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Best Undertone Poems

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


Premium Member The Whispers of Diamonds and Moonstone
The whispers of diamonds and moonstone,
Starlight’s infusion of butterfly wings.
Flutter of lady’s eyelashes in Spring.
Lullaby murmuring - Jane’s not alone.

Sweet puff of air, rustle of...

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Categories: undertone, imagery, love,
Form: Quatern



Premium Member This Time of Year
Beside the sea I stand alone
The water speaks in undertone
There’s in the air melancholy 
I stand alone beside the sea.

The sky is veiled in shades...

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Categories: undertone, sad,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ravaged
He espied her all alone
In the open by the lake
Sighed in lustful undertone
And her body craved to take.

Golden orange, rusty brown
What a beauty! Flaming hot!
She...

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Categories: undertone, abuse, lust,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Melancholy Me
Melancholy me, since Kelly's gone away
Far beyond the sea, and out of every day
Stage by stage I've wept, but finally, I see
What I must accept;...

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Categories: undertone, dedication, drug, grief, loss,
Form: Rhyme
A Night In Venice
A night in Venice (in sotto voce)


Moonlight shimmers over the Adriatic sea
Stars dancing on the waves in perfect symmetry
We talk of ancient adventure and gallantry

Masquerading...

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Categories: undertone, desire, night, passion, romantic,
Form: Terza Rima



Premium Member The Music Box
Is it simply just a wooden music box?
Charming the human soul, with its melodic undertone,
What a hypnotic melody it so plays, enticing the listener
With its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertone, adventure, beauty, fantasy, fear,
Form: Free verse
Untitled
As a river flows into the sun, may a spirit flow 
Its appalling morality, the divisions it has created 
The mind knows without it sacred...

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Categories: undertone, abuse, age, beautiful, betrayal,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Lines On Your Hand
The lines on my hand are baby-like soft, and pink with an almost
            ...

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Categories: undertone, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Garish Should Be
Garish should be the undertone
so say the ones who hold the line
desiring only that mutes explain
the breadth of life beyond the pale

until the souls who...

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© Sean Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertone, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Inconstant Beloved
At eventide,
Under the roseate glow
Of the receding evening sun
I sauntered down the road
To where my beloved dwell
Not far-off from my own abode

Fast by his threshold...

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Categories: undertone, betrayal, break up, feelings,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Winter's Night Is Different
A winter's night is different
    snow's mantle o'er the ground
  Noises muffled, birds unheard
    few folks out on...

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Categories: undertone, night, peace, silence, snow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Free Verse Fever
He painted with emotions from a palette of words

Found himself in a forest of light green foliage

Threw his colours and ink pots high into the...

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Categories: undertone, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Sitting Across From You
So shy I was but I asked you if you would have lunch with me
Yes, was the answer with a giggling undertone?
I will never forget...

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© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertone, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Narcissist
It was in my younger years
That you took away my heart
Just looking for a conquest
You tore it all part
You. put yourself so far above me
No...

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Categories: undertone, life,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Music Box
Is it simply just a wooden music box?
Charming the human soul, with its melodic undertone,
What a hypnotic melody it so plays, enticing the listener
With its...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: undertone, evil, fantasy, gothic, halloween,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs