Short Languishing Poems

the languishing art
how many dream's die online?
a fine little net...

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Dead still the night
And still the moon cold naked comes
Languishing in my heart...

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Savage

Hurtful

Igneous

Nefarious

Grevous

Languishing

Enveloping

Sores...

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life
living my soul self
honoring my night dreams
languishing in my freedom
wallowing in my happiness
life...

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with such tenderness 
she plays the moonlight
soothing the warm raindrops languishing fall
...

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Imagination on hold
Just breathing
Killing pain is enough
Languishing
Mentally aware 
No where near ready
Oppressive 
Painkillers
Quietly
Respectively
Self serving
The
You...

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Lilting whispers 
Flowing softly 
Over my consciousness
Lingering impressions
Languishing from a dream
Tease and tickle 
Tempting my spirit to recognize
Ideas profoundly simple...

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dead men walking
predicting patterns
anticipating outcomes 
self limiting possibilities
languishing in darkness
blind leading the blind
a tragedy of our times

14-December-2022...

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Searching
higher than low
for languishing love songs
ears listen for the heart's desire
to smile


By Rhonda Johnson Saunders
Third Place in No Name/Ten Line Max Contest (Brian Strand)...

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That shining sunset

with its languishing colors

exhilarates the sky

but as it dims

the soul falters

and from its pinnacle

falls into the night

and its velvet curtain! 


date: 4/23/2017...

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My soul and rain are one
lost in despair
like an empty cold street
made of cut stone
neither ever escapes
its solitaire
languishing in darkness
both are alone!

contest Visual of a Verso
8/18/15
Frederic Parker...

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It is said that yesterday's the past
But it is not the first and last
Tomorrow's the future, 
It is fluid without meaningful suture
Today is a gift to all that are full of breath
But a bygone for those languishing in death...

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I met a jail bird in Fort Lauderdale
He needed some money to make his bail
I might’ve helped him get out
But I had no financial clout
So, he’s still languishing in County Jail.

written March 5, 2022...

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A hiatus in my journey
Comes with the languishing
Love we once shared.
Our paths diverged,
Never to rejoin.
A hiatus is complete,
Rendering me broken.
But not beyond repair.
Time will continue
Despite a momentary breach....

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Life
Long lived
Leaves the mind
Looking for love
Lost and found in time
Longing for a new path
Lifting the spirit aloft
Love finally happens again
Lines carefully written in a poem
Languishing in a life filled with meaning...

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Gathered in a field they wait
It is the father they anticipate
Languishing under the warm sun
Beautiful the song they have sung 
Together two by two they become anew
Joined as husband and wife in matrimony they live their lives...

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The shining sunset,

with languishing colors,

exhilarates the sky.

But as the light dims,

the soul of it falters,

as if a loss of breath.

Then from its pinnacle,

it falls into the night,

and its velvet curtain!...

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gracing growing garden gracefully
gleaming gauzy gorgeousness
forever frothy fresh fragrance
friendly frilly fragileness
lovingly languishing
lithe, light, lovely,
gardenia, gracing garden gracefully
gleaming gauzy gorgeousness...

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Alone

Suffocating in solitude
Drowning in dark despair
Languishing longingly in lost love

Forever in fear of fallings fatal flaws

Bent, broken, battered and bruised
Tired of timid trepidation
Complacent and content

Alone...

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Malta puts me in high spirits,
always have me twisting at the first sip,
languishing its energetic erotic spike,
total elevation only can you see!
awe! alluring gestures floats off my tongue when I am on my Malta.
 ©Al Juman 11/13/2020...

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We in pursuit of
Mortal dreams
Refuse to apologize 
For our ambitions 

We have not ever 
Conceived an inferno 
Would jeopardize 
Our being 

Not languishing fantasy 
Ambition is part 
Of our realities 
In which all mortal
Souls  delight...

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lovely lithe lively lemurs
languishing lovingly lengthwise
laboriously lightening our loads
laughing in lemur-like linguistics

lovely lacksidasical loving lemurs
letting loose leeches live
living lemur-like lightness
lollygagging in lemur-like ways...

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the beauty
of
 objects
a
clinging
  beaming
testimony
to
  tilts of taste

a renaissance
cradled
in
a single
         breath
an
intricate
   redeemed
     reflection
in an
     ancient
            mirror
the proof
  the evidence
of
life...

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While destiny ditched me dearly in a dire domain
my lumbering life left me lovelorn in a languishing limbo, 
With all of my lackluster longing long gone
my haggard and heavy-laden heart hurts heartily.



~Alliteration contest by Barry Stebbings...

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A billowing cloud descends effortlessly from great heights
Languishing momentarily near ominous
Peaks, quietly resting,
Surrounding tree-lined unspoiled vistas, while exploiting yon  zenith



A poem written in the duel styles of ABC and Acrostics

Bob Quigley
10/27/2011...

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