Quieter Poems - Poems about Quieter

...We think too much of the silence of things, Indian classrooms where my student's voice breaks free. Bright minds cascade up like golden ink lifting our nation's hope, lotus blooms on......

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...I drank myself numb to hide the pain— the things I saw, the voices I heard when the world went quiet. The bottle never judged me. It just blurred the edges. Made the flashes softer, the gui......

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...I wrote then paused, ball pen hovering— the words too bare. They sat on yellow sheets, unsealed and unsent in little brown envelopes. A line meant for truth, one for letting go, anothe......

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...Dear reader, I am sad because I thought about my life, and it made me want to cry. It didn’t strike me like lightning, there was no crash of thunder or moment of clarity. It was quieter than t......

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... Who knows the sound that silence makes, for its the absence of noise that we partake. For silence cannot be heard. It's lost in the listening up for. It's felt as the break between, what w......

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...2012 – The year I was born, soft and new, unaware of the world’s weight, but full of possibility, a blank page waiting for the first mark. 2013 – Wobbly legs, clumsy steps, every......

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...The Stillness Beneath Me They said I’d know I’m fully alive when laughter bloomed or sorrow cried. But both are gusts that pass me by— and neither one has ever lied. Yet neither te......

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... "A silenced tongue weighs heavy against the soul," quote by poet. I sit amongst a single light, light illuminating a hand-built oaken desk, desk with pictures of the past lay out randoml......

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...To Mr. Michael, Bard of Theatrical Yearning, Your words, like ivy, wind and wind — ornate, impassioned, almost divine.?But I write now with a quieter pen, one that bleeds not drama but truth again......

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...ENOUGH! I felt deaf from the ‘noise’ of information, constantly butting, buzzing against my mantra of: “The quieter you are… the more you… hear!” At present, my lifestyle felt media manipulated......

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...We were once a tide, rushing in pulling back with the rhythm of trust Now, the ocean feels quieter its whispers lost between us I used to need your voice like air in a drowning chest but now ......

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...morning was sadder than april he looked at his clock and calendar at the same time then glanced back at april before it ended and ahead to may before it had begun. there were no......

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...Mother’s Day feels like a joke with no punchline, like the kind of card you don’t buy because you’d have to lie in cursive. I stare at the shelves lined with pastel lies, the soft-scripted thank yous......

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...Everything we experience in life shows in our poetry -- both shallow and deep – weeds and blossoms~ words come forth oscillating bitter/sweet harvest, from, hopefully, an honest sowing -- ......

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...Where's the Crooner with his smooth, intimate style singing sentimental songs in a soft smooth tone quieter sounds and wider ranges complimenting the sounds which two are unique and customize......

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