Best Fleeting Poems
Below are the all-time best Fleeting poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of fleeting poems written by PoetrySoup members
One Brief MomentLook...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...
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Categories:
fleeting, imagery, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
TranquilityOh little one, how soon you'll be
In turbulence of puberty.
I will hold tight your days of youth
And share with you my honest truth
That...
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Categories:
fleeting, children, god, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form:
Couplet
Hidden BeautyHidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...
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Categories:
fleeting, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Eternal Life and the Total Self
Life is but a fleeting whisper echoing through time,
never dying, always being- magnificent and sublime.
The body's a receptacle, a superficial shell,
but in it dwells the...
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Categories:
fleeting, death,
Form:
Rhyme
Vanilla VisionsWhen the
moon muses
to the
melody of memories,
roaming wisps
of vanilla gently
flow through
...
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Categories:
fleeting, death, deep, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
BelongingsShadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...
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Categories:
fleeting, loss, love, me, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
DuskMelting sorrows drift toward tomorrow
when sounds dance in hushed irrelevance.
Sacred seconds are held in creation's tawny yolk
as crystal waves of wind bid farewell to this...
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Categories:
fleeting, sunset,
Form:
Free verse
An Eulogy of Sorts, That, Hopefully, Lends Itself To DaverDo not vainly look in those remote
Places,
That, once, were acquainted with a
Small part of me; ...
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Categories:
fleeting, appreciation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Monroe MoonIn glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...
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Categories:
fleeting, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form:
Free verse
Feigned FlamesThe moon dances
on lonely nights,
to astral beams of
the clear quartz milky way~
I lay in an olive meadow
designed in fragrant
promises,
hidden between thorns
and thistles disguised
as...
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Categories:
fleeting, angst,
Form:
Free verse
SummerA hot and humid day floats merrily on the seas
As tiny bikinis amble in sandy footprints
And frolic in the motives of soft ocean breeze
Building...
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Categories:
fleeting, summer,
Form:
Quatrain
Final FarewellTo my life that betrayed the butterflies~
within my chrysalis mind,
forgive my flawed dialect,
I...
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Categories:
fleeting, destiny,
Form:
Free verse
Musings On FaithWhat if love is the religion,
and heaven a voice
with no ego;
synchronized in
harmonious hope,
speaking dialects
of kindness?
What if hell is a myth,
and evil...
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Categories:
fleeting, gospel, heaven, imagination, muse,
Form:
Free verse
The Vanity of PleasureA transitory phenomenon, a grand adulation of opulent desire,
Seeking mirth of heaven on earth, passions ablaze ignite fire,
A destination sought after; pleasure is aim of...
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Categories:
fleeting, desire, happiness, vanity,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
fleeting, faith, love, time,
Form:
Dizain