Best Subdue Poems
Below are the all-time best Subdue poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of subdue poems written by PoetrySoup members
Aphrodite of the Morning SunYour honey drips in baths of blue,
with seductive scapes set to woo,
Arousing aroma stimuli arise anew,
A vixen voluptuous Venus to subdue…
Mane of a lioness suave...
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Categories:
subdue, desire, love, lust,
Form:
Rhyme
StandstillStrangely bent this journey extends
Surreal at times, yet so real at ends
Each end confronts with a hardship of choices
With an abrupt passing, or an eternity...
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Categories:
subdue, brother, death, friendship, loss,
Form:
Rhyme
The Soup by Picasso 1902-1903 New Poem 1256Poverty and hunger are bedfellows.~ The Poet~
Alluring, pleading
Yet it will burn,
Pangs of hunger
Immanent yearn.
Desperate child
So forlorn
For the poverty
To which she was born.
Minds...
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Categories:
subdue, poverty,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Epistle Xviii - the Abandoned SonI.
Father,
my knees
quiver and quake,
they bend
then break
like a reed
ensnared in
the tempest’s throes
II.
My sanguine palms,
stammering in fear of
Your reprisal,
whimper in their
muted state,
rendered silent by
their barbarity
III.
This timber crucifix,
once...
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Categories:
subdue, christian, god, jesus, religion,
Form:
Free verse
I Hear Guitars A' CallingI hear guitars a’ calling in the gloaming’s final fling
when sinking suns subdue their flames and fairies take to wing
as day departs, a yawning ash,...
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Categories:
subdue, music,
Form:
Rhyme
The Genocide At Wounded KneeOn December the twenty eight in the year eighteen ninety
Major Samuel Whitside was on patrol, with the seventh cavalry
When they sighted a party of Indians...
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Categories:
subdue, america, death, military, murder,
Form:
Narrative
Sip the SunsetAlone, beneath the skies of sunset wine,
infuse me with your golden minutes’ keep -
break...
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Categories:
subdue, appreciation, emotions, hope, longing,
Form:
Rhyme
The Depression DestroyerWhat causes someone to sink so low
And let an upright spirit to kneel and bow
To the pressures they are unable to undo
Neither can reverse this...
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Categories:
subdue, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
Lili MarleneLili Marlene
In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And...
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Categories:
subdue, history, memorial day, remembrance
Form:
Verse
Life is a SongLife is a song,
incomplete, yet soothing—
lullabies lulling the world to sleep
with its balladic lilt, gently swaying
to the depths of its nomadic
syncopation.
Where I can...
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Categories:
subdue, dance, dark, life, song,
Form:
Free verse
Innocence of YouthAcquiescing to love's defeat,
you subdue sad feelings within.
For when passion's all but over,
anxieties slowly begin.
Dominating reality,
bitter tears flow with brutal force.
And wash away the promises
that...
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Categories:
subdue, emotions, feelings, heartbroken, hurt,
Form:
Quatrain
The CaféI would sit there for many hours
Surrounded by my contemplative silence-
My senses as warm as my latte;
My mind as frosty as my cheesecake
The mixed...
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Categories:
subdue, introspection, passion, peace
Form:
Free verse
InvisibleIgnorant to the favoritism; a desire to be special too
Naïve to all the sarcasm and criticism; finding it easy to subdue
Validity still not broken as...
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Categories:
subdue, life, recovery from..., sad,
Form:
Acrostic
Rock Me SlowerAgain, you ain’t got the rockin’ time
To shake my waist jiggling a move
Between the thrill that leads to you
And a summer lost from faraway grooves.
Boy,...
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Categories:
subdue, song, time,
Form:
Rhyme
Tell My HeartPlease tell my heart to love a little less
It’s strength of love not quickly to confess
Please tell me heart to measure the amount
Of love allowed...
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Categories:
subdue, heartbroken, how i feel,
Form:
Sonnet