Love Forlorn Poems

For Oliver's Contest. 31/7/25     Haiku: 5,7,5.     Tanka: 5,7,5,7,7.    


 came to hear her sing
to...

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Inspired by Stevie Wonder song "My World Is Empty Without You"


My love is forlorn without you
I imagine you alight like a fairy from moonbeam
Glitter like...

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When someone feels alone, forlorn
Like the world has left them to mourn
The charming joys, the wonders born

Rousing a gentle fate

Inspired by gifts from hearts so...

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I breathe slowly
       but...

She has hair like yours

I turn away
       but...

She had hair...

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Saturday nights at Barney’s
Rowdy Cowboy Honky-Tonk,
Our band sang soulful love songs
That cried while our guitars wailed.
We oozed moods for fresh lovers,
And throbbing hearts on the...

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See her See me in Artistry
A portrait reveals one’s secrets age-old
Eyes tell a story without being told.Quote - poets own.
I look into her eyes and...

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Light leaves its home in paradise
So bright, sighing gently on the mind
Alive, surviving night and giving hope
To those whose sight is sometimes forlorn
Lifting hearts to...

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The Face of Hope

The face of hope never masquerades in forlorn visages
Towering above spiraling pits in the dark midnight of essence
Breaks disingenuous chains of nightmare’s...

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battlements high of cold gray stone
	softly lit by rays of sun
there she walks while gazing out
	over the slow rolling waves of the sea

practice field does...

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Sitting on the cusp of dusk and evening
Placidly he ruminates where life has been 
When she still believed in vibrant springs
And exulted dawning of purple...

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FORLORN HOPE

     We were devoted on commitment
     ‘We won’t be apart.’
     Romance roamed,...

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FORLORN HOPE 

I accepted it was a forlorn hope; however, I still had a little hope
that I kept wishing my mother would give me the...

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i stand here
this dismal day
beneath the hues
of ashen skies
looking at these trees
still as bare as i
in emotions

i wonder 
if their roots
are as twisted
as mine
beneath
their earthen...

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Isn't it annoying to hope and never be truly cherry?
Do you recognize you were the lone soldier to run away?
When I reach the risky level,...

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He's scared, a shivering, sad and lonely soul,
today's version of a disposable man.
Panhandling on the city streets takes its toll;  
he's mocked and treated...

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