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Best Yearning Poems

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


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: yearning, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member If This Was My Last Poem
Come to me my beloved,
save me from life's brutalities,
so this heart can soften -
sparkle like a million fireflies.

For you hold the light
to illuminate my soul.
For...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yearning, romance, romantic love, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Welcome To a Brand New World, Song Version
Welcome to a brand new world

Verse 1
How are you feeling right now?
Is there still a yearning in your heart?
You're probably like, ten million or more,
praying...

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Categories: yearning, christian, earth, gospel, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member For One Pass of Your Breath
you write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now

i held you in...

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Categories: yearning, lost love, love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Sonata
In the landscape 
of melancholy, 
where arctic 
heartbeats linger, 
I long for withered 
willows to blossom 
like speckled 
diamond petals, 
while your crystalline 
silhouette strolls...

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Categories: yearning, romantic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Red Leaf
the raspy whisper

finally
 
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..

the crisp red leaf 
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...

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Categories: yearning, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter Blues - I Cry For Color
I shiver tears.
My joie de vivre;
summer esprit’s lemon zest,
lilac flirts and coral whispers 
have escaped me ~
grievous gray 
now flows through my veins.

I shiver melancholia,
entombed...

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Categories: yearning, depression, loneliness, longing, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hope
Hope is a song of bird
Reassuring forlorn dawn,
The nightmare is banished
And the dream is still alive

Hope is a Lotus flower
Drowning in the night
Yet, rising through...

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Categories: yearning, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tribute To Poetry Soupers
There's Danny with his love light burning,
Then Victor with his soulful yearning. 
Jan makes us laugh with wit and delight,
Armand serenades us all through the...

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Categories: yearning, poets, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
On Mountain Nine
Running beauty rippled in crystal white
No whisper in the air, just a wondrous sight
My eyes ascend in awe to a far light
Small and empty observing...

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Categories: yearning, beauty, creation, feelings, heaven,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Soothing Tomorrows
Oh beloved,
I'm like Rumi without Shams.
A shivering summer soul,
secretly stalked by wild white winter wolves.
A chiffon child chiselling chimerical calligraphy,
cursed with invisible ink, silent in...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yearning, emotions, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Her Reflection I Am Poetry
Mind will always dream,
eyes will endlessly gaze,
lips will remain impatient.

Although, I've not met her,
the heart is a battleground
of anguish and angst.
Its cries, seeking the serenity
of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yearning, love, romance, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Of Passions I Own
Sensing and yearning allure of daydreams
My musings amble in meadows of themes,
Sometimes wowing ebullience of dawning,
Sometimes luxuriating in moonlit evening
Gazing lambent skies of stellar twinkling,
Inviting...

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Categories: yearning, muse, poetry, writing,
Form: Verse
My Empathetic Quill Bleed For the Empress Ink
The moonlight bathed her cell in pallid light while she sat hunched over her desk, clutching her pen between her confound fingertips. As she bled ink...

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Categories: yearning, community, friendship love, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, Heavenly Night
That night we kissed, my heart became a butterfly.
It sprouted wings and danced across the velvet sky,
then leapt across the multitude of stars there strewn
along...

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Categories: yearning, heart, night,
Form: Lyric

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