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Best Shadowy Poems

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


Premium Member The Last Goodbye
Inviting vibrancy as the season changed
Smiley faces bloomed, reopening dreams. 
Seeing you there marked a blessed event
Akin to magical when first time eyes met.

Breezing trees...

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Categories: shadowy, goodbye, imagery, love, nature,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Yellow Shoes In the Darkness
Walking through the land of shadows 
wearing my yellow shoes
With each and every step
I created color and hues

The shadows started retreating
As color permeated the ground
Out...

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Categories: shadowy, me, metaphor, places, yellow,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member sea song -
oh precious, dulcet diva, ocean-tide
you, of sand and foam and spindrift -
all your moods and meanderings
speak deep my spirit, wistful and wan
musings captured, gist enraptured...

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Categories: shadowy, analogy, appreciation, beach, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Specters of Slaves
Nature trail extends for miles
Surrounded by wetlands and lakes
Each step I take brings me closer
To an old plantation, where I climb the stiles

For it was...

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Categories: shadowy, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Kiss of the Eagle
Many eons passed on Earth, who only saw your face
Untouched your virgin body, floating there in space
Waxing, waning, gibbous, crescent, quarter, full and new
Selene the...

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© Roy Jerden  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shadowy, adventure, space, travel,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member to sail the sky -
* For Mary Kathleen Lessard Caithness *

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Categories: shadowy, adventure, imagination, metaphor, sea,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Gravitational Pull
Today I feel the pull
of gravity
on the depth of my depravity
There within that cavity 
resides my anxiety
It seeps out of my porosity 
feeding the insanity

I...

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Categories: shadowy, abuse, addiction, angst, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dancing With Death
A raven sits alone, perched upon a tombstone,
humming an eerie tone, which is sombrely known.
This deadly treachery is disturbing my reverie.
A shadowy energy, ready for...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shadowy, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Peacocks and Predators
The raptor and the peacock hence,
Sit pensive on a rambling fence.
The first, inclined to be the host,
Jumped down to claim the nearest post.
The pea averse...

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Categories: shadowy, animal, identity,
Form: Imagism
A Smile In the Sky
The sky is smiling
Luminous clouds concede a simple clearing
Boasting rays of an aureate sun
Gleaming
The brightest smile I've ever seen
It shines on me

The leaves are dancing
Cool...

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Categories: shadowy, future, happy, nature, seasons,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - Bottomless Sorrow -
"a dagger of pain, a tear of grief"
                 ...

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Categories: shadowy, angst, cry, emotions, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nightmare
"You are welcomed to your room at night, everything is in the same familiar place. It's been long day. Climbing in to your comfy bed....

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Categories: shadowy, anxiety,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Golden Hearts - ::POTD::
How does it feel?
It's hard to tell
Sad when I pause
Taking moments to dwell

It's the pearl that is lost
It's the half-empty shell 
It's the un-told story
It's...

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Categories: shadowy, angel, bereavement, goodbye, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Summer Rispetto
Cerulean lake flows beneath azure dome

Charming revelers in waters cobalt blue

Gazing into horizon where eagles roam

Greeting scenic pastures in aerial view.

Upon shamrock landscapes quiver golden...

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Categories: shadowy, nature, summer,
Form: Rispetto
Premium Member Deception - POTD
POTD 4th Nov 2019

Vanquishing all reservation
 twilight's prelude heralds
 shadowy anticipation
of a secret amorous thirst
He surrenders once more
to his darkest desires 
amplifies the sultry ambiance
with...

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Categories: shadowy, conflict, desire, passion, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things