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Best Tenderness Poems

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Premium Member The Casualness of Casualties
In the intimate interlace of chance and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity,...

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Categories: tenderness, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun



Premium Member Hero
In a world where hearts ignore compassionate cries.
Acts of kindness become rare, so empathy dies.

As human nature loses the skill to listen,
his mission is to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tenderness, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desires of the Heart
When my heart
was no longer content in solitude;

I asked;

"Oh my lonely heart, 
what is it that you desire?"

Softly it whispered

for her heart beats to ease...

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Categories: tenderness, dream, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silence of the Stars
Mandolin melodies harmonised horizons,
yet the only strings being strummed
were those of my heart.

In the midst of enchanting melodies,
where nothing else mattered, but her,
we wandered barefoot,...

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Categories: tenderness, love, romance,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Manipulations Of Fate
I wait—

here I wait
for white magic reverie
to embrace me   free me

here I wait—
an hourglass full
of leopard-print thoughts 
sugar-granular-musings spill
the beginning to the end...

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Categories: tenderness, death, fate, life, lost
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ambedo
As shades of grey overwhelm white clouds,
their rain tears begin to pitter and patter,
creating a pattern upon my skin.
Like a dehydrated petal, I taste their...

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Categories: tenderness, analogy, childhood, growth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Listen To the Heart
"Listen!  to the Heart"
       ~~~~~~~~


every heart strums strings of symphony
an open book exploring dreams and fantasies
the lovebeat touches...

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Categories: tenderness, love, heart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
.."?Your Beauty!"..
Blackberry kisses, within the celestial starlit mornings hour....

Stirring these passions aglow, amid the flickering flames of desire ~

Caressing such thoughts of you; smouldering embers, that...

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Categories: tenderness, faith, life, love, passionlonging,
Form: I do not know?
When Love Found Me
When Love Found Me

What a wonderful, magical surprise!
Sometimes love arrives in disguise.
I never saw this coming,
never anticipated such an awesome blessing.
I was at the right...

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Categories: tenderness, blessing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forbidden Love
Is it possible that an angel and a demon could fall in love?
And, remain soul mates for all eternity?
Yes, and I will tell you how...

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Categories: tenderness, angel, dark, fantasy, love,
Form: Free verse
Obsidian
An almost stillness came about
as she strode into my door,
like breath itself refused to move,
fearful of touching her mysterious beauty

But her obsidian eyes betrayed her....

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Categories: tenderness, abuse, dark, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Dancing Once Again With Words
Dancing once again with words,
As the two of us, embrace--
Another verse, another rhyme
Of waterfalls, and lace.

Romantic words in meter,
Although where's the gentle kiss?
Where's the touch...

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Categories: tenderness, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Nature of My Poetry
Let us embrace
like twilight kisses the sun goodnight.
Indulge in hues of scarlet, crimson and lilac,
until the salutation of stars .

In the nothingness of silence,
our souls will...

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Categories: tenderness, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Music In the Rain - 1
There is silence in turmoil… joy in the midst of pain
Sweetness in the bitter… music in the rain

There is light in darkness… illuminated faith shines
Hues...

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Categories: tenderness, inspiration, rain, silence,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Sun That Parts the Clouds
Through frayed seams a rosy dream bleeds 
needled and re-stitched 
with threads of time and love and hope..

and still — a rosy dream bleeds 
the...

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Categories: tenderness, age, emotions, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse

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