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Short Wistful Poems

Short Wistful Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Wistful by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Wistful by length and keyword.


Premium Member Haiku 6
her wistful stare~
the smell of rain
        before it arrives...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wistful, angst, rain,
Form: Haiku



Wistful Winter
Wistful cool winter
Forlorn in her nakedness
Emulating strength...

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Categories: wistful, winter, woman,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Wistful
When I think how my life could be,
I see how life isn’t good for me....

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Categories: wistful, angst, depression,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member A Fall Tercet
summer,wistful waves-

september impressions me

a yellowish ,blue...

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Categories: wistful, seasons
Form: Imagism
Wistful Wisteria
bound to earth's glory petals of wisteria a blooming fury
...

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Categories: wistful, earth, flower,
Form: Haiku



At The Bridge
Walking on a bridge
A boat will reveal its beauty
Wistful sight image....

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Categories: wistful, appreciation, beauty, creation, image,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Hamish
on the mantelpiece
sits Hamish the Highland Cow,
dreaming of mountains...

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© Peter Rees  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wistful, dream,
Form: Haiku
Set Goals
If gold isn't found by wistful wishing,
set goals and have a mine waiting....

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Categories: wistful, future,
Form: Rhyme
Tree
Tall, strong, and wistful
Shelter for the homeless
And danger for praetors...

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Categories: wistful, nature
Form: I do not know?
Trinket
Trinket
Glass bells
Sweet tinkle plays
Wistful sparkle of joy
Teardrops....

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Categories: wistful, childhood, imagination, nostalgia, visionary,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member It's a Tanka Too
wistful view
of  5 7 5 7 7
fading into sunset—
accepting brevity
on its terms...

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© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wistful, appreciation, growth, poetry, writing,
Form: Tanka
Premium Member Strings Attached
a gaze felt softly
     pulling on wistful heartstrings…
           your puppeteer eyes...

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© David Mohn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wistful, desire, longing,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Songbird
Sudden shattering of silence with wistful whistling at noon.

Kim Rodrigues © 2017...

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Categories: wistful, bird,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member A Wistful Wish
May reading and reflecting remain ever in style
  The length of our days to whittle and while...

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Categories: wistful, fashion, literature, time,
Form: Epigram
Frozen In Crystalline - Number2
Fresh snowflakes fall, wistful from flight -
like yesterdays, our once warm bench fades....

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Categories: wistful, nostalgia, snow, winter,
Form: Crystalline
Wistful Thought
by Michaelw1two

 A relaxing rest
 all alone, within one's mind
 one truth presents peace

May 2013...

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Categories: wistful, freedom, political,
Form: Senryu
Wistful Feelings
In flights of fancy
    Dreaming where the wild geese go
    Over the rainbow.

    2/ 28/ 2018....

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Categories: wistful, feelings, sad,
Form: Haiku
Viewer
proud tree straight
shepherding the refraction of light
into wistful eyes  

Melinda Harris
June 2009...

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Categories: wistful, nature
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Remnant
I am the remnants of a man,
The embers, not the fire;
I am the leavings in the can,
The smile without desire....

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Categories: wistful, age, angst, anxiety, dark, depression, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Nimbus
The snob went out
I was alone in the mud hovel
Kind of wistful
After the sunbeam
I saw utter splendor,
Nimbus....

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Categories: wistful, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Nimbus
The snob went out
I was alone in the mud hovel
Kind of wistful!
After the sunbeam
I saw utter splendor,
Nimbus....

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Categories: wistful, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wistful
Listen to poem:
running on empty
longing unfulfilled
hearing only echoes
deja vu enthralls
written on tenement halls
subway walls
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Categories: wistful, memory,
Form: Verse
Fire Spirits
Dancing flaming figures of the 
wood/Wistful wonderful spirits of 
flame/Meditative my own mind you 
seem to have understood...

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© Jim Furey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wistful, allegory, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sunrise At the Beach
soft wishes, tender air wistful, simmering hope cadenced tears, falling November 6, 2022
...

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Categories: wistful, beach, sunshine,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Tears
an ocean of tears
drowns my brokenhearted soul
floating on despair
the wings of love fly away
my wistful heart seeks solace


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© Joseph May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wistful, sad,
Form: Tanka

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