Get Your Premium Membership

Best Soft Poems

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


Premium Member Indian Ink
INDIAN INK

Indian Accent, form the whispers inside
Chanting from long ago
Echoes come and go
Losing time in a soft eternal glow

A beautiful and delicate autumn mountain scene
Dry...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, abuse, autumn, death, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Sowing
Upon the wind sheltered hillside,
the sharp tang of metal and the sting of salt air lay
over a field of blood-red poppies, no Flanders Field.

At years...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wind From the Sea
Inspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947




Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form: I do not know?
One Brief Moment
Look...See how long nights are drawing in.
Dreary birdsong gradually abates -
Opaque dusk grows dim;
And just outside the creaky little garden
Gate,
Stood opposite the empty wood
Where the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, imagery, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member With Love For You
Sun flow progressed from east to west,
   with rays of light, the day is blessed.
        ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, love, nature, romantic,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rape - trigger warning
October: I'm eighteen, shortcutting home
through an autumn-burnished churchyard -
copper-lustred leaves, moss-skinned stone -
a jaunty swing of skater skirt and arm,
college folder square-sturdy in my hand.
In...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Tulip Grows Under An Evergreen - Inspired By the Poets At Poetrysoup
A
fine
Parrot Tulip
in vibrant intensities 
with unique undertones
of green acquirable only in a 
few forests. A ruby red swirls within 
its petals beckons awareness of those...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, beautiful, beauty, earth, light,
Form: Shape
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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Like Zephyr Breeze
Before I ever saw those eyes      How deeply I loved you.

Before you read my first thought    ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Midnight Secret
*Secreto de Medianoche*   
  
~On this very Night~
   I found myself in a
       ...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, beauty, fantasy, night, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Near Death Experience of a Sweetheart
    "A Near-Death Experience of A Sweetheart"



Floating through a corridor between two different Worlds
among white fluffy clouds and shimmering stars awhile wind...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, death, death, god, death,
Form: Rhyme
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...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Starlit Symphony
I still remember 
how you were
there in the dark,
holding my 
bleeding heart.
Whilst I wandered,
sleepless under
soundless spheres.

Now I search
for your starlit
symphony
that echoes,
as idyllic octaves,
from the last...

Read more of this work...
Categories: soft, best friend, death, death
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things