Best Sooths Poems
The scent of linen,
Slacks, creams, leather. Mellow tunes.
Soft muted bustle.
We move promptly to our quest.
In the purse, Mom’s hard won cash.
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The shoe department...
Always with my size and style.
The well-groomed salesman,
His warm charm sooths my unease
At the cold chrome size device.
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Brylcreem, tweed, Old Spice.
Soft caring hands hold my feet.
New shoes. Perfect fit.
And now, such memories past
Bring warm solace to my years.
* Reworked version submitted in tanka format.
Categories:
sooths, anxiety, clothes, emotions, kid,
Form:
Tanka
Many poets write glorious imagery using flowery words
only three people know
two of them dead
one being Coleridge
the other Shakespeare
I hate them for knowing these words,
despise their guts out that they know how to implement them correctly.
I comment, knowing my comments are crude, banal, a joke at my expense.
These poets are too gracious to call me out.
They pretend that my words are suitable.
Luckily this sooths my pain
and helps me to not feel the need
to look up all of their words which I do not know.
Categories:
sooths, poetry, poets,
Form:
Free verse
Sunlight sooths my heart
Warming my sweetest joy
Telling me to never depart
From the hope I deploy
Raindrops touch my soul
Filling me with a true glow
That no one could have stole
It is a fancy that I will always know
Moon and stars twinkle above
Ministering to my heart’s dreams
Showing me that there is love
Forever living inside my genes
Azure skies with clouds drifting
Whisper of serenity in great hymns
Showing the world that it’s gifted
With visions carried on angel’s wings
Hazy mist rises across the mountains
Past the peaks and gentle ridges
Displaying the beautiful surroundings
That only heaven shares such riches
Vivid arrays of fresh, blooming flowers
Call out to me from among the greenery
Beauty that welcomes afternoon showers
With all of the impulses of such scenery
God’s endless gifts speak of true attraction
Discovered in the natural world of this earth
Causing such devotion and inspirational reaction
That only our spirit can truly know its worth
Categories:
sooths, inspirational, mountains, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
I love thunder clouds,
those flashing battles in the sky,
the sky-high drama sooths me.
As I take my rest,
I imagine great ships
locked in a titanic conflict,
and wonder what side will prevail?
All those dark and light angels
in their armored vessels
so close to each other
engaged in one clashing melee,
until it is hard to tell which is which!
Love to feel those loud reports,
the mighty reverberations
of this eternal arial warfare,
as it rolls and pitches,
turning in circles
around my peaceful mind.
Categories:
sooths, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Piano player has
Perceptiveness and sees
Perfectly into soul's
Personality's depths
Persuasively plays
Piano with rigor
Phenomenally sooths
Categories:
sooths, music,
Form:
Pleiades
Plunged into darkness the coarsen tempest struck,
Shattering the silence calm facade.
Raging with passion reverberating laughter,
The gales unrelenting moaning and thrashing
Provoked and spawn inscrutable terror.
Hidden in the darkness by torrential rain
And shadows of the ardent temperament
vigorous gales and waves;
The lone sentinel peered out enthralled.
It began to shudder and tremble
Uncontrollably, but unmoving
Casting the gales a wicked smile
With its brilliant warning.
Arching over with pleasured force,
Winds raised the waves with a pounding rhythm,
Embracing and probing
For entrance with explosive weight.
Unleashing its briny wrath,
The tempest amuses itself
Toying upon the ships
With a deadly game of cat and mouse.
A calm comes over sooths the storm, whilst sunlight
Through a stain glassed window painting the rippling surface.
A final breath of woven weariness emerged from within.
7/17/2017
According to the Gospels:
He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, "Quiet! Be still!" Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. He said to his disciples, "Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?" They were terrified and asked each other, "Who is this? Even the wind and the waves obey him!"
Categories:
sooths, light, rain, sea, storm,
Form:
Free verse
A lost coin in the mist of the cloud
Thrown into the shadow of the crowds
Never to be found except in our heart
I lost a friend, a precious one indeed
The mother lost a son, a good son indeed
... The school lost a student, a brilliant one indeed
The sibling lost a brother, a kind one indeed
The nation lost a gift, one never to be replaced
The class, lost a mate, one that sooths our hearts
But Pensa lost a leader; a leader of the master’s flock
I would have written more, but I have to wipe my tears
I would have said more; but a quivering lip won’t allow me
I would have smiled, but a memory of friend won’t allow me
Except the Lord has comforted me
That he, my friend is comforted.
Categories:
sooths, christian, death of a
Form:
Rhyme
The sun shines through my window,
Awakening me with its warmth.
My eyes open to the light that it sheds on me,
My day begins.
I grab my shower,
Feeling the water as it sooths my mind.
I put my clothes on ,
And begin a new day.
I enter the hostile world,
The crooks,thieves,and vigilants.
I fight my way to work,
Through the road rage and never ending traffic.
The day is over,
I fight my way back home.
I enter the door and lean against it,
And the most wonderful thing happens.
My daughter takes my hand,
All the strife of the day just,
Dissapears.
Categories:
sooths, childhood, daughter, devotion, family,
Form:
The wayward winds, caress the trees,
Branches sway as their leaves catch the breeze.
A storm is coming as black clouds draw near,
The gentle raw of thunder, in the distance we do hear.
Low pressure comes at first and the air seems so clear,
But soon the clouds of gloom, upon us I do fear.
Blocking out the sunlight, in shadow if you please,
Thunder will draw closer and lightening shall then seize.
A rumble then a silent flash, as war breaks out in the sky,
An eerie silence fills the air and our imagination will then fly,
For some this truly is, the apocalypse… judgment day,
But to others, a fresh beginning, they want to go out and play.
Glorious and majestically, lightning strikes again,
If only for a split second, it illuminates our plain.
Thunders rumble clears our heads to let our thoughts just go,
Lightning’s flash sooths our souls if we allow it so.
Soon the air pressure rises and clouds begin to dispel,
Rumbles from the thunder, to the lightening they must have fell,
Birds sing their song, rejoice that the battles done,
We are still standing, another day to have some fun.
But somewhere in the distance, a victim has been claimed,
Natures mighty oak tree, on the woodland floor lays maimed.
Food now for the Mites, ants and woodland lice,
They hollow out its trunk which doesn’t sound too nice.
But in doing so is formed, wood dust to feed the soil,
And the whole they leave to another animal will be a welcome spoil.
A place to shelter, have a home and feed upon the insects,
Have its young, and have some fun, life is so complex.
The oak that fell still had a spell, the acorns upon its branches,
From the spot they touched upon the floor, with only one or two chances,
A few will root and up they shoot a few oaks where once there was one.
So life did thrive and more arrived, nature revived the one that was gone.
Categories:
sooths, life, nature, life,
Form:
Rhyme
A young boy stood on the Aventine hills
And watched the future unfold in front of him
He saw the industrialization of mankind
Their souls powered by steam
We have tasted the waters of a billion ecosystems
The sound of bombs, sooths some child in Baghdad
Survival and solitude
Sacred lands full of stone
He saw the European Renaissance
The age of discovery
The telescope expanding the borders of consciousness
The restoration of humanity comes slow
It moves and continues into the future landscapes not yet thought of, not yet built, not yet wakened by the thinking brain.
He wants no more bloodshed
No more repression
Just the lush gardens that glisten under full moons
And the clearness of ice
If only he could remember the world how it was
Full of vibrant chants
And mystical monasteries with spiral staircases that reach out and touch the circumference of earth.
Categories:
sooths, adventure, america, art, black
Form:
Epic
I am light dawned on an eternity,
Promising tomorrows, giving today
A traversable feeling growling into conviction—
I am the fuel for the flame,
A rock for the lame
Where do I find home in which to land?
Do I seek refuge, or do I seek danger?
Am I vulnerable in my strengths?
Am I solicitous in my aims?
Do I laugh?
Do I cry?
I am in the air you inhale, frequently skimming your ground,
Sometimes I move deafeningly—
And at times I float without a sound
I have seen the change in your eyes,
The moment you grew into a man
The moment you sobbed away sin
And exposed the evil hand
I am light dawned on an eternity,
Promising tomorrows, giving today
But who am I?
Why do you hear me, when others vow I am myth?
Why do you listen, when the thunders threaten to deafen you?
Why do you doubt, when you have seen my wonders eye to eye?
When you have felt my hand on your lips,
Quieting your writhing, screaming soul?
Who am I?
I am the revealer,
In hope I am your chief
The spark in the dark that galvanizes you
The smoke in the air that sooths you
Forever and always,
I am the best of your heart,
And I am free with fires impermeable!
Categories:
sooths, beautiful, confidence, encouraging, fire,
Form:
Free verse
A Woman’s Voice
Enter the universe after the billions of eons
Girls grow from it on a song
Evolve with perfect sound and pitch into a woman
Their voice is everything the universe is not
Men adore the cosmic storm and war
But prefer the soft sensuous sounds
The perfect cure
Of a woman’s whispers in their ear
Music resonates from their lovely lips
Made in a mystery on the mist
A woman’s voice is softer than an ocean bed
Calms the fever born in nature
Tragic life is darker in the silence
Love and whispers fill in with sound
Warm kisses with the softest touch
Speak volumes when it's found
A woman’s voice fills in all holes
Lifts their song along the wind and void
Launched in laughter light escapes
Enters the soul and sooths
When women cry, babies are born
Both sing and feel the sound of warmth
Cuddle up beside the cozy fireplace
Mom reads stories in her gentlest intonations
Eons take us back to the creation
Melodies formed from that deep womb
A women’s voice is magic
Listen… It sounds like this
Categories:
sooths, adventure, celebration, creation, music,
Form:
Quatrain
authentic nature
sooths my mystical spirit ...
trash distracts us both
Categories:
sooths, earth, emotions, environment, grave,
Form:
Haiku
Forlorn in demeanor,
Thyself with heart in tatters.
Solemn and beseeched,
I'm near the edge
Of loves rapturous foreboding precipice.
Shall my torturous soul
Commit it’s self to the abyssal unknowns
Of sacrificial acquiescence to thee?
A force neither trustworthy nor forgiving
As it warms chilled hearts
And sooths with passionate death.
Unwitting those of lesser toils within,
True to their salvation,
But blind to its deceit
And yet give reverence to thee.
Alas shall I not gaze into eyes of splendor
Nor taste passion upon sweet lips?
Forsake the essence of purity sought,
And forgo righteous happenings within thy being.
To this unknown I ponder
And thus negates my apotheosis of thee.
Enlighten my sorrowful remnants of gayety
And subservient obedience to thee
As was once remembered.
At this I shall take that leap of faith
And boldly plunge thyself into the depths
Of your infinite sanctity
Categories:
sooths, betrayal, conflict, hope, love,
Form:
When I look up in my distress
I do not see the sky.
Neither do i see the sun,
Nor the stars and the moon,
Yet i see the creator thereof.
By virtue of Him never failing,
He has a mouth,
He sooths my soul with it.
He has eyes,
To see me through thick and thin.
He has ears
To listen to my joys and sorrows.
He has a nose
Thus he created such sweet perfumed lillies.
He has hands,
I am an epitomy of His hands!
He has feet,
We walk together, my Lord and I.
Their idols are of silver and gold,
The work of man's hands.
They have mouths but do not speak,
They have eyes but do not see,
They have ears but do not hear,
A nose have they, but they do not smell,
They have hands but do not touch,
They have feet but they do not walk.
Trust in Him,
He is your help and your shield.
Categories:
sooths, god,
Form:
Free verse