Best Gentle Poems
Below are the all-time best Gentle poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of gentle poems written by PoetrySoup members
Indian InkINDIAN INK
Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow
A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...
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Categories:
gentle, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
gentle, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
PetalPink and perfect mystery
to which I ply my finger,
she ripens so exquisitely
the longer that I linger
and fluff the modest blossom
with my gentle loving...
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Categories:
gentle, love,
Form:
Verse
Natures GiftIt's how the stars are lit at night
and how the dew drops glisten
How evening shadows...
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Categories:
gentle, blessing, nature,
Form:
Sonnet
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:
gentle, beauty,
Form:
Rhyme
Poet In RecluseI relinquish my pen before the storm
of her tears falling upon my bare arm
her gentle whispering breathed in my ear
Muse of mine, adieu to your...
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Categories:
gentle, emotions, solitude,
Form:
Rubaiyat
Dreams of IndiaDreams of India
Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.
I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...
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Categories:
gentle, beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form:
Free verse
Whispers SharedYour time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...
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Categories:
gentle, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form:
Free verse
A Girl Named Sue - POTWPOTW 1 Oct 2018
Gossip about her
swept the school yard through
“Hey if you’ve got what it takes
There’s this girl named Sue
For a pack of smokes
or...
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Categories:
gentle, angst, fantasy, teen love,
Form:
Rhyme
With Open ArmsCome to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...
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Categories:
gentle, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Where the White Rose BloomsThe single white rose captured the old gardener's attention,
He lovingly cared for it, like it was his own grand-daughter,
The roses were just like family and...
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Categories:
gentle, death, funeral, garden, heaven,
Form:
Quatrain
Letter To Rhapsodical Rose
Here, I scribble a letter
to the rhapsodical rose,
dipping my quill in
stardust that slips
like a violet waterfall
from the tips of
white...
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Categories:
gentle, emotions, fantasy, feelings, love,
Form:
Free verse
The EndThe End
Seeing through these cold dead eyes now,
This world looks much different.
The scars of one’s life entire,
Appear now for all to see.
What once meant everything,
Really...
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Categories:
gentle, change, death, god, heaven,
Form:
Lyric
It Rained That Day
Soft autumn rain ...
cascading over brightly colored cherry blossoms,
releasing a sweet scent of aromatic aphrodisiac
A fragrance of springtime love blowing in the gentle autumn wind
Our...
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Categories:
gentle, feelings, love, marriage, rain,
Form:
Romanticism
The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...
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Categories:
gentle, death, evil, family, fate,
Form:
Haibun