Longing Poems | Examples of Longing Poetry

where the smile doesn’t meet the eyes resides the line between apathy and resentment in an inward sigh or soft curse a bubble of pain in the embers of a fading fire sparks of memory in the hollow of the chest not one echo out of the blue, into the blue glittering...

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There’s a wildness in you Burning like the desert sand It taints a man’s blood A fierce promise in your eyes More glorious than sunset over the mountain It defies me to say ‘no’ But that’s the only answer I can offer For I’ve taken an oath And I must live it For honor – for fidelity Let passion perish ...

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such longing in a long sad, drawn-out train whistle do metal objects have feelings? this sound makes the idea plausible...

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A touch is a hug for the lonely, I thought as I sat on that plane. The sleeping man beside me, Would never know that feeling he made. As his head nodded off, His elbow extended to mine. This little little tap Echoed in a hollow mine. I savoured such a warm embrace, From the man that would never know me, But I couldn’t help...

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Deep down she was a hopeless romantic Masked with hate because she thought she couldn't have it After all she was a black woman When she asked the world for love it laughed at her It's why she gave up, a story so tragic Growing up in a world where white was the beauty standard And being black was...

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When I'm with you on the phone I finally feel I'm not alone If you could ever sit with me I'd take that opportunity To tell you all about my life So that if you became my wife You'd know me, nothing I would hide We'd take our days and wèeks in stride And as the years stretched very long...

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~ To the Tune of 'One More Night' by Phil Collins ~ One more write, I gotta do just ...

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So beautiful to look at So wonderful to hear The only one I dream of I want to you be near And if the day is coming When that dream will come true We'll walk into the sunset Babe, just me and you...

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I don’t like mirrors anymore They’re a reflection of everything I try to ignore The acne on my face My stomach gaining weight These love handles aren’t fake It sucks to be this way Cause all I see is ugliness staring back at me I don’t wanna be her The one I call mother For she’s...

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Say you will, then what I'll do Is I will ask something of you Will you go with me to France? If you will, expect romance I can romance here as well I'll find someone who wants to sell A cozy cabin near Nashville You just have to say you will...

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A void within me calls wanting only what I've never had, but I've always seen. The taste of a possession so illegal, It's to die for. as literal and figurative as the jaws of the idea itself surrounding and consuming me. Oh, I've seen it. The ecstasy of true bliss multiplied only their best moments. The promise of nostalgia and a feeling of home. An easiness...

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I rented a bedspace like a borrowed name— half a mattress, whole silences. My roommate talked in her sleep, and I envied her dreams. At night, I listened for footsteps outside the door, pretending one might be fate knocking, or you. ...

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Matsuo Basho: English translations of haiku about clouds, geese, departing, empty nests and huts, lonely, loneliness, drinking alone, sake, longing, loss, death, hawks, the moon, Japanese culture. As clouds drift apart, so we two separate: wild geese departing. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch The old nest deserted, how empty now my next-door neighbor’s hut. —Matsuo Basho, translation by Michael R. Burch Yesterday? Departed, like...

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DEBJANI MITRA Free verse MIDNIGHT CHIMES (COLLABORATION WITH DEBJANI MITRA) This poem is an English translation of one of the beautiful Bengali poem of PS poet MALABIKA RAY CHOUDHURY Midnight chimes unveil in cascade, glances of your shimmering face engulfing me in a transient dream... As if you never went away! As if I didn't wake up to see you're gone! As...

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In the Mouth of Desire touching me your lips, your tongue chalice filled with sweet fruit we’re no longer friends when we sup lovers once again we can’t get enough sucking grapes nibbling red apples tender, the nape of neck at eureka’s urging ...

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