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Best Hankering Poems

Below are the all-time best Hankering poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of hankering poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration
At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: hankering, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Someone To Care
Standing at the easel of life a portrait of a man so much in love with that to tempt the mood, 
unable to caress his...

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Categories: hankering, angst,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Sequestration
I never told anyone how my ears reverberate in a silent room.
The whirring drone ever present, a conquistador of my private spaces.
This is my cohabitation...

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Categories: hankering, death, loneliness, longing, pain,
Form: Free verse
A Ballerina of Blue
A ballerina 
 blissfully bended 
in blue
reaches out
 into the 
overbearing 
embrace of  
empty space .
Hopelessly
hankering for 
the fondness
 of a familiar face 
to...

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Categories: hankering, blue, loneliness, longing,
Form: I do not know?
Purveyor of Ecstasy
Miles in a coaster, a day and hours elapsed, 
Felt the utmost relief when the whirling wheels halted; 
So weary and dizzy, even a smile...

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Categories: hankering, appreciation, beauty, education, environment,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Song of a Raindrop
I am a rain drop flopped down from the clouds
I could have landed in a river or the sea
Then merging with the rising and receding...

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Categories: hankering, blessing, growing up, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Itch
a winter sun plays hide and seek
odd shadows chill my bones
reminding me of annual constraints
i crave to escape instinctively

a caged animal an inmate
itching for the...

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Categories: hankering, angst, animal, anxiety, freedom,
Form: Free verse
A Sempiternal Legacy
~they embraced in their dalliance~
her appetency held a depth so deep he just couldn’t 
resist placing his hands around her barren waste
(she reaches for him...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: hankering, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Glory To Thermodynamics In General
Glory to thermodynamics in general...

and generation of heat in particular
cuz yours truly 
spoiled with trappings 
of Western Civilization.

How ideal I imagine 
to dwell in a...

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Categories: hankering, adventure, appreciation, april, community,
Form: Rhyme
Embers and Snowflakes
In our  crimson embers lie the snowflakes
In our snowflakes rise our whispers
In the downward valley 
You asked

Where are gone the embers
My bird asks your...

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Categories: hankering, depression, desire, journey, love,
Form: Free verse
Summers Heat
Paroxysmal passions of preying eyes,
Whispering waves upon warming ocean…
Harmonies hankering hearts hypnotize,
Melodic mists of driving devotion.

Yelling and yearning youthful ambitions,
Sizzling summers endure exotic heat…
Posturing pleasures...

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Categories: hankering, crush, inspirational love, summer,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member What Is Love
Love is deciding to share your life with your soulmate
A reciprocal trust, sincerity, devotion
A two-way hankering to be the best you can be
Love is never...

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Categories: hankering, devotion, life, relationship, soulmate,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Wanderlust Black Country Communion 2 Contest
Live through my rear view mirror
Just hankering for the time
When you were there before me
And all my stars aligned 
Time we spent together
Removed dark from...

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Categories: hankering, art,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Desire
desire
                        fond,...

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Categories: hankering, desire, love,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member The State of His Hair
Girls and boys
pick up your toys
Your playground
has been shut.

There’s a man out there
with greasy hair
hellish hankering
in his gut.

That’s what we thought
till Joey’s father was caught.
He...

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Categories: hankering, people,
Form: Rhyme

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