Best Muted Poems
Muted Blue
I'll hold this place for her loving faintly-
fragile, and tepid outer layer veils so thinly
a gorgeous core shining bright and quietly
Her eyes say more
than lips betraying her thoughts
as they swirl to intriguing depth.
I dive, plunge deeply-secretly
wading in thought's waters
loving...
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Categories:
muted, love
Form:
Free verse
Muted Love
Not this day
No
My mouth shall not say
The words that linger
Trailing broken syllables
From memory bay
Without meaning
I cannot form them
Even as I pray
Turning in guttural acidic taste
By bitter bile way
Fumbling resentment
Phrase to phase
With no sway from sentiment
Shall I dare?
Shall I say?
Nay!
Struggle thought
Drowning heart turned grey
Oh how heavy they drag
And scuff the...
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Categories:
muted, feelings, hate, heartbreak, leaving,
Form:
Rhyme
Muted Echoes
Muted Echoes
The echoes of piano notes
play softly in my mournful mind
as melody so gently floats
like ghosts of songs she left behind.
My memories are brought to bear,
the echoes of piano notes
forever floating in the air,
as lumps well up in saddened throats.
This winter day we don our coats
to lay her body down to rest;
the echoes of piano...
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Categories:
muted, death, loss, lost love,
Form:
Quatern
Muted Rage
Old age
Muted rage
Broke hips
Bitter lips
Happy thoughts
Are Fought
Sunny Days
Turn away
Why lie
Will die
Nursing home
Swallows groan...
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Categories:
muted, anger, cry, death, pain,
Form:
Couplet
A Muted Landscape
And so
The words lay idle
Mumbling
“Not me! Not me!”
For we could be
The catalyst for
Verse,
Or worse.
Let us be
But words
Un-gathered logs
Afraid of fire
Soundless stones
Rolling
In sunrise surf
A wind
Without purpose
A rooster
Tapping the farmer
On the shoulder
Whispering “psst”
A muted moon
Fading silently
Into a day
Without
Poetry...
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Categories:
muted, poetry, words, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Muted
Silent,
nature's flowers
with which all senses merge-
become a dialogue with words
unheard....
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Categories:
muted, nature,
Form:
Cinquain
Muted By Authority
They never predict the consequences
Of their hurtful words;
To them, cruelty is a way
In order to make all pay!
You all have witnessed how it goes;
No need to tell you how;
Just rewind in mind the old days
And try to figure why!
We think we had it all,
Reached the end of the road
And believing we should stop,
We...
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Categories:
muted, fear, power, teacher,
Form:
Free verse
The Plague of Anxiety
On Sunday, the sweet soft tone of the choir was muted
The church pews were brimming with dust
Ushers were unable to give directions
For even the congregation was stuck up in isolation
Preachers had to minister to the echo of their own voices
No trace of humanity has witnessed such a calamity
A pandemic with the propensity to spread faster...
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Categories:
muted, anxiety, dark, deep, fear,
Form:
Free verse
A Muted Day
I stroll leisurely along the avenue as silent trees stand sentinel.
Not one leaf rustles or whispers;
no branch breathes or even sighs.
No gust catches me off guard at the top of the hill
so that I pull
my scarf more snuggly ‘round me.
All is still.
The earth exhales its evocative perfume.
The birds quietly murmur
to...
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Categories:
muted, autumn, beauty, growth, image,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Doors Muted
guard the garden (we are the only instructions)
faced with sand, glass, and mirrors… did you
hear that? (sounds of plunder) the fangs of birth
crying…waters demanding life…effluvia…spit
from the dragon we receive all our legends
and monsters (the preacher slams his fist down
on the podium) the bible (bound in leather) warriors
clash tongues swap swords (the sun prays darkness
upon...
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Categories:
muted, dark, imagination, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Muted Witnesses
What if our dogs could talk aloud?
What do you suppose they'd speak about?
Rabbits, birds, chasing things?
What if they thought to tell our tales?
Stories hidden, behind the veil.
Secrets, scandals, Everything!
TLH © 06-12-2012...
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Categories:
muted, animals, funny,
Form:
Tail-rhyme
Muted Silence
It occured to me the other day that nothing makes a sound.
It's the whiteness of the noise you hear when nobody's around.
It calls the spirit home to rest to understand the soul.
And brings a sense of peace inside in knowing that's your role.
The day is ticking slow but sure and nothings getting done.
When your alone,...
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Categories:
muted, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Muted Memories
I’m plagued with muted memories
that at their leisure will just wail;
It could be the song on the breeze,
I’m plagued with muted memories;
Meals disrupted by fallacies;
My peace they decide to impale;
I’m plagued with muted memories,
that at their leisure will just wail....
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Categories:
muted, emotions, memory,
Form:
Triolet
A Muted Day
I stroll leisurely along the avenue
as silent trees stand sentinel.
Not one leaf rustles or whispers;
no branch breathes or even sighs.
No gust catches me off guard
at the top of the hill so that I
pull my scarf more snuggly ‘round me.
All is still.
The earth exhales its evocative perfume.
The birds quietly murmur...
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Categories:
muted, autumn, color, day, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
Questions Fall Upon Muted Ears When I Write Another Pretentious Title With No Answers
Question
Answer...
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Categories:
muted, introspection
Form:
Free verse