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Best Slowing Poems

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


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: slowing, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Our Love Is Eternal
Our soul's luminous light filters the depth of darkness
shining like a woven thread into the stillness of time
It was there where we met, in a...

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Categories: slowing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member dancing with mom -
when I was just a wee one
        my mom taught me to dance
     ...

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Categories: slowing, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Memories In the Sand
If ever a moment in real life deserved a romantic, melancholy
backing track, it would have been that one ... we'd spent the
entire afternoon at Ferry...

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Categories: slowing, memory, missing you, passion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Not Enough Time
Last January, winter lost it's chill
By May the summer's sun had turned me brown
I watch the leaves late August, change at will
Time's speeding up or...

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Categories: slowing, life, time,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Together For the Long Ride
The perky saleslady looked at my aging bicycle
and asked if I would consider a newer model
something lighter
something sexier.

I told her, "My bike and I have...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slowing, love, marriage, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sonnet For Spring
As days grow longer, melancholy creeps
An uninvited guest, which winter brings
It dims the candle my mind tightly clings
Consuming light, from darkness whence he leaps

In doldrums...

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Categories: slowing, spring,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Like You
Like you ...

I dream of drifting away on a sunny day
high above the cottony stuffed clouds
I'll glide erasing all the hurtful feeling inside 
a season...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slowing, art, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Ironbar
He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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Categories: slowing, nature, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wax and Ink
Staying near to light my way
     now that there is no more day
You're needed to so brightly burn
   ...

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Categories: slowing, inspiration, poems, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of...

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Categories: slowing, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
In This Moment, Tonight
In tune with this familiar vibe, let’s wonder how it might be
Across the room our eyes will meet, a set of four
In a place setting...

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Categories: slowing, hope, love, romantic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where Cheerful Robins Dance
Gleefully you and I smile from a scenic window on life
Enchanted by nightfall befriending quixotic autumn sky
Embossing crimson brushstrokes on vermilion arc
Akin to a painting...

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Categories: slowing, imagery, nature, travel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Lesson a Dog Taught Me
On a stone wall, by the solitary pavement,
Annoyed and angry, with daggers drawn at everyone,
I saw my neighbor sitting dejected and depressed.
Though known him for...

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Categories: slowing, anger, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As For Me I Believe
It is the winter of 1980.
I’m twenty-eight years young, 
Driving a red Mustang with glass T-tops,
Feeling all of my awesome sassiness, from toe
To Afro, when...

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Categories: slowing, adventure, angel, blessing, christian,
Form: Metrical Tale

Book: Shattered Sighs