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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ALL
I am replaceable but My Love and memories won't leave
Do you know why?
My all is what I gave before it went sour!
I am replaceable but My all and Love were blameless,
After all, My skin got...
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Categories:
absence, baby, betrayal, confidence,
Form: Imagism
Under the Pouring RainUnder the pouring rain,
I no longer have thoughts of you
Or of your lingering presence
And your condemning silence.
To live another day without you
Feels easier as I stand drenched.
Under the pouring rain,
I could look back at history
And...
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Categories:
absence,
Form: Free verse
BE A SOMEBODYWrite! Anything. Be a dream writer
Write poeticly. Be about a spree! Take
Vacation from mundane. Be
Astounding! Astonish YOURSELF!
HAVE WORD WEALTH! I am LONELY
COME AND SEE. Visit me! Be just
Like me! This me....
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Categories:
absence, africa, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Split ScreenTwo people are on the screen which one is your dream? Two dresses are hanging on the door which one did you picked up on the shore; two cabs are waiting at the gate which...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
rainbow allianceRainbow alliance
On a barbed wire fence between Chile and Argentine
hangs thousands of plastic bags, some of the bags from top shops
London, New York, Paris, and Bonn.
Here are Japanese, Swedish bags, Arabic bags, and...
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Categories:
7th grade, absence, abuse,
Form: Blank verse
BIG IDEAS? THESE WORDSIt's my words if I start to play I will
Too sing for this. My piano
Assist and shift. I will also linger
In the midst of it. How will I say?
Mention a meaningful statement
The linguist...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, beach, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
I wasn't the reason whyWhy do you have to go?
why I can't see your face?
why you don't say goodbye
why you leave me with this pain?
why I am so sad?
why I am so afraid?
did I do something wrong
to make you...
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Categories:
absence, mom, mother, mother
Form: Rhyme
The Compassion I Didn't HaveWe 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 so gullible!
The compassion I didn't have
hurts inside, now it's tearing...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Even Harder Than Spoken smooth TransitionsBel canto
Her asking Suport- Part three
Somewhere they say
that you and I are together
somewhere they'll believe
that we are one
we found interest in us together
we're interested in
having fun
My true love
don't know we're together
If it goes Your way
we've...
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Categories:
absence, culture, devotion, love,
Form: Bio
EVERYBODY SHOULD WRITE POETRYI believe everybody should and can
Write poetry or at least one or
A few poems every now and then.
We all HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO WIN!
that essential within.
You should begin with reading poems
The more you...
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Categories:
absence, allusion,
Form: Free verse
dependenceDependence
Looking out of the window
at the doctor's waiting room
his receptionist had gone outside for a smoke
she wore black underwear
under a white nylon dress
Faux pas?
What do I care, who dresses in a black T-shirt
jeans and a...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Blank verse
My ballet shoes
My ballet shoes have a name,
undisguised among a multitude.
They dance free all over,
without a name.
My dancing shoes are old,
great enough for the right feet
to keep on dancing.
My ballet shoes only fit my feet to be...
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Categories:
absence, adventure, allusion, culture,
Form: Free verse
LouKidding around, I called mother “Lou”
Short for Louella between us two.
She’d return the favor; call me “number three.”
At the time it was cute, now it’s precious to me.
“Thank you, Lou” always brought a smile,
A wink...
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Categories:
absence, devotion, family, hope,
Form: Couplet
the tribeThe lost tribe
Holocaust, the ongoing tragedy
this time, it is the Palestinians who are victims
from a tribe that has learned that if one has
to survive, they must be ty, able to tell
lies and cynically plays on...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Blank verse
TimelapseYou caught me running, constantly looking back,
tears merging within the rain.
If I took a leap, would I fly?
Left behind, the mole above your lip, laughter in your eyes,
jaded progression.
It could have been...
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Categories:
absence, care, cry, dark,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Absence Poems
Definition | What is Absence in Poetry?
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