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
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Good intentionPoople 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...
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Categories:
absence,
Form: Free verse
Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey SpecterImpoverished 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...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
shipwreckShipwrecked
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...
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Categories:
8th grade, absence, angst,
Form: Blank verse
SeeingMany 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...
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Categories:
absence, character, endurance, image,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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...
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Categories:
absence, care, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse
The Curse of The PearlLegends 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...
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Categories:
absence, betrayal, bullying, culture,
Form: Rhyme
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...
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Categories:
absence, dark, day, fear,
Form: Free verse
Hidden from sightA 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...
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Categories:
absence, love,
Form: Free verse
Sean CombsIf 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...
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Categories:
absence, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
inceptionInception
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,...
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Categories:
abortion, absence, addiction, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
sykehusSykehus
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...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, age, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
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...
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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...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, anger, dark,
Form: ABC
Things changeMy heart is crushed
My thoughts of love vanish,
Thinking of you
Makes me weak
As if I couldn't move,
Only if u knew
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Categories:
absence, addiction, allusion, anger,
Form: I do not know?
Satanist Seeks Conservative AidThere 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...
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Categories:
absence,
Form: Political Verse
Specific Types of Absence Poems
Definition | What is Absence in Poetry?
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