Get Your Premium Membership

Lost Poems | Examples of Lost Poetry

Lost Poems - Examples of all types of lost poetry to share and read. This list of lost poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of lost poetry. This list of works about lost is an excellent resource for examples on how to write lost poems.
Look Closely
Submerged in his fanciful palette of feigned perfection his fetid smile suffused through the cold laps of the ...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, anxiety, deep, imagery, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member War's Last Battleground
He fell as he retreated from war’s last battleground Stray bullet lodged beneath his brain ghostly whispers in...Read the rest...
Categories: death, joy, lost love,
Form: Narrative
Feathers Of A Robin
There's a robin on my fence today, A feather by my feet A heart-shaped leaf that blows along Beside me down the street Your song played on the radio This morning in the car And just last night I could've sworn I...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Letter To A Dear Lover
Dear lover I vividly remember What you used to do When you were in love Dear loser You cannot remember What you used to do Since now, you ain't in love. Being in love is either Feeling a sweet or a sour Pain It is being In...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, beautiful, deep, i love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love's Unsteady Stead -- Glenn Hughes Poetry Contest
Note from poetess: I wrote this poem remembering the first time I heard Hughes' song, "This Time Around." I was dating a man who joined the US Navy. Because he was on a submarine out...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love, love, time,
Form: Rhyme



Echoes of Love's Gentle Touch
In the whispers of 2010, our hearts entwined like tender vines on a trellis, our love defined I found my voice in poetry, a language true to express the depths of my devotion, anew With every dawn, a poem...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, art, inspirational, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost Portraits
I painted portraits of you in my heart till' dark clouds allowed pouring rain to fall washed away paintings hung that fell apart to leave my heart's chamber an empty hall my love for you held portraits that I...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Exigent Mind
I swear tout de suite, that... My noddle ain't petabyte But just a condign floppy disk. So I could swiftly flush out some memories, And retain only what's necessary. I swear I wanna draft some boundries. As much as I need a...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, absence, deep, depression, life,
Form: Free verse
True Love Calls
The mourning dove’s perch coo signals he’s alone: Calling to another as a life-long mate, searching to find a love he can call his own and form a bond so strong it shall not abate. Death cannot these creatures’...Read the rest...
Categories: funny love, hyperbole, lost
Form: Ottava rima
IS IT LOVE ?
While wondering wishfully, you certainly got tired with each of your relation. Penetrating Pain pegged a pin in your heart before you realized that I am enough for you. But you were you. My menacing mind won't accept the...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, break up, conflict, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Longing Love for long
My longing for love was so lethal I swear on the lasting love I went looking for love everywhere… but found love nowhere. I was so woefully wounded I swear on severed spirit I went searching...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love,
Form: Alliteration
YES
Wistfully, she vanished. "Yes" losing lover, he stood astonished. Her fragrance hover everywhere inside home. Solely to recover ~ He must roam, search, else banished she'll stay. Alone! Contest Name-Intro ''POI''-etry Poetry Contest Sponsored by-Hilo poet...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, dark, depression, feelings, grief,
Form: Other
Premium Member Elephant
How starved you must have been that my heart became a meal for your ego. ~ Amanda Torroni, writer I dreamed an elephant was flying high with wings extended and ever soaring nearer to me, as if it were...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love,
Form: Shadorma
Go with the Flow?
Go with the flow they say, But what's the point of it?, When you can't even stop when you need to, When you can't take ur time to enjoy the view, Cause you'll be going in a flow, A flow...Read the rest...
Categories: freedom, irony, journey, lost,
Form: Free verse
Family Reunion
Breast beat for her I doubt you fathom crude Understand thus gravitas of thy actions true This must entrust you knot the thread bear Bang thy drum roll knees follow you we share Needless pain inflicted as I stroked...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, crazy, dark, daughter, death,
Form: Prose

Specific Types of Lost Poems

Read wonderful lost poetry on the following sub-topics: alone, confused, feeling, friendship, generation, hope, life, love, paradise, soul, and more.

Definition | What is Lost in Poetry?


Book: Reflection on the Important Things