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Longing Poems | Examples of Longing Poetry

Longing Poems - Examples of all types of longing poetry to share and read. This list of longing poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of longing poetry. This list of works about longing is an excellent resource for examples on how to write longing poems.
Premium Member To Those Who Wait
One day, someday May it be That day, finally You and me Leave together The same car Home is waiting Brooke's guitar Rain may fall But I won't care Big snowstorms Await us there Passion's heartbeat Still alive I made it to One hundred five...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Storms Are Fierce
They keep on rolling as the incoming, rapid waves splash, and with them they bring an army of hungry shellfish; a cemetery of shells pave the long stretch of this beach... never walk barefoot: as Lora did, she...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, nostalgia, sea, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Storms Are Fierce
They keep on rolling as the incoming, rapid waves splash, and with them they bring an army of hungry shellfish; a cemetery of shells pave the long stretch of this beach... never walk barefoot: as Lora did, she...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, nostalgia, sea, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Incarnate
In me, now is an insatiable thirst, I know well that I have lost my track. I have gone astray from my God, all goodness incarnate. Searching Him, lonely and longingly I stray, To place Him not in...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, god, longing,
Form: Free verse
Puzzle pieces
Our bodies fit together Like two perfect puzzle pieces Not sure when It was I realized You're all I want and needed A few stands of misty moonlight The ink on your chest is...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, angel, dark, for him,
Form: Bio



Premium Member Laces And Soulful Paces
like opposite shoe sides, tightly secured together meeting each other’s needful strides, two different species making sure-footed, secure bow-ties – though truth seldom in mating’s many polished, too often only briefly ...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, emotions, feelings, first love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope
She longed to hear his laughter and see his smile for real to be in his arms for comfort and oh the warmth she’d feel She dreamt of times together but loneliness tugged her heart she desired his tender touch but they...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, desire, feelings, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme
Apathy
I wrap my fingers around the pen which has lain dormant collecting dust for months on end feeling as if I'm lifting a fifty pound weight straining not just my joints but my brain, its neurons refusing to fire like the...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, angst, depression, image, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gray May
This gray sky Of May does lie In lackluster color A futile eye With birds too shy To sing, or fly Through April's chill March lingered still Soaking in chains Of rain's domain Why this delay Of lilac days? If I could task A humble ask A bit of...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, spring, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Equivocation
I know my wrongs, They were never right, Lost in a blindfolded love, Mistaken by what to fight, For, Loving you has taught me, Either unification, Or, A deceived perpetuation, From a closed door Rekindling of first...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Before I Go
Smile at me one last time Send me on my way to rhyme The days I'm at my thinking spot Are now more often than they're not My seat, an Adirondack chair It's one of two just sitting there The...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Nothing
Shall there be a soothing rest within the arms of a shallow grove, from whence the aches of an early dawn arise in its  presence, as a burning flame before the veiled eyes of a...Read the rest...
Categories: 6th grade, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Near to You
I would do most anything If it meant I'd be near to you For a minute, for an hour For a lifetime, maybe two To see you at a craft fair Or at my favorite store I'd take whatever you...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Real Men Don't Cheat on Their Women
God simply made man and woman to be together for the rest of their lives, it's a blessing this heedless world has not fully known; and it's so rare nowadays to see two people in love and promise each other to...Read the rest...
Categories: betrayal, devotion, dream, longing,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Seasons of Our Love
On summer nights Nostalgia's muse revives Scent of jasmine Fig tree fragrance fuses Memories meander Minty ice cream flavours Add sweetness to hungry kisses Star gazing to cricket symphony Roof top whispers of love's infinity Days drenched with salty waves Sun flared skin...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Specific Types of Longing Poems

Read wonderful longing poetry on the following sub-topics: desire, for her, for him, for you, for your touch, friendship, haiku, home, life, lonely, lost, missing you, pain and more.

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