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Longing Poems | Examples of Longing Poetry

One Start, One Finish
One 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...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, i love you, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Title
A 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...Read the rest...
Categories: emotions, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Villanelle



Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: beautiful, hope, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unfinished Business
So 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...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, devotion, for her, i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Frangible
The 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....Read the rest...
Categories: longing, cry, death, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Quietus By Desire
Sometimes 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...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, death, desire, introspection, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Hope
Hope, 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...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, bird, conflict, confusion, death,
Form: Free verse
Loving You
Loving 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...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: hair, longing, summer, sun,
Form: Rhyme
look whut they've done to us
. i hear'd ...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, allusion, angst, extended metaphor,
Form: Epyllion
Ode to the Hidden Tapestry
It 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...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, absence, art, deep, devotion,
Form: Free verse
True Lover
Karen Jones' Stevie Wonder Poetry Contest. true lover says it from the bottom of his heart I love you, love you...Read the rest...
Categories: longing, love,
Form: Senryu
Lost and Confused
My 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...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, faith, growth, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Unspoken, Yet True
I 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...Read the rest...
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.

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