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Best Relief Poems

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


Premium Member When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the Skies
I see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...

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Categories: relief, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Sunrise Meditation
Stop in your tracks

Take a deep breath
Stop and relax

Close your eyes
Exhale a slow deep breath

In your mind’s eye 
It’s early dawn
It’s quiet and serene around...

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Categories: relief, freedom, inspirational, introspection, motivation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shakespeare Could Have Cast You
You had me oblivious to your antics, 
as you hushed me tenderly by the creek 
into your hide and seekable 
soul-surrendering secret relief. 
There, you...

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Categories: relief, betrayal, loss, lust, romantic
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane

Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...

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Categories: relief, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Chocks Away - Poop Poem Warning
My turds float like choc’late marshamallows
Just lurking about in the shallows
I guess that my butt
Is truly kaput
So doctor suggests bitter aloes

I questioned such treatment regime
Doc...

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Categories: relief, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member In the Moment
Sitting by his bed
Labored breathing
Time is short 
Holding his hand
A prayer – for him, for me
Be strong and courageous
Eyes blink open for a moment
Then nothing...

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Categories: relief, grief, life, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Amorous Mystique - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of love and...

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Categories: relief, appreciation, romantic love, sensual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Prince For Roseanne
A long long time ago there lived a king.
His lovely daughter he’d give anything.

She walked about, jewels dripping from each hand,
talking down to all, thinking...

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Categories: relief, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Caress My Soul Sweet Poet
Love's tend'rest touch, your gentle words reveal
Caress my soul. sweet poet, with your verse
Write dulcet lullabies which make me feel
Secure, like infants held at breast...

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Categories: relief, appreciation, love, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: relief, anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Travel Light - a Goodnight Lullaby
Travel light, my dear; softly go
beyond the night’s each black shadow
to another plane. Out of sight
exists a realm of such delight
you may find relief from...

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Categories: relief, dream, Lullaby,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member My Tree's Seasons
spring wakens my tree -
a bejeweled perfumed bride. . . .
love birds make their nest

summer’s yellowed lawn
beneath my tree’s sombrero. . . . 
grass breathes...

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Categories: relief, tree,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Healing a Broken Heart
The bleeding sunset lingers on her mind
as night approaches and the sky goes dark.
Her soul is restless; how it craves to find
some words of comfort...

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Categories: relief, heartbroken,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Amorous Mystique
The Amorous Mystique

Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of...

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Categories: relief, art, beautiful, deep, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkness Where Now Poe and Raven Reside, Part One
Darkness Where Now Poe And Raven Reside,
(Part One)

As the Raven cross into the dark pits
Those in torment went into heaving fits
Its shrieking calls, alarms even...

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Categories: relief, dark, death, evil, fear,
Form: Rhyme

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