Fading Poems - Poems about Fading

Shelley wove us a tale of a monster more a man A fleshy beast without, a broken heart within Created in hubris and sin Stitched together and broken Again and again. Frayed and tattered Unraveled and splintered Brittle and battered Bled out and injured Held together by needle and thread Less alive and more or less dead A patchwork man, soulless and cold Unmended scars numbers untold I...

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Silent, heavy, Weighing, breaking, fading, A shadow lost within— A quiet goodbye. _____________________________________________________ Author’s Note: This poem captures the silent weight of emotional pain—how it lingers, fractures, and slowly fades into silence. The image of a shadow lost within speaks to the hidden struggles we carry, the parts of ourselves we release quietly. It ends with an unspoken goodbye—gentle, invisible, but...

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Fading gentle touch, Echoes drift like autumn leaves— Sweetness slips away. _____________________________________________________ Author’s Note: Like autumn leaves quietly drifting away, this haiku speaks to the fading of a gentle touch. It captures that bittersweet moment when something tender slips through our hands, yet leaves behind a soft echo in the heart—a quiet trace of what once was, still lingering in...

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Written: June 11, 2025, for contest: Sponsored by: Constance La France Quote: "When you seek love with all your heart, you shall find its echoes in the universe." By Rumi ***************** Echoes graze around the vacuum halls, Whispers that sicken and satanic calls.  Shadows widen where wordless weaves, Leaving grooves that the moon conceives. Each stance is...

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glistening shadows fading gently into light ~ breaking through egos ...

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He forgot how his jaw used to stretch in loud laughter. No mirrors to watch his days— just windows, and distant eyes. His beard trimmed by finger’s feel, a chunk missed Here and there. He looked well in belts and socks, even handsome under the sun. No one asked if he still knew the shaded glint in his own eyes— the torn shape of manly lips once easily thinned in witty smile. He dressed in shiny clothes, well ironed out but creased...

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The memories of a time gone by, Beneath a melancholy sky. A whisper soft, a gentle sigh, I wonder, truly, why oh why. Yesterday, it feels so far, Like a distant, fading star. Yet in my mind, it still holds sway, A ghost that will not go away. ©bfa060225 Song: Yesterday ...

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Written: May 26, 2025, for contest by Joseph May ****************** In the silk-laced dusk, angels softly dwell, Love and grief entwine, weaving stories to tell. Two souls once weaved, etched in fading light, Now torn apart as shadows meet at night. In this katabatic abyss, I...

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Late Spring Hiku 20 f ~a ~d ~I ~n ~g flower blooms kissing the warm l o...

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Exhausted played out past the point of no return and yet while I have breath there's a will and still the fire within shall burn but what with all the crooks connivers cheats con men shuckers and jivers it's a wonder such a sensitive soul as I is here now and how quite aliver tho' neither nor big or small nothing at all...

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Ignorance is a rhyme without a soul, an art fading into slow oblivion, like fallen tulips swirling through captive rays of a weary sun, amidst hot sighs tearing through the deafening silence of the evening, and they are more than the burning thorns of a phoenix rose moon, infused in scarlet elixirs of an enchanted dusk weaving its silent...

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What would You do, O Father, tell, If I should fade like fleeting mist? Would heaven break, would heavens swell, Or would my absence not exist? Would You still light the morning bright, When I no longer watch the skies? Or let the dawn dissolve in night, A silent tear in hollow eyes? Would You still call my name once more, When all my...

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In the cheer chat, where joy should unite, A ten-year-old girl causes drama day and night She calls me a brat, a jerk, selfish and ugly too, But she's the one acting out, it's true. She says she wants to push me off a cliff, Her words so harsh, they make my spirit stiff. As I debate my life's worth, feeling...

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Out of the mist of silence, strangers emerge, slowly fading into the midday light their steps rustle petals, and the flower-filled street stirs like an old dream. I let my thoughts drift, white, like a fluff of feather among tender shadows, I hear how the voices of passersby become the scent of apricots – then oblivion erases them. A...

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I saw the signs, but I was in denial I comforted myself, saying, "You would never do that," as I continued to address my ghosts But the weight was too much to carry I saw you disappear at the horizon, like the stars slowly fading into daylight I knew I wasn’t right for you, but all I wanted was simple affection My heart is too...

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