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Lingering Poems - Poems about Lingering

Premium Member Lingering Love
She never did say, I could just tell Fear of the unknown, held her without bail A heartbeat so proud, subdued without sound Longing to speak..she walked away from a man For love and all its treachery In silence unheard... ...

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Categories: lingering, fear, feelings, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Lingering Dusk - Thomas Kinkade
mountains white bathed in the light of sunset bright dusk lingers sun's fingers are joy bringers humble homes with tent-like domes shine like chromes nestled here ...

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Categories: lingering, appreciation, art, nature, winter,
Form: Ekphrasis



A Lingering Dream
Someday to write the greatest poem The most powerful words forever to hear Someday to write the moment solemn Where time will stop counting — and prescience endears (Dreamsleep: March, 2025) ...

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Categories: lingering, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
The Lingering
follow the poolside shadows Venus of Delphi daughter of bitter waves peek through the peephole of my glaucous thorax open your byzantine eyes and spurn your locomotor ataxia one glance at our vitreous hands – a sight for blind sore eyes one brush of our riveted lips – gone astray in malformations one ponderous confession later – immaterial as a shadow of the lash let the weeping...

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Categories: lingering, imagery, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Lingering in the Rain
my muse my unspoken words our antithetical stories your charm your goodbye before the dawn i traced the lines of our fate never aligned the red string woven around which seems too weak your presence lingers around me like a shadow rain poured down before before we became alive before I let it out before I could hold on before you screamed it out I watched you being washed away...

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Categories: lingering, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Lingering Fumes
An empty packet of Gauloises, black coffee, a croque monsieur. An aromatic café breakfast in the Montmartre. Later I switch to Camels, a bumpy ride to seek out a friend in the sixth arrondissement, that night I left my Dunhill lighter on her bedstand. The cigarette lighter had value, I had haggled for it in Malacca, eventually a young Hindu guy reluctantly parted with it as if selling his...

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Categories: lingering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Lingering emotions
Lingering emotions, restless thoughts, Old memories haunting yet soft. Fleeting time grasped in moments, Echoes swirl of reckless promises. Lingering emotions, empty stares, Hollow heart , and soft regret Staring at the ceiling there I sat , Hinting a regret of what could've been said Lingering emotions, bittersweet disguise Those deceiving eyes breathtaking lies Every glance a hint ,a dare,yet I am left...

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Categories: lingering, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Lingering Questions
Can I die from a broken heart? If I smile through the agony Will it tear me apart? Or will I somehow be ok? If I drag myself out of bed Clear the poisonous thoughts Out of my fragile head Will I somehow be ok? Can I die from a broken heart? Should I lay here and never leave Or rise and focus on a...

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Categories: lingering, angst, betrayal, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Lingering Embers of an Abandoned Campsite
I'm drawing the sun on an empty ceiling But I still bring the clouds in my own way You wanted a goddamn college essay But there was nothing else to say She's the tortured soul in all of us Stare with sympathy until your eyes begin to rust Carve a smile into unsuspecting jaws ...

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Categories: lingering, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Under the vast, star-studded veil of the unknown, the lingering mystery whispers gentle secrets
Under the vast, star-studded veil of the unknown, the lingering mystery whispers gentle secrets, People traverse invisible battles, shrouded in night’s silent sighs, Each day we encounter wounded spirits, as fragile as morning dew, Hiding their sorrow behind masks of smiles, Like the moon concealed by fleeting clouds. Their hearts, like delicate glass, locked in fortresses of silence, Adorned with "No...

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Categories: lingering, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lingering Dusk
While I dillydally in my spring garden I smell the lavender before noticing the buds Dusk in a symphony of lavender hues Summer can wait; so can my coronation Lavender’s blue, dilly dilly, Lavender's green When you are King, dilly dilly, I shall be Queen Who told you so, dilly dilly, Who told you so? 'Twas my own heart, dilly dilly, That told me so I...

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Categories: lingering, allegory, analogy, flower, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Lingering Love
Words were lessened, hardly ever spoke If you've let me hear you in the night sky, darling I would have stayed woke Send me your thoughts, deliver them to my heart, So you can hear from me when we are apart If you see the darkness, in the abyss Please let me be your light, I could bring all happiness...

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Categories: lingering, 10th grade, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Lingering thought
Feelings, I hope not anymore. Today I dreamed about you, what I didn't in a long time. I sat at a chair at the hallway out of nowhere facing a blank blue wall. You came, didn't chose the direction where there was space, but next to where I sit. My legs were holding in the air the ehole time. You...

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Categories: lingering, anger,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought
In halls of time threaded upon the spindle of lingering thought, Youth sheds at dawn like dew entwined on strawberries, Weaving a veil of dreams and hopes, the storm is but a hushed song, The greatest gift—a mystery shared on pages of life yet untrodden. It is the whisper of the wind among ancient walnut trees, racing, Word before the...

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Categories: lingering, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lingering Winter
Autumn doesn't mind if summer lingers for a while Summer doesn't mind if spring lingers longer with her smile But Spring does mind when winter stays too long When her time comes she wants to bloom with joyful song So on the first day of spring Winter was still hanging around Spring was not...

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Categories: lingering, spring, winter,
Form: Rhyme

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