

Snow-laden trees, like sculptures of clay,
stand as...

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Categories: dims, depression, february, how i
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Whispers of Your Soul
As starlit night glows, half-lit cast
To blaze soul's faith along a dream 
And hears my wish ‘pon a river glassed,
That spills of love’s trails, agleam.
...

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Categories: dims, inspirational, peace,
Form: Rhyme

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