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Best Pastels Poems

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


Premium Member Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent One
My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...

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Categories: pastels, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Along Dawn's Amber Shores
Dawn slowly awakened to supplant the moon
Empty, the canopy where stars had been strewn
   In repose, Luna slept after wandering velvet skies
 ...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pastels, poetry, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Watercolours In the Rain
~*~ Summer to Autumn ~*~
Expresses blooms of beauty,
~ primary pastels ~
whilst impending changes loom
~*~ Water colours in the rain ~*~ 










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Categories: pastels, nature, seasonsautumn,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Out of the Blue
Falling down into
a dense, tangled mood
darker than the skies
at the midnight hour...

Leaving me caught
in infinite space
by hands on the clock
that grasp me and pull
to where...

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Categories: pastels, blue, deep, feelings, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Something More
“Something More” 

Softly pastels spill
from lips where
crimson speaks the heart

time brushed its coarse
hands along the body 
of my work 

and like a voyeur
you watched
the romance...

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Categories: pastels, muse, word play,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Grandeur of Fall
Poet's ink portrays wonders so profound,
as the last crimson rose of summer fades,
verdant leaves gently float to soggy ground,
weaving a pattern of saffron, beige shades.

Autumn's...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pastels, appreciation, autumn, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Silent pain behind art
The art was most masterful on the dark canvas,
portraying an artist's mind when feeling anxious.
His palette compiled of pastels in shades of grey,
weaved brushstrokes in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pastels, angst, anxiety, art,
Form: Rhyme
A Butterfly's Ballad In the Faraway Land
 I get a glimpse of you

A soft hue of light lavender rising in my dawn

gliding fervently in sun-kissed breeze

An ephemeral beauty enchanting the depths...

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Categories: pastels, beauty, love,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Cutting My Losses
Atmospheric grayscale mirrors my mood
where rainbow pastels are loath to intrude,
monochrome perverse looms ‘cross universe -

black powder train, mind is gun barrel gray
cold dispassionate muzzle...

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Categories: pastels, anxiety, dark, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
The Butterfly's Ballad
I get a glimpse of you
A soft hue of light lavender
 rising in my dawn
Gliding fervently
 in sun-kissed breeze
An ephemeral beauty
 enchanting the depths
of these...

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Categories: pastels, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Gilded Sun: Silvered Moon
"The sun shall shine in ages yet to be, the musing moon illumine pastures dim, and afterwards a new nativity for all who slept the...

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Categories: pastels, moon, sun,
Form: Haibun
Winter Walking Blues
Glazed, deep snow, virgin crunched under my aimless walk
as I idle rambled onward through a vacant, bare-treed park.
Sun was so high that its brightness flashed...

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Categories: pastels, brother, childhood, dad, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Backdrop of Cupidity
Love is a swooshing whirlpool,
swirling, twirling and whirling -
intensifying porcelain emotions.

Floating helplessly,
like bubbles in a tepid breeze.

There are still flashbacks

an unforgettable memory,
where poets, painters and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pastels, beauty, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Thought Changer
Catching sight of unwanted reflection 
through my eyes I observe my murky mind
lifeless, inactive, defying action
just a blank canvas, raw, pure, unrefined,

desire to inject substantial...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pastels, beauty, change, color,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Spring Sonata
Dream catchers chime in the wind,
like soft tones of a xylophone.
Melodic melancholic rain,
is free flowing,
but morning birds still arrive,
sitting on wet window sills,
singing about their...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pastels, metaphor, spring,
Form: Free verse

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