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Best Restful Poems

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To Dreamland On Sunset's Lullaby
To Dreamland on Sunset's Lullaby

Gracefully the young crescent moon
ascends the sky like a cosmic tune;
replacing the drowsy pale yellow sun
sinking on a golden glowing horizon.

To...

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Categories: restful, Lullaby, music, sleep, sunset,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

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Categories: restful, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night - a Pantoum Lullaby
Night spreads its magic cloak of midnight blue
across the sky.  Serenity slips down.
I sing this pantoum lullaby for you
as stars, like sequins, sparkle all...

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Categories: restful, Lullaby, moon, night, poetry,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Swarovski Sunset
When the first glimpse 
of silver crescent
sprinkles citrine dust,
sparkling pink brooks 
spring forth, 
flowing through 
emerald green forests.
Moss covered Pine
trees spread their branches, 
reaching towards
the...

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Categories: restful, destiny, dream, star, sun,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Travel
Soul Travel

To travel amidst the evening stars
Forever mesmerized by their light...
As visions enter my sleepy head
I marvel my interstellar flight.

The universe is mine to explore
In...

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Categories: restful, stars, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Umbrella
There she stands 
Centre stage for all to see
Tall and slender 
Precariously she balances.

I reach out for her
Draw her to me 
My hand skims her...

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Categories: restful, confusion, devotion, life, lost
Form: Personification
Premium Member Unbearable Beauty In Blue
Standing on a mountain peak
I find myself surrounded 
by a breezy cerulean sky.
How peaceful and restful 
is heaven’s hue.
Nature has breathed her essence on me.

Later...

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Categories: restful, beauty, blue,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fields of Lilies -A Poet Destroyer Collaboration
Fields Of Lilies ~A Poet Destroyer Collaboration~


I stand tall among the restful souls 
That has received restored innocence after death 
With a trumpet of harmony...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: restful, flower, loss,
Form: Free verse
Unattainable
A repost of “Unattainable” with special thanks, sincere recognition and due veneration to our fellow poet and friend, Pashang Salehi, for his constructive critique.. valuable...

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Categories: restful, beauty, destiny, faith, inspiration,
Form: Ghazal
Unattainable
Satisfying founts of passions, a celebration remains unattainable
Like admiring the unreachable, possession remains unattainable.

Carved pains from which to heal, an abiding endeavour
As pleasure of the...

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Categories: restful, art, beauty, inspiration, passion,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Grace and Solitude
Grace and Solitude

Peaceful stillness covers me - wide eyes embraced when I see
Luna rise up with her pale face, with a humble yet simple grace,
That...

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Categories: restful, moon, night, peace, sky,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why So Afraid
Oh, why must you of love be so afraid?
To hide behind the wall of broken dream
For once your love was callously betrayed
And now you will...

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Categories: restful, love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member A Mother' Ears
A mother’s ears  - fine tuned
will pick up on her infant whimpering
          in the middle...

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Categories: restful, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Morning Light
The calm that comes with morning light.
Lying here... from an untroubled night.

Alone, awake after restful sleep.
No tears left, no tears to weep.

Dreaming where dreams were...

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Categories: restful, death, grief, life, lost
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Classical Music
I'm in the mood for Mozart, or Strauss, perhaps Beethoven,
   Even Bach or Handel would soothe this soul of mine tonight;
  ...

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Categories: restful, music,
Form: Verse

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