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Best Observing Poems

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Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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Categories: observing, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Snow Globe
Welcome to my ----- life
A beautifully broken aura
             Unsettled flakes
   ...

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Categories: observing, confusion, death, dream, future,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Adrift In Fiction
Placid rain gently kisses unblemished windows
as leaves fall in an Autumn breeze.
In the distance cinereal clouds congregate,
converging upon the city's royal citadel.

Oblivious to the storm,...

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Categories: observing, analogy, appreciation, books,
Form: Prose
On Mountain Nine
Running beauty rippled in crystal white
No whisper in the air, just a wondrous sight
My eyes ascend in awe to a far light
Small and empty observing...

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Categories: observing, beauty, creation, feelings, heaven,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Submerged In Shallow Streams
Shimmering silhouettes haunt.

Shadow stands still, 
observing his soul drift towards 
the tree of melancholy.

Its morbid image stands silent,
but screams inside the mind.

I could write a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: observing, angst, death, father son,
Form: Free verse



Silence
When the words were intense
and the soul no longer 
conceded to comfort 
Thoughts got blind 
and the heart beats in tension 
Silence
*****
Absent are ardent 
words
an...

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Categories: observing, beauty, emotions, heart, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Book
(PoetrySoup Format) 
. . . To be precisely placed ‘pon your shelf:
between, “Great Expectations and “Gone with the Wind,”
a best seller, “The Notebook, against the...

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Categories: observing, books, longing, sensual,
Form: Free verse
An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
Spread                 ...

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Categories: observing, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ceremony of birds

There is a sombre silence, 
as mist veils morning air.
A plethora of feathers
float among dew drops.
A ceremony of birds,
heads slumping,
soundless and homeless,
perch upon rooftops,
observing fallen...

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Categories: observing, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Middle of the Universe, I Stand
In the middle of the universe, I stand 
My mind seeking comprehension 
The mysteries of life tantalize my tenacious grip on wisdom
I stand
Observing omnipotent organization
The...

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Categories: observing, mystery, universe,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Poetic Meraki
Upon the twinkling of silent twilight,
tranquil thoughts set adrift, 
infatuated in elysian reflection.

The mind wanders, 
observing and listening - roaming;
avoiding confusing crossroads
leading into chimerical phantasms.

Overwhelmed...

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Categories: observing, analogy, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cashmere Wishes
You waited for this moment,
As if you were an incomplete salutation

You waited for confessional breaths to alleviate this finite evening
Missing its constellations

You wept for their...

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Categories: observing, life, longing, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member a bird and a boy -
one day as a boy, I went down to the sea
clambered o'er rocks way out to the bluff
stopping to search in a tide pool for...

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Categories: observing, beach, bird, childhood, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Art - Anne-Louis Girodet
Description of The Funeral of Atala (Funérailles d'Atala or Atala au tombeau), 1808, Louvre

I sauntered through the Louvre, observing art.
One painting struck me for its...

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Categories: observing, art,
Form: Quatrain
Little Puff Puff and the Magic Castle- Part 2
Thus we follow little Puff Puff brave and true,
For the Castle of Magic was within her view…
She will journey far under the skies of blue,
When...

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Categories: observing, 1st grade, character, children,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs