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Best Profound Poems

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


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: profound, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: profound, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Moonstruck Maiden
What beauty reflected in love's fair eyes,
a passion treasured beyond all measure.
As ardor stirred flames, I failed to disguise
the need in my loins ere want...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: profound, longing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Rebirth of the Third Angel
A body abandoned 
needs to mourns its last breath in death
a heart cast aside 
still aches to meet its last beat

and a free spirit yearns...

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Categories: profound, angel, beauty, butterfly, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nameless
“I cannot give a name to pain I’ve never known.” - by poet

What do I know of sadness
when it’s grief that is profound?
The misery of...

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Categories: profound, sad,
Form: Rhyme



My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

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Categories: profound, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Know of Great Love
I Know of Great Love

I know of great love...
the kind of passion that
surpasses ecstasy into
a world of oblivious bliss
soaring among the clouds
in the ethers of...

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Categories: profound, desire, devotion, happiness, romantic
Form: Free verse
Premium Member No Limit To How Long We Grieve
when you let go of my hand
you let go of my heart

as I stumbled and crumbled
life seemed to have paused
silent screams
raged inside

but I was just...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: profound, absence, lost love, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Rose and Her Thorns
A lovely rose grew to the garden's delight,
a poem of sunrise surrounded by night.
One day her friend Ivy asked "Why do you mourn?" 
Rose answered,...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: profound, death, death of a
Form: Rhyme
My Solace, a Poet's Thoughts On Poetry
The wonder of nature you describe with the color of feelings 
that even the blind sees the beauty, for you anoint with your sight.
From my...

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© Kp Nunez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: profound, imagery, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wanderlust of Imagination
In the endless expanse 
of what exists
and the magic of what can be...

fantasy is the luster of opalescence

conceived in a continual curve of mother-of-pearl panache...

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Categories: profound, imagination, inspiration, introspection, muse,
Form: Free verse
Windowpanes
An ancient river, centuries-old shops and restaurants steeped in a 2000-year history and 
culture set the scene. The ambiance seemed divinely contrived to facilitate the...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: profound, caregiving, friendship, hope, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member fragile -
tenderly ...
as if robin's eggs
I consider the brittle fragments
of her heart, cupped in
my tarnished Tin Man hands -
not taking for granted
the entrusting of their care
I...

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Categories: profound, cute, life, metaphor, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If I Could Play the Violin
If I could play the violin
     I'd write a melody
   euphonious to draw you in
    ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: profound, encouraging, love, music, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given
All In All, True Magnificent Treasures Given

Luscious the fruits, beautiful under moonlit beams
firmly planted roots, outstandingly hot, lush-sent dreams
all in all, glorified visions, heavenly sent
treasured...

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Categories: profound, art, beautiful, creation, love,
Form: Rhyme

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