Poems about the Power of Words
#PowerOfWords
Poems about the power of words, and the ability for words to influence human behavior. Whether it's the power of words to hurt and abuse, or to empower and motivate, words have been demonstrated in science to affect the emotions and actions of others. Here you'll find poems exploring the power of written and spoken words on the writer, other people, and wider society.
rubyredheart
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:23am
Yesterday 4:23am
Speak to my Slumbering Dreams
because I miss the sound of your voice
would you pleasure my mind
with musical words of affection
breathed so gently in
imagination’s ear?
your every tone is precious
to my memory
yet so lost
too many years for fading
sink your voice into my etchings
to forever live
nevermore to hush and hide
to be my softest rein
guiding ever kindly
Lovingly
with magic melodies
of your creation
My favorite:
I DO love you!
would you pleasure my mind
with musical words of affection
breathed so gently in
imagination’s ear?
your every tone is precious
to my memory
yet so lost
too many years for fading
sink your voice into my etchings
to forever live
nevermore to hush and hide
to be my softest rein
guiding ever kindly
Lovingly
with magic melodies
of your creation
My favorite:
I DO love you!
#ILoveYou
#sleep
#PowerOfWords #IMissYou
#PowerOfWords #IMissYou
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missjem56
Poem Published
22nd Nov 2022 11:15pm
22nd Nov 2022 11:15pm
Rings On Their Finger.....
A moment of sudden realisation
Upon thinking
Of a new style of jewellery
pierced onto the ends of fingers
like an earring
That despite this moment of ingenuity
great design
Perhaps with a minor handicap
Of severe pain
My cunning design
Lacked a catchy name
I thus came up
With "FINGER RINGS!"
Ive decided to stick with making
Earrings.......
by Jemia
Upon thinking
Of a new style of jewellery
pierced onto the ends of fingers
like an earring
That despite this moment of ingenuity
great design
Perhaps with a minor handicap
Of severe pain
My cunning design
Lacked a catchy name
I thus came up
With "FINGER RINGS!"
Ive decided to stick with making
Earrings.......
by Jemia
#erotic
#funny
#PowerOfWords
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PAR
Poem Published
13th Nov 2022 12:13pm
13th Nov 2022 12:13pm
nine the goddesses
unbalanced scales
dirty dead weights
helpless from falls
broken on her axis
weighs sloppiness
decorate sentence
own excrescences
countercensus out
nine nuded muses
they sang no song
inhabited the attic
of heated museum
PAR
dirty dead weights
helpless from falls
broken on her axis
weighs sloppiness
decorate sentence
own excrescences
countercensus out
nine nuded muses
they sang no song
inhabited the attic
of heated museum
PAR
#LifeAsAWriter
#MyInspiration
#WritingPoetry #PowerOfWords
#WritingPoetry #PowerOfWords
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Zazzles
Broomie
Broomie
Poem Published
9th Nov 2022 2:39pm
9th Nov 2022 2:39pm
The Witch Patch Ch 24
Dickie, Sally & Firefly Fairies
Hello again it’s me Blake, and as promised here is a little backstory about Dickie, Sally and the Firefly Fairies.
Dickie is up first—
A long long time ago, Dickie, in a drunken stupor during a family BBQ at our house was caught coming out of the barn with his pants down after he’d been humpin’ on-a big roundish orange and white flecked flower-gourd he had obviously carved a hole into!
The gourd was still in his hands when Dickie first stumbled outta the...
Hello again it’s me Blake, and as promised here is a little backstory about Dickie, Sally and the Firefly Fairies.
Dickie is up first—
A long long time ago, Dickie, in a drunken stupor during a family BBQ at our house was caught coming out of the barn with his pants down after he’d been humpin’ on-a big roundish orange and white flecked flower-gourd he had obviously carved a hole into!
The gourd was still in his hands when Dickie first stumbled outta the...
#PowerOfWords
71 reads
4 Comments
Sage_6_paths_light
Poem Published
7th Nov 2022 3:21am
7th Nov 2022 3:21am
The signs of a true leader
I am a true leader on top of my game leading by example.
The name of the game is compassion and unconditional love.
Nothing equals its power.
Stops nuclear bombs in their tracks.
The name of the game is compassion and unconditional love.
Nothing equals its power.
Stops nuclear bombs in their tracks.
#love
#war
#PowerOfWords
54 reads
1 Comment
Zazzles
Broomie
Broomie
Poem Published
6th Nov 2022 5:34pm
6th Nov 2022 5:34pm
The Witch Patch Ch 23
Something’s Brewing
Everyone finally calmed down.
James apologized to everyone for being a huge cunt and all was good in the world again.
Brutus, grandfather Kane’s black cat is sitting comfortably in the window looking at the moon. We need him here too, he’s been in our family for um— ? Hmm, I don’t know how long. Rumor has it Brutus is the cat of auntie Madonna. We all love that cat.
After a long discussion we all decided it was long over due for a retrial. Until then, we...
Everyone finally calmed down.
James apologized to everyone for being a huge cunt and all was good in the world again.
Brutus, grandfather Kane’s black cat is sitting comfortably in the window looking at the moon. We need him here too, he’s been in our family for um— ? Hmm, I don’t know how long. Rumor has it Brutus is the cat of auntie Madonna. We all love that cat.
After a long discussion we all decided it was long over due for a retrial. Until then, we...
#PowerOfWords
59 reads
6 Comments
bcpoet
Lawrence
Lawrence
Poem Published
6th Nov 2022 3:28am
6th Nov 2022 3:28am
tapestries
in tapestries of ambient
sounds of words so quickly spent
with meanings lost in endless streams
vanishing into daydreams
while coalescing consciousness
sometimes more and sometimes less
with thoughts as visions which are shared
exposing what we've thought and dared
in the silence where mind rests
where rhythmic pulsing manifests
as molecules of air in waves
radiate for days and days...
as thoughts keep dripping into mind
stimulating all the time
crystallizing thoughts as words
sounds vibrating to be...
sounds of words so quickly spent
with meanings lost in endless streams
vanishing into daydreams
while coalescing consciousness
sometimes more and sometimes less
with thoughts as visions which are shared
exposing what we've thought and dared
in the silence where mind rests
where rhythmic pulsing manifests
as molecules of air in waves
radiate for days and days...
as thoughts keep dripping into mind
stimulating all the time
crystallizing thoughts as words
sounds vibrating to be...
#uplifting
#PowerOfWords
#art
73 reads
2 Comments
PAR
Poem Published
3rd Nov 2022 7:48pm
3rd Nov 2022 7:48pm
Bloodsucker
but what do you want me to do?
in your mouth things always seem the worst...
poison, contempt, doom!
rivers of words that have arrowheads...
grenades, juxtapositions, disillusionment
are rattling in your hollow head.
your industrious mind creates the moment
of foolishness, drunkenness, mismatch!
so what is it you want me to do?
and words go on to cause injury.
words that fly from you to others:
knives, bullets, dragons or perjury!
everything very straight, very straight ahead
of your dry lips, almost...
in your mouth things always seem the worst...
poison, contempt, doom!
rivers of words that have arrowheads...
grenades, juxtapositions, disillusionment
are rattling in your hollow head.
your industrious mind creates the moment
of foolishness, drunkenness, mismatch!
so what is it you want me to do?
and words go on to cause injury.
words that fly from you to others:
knives, bullets, dragons or perjury!
everything very straight, very straight ahead
of your dry lips, almost...
#conflict
#dialogue
#PowerOfWords
47 reads
1 Comment
moroccanpoet
Poem Published
27th Oct 2022 4:08pm
27th Oct 2022 4:08pm
Intellectual theft or quotation
The joy of creativity is being sincere about your ideas.
What ideas and values do you believe in?
Don't shy away from your own ideas and identity, and don't steal the ideas of others.
Because if you copy other people's ideas.
one day you will not find another identity has stolen.
Don't quote or impersonate a person or idea you don't believe in.
Because quoting and acting you are not good at it and you don't believe it.
It will make you lose your personality, your identity and your ideas.
You will become like a crow when it tries to imitate the gait of...
What ideas and values do you believe in?
Don't shy away from your own ideas and identity, and don't steal the ideas of others.
Because if you copy other people's ideas.
one day you will not find another identity has stolen.
Don't quote or impersonate a person or idea you don't believe in.
Because quoting and acting you are not good at it and you don't believe it.
It will make you lose your personality, your identity and your ideas.
You will become like a crow when it tries to imitate the gait of...
#PowerOfWords
#reading
85 reads
5 Comments
missjem56
Poem Published
19th Oct 2022 7:03pm
19th Oct 2022 7:03pm
Chocoblockchoc o'clock!
To pun
Or not to pun
That is the question
Although
It may be the answer
Of sorts
The punter punster
Who gamboled
As they gambled
With comparative comparisons
Their words
Are their sword
Sometimes anagramatically
Fluidity of thought
Liquid words
Liquidated
Although perhaps
Preferable
To dated liquid
I chew this over
Like a cow, on cud
Could a cow cud?
Yes it cu'd
Nonsense
I sense none
"If music be the food of love"
Then i sincerely hope
That that music
Be...
Or not to pun
That is the question
Although
It may be the answer
Of sorts
The punter punster
Who gamboled
As they gambled
With comparative comparisons
Their words
Are their sword
Sometimes anagramatically
Fluidity of thought
Liquid words
Liquidated
Although perhaps
Preferable
To dated liquid
I chew this over
Like a cow, on cud
Could a cow cud?
Yes it cu'd
Nonsense
I sense none
"If music be the food of love"
Then i sincerely hope
That that music
Be...
#funny
#PowerOfWords
52 reads
2 Comments
rubyredheart
Poem Published
18th Oct 2022 4:18am
18th Oct 2022 4:18am
I grieve the stifled voice
Your mute silence burns
Especially deep tonight
As I seek
A sign of life
Have you buried my friend
In a far-off unmarked grave
How am I to mourn
That which remains
Unknown?
Why do you remain
Unknown
To me
(When our souls are so tightly bound
When I know the heart of you
And you know me so true)?
Do I not deserve
More than this?
I would rather you slash and hack
And cut me down with words
(I would know you live and breath)
Than slowly freeze my battered heart
With icy absence
How and...
Especially deep tonight
As I seek
A sign of life
Have you buried my friend
In a far-off unmarked grave
How am I to mourn
That which remains
Unknown?
Why do you remain
Unknown
To me
(When our souls are so tightly bound
When I know the heart of you
And you know me so true)?
Do I not deserve
More than this?
I would rather you slash and hack
And cut me down with words
(I would know you live and breath)
Than slowly freeze my battered heart
With icy absence
How and...
#grief
#PowerOfWords
50 reads
JAZZMANOR
Poem Published
13th Oct 2022 6:24am
13th Oct 2022 6:24am
Doctor Babble
The meanderings of a fool
language getting the best of him
excess in a format that prides succinctness
without the intelligence to change
Drabble, muddle, and bifurcate
even weaving contradictions supreme
at least aware that one in attendance
he knows better then all---himself
Extrapolations on matters that seemingly
society regards as trite or trivial
a thought piece to himself
with concrete evidence via a supposed "composition"
Hoping that the process of writing assuages
the most sensory filled...
language getting the best of him
excess in a format that prides succinctness
without the intelligence to change
Drabble, muddle, and bifurcate
even weaving contradictions supreme
at least aware that one in attendance
he knows better then all---himself
Extrapolations on matters that seemingly
society regards as trite or trivial
a thought piece to himself
with concrete evidence via a supposed "composition"
Hoping that the process of writing assuages
the most sensory filled...
#TruthOfLife
#vanity
#PowerOfWords
#emptiness
#StreamOfConsciousness
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