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Best Subtle Poems

Below are the all-time best Subtle poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of subtle poems written by PoetrySoup members


Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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Categories: subtle, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Old Man
Silently he sat in darkness, flinching at the sight of light.
Which created a glow reflecting on his balding head.
His cold glare did not help my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subtle, angst, dark, life,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The Enchanted Forest
The woods were silent except for the shifting 
soft sounds of his hooves as they fell upon 
the forest floor. There he stood amid the...

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Categories: subtle, adventure, fairy, fantasy, horse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member In Pursuit of a Promise
A promise should never remain silent.

In pursuit of our principal pledge -
I ponder her secret garden,
within the province of our paradise.

For her love is 
an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subtle, love, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Immortal Poetic Lyrics
Pondering prophetic legacies of timeless lovers,
my heart yearned for a province lavished with perennial passion.
Searching for an enchanted perfect petal,
I wandered within the flower garden...

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Categories: subtle, analogy, love, romance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My Last Poem
Become my air,
pursuing my scent 
  in sweet fragrant  fields,
where devouring tastes 
   of bohemian spirit,
delicately descend 
   ...

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Categories: subtle, devotion, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: subtle, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Do You Remember
Somewhere in a dream, 
Serene and blissful from the start
It comes to me again
The two of us in love, and eagerly alone
Breathlessly naive', and blissfully...

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Categories: subtle,
Form: Free verse
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: subtle, autumn, love, nature,
Form: Free verse
The Turning
The year has finally yawned and turned       
Upon a half-revealed shoulder.
A vibrancy, intrinsic to a reemerging 
Enforcement of the...

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Categories: subtle, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Sip of Chai
When my fatigued pen,
succumbed to a sleepy state of silence

in the market place of silent poets,
I searched for a tea room to stimulate my mind

my...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: subtle, analogy, appreciation, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

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Categories: subtle, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Innocence Lost
In the midst of midnight dreams,
like a whisper, soft and subtle,
her soul floated like a butterfly.

Reaching the province of Paphian passion,
portraying Aphrodite's desire for Adonis,
solitude...

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Categories: subtle, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Titanium Quill
I am an unvoiced breeze~
a sea warrior 
    kite-surfing through 
    heinous waves, 
knitting cobalt chronicles 
  ...

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Categories: subtle, courage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Yesterday Was Today
On cold evenings
Surrounded by friends
Warm and
Safe
I could stay up forever
Taking strength
From the blackness 
Talking
Dreaming
Feeling that I could float upward
And walk with the stars
On their lonely...

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Categories: subtle, lost love, love,
Form: Narrative

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