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Best Songless Poems

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Premium Member Songless Bird
I perch on a rock
by white teal-roofed bungalows,
resting after my journey.
Autumn's early bloom
is a choir of falling leaves
by a quiet rippling stream.

The silence deafens
as bright...

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Categories: songless, autumn, nature, silence,
Form: Sedoka



Tilling For a Songless Song
In the mazy thicket of thoughts I search
With the fork of foresight on cloudy march
I pick meaningless pebbles from eerie plane
Meaning hisses at the futile...

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Categories: songless, africa, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Fragile
FRAGILE

I watched my mother
Beautiful, petite, smart
Widowed at 28 with three small children
And people said, "Be extra good, your mother is fragile."

A blonde Jackie Kennedy,
Right down...

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Categories: songless, abuse, children, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Dear First Lady
Tears bring the eyes its shivering spangle of stars
In liquid pools dilating light
The firmament spiraled to bandage time’s scars
Shining in empty bowls night

And sometimes the...

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Categories: songless, inspirational
Form: Quatrain
Shrinking Violets
I feel for gentle hearts in this loud world, 
Ever suspect, dismissed and derided, 
For long has been the shy a songless bird,
That Darwin dismissed...

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Categories: songless, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Bildungsroman
I teeter on the edge
Of a crumbling cliff, beneath me
Is nothing but cloud and indistinct shape,
A bird or two, laughing at my wingless back,
My songless...

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Categories: songless, age, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
The Candelabra: For Mummy Precious Richards On Her Birthday
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Euphonious today is the tone 
And though tomorrow is shrouded , unknown,
I trust it holds a blissful opaline pod
And to this repose a prayer to...

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Categories: songless, caregiving, life, love, prayer,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Love-Is-War
L-innets flock songless on a bough of love.
O-ur vows are sherds and my heart is a
V-oid that no sweet words can ever fill.
E-very beginnings have...

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Categories: songless, adventure, feelings, funny love,
Form: Acrostic
A Dialectical View
On the ground, stark still
The child immobile stared, saw
Its dead broken will
            *
Songless feathers...

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Categories: songless, death, mystery, naturebird, bird,
Form: Haiku
Quality Time
Let's take a walk together maybe have a songless dance. 
Have a wordless conversation only letting our eyes speak. 
Make whispers with our hearts of...

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Categories: songless, love,
Form: Free verse
Lycans
Visions comes and Visions goes
Deep within my soul lies the reflections of an aging soul
A distance murmured cry was heard
From the echoes of a songless...

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Categories: songless, adventure, mystery, night, night,
Form: I do not know?
Ladylove
A breast of rocks and woods with no song
Four hundred miles of pines that endure
And a path of chocolate sand with only hoof-prints.
Cherries are red...

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Categories: songless, for her, proposal,
Form: Free verse
Lady Parrot
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Lady parrot, Roman parrot sing to me
A song of love in the highland oceans
My ears are craving to hear you sing to me
A mouthful of...

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Categories: songless, africa, art, beautiful,
Form: Ballade
The Blooming Blood
Sky-clad, you are going 
to meet the nemesis,
digging the street to?
find the nails. Do not fret.
Nails had burrowed deep in the 
flesh of unknown. When...

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Categories: songless, art,
Form: ABC
My First Love
My  First Love :
I picked the pen in my hand and move back in my past.
Sunsets gathers clouds to the horizons.
But the sky Above...

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Categories: songless, destiny, faith, first love,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Shattered Sighs