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Best Wished For Poems

Below are the all-time best Wished For poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of wished for poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand

I planned for you, an...

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Categories: wished for, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric



The Garden That Lives On
The 
        old house
   from my memories 
 opens to a wide porch
adorned by mom with...

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Categories: wished for, garden,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Nutcrackers Last Waltz
             
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Categories: wished for, happiness, miracle,
Form: Personification
Premium Member In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: With Lin Lane
In Dreams, Her Spirit Sallied Forth: with Lin Lane

Through frigid months, she waited for Spring rains
to give relief and ease heartbroken pains,
Nature will award that...

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Categories: wished for, appreciation, art, creation, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Day My Eternal Friend
Day, my lifelong friend
Thousands of times have we said good morning to each other and
As many times have, we said goodnight,
You have wakened me up...

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Categories: wished for, day, death, life,
Form: Personification



Premium Member It Was Her Poetry Seduced Me
When Thor struck his hammer
upon the flat ground on Earth
it was the pieces withstood the blow we named rock,
constructs we came to know as the...

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Categories: wished for, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Just a Tree - a Requiem
Someone who knows
Said You were an old ancient Tree,
But at the time, it didn’t really matter, 
Or seem important to me.
I knew You only for...

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Categories: wished for, conflict, earth, heartbroken, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Is a Star With My Name On It
Oh! how love has bloomed—

fantasies like wild flowers plucked
a collection of candlelight craves and desires
fill a wistful star-maiden’s basket;
a bouquet of white asters from Orion’s...

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Categories: wished for, desire, hope, night, romantic
Form: Free verse
Bluewing Falling
Her magic is drawn 
from an ocean's 
million hues 
reflecting 
boundless skies

slain by her trembling perfection 
you grab hold of her 
to save yourself 
...

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Categories: wished for, beauty, butterfly, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Are Brothers Ii
Don’t look at me
As though I am an alien or a stranger,
Don’t let the dagger of antipathy
Fly out of your eyes.

I am your neighbor.

Don’t call...

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Categories: wished for, cute, immigration, love, peace,
Form: Free verse
A Bad Day At the Eye Doctor's- a True Story
"It was 6 or 7 years ago
Or so I'd like to think
I traveled to my eye doctor..
(I should'a seen a "shrink"!!)

My dad and I we...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wished for, funny, life, mystery, me,
Form: Burlesque
Premium Member The Sands of Love
Two statues of stone
On pedestals in the park
One male
One female
White objects of a perfections beauty
Yet they stood erect and alone
When the rain fell
This was their...

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Categories: wished for, beautiful, beauty, garden, imagery,
Form: Light Verse
Sands of Time
A t   f i r s t,   a   l a z i l y   f l o...

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Categories: wished for, age, life, time,
Form: Etheree
Wondering
White caps glistening on the horizon
As the sun sets on a restless sea
I wonder where your thoughts are
And do you ever think of me

Have you...

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Categories: wished for, loveme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That Dawn, a Goddess Found Me: Collaboration With Robert Lindley
An early morn mist that fadeth away
revealeth the goddess that stole this heart.
In radiance, her hair shone as blazing gold
soft-born winds welcomed her that fine...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wished for, fantasy, love,
Form: Romanticism

Book: Shattered Sighs