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Best Gentler Poems

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


Premium Member Summer Breeze
Gliding on the hills of forests you arise
Awakening the dawn of sapphire sunrise
Riding with the winds, twirling in my trees
Your invisible form no one ever...

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Categories: gentler, nature, summer,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Bill and Ted's Excellent Conversation - A Message for 2024
*To fully appreciate this a person would have to be at least somewhat familiar with the movie: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

"Dude, here's a heads...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gentler, hope, love,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member New York Street Horse
Plunked down in chaos
from a gentler time,
blinkered from the traffic
he pulls the coach along.
Patient, in his harness bond
he tugs at hearts, with pathos-
as to his...

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Categories: gentler, animal, courage, dedication, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member April Flirts With Spring
April first drives up in a new Lamborghini,
Everyone knows it is one of her foolish tricks
She will be driving a beat-up pickup farm truck
In thirty...

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Categories: gentler, april, spring,
Form: Free verse
Song of a Warrior's Bride
Song of a Warrior’s Bride

He counts on me for beauty:
His eyes blurred by bloody spurts of war,
Scarred by deadly blasts of bone
And tissue, his vision...

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Categories: gentler, horror, marriage, relationship, veterans
Form: Blank verse



With My Mind's Eye, I Can See
With my mind's eye, I can see...

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Categories: gentler, change, earth, encouraging, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Important Insignificant
She's become lost in small
The oh so important insignificant
Living in her world of do, do
Doing so much
Accomplishing so little
Head down 
Sun shining on top of...

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Categories: gentler, angst,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Nature In Splendors Freeze
In the still waters of the morning’s glow, I’ve watched the
Frozen silence as the moon quietly melts away, into the chilling
Warmth of the rising run...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gentler, adventure, beauty, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quiet Please
Quiet Please                       ...

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Categories: gentler, anxiety, change, family, journey,
Form: Narrative
Feeding the Yellow Birds
He came each day, when the sun showed noon,
Two heels in a plastic bag-
Thermos of hot tea
To have lunch and 
Read passages to the yellow...

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© Dana Young  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gentler, absence, death of a
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Premium Member Induced Interludes
Induced Interludes

Twilight disrobes a soundless star
It claims some gentler theme from me
Caught lingering in a unified bestilled embrace
Beneath a unique spotlight of its gleaming afterglow
...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gentler, fantasy, metaphor, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Christmas Prayer
At this special time of year,
when goodwill softens the heart.
When bells ring, out with good cheer,
and hostilities seem to depart.

The world, seems a gentler place,
with...

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Categories: gentler, appreciation, christmas, god, peace,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member A Golden Steed Gallops
A Golden Steed Gallops

A golden steed gallops in my dreams as of late
 echoing sounds of my so darkly imagined fate
 chastising my wicked deeds...

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Categories: gentler, angst, break up, dream,
Form: Rhyme
A Whisper Leads Me
In whispers, I hear a transcending voice, flowing through me 
like a peaceful river as it bubbles over the fins of every fish 
below. I...

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Categories: gentler, faith, love, peace, voice,
Form: Free verse
Bereft
Priceless pearls scattered as the necklace
Was snapped, ripped away by greedy
Hands, envious of your sublime beauty
And even gentler encouragement. Bounc’d
Every one of them cross cobblestones,...

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Categories: gentler, betrayal, heartbroken, hurt,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs