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Best Thirsting Poems

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So Soft Is the Sonnet of Willows
This is a very long poem and I will understand if you choose not to spend the time reading it. 
It is something I wrote...

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Categories: thirsting, life, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Comes a Wind
Thirsting, thirsting. . . shriveled earth
suffocates in summer’s dearth,
yearns for rain clouds’ forthwith bursting:
Shriveled earth. . . thirsting, thirsting.

Browning, browning in their beds,
flowers parched hang...

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Categories: thirsting, daffodils, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Quietus
In a mire brewed
betwixt puddles of hell and mute dissent 
a martyr wades - 
weighed down by chains of shame and disdain
alas the thirsting self-absorbed...

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Categories: thirsting, angst, conflict, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Meraki
Upon the twinkling of silent twilight,
tranquil thoughts set adrift, 
infatuated in elysian reflection.

The mind wanders, 
observing and listening - roaming;
avoiding confusing crossroads
leading into chimerical phantasms.

Overwhelmed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: thirsting, analogy, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member One Way Ships - Part 1
Flings and wings and rings rejected…
 Cupid’s arrows fly deflected…
“It clearly is too late” she signed, “to love, adore or pay me mind”

Penciled lines drew...

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Categories: thirsting, lost love, stars,
Form: Rhyme



Strawberries and Cream
Daybreak slipping through these champagne curtains

Red silk; twined aneath crimsons sheets; awakening....

This afterglows mornings dew; her wet moist kisses 

Soft sunrise and whom can deny...

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Categories: thirsting, love, passion, space, travel,
Form: I do not know?
Sweet Surrender
I would willingly lose myself, to find rest in your iridescence
Thirsting the taste of your sacred place, craving your inner presence
I would freely submit myself,...

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Categories: thirsting, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Dangerous Thoughts
Aching with desire
my thoughts are filled with you
thoughts I should not dare to think
for fear they will destroy me.
Just a thought of you and I...

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Categories: thirsting, passionme,
Form: Free verse
Take Me Again
Take me again…


Take me… for I am nothing without you
Tease my desires with your fingers a’ wander
Upon quivering flesh, shivering needs cry
All of this is...

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Categories: thirsting, good night, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member April Showers
April Showers (Anacreontic Verse)

Putting the blame
on global warming
winter felt the pinch
rain was scarce
and spring arrived
lamenting its luck
unable to twirl
in habitual gown
of green satin
shyly tiptoeing
keeping a...

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Categories: thirsting, flower, rain,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member To Kashinath and Cyndi
Not pauses blowing hot, not the red kind,
Our seasons bear eternally a kiss,
Like fabric draped on time, never amiss
That from years' luster sweet kinship, I...

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Categories: thirsting, dedication, devotion, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Not Today
With bending stem and shriveled leaf
another day of scorching sun
becomes an ache without relief-

a day where growth has been undone.
As baking earth converts to tomb
with...

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Categories: thirsting, hopeday,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Agape
Agape 

I float in the inspiration of your charity Lord,
Your intimate whispering fluent through living water
Touching thirsting shores of drought
Waiting open mouthed for billowing water
Flowing...

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Categories: thirsting, god, love, river, water,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Slave To Love
Created to belong to the one soul
For whom my heart would beat
Rhythmic beats of thirsting desires
I have,
Since times immemorial
Enjoyed this state of being
A slave to...

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Categories: thirsting, crush, cry, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Cup Runneth Over
A Cup Runneth Over

My cup in dry abyss boils over
Condensing dewdrops in vapors of blessing
Into foaming condensed extracts
Like effervescence of divine dust
That bubbles up to...

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Categories: thirsting, life, water,
Form: Free verse

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