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Best Unrequited Poems

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


Premium Member Unrequited Love
Wandering my maze of memories
In search of yesteryear
The spark she struck within my heart
Still burns in spite of tears
Hand in hand we walked the halls
Young...

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Categories: unrequited, first love, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Unrequited
Unrequited

The things i think about,
never settle below
they float instead
and fester inside
as I pluck your name in the air
a sacred memory folds over
foaming layers, floating vapors
Creating...

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© Rowe Weiss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: unrequited, angst, change, conflict, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: unrequited, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FOREVER ADELINE - Narrated by Poetry Soup Poet - SAM SCOTT

FOREVER ADELINE 

Acknowledgement:  
A big thank you Sam Scott from our Poetry Soup Community,
for your splendid narrative contribution.

Synopsis: 
A story of unrequited love that...

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Categories: unrequited, lost love, romantic,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Silence of Thistle Truth
seasons keep m o v i n g 
 and s w i r l i n g
memories keep f l o w i n...

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Categories: unrequited, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Kept Woman
Dream-worker 
delves deeply into my dream;

vibrations fondle anticipation
foreplay wakes wide-eyed 
swells of liquid libido quake the rendezvous edge -
a primordial being in his prime
a masculine...

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Categories: unrequited, allegory, betrayal, fate, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Part Time Poet
She calls on me, intermittently
In fickle favor, in spotty dictionaries
My demure, distracted destiny

She is the unrequited lover, the absent mother
She is Santa, granting wishes
Upon orphan...

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Categories: unrequited, angst, conflict, inspiration, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: unrequited, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley
I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its stream  

Saturating me with...

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Categories: unrequited, desire, destiny, passion, true
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Love Is In the Air - POTW
POTW 22rd April 2018

 To right the wrongs of love no flawless gauge exists 
Though visions unfulfilled can leave one bereft
With tears of remorse for...

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Categories: unrequited, emotions, inspirational love, uplifting,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Providence On Behalf of Love
Providence On Behalf Of Love
 

I that have seen such beauty 
fallen beneath its gleam 
rejected my life’s duty  
to wade thus in its...

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Categories: unrequited, beauty, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member What Is This Dance
What is this dance that we do?
First you spin me; I twirl with delight
Captivated by your attentive gaze
Then you back away as I move toward...

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Categories: unrequited, confusion, dance, relationship,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Internal Inhibition
How fondly he recalls when doting moon stared
Blush of her radiant smile gleamed opaline skies
While cuddling stellar vibes love they declared 
And embracing her allure...

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Categories: unrequited, angst, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Souls Cry
Essence melancholic bemoans, echoing soul’s doleful cry
When clamors of unrequited love, earnestly amplify,
Bruised yearnings of deep desires, as lovelorn heart sighs,
For the longings of shattered...

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Categories: unrequited, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Amended-Van Gogh's 'starry Night'
A Van Gogh's "Starry Night"

gamboge moon and stars
dance haloed whirlwind marriage
in violet sky

while black cypress looms
past swirling clouds as fleeting
requiem for love

through bright starry eyes
secluded...

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Categories: unrequited, allegory, art, lost love,
Form: Haiku

Book: Shattered Sighs