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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
Pleasures She WoreYour skin glows like a peach blossom,
Delicious is the smell of the Black Lotus Flower,
In the purest hope of springs essences.
My yearning rises to her frequency,
Her feminine voice soothes the core of my...
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Categories:
desire, art, beauty, best friend,
Form: Prose Poetry
YoursYou lips
so close, so promising
awe-inspiring
inviting
enticing
If only...
I sigh
I die
to everything else
but this
wondering...
ah....wondering...
what it would be like
to touch
to taste
...
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Categories:
desire, first love, kiss,
Form: Narrative
rule of tenAs one gets older
One often looks back
At all the things you did
In your life.
The good, the bad, and the ugly
And we all have those moments
Because we are human.
And some things you desired
But never pursued.
For...
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Categories:
angst, desire, write,
Form: Free verse
Desire of allCover blown
Your plan is now known
Deem dim your scheme
But don’t forfeit your dream
No man claims to deserve
But all want to own and preserve
To be lords in perpetuity
With their kind,...
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Categories:
christmas, desire, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Hidden TalentHidden talent
Creative mind
Scared to talk
But tucked away
So much to invent
But how do I vent?
Unmotivated, uninspired all it went
I'm not poetic
I hope you can relax
Knowing fully well
This boy will flex
Don't believe in me
I...
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Categories:
anxiety, beauty, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Desire Poems
Definition | What is Desire in Poetry?
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