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Best Nourishment Poems

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


Premium Member Amidst the Fallen Petals
He was ever gentle with her
always careful
composed
never passing the boundaries
never asking too much
a man of his culture
and bearing
didn’t move too fast

She was a flower
pristine...virginal
a flower...

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Categories: nourishment, longing, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Treephoria
As my roots grow deeper
I find my reach extends further
Nourishment I draw from the soil
clothes me in splendid garments

My branches stretch towards the sky
so that...

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Categories: nourishment, autumn, december, tree,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Voice of Poetry
Adorable, enticing as beauteous glance,
Engaging, evocative as a ballet dance
Luring passions flaunting moody stance;
Poetry is music strumming from heart,
Lyrics of life emblazoned in poetic art.

It’s...

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Categories: nourishment, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Door To Nowhere
Door to Nowhere


Royalty have Chateau’s
With moats and drawbridges

Artists have colors
Paints and brushes and dreams

The poor have soup
And Marie's gateau’s

The lonely have open doors
To nowhere

I let...

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Categories: nourishment, allegory, french, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Susurrus
Heart yearns for a remedy to help it unwind,
as thoughts drift to forgotten forests of the mind.
Distant visions with hues of a sepia tone,
soul senses...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nourishment, nature, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet



Where Barren Branches Touch Newborn Leaves
Scurrying on my way home, a little leaf catches my eye, and I am compelled yet again to slow down.

a whirlwind of thoughts
compete with swaying...

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Categories: nourishment, absence, introspection, leaving, life,
Form: Haibun
Green - I Have Seen You Somewhere Within
Green - I have seen you somewhere within my evergreen soul
Where the Omniscient plays his flute
To rejuvenate the tired ones - scattered by the humdrum...

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Categories: nourishment, green, hope, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eaten By the World
Eaten By The World

I tried to eat the world
but it caused me stomach pains
The bones of the lost 
are all that remains
It was flavored with...

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Categories: nourishment, angst, anxiety, creation, scary,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member I Wonder Vii
I wonder,
If ever the fruit thanks the tree
For helping it grow and  becoming
ripe.

I wonder.
If the tree ever thanks its roots 
For keeping it standing...

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Categories: nourishment, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Up In Flames -
A silence without words
no rhyme or verse
The mesmerizing power of the voice
through lyric and lullaby
The feeling that stings in the stomach
White paper and black ink...

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Categories: nourishment, emotions, lost, missing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tea Leaves On the Bosphorus
Tea Leaves On The Bosphorus

Seated at a table by the stirring water,
My eyes absorb the shore of Asia.
Minerets and aged worn stone
Stand haphazardly along the...

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Categories: nourishment, adventure, inspirational, life, love,
Form: Narrative
The Beauty of Water
The beauty of water

Water, one of nature's great pleasures.
Do you find the sound of water calming, soothing and serene?
Whenever I hear water and am outside,...

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© Ryan Moon  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nourishment, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Great Contest Expectations, the Folly of Man
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: nourishment, angst, dark, death, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Halloween's Evil Visage Cometh
Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh

Halloween’s Evil Visage Cometh now alive in this famous predestined time
Where dubious shadow shades run a riot as the ghastly ghosts of...

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Categories: nourishment, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Her Sustenance
Her lust for you is fierce.
She spreads it out before you
as if it were a lavish bridegroom’s dinner
of caviar, oysters and shrimp;
spears of warmed asparagus...

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Categories: nourishment, sensual,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs