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Best Insouciant Poems

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


I Never Wonder Why I Love You
i never wonder why i love you
why animals can migrate with no map 
why do some moths as well as butterflies
able to choose wings up...

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Categories: insouciant, i love you, love,
Form: Romanticism



Premium Member Beach Idyll: Spencerian Stanza
Sheer lucid waves caress this oyster beach,
an aqua drowse viewed through a saffron lend,
and siren rip tides coax into a breach
as lambent grains of sand...

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Categories: insouciant, beach, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Clean India
I dream of a beautiful India
Where the roads are neat and clean
Where proper public toilets are built
And the fields are always green
I dream of India...

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Categories: insouciant, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
An Aging Wife
I look at her and I can see
a woman approaching slowly 
the land of old age, her 
night-black hair invaded by
lonely grey strands, stragglers
of an...

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Categories: insouciant, age, appreciation, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nineseventeenpm
As the second hand ticks away my breaths
a half-clad moon catches my eye.
Was a time when I might've seen
the ghost of half-eaten melon,
but I'm older...

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Categories: insouciant, age, retirement,
Form: Free verse



Another Tongue
If passion speaks beyond self-centered will,
if stones may cry aloud because a man 
keeps silence, or if whispers wash the mind 
as storms in springtime...

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Categories: insouciant, tribute, may, power,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cider and Sunset

Cider, you,me…in front of an insouciant fire.

Cinnamon cider swirling in cloissone cups.

Life, a perfect sunset in your amber-chocolate eyes, I dearly sought.

Later, to our bed,...

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Categories: insouciant, engagement, imagery, love, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
I Don'T Care If the Stars Shine Tonight
i don't care if the stars shine tonight
even less the current phase of the moon
and this restaurant could be anywhere
i would not care
you should have...

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Categories: insouciant, inspirational love, love, memory,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Underneath A Spell
A dark blue midnight  awning has its portrait,
etched by a a starlit silver lustrous galaxy,
silhouette of black lace frilled clouds,
in somber quietude  adrift...

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Categories: insouciant, beautiful, city, color, dream,
Form: Imagism
Golden Grain In Goa
While the waves lash the shores and splash in soft music

The dishes we serve here in this Golden Grain restaurant

Emanate aroma into the nostrils a...

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Categories: insouciant, adventure, beach, food, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bildungsroman
"Bildungsroman" 

childish things 
become children
the sweetness 
leaves them 
when the dream
in reality leaves them
to walk hand in hand
with the nightmare
of what becomes 
us as adults

protagonists...

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Categories: insouciant, dream, muse,
Form: Free verse
Twin Towers: September 11, 2001
Monotonous keyboards clicking
Redundant clocks ticking
Phones ringing, elevator doors swinging
Coffee pots brewing, vending machines spewing
Insouciant workers, carefree shirkers loitering
Clerks, secretaries previewing, managers reviewing
Visitors on stairs, in...

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Categories: insouciant, allah, america, angst,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
The Lean Old Men
The lean old men in my vicinity
wake to find themselves a day older
then turn away from the mirror to reflect
on their miserable circumstance.
Then they masque...

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Categories: insouciant, community, corruption, evil, men,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Can I Find Love
I constantly search for it
but it's enigmatical elusive,
hidden in a Mona Lisa smile.
Should I arm myself against self inflicted pains?
Camouflage my feelings with insouciant emotions?
For...

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Categories: insouciant, love,
Form: Free verse
How Selfish
All for one
None for all
A house of cards that will
Bring about a great fall

Only a select few
Can spellbound the masses
Becoming Kings and Queens
With illegitimate claims...

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Categories: insouciant, social, society,
Form: Free verse

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