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Best Silences Poems

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


God Knows Where I Am-'Lost In Phantom Night'
Walking corridors of derailed delusions
I welcome my created confined confusions
For I am lost in phantom night...

I dance with demons deploying death
Desirous destruction of my life’s...

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Categories: silences, abuse, depression, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Can You See?

I can’t see the muses,
Before they steal my heart.
There are simply no excuses,
For the wonder they impart.

I can’t see the wind,
Before it attacks the calm,
Leaving...

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Categories: silences, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Journey To Petra
A stairway of tinted boulders reveals
The fable of old gods marking a past,
Etched on tall red-stones divinely claimed…
And as I ascend to touch a warm...

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Categories: silences, appreciation, places, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Aborted Vow
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a tangle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust, quivering
unto fissure of grass where my heart scrapes,
as if the air denies unanswered questions
so...

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Categories: silences, betrayal, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Full Corn Moon
She tiptoes in quietly, pushing out summer.
There is a hush in the corn fields.
Even the crows are silent.
Scratch. Scratch. Everyone is readying themselves.

Full corn moon,...

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Categories: silences, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Pretty As a Hummingbird
The attention span of a hummingbird
She plays the part of the buffoon
With stale trite corny jokes
And mindless ramblings of a simpleton
She plays the lunatic
Filling my...

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Categories: silences, angst, nonsense, silence, silly,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Hand To Hold
When fears and sorrows
Cause me to weaken, 
Sometimes falling…

He picks me up, carrying me
On toward the promised land

When I’m so tired and faint
I can’t seem...

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Categories: silences, faith, hope, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Heart of the Matter


Love silences fear,
Uniting hope, joy, peace,
Mingling lights, grace
Joining hearts in faith, together,
Stirring prayers, gentle psalms –
Harmonized when souls believe,
Jesus, inspiration for giving,
Meaningful beyond imagery.
Adoration lasting...

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Categories: silences, appreciation, blessing, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Other
Premium Member Poetry of Your Words
sometimes
it’s the perfection
of your expression
that touches me
in the depths
of my heart

sometimes
it’s the melody
of your words
that reaches
the inner ear
of my soul

sometimes
it’s the silences
of what is not...

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Categories: silences, appreciation, inspirational, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spoiled
He’s spoiled me
In ways I can’t describe
He silences the wind
So I can breathe the quiet
He whispers grace to my soul
So that I can be made...

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Categories: silences, appreciation, blessing, christian, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oscar 2002 To 2015
Before I knew the day, the time
He’d die, 
I came home to him,
My little smile, knowing he’d
Be there, he was always there
Always aware I was...

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Categories: silences, animal, dog, friend, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Star-Crumb
"HUNGRY GAMES"

"I can’t find the words I want to say! “
Under the moonbeam and sparkling scattered stardust, 
I can feel the dew, which surpasses through...

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Categories: silences, food, funny, night, night,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member The Cougar
Lady liberty, hold your flame light high, 
Beware the path thy cross, in the wild undiscovered
Wilderness of the U.S.A.
For it is here a fierce native...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silences, america, animal, beauty, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tears of the Storm
At the center of the hurricane blast, within the lightning
Flash lies the wicked eye of the calming storm, a weeping
Echoing of a widow maker’s somber...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silences, adventure, devotion, fantasy, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Warring Hypocrisy
I toss the coin anxiously
For both sides perturb and dazzle me…

The first side, well, it is a beauty to say the least
It is clear, crisp,...

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Categories: silences, change, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs