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Best Sinking Poems

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


Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: sinking, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Love One Another
“Peace I leave with you
           my peace I give you
     ...

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Categories: sinking, death, depression, hate, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Of Ink
Partial Paper
 -A poet in heat-

Ink carries its own tale,
When moonshine intoxicates your pen
Bottles of ink fill your mind
Composing symphonies on every line
Drops of passion...

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Categories: sinking, beauty, feelings, inspirational, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If
If you could hear echoes from my heart now,               
Would you...

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Categories: sinking, loneliness, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soothing Tomorrows
Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, silent in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sinking, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member We Rulers of the Earth
We Rulers Of This Earth

Homo-Sapiens we call ourselves, rulers of this Earth,
   Intelligent and civilized, but what is all this worth?

We're working hard...

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Categories: sinking, angst, corruption, drug, earth,
Form: Couplet
To Dreamland On Sunset's Lullaby
To Dreamland on Sunset's Lullaby

Gracefully the young crescent moon
ascends the sky like a cosmic tune;
replacing the drowsy pale yellow sun
sinking on a golden glowing horizon.

To...

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Categories: sinking, Lullaby, music, sleep, sunset,
Form: Lyric
Waiting For a Message In a Bottle
The waves calm me down as I sit and wonder
For my love is lost in the stormy scurrilous sea
And I know my hapless heart to...

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Categories: sinking, fate, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Where My True Love Lives - a Ballade
Seared upon my soul for ever more
That break of dawn upon a summer morn
As I made my way along that rocky shore
Strewn with remnants from...

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Categories: sinking, death, love, ocean,
Form: Ballade
Premium Member Silence of the Waves
Mirabelle orb ascends,
under clementine and pomegranate skies.

Absent,
in delight of daylight.
Eyes set adrift in dawning daydreams.

Calm heart is an oceanic concerto,
flowing along sapphire tones.
Deep breaths walk...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sinking, assonance, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Freedom Beckons Seductively - POTD
POTD 29 Jan 2020

A balmy fragrance of cedar and lime lingers
A will o wisp floats by gathering dew
A mark on the page of another man’s...

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Categories: sinking, freedom, friend, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Ocean
I stand on the edge of your ocean, ready to dive in
Wanting to discover the depths of you
I have looked at the surface of you
Beautiful...

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Categories: sinking, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent One
My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...

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Categories: sinking, angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Dormant Decession

I'm an ashen dove, 
fading in zephyr 
of wine valleys, 
saturating in fog 
upon enchanting hills, 
draped in 
grape-green silk, 
where fantasies of forest, 
sprout...

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Categories: sinking, black love, hurt, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Journal
Yes, that is the role of the Teacher, as Shams was to
me – showing one ‘who they are’, so they can stop
bleating, crying at night,...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sinking, devotion, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse

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