The Classroom SpeaksThe walls lean in, murmuring secrets of weary days,
while chairs sigh beneath tired bodies.
Words from hollow lips strike like stones—
they refuse to soften, echoing in empty corners.
My lessons pulse with purpose, glowing faintly in the dust,
each one breathes life into silent desks.
They wait, expectant—hungry for curious eyes.
Even the blackboard leans forward,
eager to share every truth...
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Categories:
education, emotions, silence, teacher,
Form: Personification
Peace Withinwhen I close my eyes and enter silence
I’m drawn into a presence
the peace holds me tightly
...
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Categories:
introspection, peace, silence,
Form: Kimo
The Atom Cries in SilenceBeneath the crust of Saturn's breath,
Where silence swells and swallows death,
A single proton-left alone-
Whispers truths to shards of bone.
They built a star inside a cage,
Lit it young, then cursed with age,
It pulsed in hearts, then burned them black,
And begged the cosmos: “Take it back.”
A child once dreamt of breaking light,
Of feeding dark with pure insight,
But...
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Categories:
silence, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
BROKEN SILENCEI held my old pen
the page cried beneath the ink
a sound carved from pain....
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Categories:
silence, 12th grade, angst, pain,
Form: Haiku
Always LosingIn a café’s hush, two lovers as pawns,
at dawn’s closed gate before it dawns.
They clutch a paper, creased and thin,
their vows on trial for breathing sin.
The soldiers come with boots of dust,
their eyes demand, “Obey or trust?”
A ring means little, papers less,
they weigh our love in bitterness.
Her scarf is blue; she pins it tight,
a hidden...
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Categories:
silence, political,
Form: Quatrain
ParallaxThe way we look at other forms,
views appearance, not their heart’s storms,
failing to see God dwells in each;
within us too, He’s within reach,
thus the singularity field,
is God’s mind to which we should yield,
for which the way we may begin,
is to find Him in heart within.
By relinquishing mind’s thought crutch,
doing nothing, learning by touch,
in this way,...
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Categories:
god, self, silence, spiritual,
Form: Lay
pinched in the nightnothing hurts like
silence from a lover's heart
while the stars are singing with delight
AP: 1st place 2025...
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Categories:
silence, feelings, heart, longing, night,
Form: Free verse
The Weight of Elsewhere 'Part One'Letters from Borrowed Ground
'Part One'
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To: Myself (Three Years Ago)
Date: Every Night
Status: Never Finished
Focus: Warning
Dear Dreamer,
Tonight, I dig up buried footsteps,
each stone beneath my feet heavy with goodbye.
The coffee grows cold in my cup
as I write this at 3 AM,
watching snow fall on a street
whose name I still can't pronounce.
You...
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Categories:
silence, political,
Form: Free verse
SilenceAutumn leaves
fall slow
a child's questions
left hanging
in digital silence.
My fingers trace
letters that will not
hold still
b becomes d
was becomes saw
help becomes
nothing.
The maple outside
my bedroom window
drops one red leaf,
then another,
marking time
the old way.
Mom's phone buzzes:
Car arriving in 3 minutes
Pizza en route
Package delivered.
But no alert sounds
for the moment
understanding
slips away
from me.
No GPS tracks
the distance
between
what I know
and what
I need to...
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Categories:
silence, children, education, student,
Form: Free verse
Your life is your life, don't let it be knelt down into dark silenceYour life is your life, don't let it be knelt down into dark silence,
Be vigilant for the open paths, for the lights flickering in the distance,
There may not be much light, but it shines brighter than the shadows,
Stay alert, for the gods will offer you chances to shine like a lost star.
Recognize them, seize them,...
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Categories:
silence, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Things I Never BuriedI never buried certain names,
They lingered like a scent in air.
I whispered them through window panes
And found them waiting everywhere.
I never buried childhood roads—
The ones I walked with bleeding knees.
They live inside the softest odes
And bloom like ghosts among the trees.
I never buried what she said
The night the silence broke our bed.
Her voice still echoes...
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Categories:
silence, childhood, emotions, mirror, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Where the Sky BreaksAtop the edge where silence leans,
A figure stands — the dusk between.
No name, no face the canvas shows,
Just wind that hums what no one knows.
The sky explodes in molten fire,
A final gasp of day's desire.
It stains the clouds in crimson breath,
A masterpiece that flirts with death.
Does he await or does he grieve?
Or dream of flight...
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Categories:
silence, art, beauty, blessing, celebration,
Form: Lyric
Noisy SilenceI speak yet no one hears
I have a voice yet I am silenced
In the chaos
no one cares
Eyes to see yet blinded
Ears to hear yet no one hears
Minds are programmed to ignore
Hearts hardened
No one feels
I feel so alone
In a world filled with people
People too afraid to allow themselves to think
To feel
To...
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Categories:
silence, how i feel, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Death of the EgoI never thought they would figure me out
How could they find me in the layers of illusion?
I never thought one could completely turn about
So many pleasures, I kept them in confusion
Now after all these years, it has come to this
I push the same buttons, but their minds start to think
They’ll kill their ego in their...
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Categories:
silence, change, god, heart, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
The Courage to Write AgainThe ink returns—not to defend,
nor chase the ghosts I used to fend.
Not to explain the aching past,
but breathe through wounds that couldn’t last.
It does not rise with pointed proof,
nor beg for silence turned to truth.
It flows because the heart now dares
to speak in lines what once hid there.
Where words once cost too much to say,
a...
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Categories:
silence, courage, emotions, growth, mental
Form: Lyric
Specific Types of Silence Poems
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