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Best Svelte Poems

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


Door O' Green
Door o’ green

The door of green it stands ajar,
I enter here in a dream, so far,
A rough hewn table, here it sits,
Big yellow candle splutters...

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Categories: svelte, adventure, words, me, fire,
Form: Ballad



Premium Member Rainy Day Dreams
Rainy Day Dreams

How sweet’s the lovely scent and sound of rain
As I look out amidst the sultry storm
From bursting clouds upon the window pane, 
I...

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Categories: svelte, dream, longing, love, rain,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Convene at Crossroads
Written: November 09, 2023
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Meet me at the crossroads of my life.
Underneath the streetlamp, I will...

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Categories: svelte, analogy, appreciation, bereavement, best
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weeping Willow
Written: January 03, 2024
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Wrenching writhing
of capacious weeping willows
In...

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Categories: svelte, analogy, angst, bereavement, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stargazer Lily
Lovely lily, you take my breath away 
I just have to tell you how much I adore you.
The moment we met I could smell your...

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Categories: svelte, beauty, flower, love, nature,
Form: Personification



Premium Member Blame It On the Moon
Blame it on the moon


The moon, who’s intentions, I believe
Are not beyond her muses to deceive
Casting down her beams so they reflect
The postures and the...

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Categories: svelte, moon,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Click, Click, Huh
Feeble, a word not often used 
in this hi-def, mega bite world,
where almost anything can be done
with the tap of a fingertip,
the aged still feel...

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Categories: svelte, loss,
Form: Verse
Face To Face With a Nameless Dame
Hold your fire
Let your sharp tongue retire
When to the fore sneaks your ire

Increasing carelessness danger
Thinking in your mind you’re an indomitable ranger
Although in your own...

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Categories: svelte, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Image In a Mirror
Image in a Mirror

She sits all alone in her bedroom tonight,
and stares in the mirror while dreaming her dreams;
she thinks to herself in the soft...

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Categories: svelte, image, loneliness, mirror, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Fawning Meadow
Nature's, anesthetizing beauty held 
tightly in escrow
'Til on tendered form its heavenly 
charm can bestow

Fair maiden strides through 
manicured meadow
In her lovely essence, the enchanted...

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Categories: svelte, beauty,
Form: Couplet
Cuddles
 yes cuddles would be very nice,
with all the sweetness,  damn the price,
come sit on my lap and wait for a rise,
restrain me and...

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Categories: svelte, adventure, love, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sirens
Several sirens singing on the shore
Called Calypso’s crew for them to adore.
Willing witless wanderers;
Oblivious obeyers, 
Which waves washed through a rocky tidal bore.

Svelte sisters sieved...

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Categories: svelte, betrayal, dark, evil, men,
Form: Limerick
A Dream Died a Dreadful Death
Lightning and thunder did clash
In ventricles within my heart
Vying whether to lash
At every part

That feels emotions
In hearts of dames
Whose love motions and portions
Laid claims

To the...

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Categories: svelte, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Icicles
     Icicles

     Long icicles hang, one by one;
     thick icicles shine in the...

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Categories: svelte, winter,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Self Portrait Contest--The Broken Mirror
My mirror is broken, or at least it seems to be,
for today I discovered an old woman staring back at me.

She had hair of gray,...

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Categories: svelte, age, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things