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Best Subdued Poems

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Premium Member Summer
A hot and humid day floats merrily on the seas
As tiny bikinis amble in sandy footprints
And frolic in the motives of soft ocean breeze 
Building...

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Categories: subdued, summer,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member - Show Me Your Face -
Do not hide your face
                    ...

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Categories: subdued, caregiving, love, me,
Form: Verse
A Letter Home To Rome'
My dearest Claudia, 

     For eighteen months, I've been at this Jerusalem outpost.
     "Tis you and young...

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Categories: subdued, faith, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
An Eternity Ii
And I begin my own steep climb into 
The Chalkland Downs              ...

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Categories: subdued, betrayal, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Waterfall
Sunlight reave through cerulean sky and drifting clouds, 
melting the snow-capped mountains, 
through forest heartbeat and trembling leaves, 
upon dappled nature's breast. 

The placid echo...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subdued, imagery, nature,
Form: Free verse



Soulmate Love
Finding love is our unsure heart’s goal as edged on by our confident souls.  Some journey through life with love as their primary dream,...

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Categories: subdued, best friend, blessing, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Silence
 




And so it was that Autumn would die
with a gust of wind she said goodbye

Of love mortal she sits subdued
sipping remnants of death imbued

With...

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Categories: subdued, autumn, death,
Form: Personification
Dripping Raindrops
 Dripping Raindrops

The rain began quite lazily
tap tap tapping on the canopy

Drop drop dropping on the jade green grass
under subdued light drops shine like glass

The...

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Categories: subdued, rain, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disorientation
My distant spirit is dying, 
disheartened, disintegrating and self deprecating.
Defenceless, as hope disappears,
emotionally shipwrecked in deep waters,
yet to be discovered. 

In the sadness of sentimental...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subdued, angst, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Anyday and Sundays
Anyday and Sundays,
breathless with the word,
anticipation - he will show up.
  It is the shout of Jericho,
    as we walk out...

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Categories: subdued, christian, sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sigh Bereft of Tune
Written: January 20, 2024
                   ___________________________________

Weary of heartfelt...

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subdued, angst, death, earth, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Autumn On Fire
God’s inspirational napalm set ablaze upon the trees of autumn,
Welcome to the ascension of the fall season, bursting forth onto
The leaves once evergreen.
Colors of crisp...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subdued, autumn, beauty, heart, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Richard Enigma
I'm rather hard to figure out
Not many really get what I'm about
I'd rather sit quietly than shout
I keep it real I'm not prone to pout
You...

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Categories: subdued, introspection,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Silent Nightingale
A rhapsody of
rock and roll rain,
tango twisting winds,
samba snow flakes, 
step, skip, 
spin and swing.

So the subdued sun 
remains solemnly shy 
as its orchestra of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subdued, analogy, assonance, weather,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member I Practice the Art of Seduction
Day in, day out… I’m here
softly walking down 
the corridors of your mind
a seductress in search of the room
where you hide your heart

The train of...

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Categories: subdued, sensual,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things