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Best Yearnings Poems

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Premium Member Oh, Autumn
Oh, splendorous, spectacular, resplendent autumn!

Boldly you dye cypress ~ flaunting ochre, cinnamon,
Yellowing sugar-maple, glazing tangerine emotions,

As scarlet winds warble in accents of majestic aspens,
Responding in...

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Categories: yearnings, autumn,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eroticism of Inspiration
In swoon ‘neath golden moon and sable sweep
   let bathe with hues upon my canvas soak
     romance a mingle,...

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Categories: yearnings, appreciation, art, inspiration, night,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Love Is Eternal
Our soul's luminous light filters the depth of darkness
shining like a woven thread into the stillness of time
It was there where we met, in a...

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Categories: yearnings, love,
Form: Free verse
This Scar of Mine
There is a scar
                     ...

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Categories: yearnings, nostalgia,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Fable of the Night
O, my angel, how smitten are yearnings of lonely night!
Will lover’s fantasy enchant, dream of this dreary night?

Though alluring is its rhythm, are you aware...

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Categories: yearnings, romantic,
Form: Ghazal



Paper Boats
(Dedicated to one of my childhood friends)

You were one of those charming lilies
that bloomed, so fresh, in my springtime pond;
when my homesick wings of longings...

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Categories: yearnings, childhood, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Life
The heartaches of living are many
The comforts of living are few;
The truths we are told are not many
And the lies we were told have come...

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Categories: yearnings, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dandelion Wish
In the yellow of eve, I toss my dream
like feathered lint, a roulette spinning
along puffy breath of  air on flight--
tiny as wisps curled upon...

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Categories: yearnings, flower,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Life's a Beauteous Dream
I dreamt a dream that renewed kindred memories
Rekindling past passions of moonlit love-themes,
Enamoring love-embers blooming heartfelt longings,
Crooning hints-romantic~ life’s a beauteous dream;

When merrily you enthralled...

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Categories: yearnings, dream, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Celestial Choreography
As the glistening jewels 
         of snow cascade like 
ballerinas pirouetting 
     ...

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Categories: yearnings, i love you, imagery,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member home again -
I am home ...

oh, my heart
      pray, hush its cadence
         for the...

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Categories: yearnings, heart, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Only the Moon Understands
No stars tonight, yet eyes transcend towards bright moonlight.
Oh Moon, without words, we converse in lone quiet moonlight.

Angst of two hearts apart, shows in somber...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: yearnings, angst, moon, romance,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Hold the Dreams That In You Reside
Reject not sweet musings memories evoke
Extolling elation our passions amplified
Assuage the fervid hints emotions stoke
That eternal vows once callously denied

Let bygones fade away on skyline...

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Categories: yearnings, feelings, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Lost Forever In a Portrait of Love
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“Pristine your pose, exposed artistic allure” 

Canvas on easel waits patiently,
naked in formless thought
Inviting rapture’s brush strokes

“White on white destined pleadings”

Visions engulf watercolor yearnings
blending passion’s...

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Categories: yearnings, art, beauty, desire, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member dreams, sweet -
o there's a twilight magic in the mist
    it floats between the eventide and dawn
      attending winds...

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Categories: yearnings, dream, metaphor, night, sweet,
Form: Sonnet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things