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Morning from ShadowsA fellow poet says
don’t start a poem
with looking out the window
but I am—
I am
looking out
the window
to see the lawn
outside my window
has grown.
A neighbor says
there are too many
verses on love,
but restless
I tap laptop
keys to compose
another....
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Categories:
longing, love, morning, spring,
Form: Free verse
Tell MeTell 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 who make my day
By phone calls, hi's, and messages
By...
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Categories:
longing, i love you, i
Form: Rhyme
Conversation With My HeartEasy heart
I know you ache
Let's go out for the day
We'll think of her
That's for sure
But it will be okay
How about some coffee?
I'll buy you one my friend
We're on this road together
And we'll walk...
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Categories:
longing, heart, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
Tickle My FrancyEvery time I think I'm going to stop I write some more
Of things that make me think of you, things like favorite store
Or music, coffee, reading books, the dreams of which I write
The ones...
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Categories:
longing, for her, i love
Form: Rhyme
Jayne AHow I want to see your face
To sit near you in the same place
I count the days until I will
And tell my heart, be calm, be still
It likes to beat the rhythm of
Your name, a...
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Categories:
longing, i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
My Now is Just Your ThenAs the clocks creep,
unknown...
again,
my summer's call,
of Calendulas,
and Cotswold stone,
crumbles,
in compliance,
that this, beauty,
cannot be…here,
just for me,
alone.
...
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Categories:
longing, beauty, extended metaphor, history,
Form: Free verse
I’m hungryIn a time where innocence should reign,
This little girl faced trials, her heart in pain.
Her upbringing, not necessarily the worst, I’d say,
But love and stability seemed far far away.
Naive to the world, she sought to...
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Categories:
longing, abuse, anger, betrayal, child,
Form: Free verse
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:
longing, absence, abuse, break up,
Form: Rhyme
To Those Who WaitOne 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...
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Categories:
longing, i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Storms Are FierceThey 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...
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Categories:
longing, nostalgia, sea, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Storms Are FierceThey 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...
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Categories:
longing, nostalgia, sea, senses,
Form: Rhyme
IncarnateIn 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...
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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...
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Categories:
longing, angel, dark, for him,
Form: Bio
Laces And Soulful Paceslike 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
...
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Categories:
longing, emotions, feelings, first love,
Form: Free verse
HopeShe 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...
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Categories:
longing, desire, feelings, inspirational love,
Form: Rhyme
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.
Definition | What is Longing in Poetry?
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