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Forlornness Poems - Poems about Forlornness

Forlornness

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Empty room, cold light, 
Shadows lengthen, silent walls, 
Heart's soft, fading beat.

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Categories: forlornness, loneliness,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberCadence Of Death

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Inspired by Iron Maiden’s song Dance of Death


When the transiting sun shined enchantingly,
spreading color spectrum in the chameleon sky,
I saw once the masked figures of ingenious craft, ...
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Categories: forlornness, analogy, death, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberLost Forlornly in Space

...Inspired by Iron Maiden’s “The Final Frontier:
#18 on Best New Poems List , May 16, 2025

I am but one person
on a mission that went wrong -
locked out of the safety
of the spaceship I was on.
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Categories: forlornness, science fiction,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberBe What You Are

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The frolic boughs of trees tremble,
butterfly-latticed leaves flutter 
in the trail of summer squall, 
where the feisty forest plays with foliage.
Don’t make your mind 
a sprawling forest of...
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Categories: forlornness, analogy, life,
Form: Free verse

Numbers of love

...A night slipped away, 
one wept to sleep, one had bunches to dream. 
A couple of lines the poet wrote, 
nothing that the muse saw. 
Three simple words kept the lovelorn up, 
four texts sent for ...
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Categories: forlornness, cry, heartbroken, hurt, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberNo Cuddles In Shadow

...Written: October 09, 2023
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There are no blooms to snuggle in the twilight
No promise that it will ever reach the zenith.
Either the sky is c...
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Categories: forlornness, analogy, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSoul Battle

...Written: October 05, 2023
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Where the paradisiacal angels reside.
A myriad of creatures, ebony and betide
A dinkum dissolut...
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Categories: forlornness, analogy, appreciation, birth, death,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberKaleidoscopic

...“The rays of setting sun design the unframed dreams 
in life’s kaleidoscopic snapshot.” – by Poet


The revolving wheel of the ceaseless time 
rotates the contrived kaleidoscope of life,...
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Categories: forlornness, analogy, change, dream, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSoul Harmony

...paradoxically my forlornness
          profound
aggravation runs  high gear 
          can't drown

thrash around 
then toss back 
          the cover

dropping knees 
          shout out u...
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Categories: forlornness, appreciation, beauty, god,
Form: Other

Premium MemberThey Sip Soul's Ambrosia

...In the desolate domain of eerie milieu 
under the ebony opaque sky, 
on the murky hideous landscape 
the nocturnal creatures prowl and try
to stalk those who can’t see 
the nightriders s...
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Categories: forlornness, dark, night,
Form: Rhyme

Eagle Fly

...Eagle's trip of forlornness 
Starts off lofty 
As it spreads 
Its forceful wings 
And ascends 
On the breezes 
That bring the tempest...
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Categories: forlornness, bird, flying,
Form: Free verse

Eyes of Diversity

...We are children of the central sun, 
secular seclusiveness becoming none…
Fallen angels in a spiritual spun,
pious partitions of a secretive stun.

Sceptical segregational spores, 
seductresses...
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Categories: forlornness, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Nightfall

...As the night falls from interstices of burning clouds, lumbering through the broad sky like grazing herds of sheep
There comes a great forlornness through the deep forests of Zambia.
Land marked by...
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Categories: forlornness, 1st grade, animal, extended
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Premium MemberA Palace of Aloneness

...A Palace of Aloneness.

This palace of aloneness is not my home. 
It's bricks know only the time of run-off bygones.
Transition past it's thousand entrances 
Impaired with creeping ivy 
Into it...
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Categories: forlornness, endurance, feelings, loneliness, longing,
Form: Free verse

The Old Unemployed Man Or a Suburban Poem

...His oars (mind, arms, and legs)
were insufficient as propellers to earn a living.
In the underground´s nasty passageway;
or was in his life´s nasty passageway?
Anyway! There, he, like an imbecile...
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Categories: forlornness, age, destiny, fate, hope,
Form: Ballad

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