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Best Silenced Poems

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


Premium Member May It Be An Evening Star of Peace - In Collaboration With Our Ps Community Poets
Like the Evening Star guided ancient mariners through calm or troubled seas
Let it guide and help spread this message of Peace to the far ends...

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Categories: silenced, beautiful, peace, star,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: silenced, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member My Kind
I will not dim my light so you can shine
I will not still my voice so you can scream
I will not quench my blaze so...

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Categories: silenced, truth, woman,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

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Categories: silenced, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Treasure In Adversity
i am no longer
lost in the labyrinth
of your twisted mentality

i kiss the lips of freedom

once you drove
me insane in the brain
now stubborn stains wash away

i...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silenced, hope, recovery from, relationship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Winter Sonata
"If you're really in love, appearances aren't important. The best house is the one you build in each other's hearts."
Jung Yu jin

Autumn's alliterations amplified an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silenced, assonance, love, romance,
Form: Free verse
Laid To Rest
Tears no longer come, 
dried ducts of wrung emotion,
denied one more drop of release.

... but only to feel

Feel your finite presence beside me,
inhaling your sweet...

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© Judith S   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silenced, bereavement, best friend, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why I Became a Poet
Because there is a God in heaven who demands an accounting. Because there are demons on earth who never sleep. Because the wind whispers words...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silenced, how i feel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Thoughts of a Table
When all is but 
dark and dreary,
and coldness wraps the 
silhouette of 
my wooden surface,
I listen to the 
wafer thin whispers
echoing in whimsy tones-
when the...

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Categories: silenced, deep, giving, loneliness,
Form: Personification
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.

 Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
 I sit here alone...

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Categories: silenced, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
The Malkavian..Part 1
The Malkavian..Part 1

His mind has all the meaning of a madman that is screaming
Tortured and tormented, a life lived to be lamented 
His family, drained...

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© Nate D.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silenced, caregiving, friendshiplife, drug,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member A Loving Son
They always said, “Please bother us no more”
when Tommy sang, and Mom would stick her head
inside his room. “We need to shut your door!”

And once...

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Categories: silenced, sad,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Who Silence the Silent One
On a reminiscing of a poet I thought I would make a call
 
But on searching for this name sake I was left appalled

The name...

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Categories: silenced, absence, abuse, bullying, endurance,
Form: Couplet
Gone But Not Forgotten
Trills tumble through an air long silenced
warbled melodies enlighten the palate 
whistles delight but fly off to the thistle
freighted by the frigid speak  
amongst...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silenced, beauty,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Bruised Syllables
A letter to my wounds,
fragranced with powdered incense,
every word woven from carnelian ink,
beauty lies in the readers heart,
bruised syllables define nothing,
when everything phrased and vented,
are...

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Categories: silenced, emotions, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

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