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Best Silhouettes Poems

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Silhouettes In Moonlight
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Cotton candy swirls
on a pink flamingo sky
Late December wishes
that are slowly floating by
Apricot horizons
glowing softly ‘cross the hill
Twilight born emotions
falling on this night so still
Sweet...

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Categories: silhouettes, good night,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Rose
This is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls    that...

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Categories: silhouettes, absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Does Your Heart Share This Moon Tonight
“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”

Silently I find my thoughts illumined by your beauty
In soft shimmers of dancing silhouettes
and patterns...

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Categories: silhouettes, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Alabaster Night
Untroubled is the quiet night
How peaceful is a world that glimmers white
Frost and moonlight have whipped a silver glaze
And silhouettes of trees are black as...

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Categories: silhouettes, nature, planet, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Parallel Poetry
(PoetrySoup Format)


Predictable, practical pose
as a simple sentence suggests,
accepting how the story goes,
while syllables shape silhouettes.

~ Simple scribbles serenade me ~

Paragraphs, hold poise and power
while illuminating...

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Categories: silhouettes, poetry, senses, sensual, simple,
Form: Rhyme



On the Other Side of Cobblestone Streets
to my kindred soul
...i know you are out there
somewhere on the other side
across cobblestone streets
that scorn my feet, like hearts
on the pathways and wrong turns
of...

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Categories: silhouettes, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Periwinkle Promises
Close your eyes
inhale roses-
love-glazed steam 
of insatiable thirst;
place your thoughts 
upon my heart,
feel my 
voice s w i r l i n g
in sync with...

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Categories: silhouettes, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
The Crofter's Moon
There's a chilly air where it used to shine
There's a misty breeze through the purple vine.

In a fading summer tick-tock sounds
 move backwards marking every...

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Categories: silhouettes, feelings, metaphor, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Will Never Be Enough Time
There Will Never Be Enough Time

There will never be enough time to hear unique
music of nature's songs in its birds, its insects,
in songs of the...

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Categories: silhouettes, earth, mountains, nature, sea,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: silhouettes, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Vincent Van Gogh: Cafe Terrace At Night
from beyond his
vibrant palette
that bore all his 
lifelong scars

is what I see
beneath his sky
and myriad
of stars

a scene of shades
and silhouettes
formed by the
yellow light

that hints at
The...

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Categories: silhouettes, appreciation, art, symbolism,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Embedded Hieroglyphics
Called to journey
Through the passageway of my heart
I close the door and turn
Exposing myself in full surrender

Fuzzy whiteness vibrates around me
A fleecy cocoon tickles my...

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Categories: silhouettes, beauty, celebration, creation, environment,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Final Farewell
To my life that betrayed the butterflies~
          within my chrysalis mind, 
forgive my flawed dialect, 
I...

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Categories: silhouettes, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Submerged In Shallow Streams
Shimmering silhouettes haunt.

Shadow stands still, 
observing his soul drift towards 
the tree of melancholy.

Its morbid image stands silent,
but screams inside the mind.

I could write a...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: silhouettes, angst, death, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Words From the Heart - a Collaboration With Frederic Parker
These words of love I give to you, my dear
to have comfort in the stillness of time
and meld two souls to keep love's wishes near
when...

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Categories: silhouettes, beauty, emotions, love, passion,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Book: Reflection on the Important Things