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Best Marble Poems

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


Premium Member A Tale of Fire and Ice
Part I: Ice

He shines like silver midnight moon -
cool marble statue, this tycoon.
And though he makes the ladies swoon,
of ice he’s hewn; of ice he’s...

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Categories: marble, dream, fire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme



Hidden Beauty
Hidden 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: marble, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member View It From Afar
To appreciate our planet;
begin with its snowcapped mountains,
where sunbeams morph crystals of ice
into gems of glistening light.

Witness white clouds traverse the skies
floating on a vista...

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Categories: marble, beautiful, earth, imagery, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Sundown Meditation
Take a deep breath
Let yourself relax
Close your eyes
Come with me

Inhale
Exhale

Let me guide you
I’ll take you on a magical journey

Give in to the moment
Relax
Breathe
Close your eyes

You’re...

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Categories: marble, adventure, freedom, journey, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shepherd Who Forgot His Flock
It's raining again, grey neon skies,
washing away suppressed surfaces,
to reveal unhealed wounds,
to scars the eyes cannot see

sometimes they bleed.

Some say words heal,
but I resist to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: marble, childhood, emotions, father son,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Angel Inside
Coral life forms in copious swarms
feast in the Cambrian chyme,
dividing their cells and forming their shells
to end on the seafloor as lime.
Tectonic churning and magma...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: marble, allegory, angel, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Recording/Re-Playing/Recording/Re-Playing
The farm
     and the porch light hums 
the sound of another 
orange dawn.

Burnt up – crisp
     ...

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Categories: marble, life, people, philosophy, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To the Dandelion In the Concrete
You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn

(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...

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Categories: marble, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Healing a Broken Heart
The bleeding sunset lingers on her mind
as night approaches and the sky goes dark.
Her soul is restless; how it craves to find
some words of comfort...

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Categories: marble, heartbroken,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Interlude
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: marble, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pass the Light House
~ CALYPSO ~

Odyssey of the open ocean 
Eclipsing the performance of Heaven's delight 
A beautiful name whispered along the night 
Calypso enhanced with enchanted lullabies...

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Categories: marble, adventure, beauty, desire, journey,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A Child's Good Night
At night the sun has gone to sleep
And crickets sing a tune.
The bullfrogs croak and creatures creep
Beneath the watching moon.

The masked raccoons and possums prowl
Through...

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Categories: marble, children, dream, home, night,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Saints and Demons On Halloween
On the eve of All Saints Day known as Halloween
We've a night where nothing is ever as it seems
 
Abraham, Martin and John hosted a...

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Categories: marble, holiday
Form: Couplet
Love's Last Heartbeat
In the moorlands of desires, 
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock 
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs, 
In the dream...

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Categories: marble, angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Weep -
      - "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." - 
  ...

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Categories: marble, angel, cry, death, feelings,
Form: Free verse

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