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Absence Poems | Examples of Absence Poetry

Absence Poems - Examples of all types of absence poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for absence.
Good intention
Poople really shouldn't have done groupchats The people in it They confuse me I am not sure If they have been rude Or, how they say ,,it's a joke" So I better say something To not make a person alone But when...Read the rest...
Categories: absence,
Form: Free verse



Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter
Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter Entrapment videre licet fiendish gnarly hustling scheme erector - sent me to the poor house, where alms not forthcoming to ease financial affliction, where yours truly money matters still stymies ways and means to relocate to...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
shipwreck
Shipwrecked  He was Japanese, smiled politely  and took his shoes off I smiled also, it was the right thing for us to do,  shipwrecked sat in a rubber raft of the type leaving Tripoli  Libya, where we murdered Gaddafi and made a mess in...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade, absence, angst,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Seeing
Many question life's existence of being Is it the heart to which we live Or a soul breathing both light and dark Kindness, hate; emotions to believe Mind alter illusion, heaven or hell Our spirit's living between two...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, character, endurance, image,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Wayfinder
I am going to rest here, wearing down the chair, feeling one's weight. Emotional set-up was climbing the walls. Light above, with no ideas, got stopped by the police for walking within the fields. Didn't realize they had cameras in the hills. Restrict my...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, care, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Curse of The Pearl
Legends from Hawaii, are in themselves, legendary, like some treasured keepsake. The Pearls Curse is not on library shelves, just a few Hawaiians that I forsake ... Prompts summed place the world had called Pearl Harbor, the locals called the...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, betrayal, bullying, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Darkness and light
Between darkness and light. Reveal the magic of night. Cast shadow over the beauty of light. Find solitude in the quiet of night. The curtain comes down on the day. Its histories are fading away. Into memory or just...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, dark, day, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hidden from sight
A long way we must travel far off the beaten track up steep terrain and down to flattened ground always keeping to hidden paths and thick cover far from the known world we enter into secret. Land where no...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, love,
Form: Free verse
Sean Combs
If you live inside a glass house then don't throw stones or put cameras in your home when you live like Sean Combs some people got it backwards catch him operating drones filming all their parties should be...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
inception
Inception  A near accident almost run over by a train old heart, she collapsed in my arms wrapped her in a blanket, looked asleep we drove thro' the  long night headlights made a temporary tunnel If I turn the light off,...Read the rest...
Categories: abortion, absence, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
sykehus
Sykehus  The old hospital in the town center  stark and unpainted Dotted about in the near vicinity  Funeral homes look like pearls  around an elderly lady's neck   at every election cycle the promise  was to build a new Krankenhause  in a rural environment...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, abuse, age, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Starlit Destinies
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..."   E.E. Cummings Amber hues kissed twilight's platinum pigments that night, beckoning ivory pearls to weave patterns of astral flames. Charm of...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, lost love, romantic
Form: Abecedarian
Demons
I sit back an watch Not saying a single thing, Plotting till i cant think straight, My brain boils with hate , Itself its trying to uncage all the racing thoughts giving way to rage So here...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, allusion, anger, dark,
Form: ABC
Things change
My heart is crushed My thoughts of love vanish, Thinking of you Makes me weak As if I couldn't move, Only if u knew ...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, addiction, allusion, anger,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Satanist Seeks Conservative Aid
There is a movement amongst Republican ranks in The United States Congress, regarding the the absence of religion in schools, and its herald revival, like some Bible Belt Tent -- minus the tambourines, being it is The Halls of Congress...Read the rest...
Categories: absence,
Form: Political Verse

Specific Types of Absence Poems

Definition | What is Absence in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs