One Start, One FinishOne day Bluebird may it be
The someday when it's you and me
Where all the dreams I had to store
And all the times I wanted more
When all the nights I sat alone
In silence staring at my...
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Categories:
longing, i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
No TitleA poem without a title was written,
based on an undeniable feeling.
In that moment I was simply smitten.
This couldn’t have been typewritten
the way my mind you kept consuming.
A poem without a title was written.
Without a box...
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Categories:
emotions, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Villanelle
Entranced
She was waiting in the plaza
a breath of fresh air
graceful as could be
I sat there in the distance
couldn’t take my eyes off her
imagining that she might
be waiting for a guy like me
She slowly sipped
her coffee...
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Categories:
beautiful, hope, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Unfinished BusinessSo many things I'd like to say
I'll save them for some other day
You know the way I think towards you
It hasn't changed, the bird's still blue
And though not mentioned anymore
The...
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Categories:
longing, devotion, for her, i
Form: Rhyme
Now and Forever
beneath the stars tonight
moonlit undulating waves
caress the longing shores
alas, my love will not be coming home
posted on March 31, 2025...
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Categories:
longing, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
FrangibleThe feeling of fragility is precious,
But it demands emotional mortality.
A longing for something so distant,
Emotions unfounded and absent.
Hold me and I may break.
Kiss me and I may die....
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Categories:
longing, cry, death, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Quietus By DesireSometimes the less weight you bear,
The more of your own weight tips the scales.
There's too many words, too much chaos,
All stemming from silence, from absence.
The coziest warmth is someone else's.
Even the hottest nights can still...
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Categories:
longing, death, desire, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
HopeHope, that has kept me alive
Hope, that has kept me sane
Hope, that made me insane
Hope, that allows me to breathe
Hope, that suffocates me
Hope, that my child survives
Hope, that makes me breathe
Hope, that the sun shines...
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Categories:
longing, bird, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Free verse
Loving YouLoving you is easy.
Your heart beats like
The midnight breeze,
Caressing the strings of my essence.
Loving you is easy.
Your smile tenderly
Invites reveries,
Exposing the chords of my mind.
Loving you is easy.
Your voice is like
Music to my inner ear,
And...
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Categories:
longing, love,
Form: Free verse
A sundrenched spell
the sun's caress glitters off your sultry skin
while a balmy breeze caught in your hair gives way
deep in your eyes is where i want to drown
basking in the taste of summertime sorbet
posted on March 30,...
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Categories:
hair, longing, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme
look whut they've done to us
Categories:
longing, allusion, angst, extended metaphor,
Form: Epyllion
Ode to the Hidden TapestryIt seems my thoughts have been
buzzing a long my skin,
a hollow being filled
with a sense of connection I had
fought for too long.
For being too much-
not enough-
always an in...
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Categories:
longing, absence, art, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
True LoverKaren Jones' Stevie Wonder Poetry Contest.
true lover says it
from the bottom of his heart
I love you, love you...
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Categories:
longing, love,
Form: Senryu
Lost and ConfusedMy mind racing…
swift thoughts constantly chasing…
every single millisecond.
a new one appears.
forced to be in places i don’t want to be
people, places, things that aren’t good for me,
oh how I wish they would all just...
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Categories:
anxiety, faith, growth, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Unspoken, Yet TrueI never meant to spark a fight,
never planned to dim your light.
Words just slipped, they found their way,
but every word, I meant to say.
If I hurt you, know this well,
it wasn’t meant to make you...
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Categories:
emotions, hope, longing, love,
Form: Lyric
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?
Poems Related to Longing
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