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Best Reflecting Poems

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


Premium Member - Peace, Love, and Gods Greatest Gift -
The mellifluous musical tones of the village bells

Echoing chimes over the cold snowcapped mountains

Both finding their way to people in the valley below

Christmas songs —...

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Categories: reflecting, celebration, christmas, december, inspiration,
Form: Terza Rima



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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reflecting, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Whose Muse Elusive Dew
The worldliness within the sphere     
reflecting morning light, 
as poignant as a single tear 
idea bright is crystal clear 
and frames...

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Categories: reflecting, destiny, life, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vanilla Visions
When the 
  moon muses 
to the 
  melody of memories, 
roaming wisps 
   of vanilla gently 
flow through 
 ...

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Categories: reflecting, death, deep, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Periwinkle Promises
Close your eyes
inhale roses-
love-glazed steam 
of insatiable thirst;
place your thoughts 
upon my heart,
feel my 
voice s w i r l i n g
in sync with...

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Categories: reflecting, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse



Ancient Warrior
I see the wrinkles in your suntanned brow,
You carried burdens then; you see them now.
You’ve heard the cries your people who in pain,
Have shed their...

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Categories: reflecting, angst, culture, native american,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
I Write
Tiptoeing towards the edge of the towering cliff

I flap my wounded wings and fly

over tall two hundred year old oak trees

up to the top of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reflecting, dream, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ballad of An Unsung Hero
Vivid flashbacks from bloodshed battles
his soul still ravaged by devious dictators,
cries from fallen comrades still echo in his mind,
but he continues to walk upon a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reflecting, analogy, metaphor, political,
Form: Ballad
Listen With Your Heart
Listen with your heart to the music that I play
It belongs to ethereal voices of the wind  and  of the rain.
It belongs to...

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Categories: reflecting, beautiful, fantasy,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Gnarled Shadows
Through shadowed trails, beneath the moon’s cold stare, 
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace...

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Categories: reflecting, conflict, dark, emotions, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me?
Tonight my ink is mute
and this quill rests in silence.
I’m searching for the perfumed poem
you’ve placed in my aching soul,
when I found a home 
within...

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Categories: reflecting, deep, devotion, feelings, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Young Divine Happiness -
She is young and free, and most of her love lies in front of her
As the dawning twilight holds one breathless air under misted whispers...

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Categories: reflecting, beauty, destiny, dream, feelings,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member One Sip of Chai
When my fatigued pen,
succumbed to a sleepy state of silence

in the market place of silent poets,
I searched for a tea room to stimulate my mind

my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: reflecting, analogy, appreciation, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
When First Magnolia Blooms
Coffee bean scent still fills the air

with each new sunrise in our log cabin

My arms around me embrace the winds of winters gone.

Every sky-night the...

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Categories: reflecting, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member November Stars
November falls
In languid swirls
Of lacy sorrowful leaves
Waning circles
Of shortened light
How bold the cold becomes
Clearing the weighty clouds
From the pristine ebony ice
Of the heavens
Their astral beauty
Reflecting...

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Categories: reflecting, hope, longing, sky,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs