Best Longing Poems
Below are the all-time best Longing poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of longing poems written by PoetrySoup members
Glory of Her MagnificenceOceans apart
buried under sandy shores,
a rare pearl slept comfortably
behind her walls.
Fate must have been kind,
for a common man like me,
to stumble upon her shell.
As I...
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Categories:
change, longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Death of the Poet Destroyer~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~
Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...
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Categories:
longing, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form:
Ballad
Uncharted WatersAn ocean tumbles through dreams of you. In depths unknown,
I float above. Oh, how I long to dive beneath your surface,
yet I am...
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Categories:
appreciation, longing, love, ocean,
Form:
Rhyme
Does Your Heart Share This Moon Tonight“For in your light I dream, as evening takes my hand”
Silently I find my thoughts illumined by your beauty
In soft shimmers of dancing silhouettes
and patterns...
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Categories:
longing, love,
Form:
Free verse
Dreams of IndiaDreams of India
Her music haunts me
in such a knowing way
it makes me weep
and causes my heart to ache.
I become homesick for her
scents, her sounds, her...
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Categories:
longing, beauty, culture, desire, dream,
Form:
Free verse
A Poetry CollectionHourglass
Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass
Falling Down Stairs
Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...
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Categories:
longing, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Unsure the ShoreGrim fog, I praise the shelter of your drear,
the sundown ghost morose not grandiose,
I walk alone - but, no -- with my despair;
a bittern bids...
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Categories:
longing, 8th grade, beach, bereavement,
Form:
Sonnet
How Do I Hold the WindOn the edge of silence
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...
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Categories:
grief, longing, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
All I Am
Long slender tendril of mist in the morning
snakes slowly across the cool water, wandering,
endlessly,
searching, moving slowly, seemingly without purpose,
without direction, without destination.
It fades like a...
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Categories:
longing,
Form:
Free verse
So Soft Is the Sonnet of WillowsThis is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it.
It is something I wrote...
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Categories:
life, longing, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Winter Blues - I Cry For ColorI shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers
have escaped me ~
grievous gray
now flows through my veins.
I shiver melancholia,
entombed...
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Categories:
depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form:
Free verse
Too Good To Ever LastToo good - to ever last suggested bpm 80
Vs1
When we first met, I never thought
that you could ever love me...
You were the...
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Categories:
longing, break up, feelings, heartbreak,
Form:
Lyric
When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the SkiesI see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...
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Categories:
beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form:
Lyric
Our Worlds CollideI would love to be your comfort
A blanket when you're confused
A bright song on every dark day
Warmth and hope you cannot lose
To be the canopy...
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Categories:
longing, destiny, dream, emotions, fantasy,
Form:
Lyric
Pathway To LoveAs I sit watching fusions of saffron and scarlet hues
elegantly charm the horizons.
Silently, fluffy lush clouds float by
like a magnetic field drawing me closer,
in...
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Categories:
longing, love, , Lullaby,
Form:
Prose