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Best Taciturn Poems

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Premium Member Being Taciturn
Being Taciturn
(TASS-uh-tern)
By: Miracle Man
8/29/2018

She’s often outwardly taciturn in a group setting,
Opting to be inconspicuous, “Like a fly on the wall.”
Being attentive to others while mentally...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taciturn, wife,
Form: Lyric



Word Squirrel
Rodents can be loquacious
That includes your average gerbil
They love to prattle, chat and blather
They really are quite verbal

Hamsters are talkative too
Just as garrulous as can...

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Categories: taciturn, animal, children, education, kid,
Form: Rhyme
Your Undying Legacy
My heart is so keen on you,
It leaves me cold, relentless, impossible
He fell into the love pools in my eyes,
The light you demand me to...

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Categories: taciturn, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Goodbye, My Child
Where cradled canyons sing
Of ebony wood in the forest
There lies a gurgling spring
Where cockcrows sing their chorus
To the melody of singsong birds
There I’ve concealed my...

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Categories: taciturn, adventure, allegory, angel, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Evil Eye
The darkness, now descending, floods the city as it dies
while shadows lurk in legions 'neath the looming Evil Eye.
Its frozen stare envelops all, it penetrates...

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Categories: taciturn, evil,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Lane of Lost Memories
Sentimental rain creates puddles upon a lane of lost memories.
Gone are those malachite meadows, where we once ran free.

Clouds now reflect against intimidating soaring glass...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taciturn, death, home, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
She
She is Pacific ocean 
Tranquil from outside
tumultuous from with in
 
         Shallow it seems from the ...

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Categories: taciturn, girl, imagery, imagination, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Watering the Garden of Dreams
taciturn springs rising
from within the quarry 
of deep earth's wisdom
urging lyrical waters to transpose
while held like singing seas of living reveries
of history and infinity
misting to...

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Categories: taciturn, creation, dream, fate, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swamp Life: Human Nature Contest
Swamps are like places where dinosaurs roam  
shadowed by ancient moss-draped trees.        
A prehistoric world in shades...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taciturn, life, nature,
Form: Verse
Cerebral Cortex of My Heart
I hold myself a prisoner 
A captive taciturn 
Unspeakable enticement still yearning
Since coming of age to discern

Yet never knowing 
Except in part 
The fullness to...

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Categories: taciturn, caregiving, conflict, deep, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Draped In a Lavender Light
I wore fear
 like a winding sheet,
 leaving behind trails
 of dead dreams

I held hope in my hands
 and weeping, it slid
 through my fingers
...

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Categories: taciturn, hope, light,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Storm
sullen clouds threaten
 the morning sky, and thunder's
 ominous rumblings
 render me taciturn, but
 my pen speaks above the rain...

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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: taciturn, storm,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Stoicism as Way of Life
Purposeful thought leaders, empowering intellect they reign, 
In disposition phlegmatic, indifferent to pleasure or pain,
Rejecting emotions vain, impassive within taciturn domain,
Questing for mindful contentment, virtues...

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Categories: taciturn, inspirational, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Lunar Phases of Deepest Thoughts
Lunar phases of deepest thoughts
Fasi lunari dei piu' profondi pensieri 


The unwritten absence of your 
beautiful soul, before you entered my world—
I closed my eyes...

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Categories: taciturn, deep, emotions, faith, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Nothing Matters
Inspired by and based on L’Étranger by Albert Camus


I'm a stranger to you, even stranger to me
I'll pass you by like a memory
Of innocence and...

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Categories: taciturn, death, philosophy, song-life, care,
Form: Ballad

Book: Reflection on the Important Things