Best Emptiness Poems
Below are the all-time best Emptiness poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of emptiness poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Voices Echo In EmptinessWith a sigh summer citrine sky turned green
spontaneously into existence.
Autumn's palette adds changes and are seen
to its systematic experience.
Stars shiver in fear on...
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Categories:
emptiness, death, loneliness, nature, voice,
Form:
Rhyme
Joy In the EmptinessWhere once a caterpillar ceased to crawl
knit into a temporary tomb
a chrysalis shell now lies, empty, broken
observed from above
...
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Categories:
emptiness, easter,
Form:
Free verse
Wind From the SeaInspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947
Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...
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Categories:
emptiness, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
I do not know?
Like Ice --- the Waltz"Black Ice"
Sorrow flows from the first sunrise
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before
At core death awaits
-...
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Categories:
emptiness, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form:
Alliteration
Starlit SymphonyI still remember
how you were
there in the dark,
holding my
bleeding heart.
Whilst I wandered,
sleepless under
soundless spheres.
Now I search
for your starlit
symphony
that echoes,
as idyllic octaves,
from the last...
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Categories:
emptiness, best friend, death, death
Form:
Free verse
Narrow Margin
In the narrow margin between life and death,
I feel as I'm walking a tightrope - but balancing.
I'm a portrayal of metaphors,
illuminating like spring's moon,
who...
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Categories:
emptiness, analogy, how i feel,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Yesterday Love Was Such An Easy Game To PlayYesterday,
I went home for lunch,
I never go home for lunch.
When I got to our apartment
I don't know why but I didn't reach for my key.
Francine...
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Categories:
emptiness, betrayal, break up, heartbroken,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
One Silent Word
He speaks with measured dignity,
one silent word at a time
His palmetto pen tells us:
Tune out the cosmic background noise,
and focus your mind
on the sound...
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Categories:
emptiness, how i feel, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Our Love Is EternalOur soul's luminous light filters the depth of darkness
shining like a woven thread into the stillness of time
It was there where we met, in a...
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Categories:
emptiness, love,
Form:
Free verse
The Night the Grinch Stole Our Muses'Twas the night before Christmas and their pages were bare
Not one word could they write, not one verse to declare
The Grinch...
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Categories:
emptiness, christmas, holiday,
Form:
Rhyme
Indigo InkwellMy hands are tired, so I let my brush rest,
unable to paint Autumn's loneliness.
How much I miss you can never be stressed.
August has left behind...
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Categories:
emptiness, death, loss, love,
Form:
Sonnet
In Another Timethe waning moonlight thinly enveloped
the dusky canvas obscurely sprawling
across the way from the window I looked,
I knew a park was there with slides and...
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Categories:
emptiness, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Somber DaysI am somber
like November days
and my words speak
weak, as if through tired tongue
I see the trees
stand naked
reaching their limbs
across the stream
as if touching
and comforting each...
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Categories:
emptiness, day, november, tree,
Form:
Free verse
A Shout Into the VoidUpon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...
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Categories:
emptiness, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form:
Verse
Dear Anxiety, Collaboration With the Silent OneDear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.
The fault is in our...
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Categories:
emptiness, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Free verse