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Languish Poems - Poems about Languish

Languish Poems - Examples of all types of poems about languish to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for languish.
Premium Member Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress
..."Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress" - Daniel Henry Rodgers The hourglass, a skeletal jester, mocks in the tomb's chill, Each falling grain an emaciated ......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, death, loneliness, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member The Quicksand of Thought
...Like sands of thought, a whirlpool's dizzy spins and holes of black, where not a prayer escapes, the gravity ~ temptation's lurid sins, while empty vacuums fill and chaste guilt drapes. While str......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, loss,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member O Bipolar, Harass Me Nevermore
...O Bipolar, harass me nevermore! Depart from me! For Easter Sunday's here, a comfort which transforms this time of year, and cuts you like an ox for evermore. O Minotaur, you cursed bu......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, christian, depression, easter, extended
Form: Italian Sonnet
A Mothers Love
...ANZAC Day 25/4/ 2024 This is a true story dedicated to the missing and the families of the missing of soldiers from the wars Australia has been involved in. A Mother’s Love Perhaps it was th......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, remember, remembrance day,
Form: Dramatic Verse
remembering the time when i was LOST
...Forever wondering when I won’t be left behind and upset Pondering if you’ll ever save me from burying me alive Wandering in the woods of my spiralling mindset of regret Squandering my time time af......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, angst, anxiety, conflict, courage,
Form: Lyric



Faded
...I’m stuttering on this facile analogy Like I’m tripping on dubious morality I’m lisping on my plain quizzicality Like I’m limping on roads to tonality I’m damaged. A marred good with no r......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, courage, dark, emotions, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spread Your Wings
...Now gaze at the wonder of the sky Then spread your wings and attempt to fly Only courage needed but if impeded You'll live in fear till the day you die Just take that painful first step f......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, dream, fear, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A cry unheard
...Come closer, oh dear soul, why this distance? Have we not renounced, both fears and dark desires, that has veiled God’s light from us? Where lies bliss of which scriptures speak? How......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, lost, spiritual,
Form: Nonet
Running For The Door
...If you use the word languish I’m stopping my read When you speak the word nurture I’m far from intrigued If I hear you say milieu I run for the door Or when you spout genre my ears to abhor......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inspired by Black Light- Glenn Hughes
...“People tell me they idolize me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.” Quote by Phil Spector (Found guilty of murdering Lana ......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, sin,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Winter Approaches
...Gold leaves flutter to the ground Winter approaches ~ Maple tree branches are naked, awaiting gloomy graphite clouds to clothe them with snow They languish in stoic stasis, deciduous a......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, tree, winter,
Form: Fibonacci
Premium Member The Mores of Morays
...Why would God give moray eels A life wherein they live concealed In a beautiful, bountiful, rapturous reef Merely to cause the nearby fishes grief? When the moon and stars shine deep at night Gi......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, analogy, evil, perspective, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Man of Mars
...Such is a sorrow sculpted of sunstone, Immortalised with studious refrain, Tragedy, still, in beautiful atone, Exuding light from a languish of pain. Young Venus, I be, suspended in fear, What......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, imagery, introspection, love, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Land of the Dead Clocks
...n the land of the dead clocks they slither and slink Not caring about the time, without battery or blink Like snakes moseying around, they barely move at all Some linger and languish, others lie a......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, art,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mystique
... Oh, thou art of the greatest mystery, an enigma of time and place and space flitting with ethereal quality. Mind not paling stars that surround this place. They languish in comparison to thee, ......Read the rest...
Categories: languish, mystery, romance, romantic, space,
Form: Rhyme

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