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Best Silence Poems

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Premium Member Silence Personified
I am nature,
soul of a mountain,
buried under 
a billion snowflakes.

I float like butterflies,
from petal to petal.
As cinereal clouds clear,
under a glistening sunrise,
I illuminate like a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, metaphor, silence,
Form: Personification



Premium Member There Was Silence
among green foliage and slender twigs, perched a graceful mellifluous Nightingale.
Chickadees, Robins, Orioles stopped their synchronised cadence of rhythmic tweets, in anticipation..
a tranquil silence fell...

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Categories: beautiful, bird, silence, song,
Form: Free verse
Silence
When the words were intense
and the soul no longer 
conceded to comfort 
Thoughts got blind 
and the heart beats in tension 
Silence
*****
Absent are ardent 
words
an...

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Categories: silence, beauty, emotions, heart, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence In You
Is there a way you can show me your silence?
This world is deafening to me 
Can I find the words that I'm seeking..

Dream of a...

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Categories: silence, dedication, friend, peace, senses,
Form: Prose Poetry
Silence
I sit in silence in a dim lit mood,
while into the darkness I cast my stare.
The rain tapping on my window intrudes,
upon such a night...

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Categories: memory, silence,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Goodbye
(NOTHING MORE TO SAY)

I've seen the way you look at me
I've seen the way you look at them
Without wanting to admit, you hate everything I...

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© Skat A   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silence, break up, conflict, goodbye,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charm Like Harp Strings - 128 Words
Your mind's in knots,
as stress plagues thoughts.
On hope you cling,
to bloom like Spring.

Its fine my dear,
nerves can cause fear.
Don't be so scared,
gifts must be shared.

Your...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: muse, music, silence, song,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Happy Solitude, Collaboration With Poet Destroyer A
(This theme coincidentally matched up with another contest I recently
entered, so I revised my sonnet and then PD graciously extended this
idea of a day of...

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Categories: nature, silence,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Some Hearts Are Meant To Say Goodbye
A lover 
dies a millions times,
cursing the silence 
of his tongue.

A poet 
bleeds a million times,
until his heart has expressed
what matters the most.

When there is...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Night Snow
night snow
  moccasin silent 
drifts downward
  landing without feet...
smiles in the sunlight
  ~ morning curtains peek...

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Categories: night, silence, snow,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Princess of the Petals
Beyond her veil;

eyes induced by secretive stars
became drawn to a path illuminated by 
flickering, shimmering pale moonlight.
Each spirited step led to the 
revelation of her...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: analogy, deep, silence,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Music In the Rain - 1
There is silence in turmoil… joy in the midst of pain
Sweetness in the bitter… music in the rain

There is light in darkness… illuminated faith shines
Hues...

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Categories: inspiration, rain, silence,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Silent Sanctuary
This global pandemic causes confusion from social isolation.
In a virtual world without human touch - there will be irritation.

When burdens of life, echo like chunks...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: peace, senses, silence,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Black Cockatoo
"Black Cockatoo"



I was white
as pure snow cotton
thread through the eye of God's needle

Black 
he was, 
not Egyptian, more ancient 

he walked 
in the Dreamtime 
with...

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Categories: romance, sensual, silence,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Breaking Bad
Breaking Bad


Criminals
dance with slum lords
they shed fake tears
victims they shout
from Ivory towers

Mock and attack
they of dark cloth and deceit
possesses no real God
they whoreship only their...

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Categories: silence, abuse, art, bullying, kindergarten,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things