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How I've BeenI miss you terribly right now
I cannot fathom if somehow
A day or more went by without
Us talking, texting, reaching out
You've no idea how much you mean
I love you deeply, sight unseen
Please don't leave...
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Categories:
longing, devotion, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Just Some SunIn a transient instant,
I savored the ambrosial essence of bliss, witnessed the dawn adorning,
the skyline with tints of optimism.
In that ephemeral moment,
I felt an affinity with mankind.
Yet a sinister shroud eclipsed...
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Categories:
longing, dark, deep, gothic, light,
Form: Free verse
Raven and WrenRAVEN AND WREN
As the world wakes up
To the sun’s gentle rays of light
Frozen memories melt and flow
Penetrate but do not satiate
Moments of insipid sight
A scenery of incessant delight
As the raven chases the wren
Back to...
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Categories:
longing, bird, fate, hurt, leaving,
Form: Free verse
From Afar~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I watch you from across the room, sunlight in your smile.
Your laughter rings out, soothing like a gentle tide.
What stories and dreams swirl within you, I long to know.
Your eyes twin forest, deep and verdant,...
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Categories:
longing, love,
Form: Couplet
I'm Still HereThank you for the things we've done together as a team
You've come into my life straight from the movie of a dream
We make quite the duo, everything you like, me too
And I would do...
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Categories:
longing, devotion, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
AloneThe thought of losing someone is hard to bear,
But holding on only brings more despair.
Hopes and dreams turn into disillusions,
Bringing on deep depression, along with seclusion.
Despite the pain, the heart fights to stay alive,
Because the...
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Categories:
longing, loss, solitude,
Form: Rhyme
Illusions of LoveEver since I met him,
A world would unfold,
A world so deep it made my heart swirl.
In the shadows of his gaze, love blooms,
A passion as old as time itself.
In his gaze, my love he does...
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Categories:
9th grade, life, longing,
Form: Rhyme
If Only You Knew
Teenage Love – If Only You Knew
If only you knew . . .
that day and night I think of you.
But you are oblivious...
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Categories:
longing,
Form: Rhyme
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
I Will Wait For YouI Will Wait For You
Vs1.
I've been searching this long, lonesome time
To find the One who will forever be mine
Even though we haven't met
My heart is steady and my mind is set
To our future love,...
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Categories:
death, devotion, family, longing,
Form: Lyric
Are We Ghostswhen i reach out
I touch aether
when i hold you
im clutching a cloud
when we talk
hours float by
and when youre gone
i still feel you by my side
but sometimes
when you leave
a part of me
my incorporeal hands
clutch grains of...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, girlfriend, longing,
Form: Free verse
I'm HereI won't leave you Bluebird
Forever I will be
Your troubadour in waiting
Where no one else can see
My heart is yours, it has been
I penned a little note
Then hid it in a fencepost
So many...
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Categories:
longing, devotion, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
epiphanyYou can do as you want
You can do as you please
But all I ask,
All I ask is just do it with me
And you know that I'm scared
But why shouldn't I be?
You know I should be
I...
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Categories:
longing, 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
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:
longing, beauty, cute love, desire,
Form: Rhyme
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:
longing, desire, emotions, feelings, kiss,
Form: Alliteration
Specific Types of Longing Poems
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Definition | What is Longing in Poetry?
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