Best Resting Poems
Below are the all-time best Resting poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of resting poems written by PoetrySoup members
Final resting place
Brick by brick I built my walls,
despite fires raging,
I preserved paths that connected
bridges between our breathless existence.
Now that my heartbeats
have reached a dead end...
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Categories:
resting, death, love, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
A Long Loud Sighgenius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...
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Categories:
resting, introspection, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Winter SonataIn the landscape
of melancholy,
where arctic
heartbeats linger,
I long for withered
willows to blossom
like speckled
diamond petals,
while your crystalline
silhouette strolls...
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Categories:
resting, romantic,
Form:
Free verse
Ungrateful ChildI woke up that day with tears in my eyes,
after I heard about your father's demise.
Guess you've never understood,
the point of being his blood.
I remember...
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Categories:
resting, anger, death, death of
Form:
Rhyme
Never To Be MineNot with my arms but with a heart
that blesses your reveries, may peace reside
within your chest... is it possible to love you
less? Perhaps allow...
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Categories:
resting, grief, i miss you,
Form:
Free verse
A MiracleWhere the sound of the wind whistled through the cracks in the walls and the door-sills where pots collected rain beneath a leaky roof where...
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Categories:
resting, childhood, life,
Form:
Haibun
Winter's Wondrous Song From out my window, I could see the creek
Its ice, a satin ribbon on the snow
Our winter holiday was just one week
Each day with...
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Categories:
resting, winter,
Form:
Sonnet
Cobwebs - Season of DeathSometimes life is the tragedy
of a fly, caught in a cobweb -
awaiting its fate.
It's happening again,
a child of summer misplaced
in the dawn of autumn's anguish....
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Categories:
resting, dad, death, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Arms of starry SkiesMy eyes cry for
fuschia glimmer on
indigo waves again,
but all I see are
haunting hues
of black sequin
glittered epitaphs;
reflections of hollow
clouds enveloping cold air;
building tension...
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Categories:
resting, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Summer NightsSummer Nights
Setting sun, the light is fleeting
as this day in June’s retreating;
twinkling stars, the darkness greeting,
welcoming this summer night.
Sparrows in the treetops nesting;
daytime bustles...
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Categories:
resting, night, summer,
Form:
Rhyme
Letter To My Future SelfHey are you still breathing?
Are you still believing,
or is your heart seething?
Does life still have meaning?
How's the word weaving,
is the ink still bleeding?
Tell me, does...
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Categories:
resting, death, life,
Form:
Rhyme
Ruin GazingDrawn by subtle intuition
I follow a winding path
into the heart of the woods,
emerging in an open glade
where feeble sunlight falls
upon a moss covered wall.
Isomorphic intimacy...
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Categories:
resting, solitude,
Form:
Free verse
Forbidden~ZOMBIE NIGHT~
WHINING WHISPERS MOVE ACROSS FORBIDDEN LAND
Rugged ruins crumble silent through the night
Echoes of the dead roam the air
Moonlight vanishes to complete despair
Bones slowly...
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Categories:
resting, confusion, death, halloween, horror,
Form:
Free verse
A Well-Known Stranger'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst...
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Categories:
resting, absence, assonance, feelings, miss
Form:
Rhyme
Silhouette of the NightWitching hour is upon us
Dusky clouds, falling, swirling
Obscuring the crescent moon
Skeleton fingered branches
Beckoning me in the wind
As I creep past the grave stones
To...
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Categories:
resting, dark, scary,
Form:
Verse