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Best Silken Poems

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


Premium Member A Cathartic Weave of Three
listen,
the whispers
of leaves
turn colour
autumn is here.

now that you are gone
who will wake every morn
to lift the sun
unveil the sky
etch in the clouds
who will paint the...

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Categories: silken, break up, celebration, devotion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...

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Categories: silken, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Affair With a Frost Flower State of Affairs

There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…

seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape 
of sun-raptured...

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Categories: silken, betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One April Day
One April day when spring was in the air,
I stepped outside so I might relish it.
I came upon a cherry tree so fair,
beneath its limbs...

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Categories: silken, april,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Space and Time
Entering the doorway through my heart
Following the nuance of space
Allowing expansion ~ mystery ~ and curiosity
To guide me into realms of spiritual awakening
Journeying through moments...

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Categories: silken, appreciation, beauty, blessing, environment,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Music of the Night
With the tremulous dark vista so far and yet so near
Abandoning my defences ~ I stand in awe ~ not in fear

 Virtuoso Maestro unleash...

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Categories: silken, desire, music, night, romance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Effervescence
I am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...

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Categories: silken, animal, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Would You Still Love Me?
Tonight my ink is mute
and this quill rests in silence.
I’m searching for the perfumed poem
you’ve placed in my aching soul,
when I found a home 
within...

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Categories: silken, deep, devotion, feelings, for
Form: Free verse
Streets of Blood
Streets of blood

She stood upon the terrace high
streets of blood below
The gate left open in the night,
a dark sky threatens snow

With swine and pearls running...

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Categories: silken, hate, love, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
As Morning Light Unfurls
"Up at dawn, the dewy freshness of the hour, the morning rapture of the birds, the daily miracle of sunrise, set her heart in tune,...

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Categories: silken, morning, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Meandering
One spring day meandering in a meadow,
I saw a butterfly whose beauty matched that
of May's azure sky.
With blue silken wings like that of a fairy,
she...

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Categories: silken, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Envied by the Moon
I am spellbound and perfectly misplaced
in frozen arms of a broken spring
where garnet gaze of sage wood sun
is envied by the pale moon
convincing rose quartz...

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Categories: silken, emotions,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Stepping Into Heaven
Under your heavenly gaze magic appears perfect 
a thousand whispers sail through the oceans current 
each wave warmly echoes of a sun filled promise 
Our...

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Categories: silken, angel, baptism, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Malaise In My Heart
There is an abysmal void in the hollow of my breast
where once my heart pulsed, now weak and weary.
I cannot quell emotions your death has...

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Categories: silken, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cora's Clothesline
What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching...

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Categories: silken, desire, heart, innocence, june,
Form: Narrative

Book: Shattered Sighs