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Best Silencing Poems

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Silencing Sonance
Bewildering static 
frames the soulless—
restlessly habitual, as 
crippled philosophies efflux
amidst stunted swells, 
cracked and parched 
despite ocean whorls that 
coat wayward sentiments, of
grave quagmires rippling...

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Categories: silencing, ocean,
Form: Free verse



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: silencing, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Enlightenment
Quietude endows hushed mystical space
Admonishing words have no role to play—
Look how in solitude its posture bends
Bowing in deference to calming intellect.

Listen to the utterance...

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Categories: silencing, deep, endurance, introspection, peace,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forsaken On This Day
Today’s wind shifts too fast like a muddle
of invisible lint…perhaps dust,as the air 
resists this heart's unanswered questions
howling about this litany of a crushed promise:...

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Categories: silencing, betrayal, heart, recovery from,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Kindness and Grace
Life is like a gentle sigh
Breathing out a heartening reply

Coloring the thoughts in laughing gold
Silencing worries and struggles so untold

Whispering peace into the heart and...

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Categories: silencing, life,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Brainstorm
From an insufferable, unceasing rain of disappointment,
I try to hide my scars under the cloak of a smile.
Alas, this master of disguise, fools but one.
My...

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Categories: silencing, depression, loneliness, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Rose Ghost
Shadows dance behind her silver eyes
The ghost of her beauty struggling to show
A crimson rose amid the rage of thorns
Seemingly pure like the white of...

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Categories: silencing, absence, addiction, allusion, angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member He Really Is the Best
I know I don’t always do the right thing
Sometimes life just gets in my way
I know I don’t always pray the right prayer
Sometimes doubt leaves...

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Categories: silencing, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Music of the Spheres
Drawn to a template, we wish to colour,
we yet know not the force that drew us in
but we write away as would a scholar,
inspired by...

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Categories: silencing, poetry, poets,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member In a Moment
In the moment,
When a glistening
Snowflake falls to the earth
Washing the ground
In joy and wonder,
Peaceful silencing the
Darkness, the heartless

In the moment,
When a starry eyed thought
Lifts its...

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Categories: silencing, appreciation, blessing, christian, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grateful
You are like the kiss of wind,
Lightly caressing – gentle, expressive,
Kissing away my fears, each tear…
With a gentling that breathes love into
Everything…

You are like the...

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Categories: silencing, appreciation, blessing, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Serenity Awakened
Written: September 12, 2023
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Blinded moments pass
Mist rises, surf tumbles on~
Dreams awake, enticed

Heartbeat near the blaze
Sunshine through feathery clouds~
Breath of peace, serene

Falling dew, life's hush
Silencing the...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silencing, analogy, appreciation, peace,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Betrayal of Innocence-A Tattered Flag
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Skies enameled with black satin silk
          like a flag that represented yesterday
    ...

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Categories: silencing, betrayal, innocence,
Form: Free verse
The Ghost Dance
A shaman prays, the Spirit hears
While a Seventh Calvary regiment waits
Unarmed, a tribe endures a Union's hate
Their animosities, and their fears
As the blue coats begin...

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Categories: silencing, history, inspirational, native americandeath,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Deeply Visible Truth
This world has become so depressing 
cutting to the soul removing the rights of prayer 
everyday listening to a gestapo styled media that tells nothing...

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Categories: silencing, conflict, deep, emotions, fear,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs