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Best Empathetic Poems

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


My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

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Categories: empathetic, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Legend of Silence
To the legend of silence
that speaks in trembling stillness
I’ve seen your halcyon halo~
that illuminates wilted weeds 
and tilted tendrils 
unfolding perfumed wings,
allowing sizzling seas of...

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Categories: empathetic, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Art of Forgiveness
To my enemies,
cloaked in t w i n k l i n g topaz~
I’ve become immune 
to your illusive m a n t r a...

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Categories: empathetic, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inner Sanctum
Privileged is the right of ingress, bearing your beloved name, 
To chambers of your heart, where burns a sacred flame,
Of inner sanctum divine, in sanctity...

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Categories: empathetic, deep, peace, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poetic Meraki
Upon the twinkling of silent twilight,
tranquil thoughts set adrift, 
infatuated in elysian reflection.

The mind wanders, 
observing and listening - roaming;
avoiding confusing crossroads
leading into chimerical phantasms.

Overwhelmed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: empathetic, analogy, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member What Color Are You
What color are you?
You! You! You! You! You! You! I could do this all day. Smirk.
I am not talking about hair color, eye color, or...

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Categories: empathetic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ethereal Lanterns
As the holy season commemorates revelations of scriptures,
Sacred flame burning within, reinvigorates soul’s intellect,
Steering away from the fallible, toward realms of perfect,
Away from servitude of...

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Categories: empathetic, inspirational, meaningful, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Premium Member A Diminished Respect
There was a time.

There was a time
When your fabled dreams
Seemed honest

A time when
Your open arms
Coated in dented silver and tainted dreams
Understood my Size 12 shoes

When...

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Categories: empathetic, life, slam,
Form: Free verse
Two Trees: Mr Oak and Mr Bamboo
"Two Trees:  Mr. Oak And Mr. Bamboo"


A terrible wind storm was approaching and blowing everything out of it's path!
NOTHING....not one thing at all, could...

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Categories: empathetic, image, philosophy, storm, tree,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Gemini Wall Flower
Oh my Gemini wall flower,
I wonder how your buds blossom,
as fragile florets yearn for foundations,
encouraging their roots to bloom.

If I should sow you into erratic...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: empathetic, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Saved Me With Your Love
Saved me with your love

When this crazy world, just don't make sense,
And the daggers wound without pretense,
You came running in my defense,
and saved me with...

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Categories: empathetic, devotion, feelings, for her,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I Know a Place
Between frosty cobalt-cliffs, cruise-ship hesitates to pause,
Amidst ice sculptures echoing cheers of spirited applause,
Mesmerizing enthralled sights evincing awe-struck trance,
Lauding vast gelid expanse, hypnotizing eyes of...

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Categories: empathetic, beautiful, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Paper Kingdom
Yesterday, 
when there was clarity,
I arose resembling 
the flames of sunrise.
Like an articulate artist, 
entranced in nature,
I painted fluorescent hues 
upon her butterfly wings.
Together we...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: empathetic, angst, metaphor, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Heart Knows
Your empathetic sensitivity
was placed there for a reason
listen to your heart's soul...

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Categories: empathetic, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member On the Crest of a Wave
Trauma stained 
my innocence, 
before I knew 
that the sunless 
sky lost its glory
to doomed darkness,
an empathetic gaze
which roamed beneath my 
saffron skin, 
an ungodly...

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Categories: empathetic, betrayal, child abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse

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