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Life Longing Poems

These Life Longing poems are examples of Longing poems about Life. These are the best examples of Longing Life poems written by international poets.


Just Men
And though I’ve surmised my eyes with
Men in different lighting
I see a fair facade of girls and you trying to glide him
It’s just my absurd...

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© Ken Suwan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: angst, dream, heartbreak, longing,



Premium Member Literary Standstill
Am I meant to be found? 
Do not force it
let it come. 
Let it come, 
Like you used to.
Filing away the words, 
overproduced. 
Distraction is...

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© Lee Norton  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longing, angst, care, dark, desire,

Premium Member Ledger of Love: PART II
Ledger of Love

In the shadows of the Victorian night,
Where candles flicker with amorous light,
A forbidden love fiercely burns,
In a pounding heart, passion yearns.

Amidst the lace...

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Categories: longing, break up, emotions, heartbroken,

Premium Member Ledger of Love: PART I
Ledger of Love

In the dim-lit chambers of the Victorian home,
Resides a wife, her heart a silent tome.
Once, love’s flame burned bright within her breast,
But now...

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Categories: confusion, desire, heartbreak, longing,

Who will wait for me
Who will wait for me when all is said and done?
Who will wait for me if I don’t look for anyone?
Time won’t hold my hand,...

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© Basil Leaf  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heart, introspection, longing, love,



Moonlit Longing
Moonbeams dance upon my wall
Echoes of laughter, whispers of it all
Fading shadows, eerie silence deep
My heart beats lonely, in a loveless sleep

Sparkling eyes, now lost...

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Categories: longing, loss, lost love,

Premium Member Forgotten
Have you forgotten me, am I deleted
From your memory, and my archive as well?
All by yourself, you take life as completed 
Is there nothing to...

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Categories: depression, longing, love,

Premium Member For My Children
For My Children
-	Daniel Henry Rodgers

As dawn's first blush ignites the eastern sky—a cool
Caress of dew upon the breeze—and the birds' serenade
Pierces the silence, their notes...

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Categories: loneliness, longing, native american,

Exigent Mind
I swear tout de suite,
that...
My noddle ain't petabyte
But just a condign floppy disk.
So I could swiftly flush out some memories,
And retain only what's necessary.
I swear...

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Categories: longing, absence, deep, depression, life,

Word Grace
All day ceremonies of dark's brilliance
Led in by outstretched curtains welcoming,
An appearance for my time's bleary dusk.

The firmament from the red gloom nearing,
Of sun's affection...

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© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: longing, care, dark, introspection, life,

Premium Member The Room of the Unrequited
The Room of the Unrequited
By Roger White
    That evening, stillness permeated the lavender-scented room.  Dusk crept through the windows
smudged by oily...

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Categories: longing, 12th grade, destiny, heartbroken,

Premium Member I'm Still Here
Thank 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...

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Categories: longing, devotion, i love you,

Illusions of Love
Ever 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...

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Categories: 9th grade, life, longing,

Premium Member Tell Me
Tell me something if you wish
Stay in touch with me
Send me little bluebirds 
That's what I like to see

Tell me something if you want
It's you...

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Categories: longing, i love you, i

Premium Member The Compassion I Didn't Have
We thought life would have been
so simple: flowers and hugs,
sentimental nights and songs;
then, reality came with its pain...
we were no longer that invincible,
rather two people...

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Categories: longing, absence, abuse, break up,


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