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Best Solemn Poems

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Premium Member Last Letter
Oh my dearest love, how longingly I recall
Amorous wink of joy, teasing zealous eyes
When you held my hand on journey of life
And never let go...

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Categories: solemn, farewell, goodbye, love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: solemn, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Blow Sweet Breeze
With the turning of the green
the fevered hues engulf my soul
rich radiant reds glistening in the sun
as my heart gleams with memories
of the solemn words...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solemn, autumn, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
Between the Whispers and the Sighs
Between the whispers and the sighs

The sweet taste of champagne,
still lingers on her lips
The fragrance of jasmine oil,
slides from her fingertips

I know that I'm ready...

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Categories: solemn, desire, love, romantic love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Drowning In the Darkness
Drowning in the oppression of darkness, 
adrift in realms of the unseen and unheard,
her mind becomes blank and blind,
plummeting without sound.

Loved ones watch helplessly, unable...

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



Premium Member Beautiful Mysteries
Divinity lives beyond description
Alone, a weary heart cries from its pain
Desire eager for its conscription
Might truth and love turn this way again?

Sweet mysteries, this life,...

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Categories: solemn, love, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Price of Free Will
Medicine Hat Appaloosa
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Remember free will too has been gifted,
with freedom allied to fate's fickle choice.
Tendered words uttered still..now uplifted, 
God provides each one a life...

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Categories: solemn, 6th grade, earth, god,
Form: Sonnet
You'Ll Find Me Before the Ink Is Dry
My inky echoes conflate, 
atop mountains of ivory versos; 
Blank pages into whispers,
like the sway of moonlight tides;

Papers dappled by my ineffable, 
frays of jet-black...

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Categories: solemn, poets, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solemn, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Wabi-Sabi

Cars are the wind on the streets
semi-truck wheels shriek thunder,
rain shatters against stone and brick walls
on dusty roads, oak trees fence with twigs—
wushu wooden clatters.

Dreadful...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solemn, analogy, appreciation, introspection, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Insignificant Life - Collaboration With the Seeker
That godless sound
His head explodes at 6:01am
Same as every day
He falls out of bed
Steps on the cat
Slides into his slippers
Shuffles to the kitchen
Puts the coffee...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solemn, absence, break up, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Message of Peace
Be the night that prompts
A nightingale to sing,
Be the dawn of endearment
Enamored in song of robin,
Be a dove, soothing morning,
Crooning melodies of peace.

Be the land...

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Categories: solemn, peace,
Form: Free verse
An Eternity Ii
And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

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Categories: solemn, betrayal, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
A Peaceful Smile
"Before the winds were born and there were signs of life,
 your beauty was already stirring inside my soul."

Star light shine down for me this...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: solemn, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member From Dawn's Spirited Breath, See Red, Red Rose
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From Dawn's Spirited Breath, See Red, Red Rose

When Summer rose meets dawning's sweetest hush
Sun comes to bequeath its dawn bathing rays
Red beauty gleaming, rose stills...

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Categories: solemn, beautiful, beauty, flower, garden,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs