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A PearlAn oyster felt an uncomfortable itch
Caused by a stinging sand grain.
Ten fathoms deep, he slowly made - a pearl,
So that he was free of pain.
A sea-diving Japanese ama, dove,
Swimming topless...
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Categories:
beauty, desire, sea,
Form: Rhyme
What do you mean?What do you mean I left everything I know and love and started new
What do you mean the few I called friends times are due
What do you mean my animals are back at home
I’m crying...
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Categories:
desire, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Eva, Don't Turn Them OnSome ladies need to be protected,
they are nice to hold, oh, so true;
and that's for sure they can
give you everything, but also
they'll take it back from you!
Eva is a lovely, sensitive woman
who reaches out...
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Categories:
conflict, crush, desire, devotion,
Form: Lyric
AddictionWhy have you plagued me?
Why have you latched on my soul not ready to leave?
What's my offense?
Why have you fought my desires to do away with you?
Why have you cried me to sleep?
Why have you...
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Categories:
addiction, anger, cry, desire,
Form: Prose
If Only You Knew
I heard the birds sing, soared when the breeze blew
for you, as the sunburst sky flushed your face with hue.
How adorably attractive you were to me you had no clue,
if only you knew.
After drooping dull...
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Categories:
analogy, desire, longing,
Form: Rhyme
City Of Broken SoulsThe city is littered with broken souls,
To reside among nature, the purest of goals,
Some dream of vast fields of green,
Deep in their minds, a vivid scene.
Chained to the nightmare of city life,
Fractured daily by overwhelming...
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Categories:
cheer up, desire, dream,
Form: Rhyme
An Alliterative Pursuit Of A LoverAn Alliterative Pursuit Of A Lover
I will firstly frankly forwardly forthrightly fastidiously befriend you.
Then I will completely correctly courteously candidly chastely court you.
Then whencesoever I have wonderfully wackily warmly wooingly won wed you,
I’ll be free...
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Categories:
desire, friendship, funny, lust,
Form: Alliteration
If Only You Knew
If only you knew
the secrets locked
in my heart.
Dreams and desires;
treasure waiting for you
to discover.
Dear Sir, please unlock
the songs my heart
sings in the night.
A symphony of love~
you hold the key,
if only you...
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Categories:
desire, dream,
Form: Free verse
The music in your eyesI see the music in your eyes
I feel it deep in my soul
It excites me night and day
That music vibrates in my veins
It is soft and melodious
It stirs in me a...
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Categories:
allusion, desire, emotions, father
Form: Free verse
Dove of Freedomshe could see in their eyes
they looked at her , as if she was a Dove.
she was the freedom
they wanted to capture ,
they wanted to hide her,
to encage her
to keep her only, only...
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Categories:
anxiety, desire, destiny, freedom,
Form: Free verse
BecomingThe thing I look for,
That thing I become.
The perspective I carry,
On that road, I am buried.
The grave you fix for me,
In that place, I never return.
The proportion you hold for me,
Always be a negligible one.
The unquenchable...
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Categories:
confusion, desire, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Our Galaxy~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
In the late hours of the nights,
we created our own galaxy.
Every fear, every hope,
every desire we shared
became stars in our sky.
It didn’t take us long
to light up the sky
with our own constellations.
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Categories:
desire, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse
Let Me Expire In Your Soft ArmsLet me expire in your sweet arms tonight
Let me give you my love, my last breath
Revive me, love me, and kiss me. Until death
We had promised to be together, that's right.
In your arms, I'm at...
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Categories:
beauty, cute love, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Thought of the daythe hermit who sought
a rainbow body
was foiled from the start
by ego’s desire
for the novelty
which he wished to own...
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Categories:
desire, spiritual,
Form: Verse
LingerMoments mirror
slow-motioned silhouettes,
suspended in the still
of trickling time.
Your hands
have yet to feel me,
though I've never
felt so touched.
Tangled
in the tension
between...
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Categories:
desire, emotions, feelings, kiss,
Form: Alliteration
Specific Types of Desire Poems
Definition | What is Desire in Poetry?
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