Best Tacit Poems

Tacit love

I floated near her
Like I really, really liked her
Meandering silently
Breathing her fragrant air.

My wordless desire
Touched her loving profile
Long enough to win
A tiny courteous smile.

One...

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A Debutante’s Ball to Remember

In the autumn of my life, oft have I recalled that superb summer night,
when I finally experienced my long-awaited heart’s delight.
Family...

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In distal conception you are a lucent star
with voice like the recherche love song of a thrush
Your touch fondles the fret and strings on my...

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If wealth is now your blessing,
what then was the prayer?
Avarice, its goal possessing,
yet in penury, despair.

I see them often in the store
eyes ahead, regard for...

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The voices of my present state and feelings echo
down into my mother’s sympathetic ears,
They resonate…in no barriers, she decodes
with her warm understanding and great love...

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The rumours were persistent; the split was on the cards
sad news to music lovers, despair for lonely hearts.
Fab Four disintegrated, a tragedy for some,
but...

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Only silence dresses her rigging now
To the call of the bosun’s whistle
Her hatches now stand locked and secure
Where long past sailors once lingered
She is the...

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I love you, what a lie!

I could see the strain on your face 
when you uttered those words

Love’s reflection is about joy,
you looked like a...

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In the reflection of a golden sunset
Nocturnal blessing of horizon’s vicinity
Far from lamenting the plummeting nightfall
I seem to capture a twinge of infinity

Nostalgic reminiscings...

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I don’t answer

Intensely personal questions people ask
For these shreds to pieces what is truly me
The pieces are of no use to them though.
The effort seems...

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I wish I had a pill to forget the wicked words
    that some have said.
And put away from memory the vile scripts
...

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I love a flower, 
i stretch my hand 
and touch his soft leaves 
and it sends me a sweet smell.
it's a tacit love,
in the sense...

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They made mammon somethng measurable, mighty, & magnificent,
everywhere that labor, exchange, & entertainment exist monuments
to money, large and small,

the genesis was excess manufacture 
such as...

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Upon these half-empty seats
And coffee-warmed retreats 
Where morning birds chirp
And smaller ones tweet
Like the mere shadow floating
‘Neath my two own feet
I float in this inconceivable...

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Scared to fall asleep
As tides rip open shelters
Of childhood castles...

Scared to lower bridge
As hopeful heart cries exposed
Under jogger's shoe...

Ephemeral  life
Whales eco-locate my soul
Tacit castles...

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when your eyes caught mine
I knew I was lost and found
tacit LOVE remain

the same umbrella
provided the shade and FUN
chilled drinks didn’t help
to offset the heat...

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ON FINDING NEMO

Nemo is blue,  and I am a rabbit,
Comical thoughts my brain inhabit,
Thoughts invent friends imaginary,
Quite silent, tacit but delusionary,
Women's fantasies are good,
For...

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Theoretical abstractions,
reductive hard word choices,
to describe and prescribe spiritual experiences
are unsatisfactory for daily consumption and absorption
as they reify exceptions to your Business As Usual,
which is...

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Her smile is unfit, as it illuminates beyond the masses,
a misfit in a world of hollow and half-hearted expressions,
The connection to comeliness, its source, not...

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Depression is like dying
without hope this process will end well,
without remediation
at least not for my closely held ego-identity,
and despair 
this turning inward
creates a cocoon by...

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There seemed to be 
a hint of shadow 
Lurking behind her smile…
A certain tightness, to her touch
 
A Mona Lisa aura…
a mood of melancholia
As if...

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Author: Runping Chen

Here is the noisy lodging house
Where I cannot compose a poem in reply to Dongpo’s Prelude to Water Melody
Because whoever can hardly
Bear the...

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Kowabmago maske’wot notin,

He glides above on tacit wings,

Pne’to giwe’ bye'ton

Silent as the death he brings;

Kshe’mnito anwe'we'ksit nibwe,

The Guardian of departed souls,

Me'kte'wate'k migwin iwkshe'

With feathers of...

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Dropped ad lib in foreign terrain
Not knowing a word of English
It was called ‘learn fast, sink or swim’
You smiled when I first looked at you
Offered...

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Buckminster Fuller and Julian Jaynes 
recently reviewed their cultural and scientific influence 
on health and well-being, 
ecological and economic positive outcomes, 
during the current CoOperativist...

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