Get Your Premium Membership

Best Symphonic Poems

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

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, beauty,
Form: Rhyme



Our Rainbow of Love
My love, do you ever know...

In your moments of hushed silence, 
I am your sound;

You are the rhythm
of the symphonic waves
in the vast sea 
of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence of the Waves
Mirabelle orb ascends,
under clementine and pomegranate skies.

Absent,
in delight of daylight.
Eyes set adrift in dawning daydreams.

Calm heart is an oceanic concerto,
flowing along sapphire tones.
Deep breaths walk...

Read more of this work...
© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: symphonic, assonance, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Panorama of Primrose Promises
 In the valley 
    of violin vines,
    when the saffron sun ascends,
and crooning clouds 
   drift...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, music,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Legend of Silence
To the legend of silence
that speaks in trembling stillness
I’ve seen your halcyon halo~
that illuminates wilted weeds 
and tilted tendrils 
unfolding perfumed wings,
allowing sizzling seas of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence In You
Is there a way you can show me your silence?
This world is deafening to me 
Can I find the words that I'm seeking..

Dream of a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, dedication, friend, peace, senses,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Solo Pianist
Another Sunday evening at the street-corner
next to the coffee parlour, overlooking the ocean
The solo pianist  with desert-lime eyes
sits once-again on the piano chair.
His hair,a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, absence, emotions, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Something More
“Something More” 

Softly pastels spill
from lips where
crimson speaks the heart

time brushed its coarse
hands along the body 
of my work 

and like a voyeur
you watched
the romance...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, muse, word play,
Form: Narrative
The Wind Moves
The wind moves

It moves in many ways

How it moves

Like exotic scents of purple lavender

wafting 'neath a harvest sun

and  the rise of sour yeast

inside a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, absence, nature,
Form: Free verse
Play Rain
Play rain , play melancholic tunes
Play closely to my ear, I need to hear

I want to listen to Sinatra's toe-tap sounds
As you fall, fall slowly...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, childhood, rain,
Form: Free verse
Morning Dew Melodies
~

Morning dew melodies whispering soft,
harmonies dream on the wind
Scented illusions of days in the past
and those about to begin

Choruses blooming in amethyst shades,
sweet as the...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, good morning,
Form: Rhyme
Harmony
~

Soft melodies of misted spray
adrift ‘pon glistened air
Cascading waters on display
their touch of moisture’d share

As fern leaf sonnets fill the trees
illumined emerald green
Symphonic spun tranquilities
embrace...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Edge of Despair
When life becomes confusing,
my only saviour is my
simple musing.

Twilight shimmers in orange,
red clouds float above,
preparing for blood rain.

Lost to ponder,
I contemplate and wonder
why the symphonic...

Read more of this work...
© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: symphonic, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Death To the Mockingbird
Death to the mockingbird with one shot to the heart,
Crushing wings with desperation sings sorrow worlds apart.
Concrete tears from wasted eyes fall on a mossy...

Read more of this work...
Categories: symphonic, dark, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things