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Best Words Fail Poems

Below are the all-time best Words Fail poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of words fail poems written by PoetrySoup members


A Rose-Bud Breeze
 I think of you..

An instant swirl
of a rose-bud breeze
descending between 
silence and sleep.

My one and only 
night- time companion.

At last,we're no longer strangers

I know...

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Categories: words fail, beautiful,
Form: Free verse



It Is Slam Time For You
Yo Yo Yo my name is Robin
And my poems are really rockin'
With me you can not compete
You will feel sad defeat
My writing skills can't be...

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Categories: words fail, fun, games, poetry, slam,
Form: Rhyme
Love Will Always Win
Might make this into a song. Hope you guys like it.

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I want to save your life with this love I bear,
To hold you in my...

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Categories: words fail, cheer up, passion, sad,
Form: Free verse
Word Hoard
They say if you don’t use a thing for a year
It’s time to get rid of it, just to be clear
Feel free to sell it...

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Categories: words fail, education, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Poet I Am Not
A poet I am not

I woke up today to blue sapphire skies
with ribbons of fuchsia and crimson hues
Having my minds reveries realized
With mental imbroglios I'm...

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Categories: words fail, absence, beauty, confusion, heart,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Golden Crowns
When words fail to express 
or vocally tell you 
how a person feels held
deeply inside the knotts 

Those softly mesmerising eyes 
dawning in the afterlife
sweetly...

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Categories: words fail, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Quatrain
For the Love of Words
For the love of words


Deep in love with words,
I keep digging through the day,
Although words fail me,
Still can't help reverberate,
I am a structured poem !


Tanka-...

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Categories: words fail, love, words,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member The Door of My Heart Opened
The door of my heart opened
You instantly, stealthily owned me!
From now till my eyes, close, 
I can envision only, we.


This world is but temporary,
But I...

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Categories: words fail, romantic,
Form: Rhyme
Bound Hands Holding a Crushed Heart
I hear it though a friend
and my knees begin to bend.
"It's Sasha"

My eyes grow,
the world begins to slow.
my heart stops beating
logic is fleeting

Hands quiver,
a gut-wrenching...

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Categories: words fail, best friend, death of
Form: Free verse
I Can'T Pray Now
I can't pray now, but I can cry
I can't pray now, but I can weep
Tears trickle from a cloudless sky
Tears water wounds that run too...

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Categories: words fail, anxiety, christian, cry, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Words Vanish
*** Words Vanish ***

Words vanish!
Disperse — as prayer begun  
Moves to clear the mind 
    And bare the heart,
Swelling the soul...

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Categories: words fail, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Ode Ot Music
Music had the ability to transport us to another world.
It helps us speak when words fail.
Music toys with our emotions;
Allowing us to feel what is...

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Categories: words fail, music,
Form: Ode
I Celebrate You My Friend
The year that is about to make its last appearance 
before it dies and is buried to be only given a place 
in the history...

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Categories: words fail, adventuregod, people, god, love,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Angels Are Real
My pulse pounds, and my heart races,
when you snuggle close as you can.
And I love your warm embraces;
they make me feel that I'm your man.

It's...

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Categories: words fail, emotions, for her, heart,
Form: Quatrain
Sappho Translations
Sappho fragment #155
translation by Michael R. Burch 

A short revealing frock?
It's just my luck
your lips were made to mock!

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Sappho fragment #156
translation by Michael R. Burch...

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Categories: words fail, girl, girlfriend, love, lust,
Form: Epigram

Book: Shattered Sighs