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Best Gesture Poems

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


An Adequate Vocal Gesture
I do have purpose
that stays near
a constant reminder 
of my inner child

As my conscienceness
shines through to create 
a new perspective
I break out of my cocoon

Only...

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Categories: gesture, hope, inspirational, life, uplifting,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Token Gesture
It was a token gesture
A hand he offered me
Emerging from my cab
Stormy night in the city

I didn’t know his name
But I’ll not forget his face
For...

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Categories: gesture, appreciation, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: gesture, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pathway To Love
As I sit watching fusions of saffron and scarlet hues 
elegantly charm the horizons.
Silently, fluffy lush clouds float by
like a magnetic field drawing me closer,
in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gesture, longing, love, , Lullaby,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Library of Trust and Hope
The Library of Trust and Hope
The Bank of Trust and Hope

(Cant decide on title, so feel free to pick or suggest one)

She was all but...

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Categories: gesture, analogy, garden, growth, happiness,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member A Sonnet For Compassion
What words did you use to make someone smile?
Did you reach out to change a stranger’s day?
The smallest gesture makes it all worthwhile,
an act of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gesture, community, humanity, judgement,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member More Than Glam and Glitz
As a young girl growing up in the 50s and 60s, Hollywood’s glamorous and glitzy lifestyle fascinated me. Popular actresses such as Jane Russell, Ava...

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Categories: gesture, beauty, family,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Poet Convention 2014
Poet Convention

Lost in a poets convention, 
I can't recall every poem, I've read through the years
50518, unique comments I 'validate'--- 
Thank You For Sharing Your...

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Categories: gesture, celebration, character, dedication, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Elegant Dance
Rhythmic pose arcs lifting elegant ambience
Graceful dance enshrines artful renascence
Visceral posture invites emotional response
Festive celebration of aesthetic renaissance.

Attired in red and blue of simple elegance...

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Categories: gesture, art,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Fig Leaf
On the shadowed banks of river they sat together
Adulating setting sun quivering in rippling currents
Where golden filaments shimmered on blue water
Forming and breaking ephemeral circular...

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Categories: gesture, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lady Down the Lane
On my walk around the green meadow
in the sun splattered mesmeric mornings,
I used to see an old lady of the neighborhood,
sitting straight like a lone...

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Categories: gesture, memory, old, remember,
Form: Free verse
Before The Sun's Pieces
Before the sun's pieces,
Shine on brim's, coffee mug;
And with my prepping airs—
It's all jeopardy to 
Roll frost in bed somewhere.

Before the sun's pieces,
Rain in a...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: gesture, deep, introspection, light, love,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Premium Member The Lesson a Dog Taught Me
On a stone wall, by the solitary pavement,
Annoyed and angry, with daggers drawn at everyone,
I saw my neighbor sitting dejected and depressed.
Though known him for...

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Categories: gesture, anger, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Laid To Rest
I had yearned for it all my life
That simple gesture
That finally healed
The open wound
That for years
Bled 
In a silent stream
That fell Between
The cracks in
You and...

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Categories: gesture, father,
Form: Elegy
Speechless Spoken Word Artiste
SPEECHLESS SPOKEN WORD ARTISTE

So if my vocal folds can’t collaborate to produce sounds to communicate loudly to your beautiful mind that I have an endless...

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Categories: gesture, art, beauty, emotions, humor,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Shattered Sighs