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Best Shining Poems

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


Premium Member Honeymoon Serenade
Just as the moon rises each night
and even as snow is caressed by its light,
then glowing, I'll rise, becoming your dawn,
your curved sleeping form to...

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Categories: shining, romance,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...

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Categories: shining, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Heart Will Go On - POTD
POTD 30th August 2018 

The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...

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Categories: shining, grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: shining, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Too Good To Ever Last
Too good - to ever last    suggested bpm 80

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When we first met, I never thought
that you could ever love me...
You were the...

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Categories: shining, break up, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member I Am More
I am more than your definitions
more than affixed labels
placed on my anatomy
more than your misconceptions
or even valid perceptions
I am more

I am more than what's written...

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Categories: shining, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Mind Dance
Mind Dance

I hear you calling me
I feel you on the wind
Playing with my hair
Grazing my cheek
With kiss’s shadow

Upon your distant shores
Perched on craggy rocks
Upon sunlit...

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Categories: shining, appreciation, beauty, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Pursuit of a Promise
A promise should never remain silent.

In pursuit of our principal pledge -
I ponder her secret garden,
within the province of our paradise.

For her love is 
an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: shining, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Love Is Eternal
Our soul's luminous light filters the depth of darkness
shining like a woven thread into the stillness of time
It was there where we met, in a...

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Categories: shining, love,
Form: Free verse
One Green Leaf
One leaf fell from a tall, tall tree
and subtly kissed gnarled roots beneath;
a lover’s kiss below sunned-sheath 
of greenest leaves, a jubilee.  

One spiraling...

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Categories: shining, color, green, holiday, imagery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Butterfly Kiss
*BUTTERFLY KISS*

I'm still alive and I don't know why?
My heart survived falling from the butterfly sky

Caught by the hands of destiny
With visions only I can...

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Categories: shining, butterfly, fantasy, heart, hope,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Eclipse
~ECLIPSE~

The shining light hides behind my eyes,
Comes in a super nova surprise
My spirit glides into the skies,
Spreading the perfect heat like the sunrise

I was like...

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Categories: shining, beautiful, beauty, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To the Dandelion In the Concrete
You probably don't think much of me
save for the season of spring
when your lawn litters itself
with giant over-buttered popcorn

(birds that think they can sing,
supersonic sneezes?
those...

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Categories: shining, character, endurance, flower, humorous,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Goddess of the Night
Where Luna treads are silver threads, the wisps of clouds that slide
through sky of night, and shining white, they part so she might glide
serenely through...

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Categories: shining, fantasy, nature,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Monroe Moon
In glamor-light of sunset
a new crowd of cumulus clouds arrive
and revive a sepia sky-scene—
unworldly woolgatherers gather
spinning fantasy fluff into quixotic yarns
of debutantes dancing with honeymoon...

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Categories: shining, age, beauty, lust, moon,
Form: Free verse

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