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Best Shifting Poems

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


Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: shifting, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member View It From Afar
To appreciate our planet;
begin with its snowcapped mountains,
where sunbeams morph crystals of ice
into gems of glistening light.

Witness white clouds traverse the skies
floating on a vista...

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Categories: shifting, beautiful, earth, imagery, imagination,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Winter Sonata
In 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: shifting, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Enchanted Forest
The woods were silent except for the shifting 
soft sounds of his hooves as they fell upon 
the forest floor. There he stood amid the...

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Categories: shifting, adventure, fairy, fantasy, horse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Guise of Blue Jay Skies
F  l  y  i  n  g

a sailing tailwind
in cerulean streams
through creamsicle colored beams -
are wings reflective of turquoise truth 
and...

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Categories: shifting, autumn, bird, blue, conflict,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Ripple In Time
A new borns cry
Tearful last good bye

Swaying waves of golden prairie grass
Shifting desert dunes - an hour glass

An acorn dropping among forest leaves
To mighty oak...

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Categories: shifting, introspection,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Titanium Quill
I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior 
    kite-surfing through 
    heinous waves, 
knitting cobalt chronicles 
  ...

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Categories: shifting, courage,
Form: Free verse
A Life In Sepia and Watercolours
When I was just a little girl
I painted soaring seagulls
in a dawning sky of duck-egg blue
I painted ladybirds and whimsical butterflies
A red cottage with square-shaped...

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Categories: shifting, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope and Peace
While walking amongst an angry crowd,
               trying to escape the turmoil...

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Categories: shifting, anxiety, hope, inspiration, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sonnet Celebrating International Women's Day
With threads of golden light, your spirits flare,
Each woman shines, a steadfast astral pyre,
Your valiant souls defy the tethered snare,
Like distant suns that pierce the...

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Categories: shifting, celebration, freedom, grandmother, mother,
Form: Sonnet
Autumn Reverie
Shifting haze, so slowly trailing
Through wood and field, now veiling
Melancholy skies, holding back the tears
With wild geese flying to meet other years.
Flames of crimson torches...

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Categories: shifting, nostalgia, autumn, flying,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moonlight on the Ward
Midnight. This white ward
drifts softly through chalked moonbeams
shifting walls argent to cream,
sifting sterile halls.
Full moon fingers reach within
touching each silvered sheet-shroud.

Jaded nurses drowse...
vials drip crystalline...

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Categories: shifting, health, life,
Form: Choka
Premium Member The Shadow of Me
It was a long time ago, in another age
Where the shifting of the wind
Knew where I began
A place so far away, 
Somewhere distant, in childhood...

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Categories: shifting, age, love, me, old,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Views of You
Now, when the day is cool and new

While fragile light is still allowed

My paper captures views of you

Your eyes, the shape of shifting clouds

While fragile...

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Categories: shifting, future, hope, perspective,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Farewell To Teppo Gren
This tribute’s to dear Teppo Gren
He supported both women and men
His account’s now deleted
As his friends were mistreated
He will not post on PS again’

To newbies,...

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Categories: shifting, miss you, tribute,
Form: Limerick

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