Short Yearnings Poems

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


Long Ago

Let me go, set me free
For i can no longer bear the torment
Of moments past, such memories
Yearnings of old, too ancient
Form: Quatrain


Do It Yourself Detachment

D.I.Y of detachment 
demolish the 
ideological 
yearnings 
of a heart 
that was once
full of longing 
till there was 
no trace left
Form: Lyric

Premium Member Love Cinquain

Love CINQUAIN



Love
deep affection
warm intimacy yearnings
deep adoration devotion
endearment



2/4/2020
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2020©
Form: Cinquain

Premium Member A Simple Choice

Walking among our clouds of doubt
Our fate is sealed
with innocent ambiguity
Our steps are laden
with blind uncertainty
Our yearnings, like cliffs
fall away to guiltless verity

Premium Member Of Mind -- Ck

deep thoughts
heart's yearnings 
poet's mind's eye
disclosed, distilled, displayed
laid bare


     
       April 26, 2020
   Poetry Poetry Contest
 Sponsor: Charles Messina
Form: Cinqku


Radio...

Excruciations---
tuned up...

Yearnings---
beated out...

Agony---
amplified...

And---

A ripple ruffled through
the dampened self
to break
it's
Slumber...



V@@S...

Premium Member Vacation therapy

Exotic yearnings of sunny vacationing
Tropical dreams of tango and margarita
Vibrant colours of ambrosial gardens
I befriend a little corner of paradise



AP: Honorable Mention 2026

Yearnings of Childhood

Yearnings of childhood
distant echoes
of mystery, magical trains
broken tracks
the mind —
often late past midnight
senses
the source
strains… reaches…
for stairwells
of 
explanations

Where the Vine Has Grown

Grimly grown 
into the 
youthful 
yearnings
towards 
being alone.
Within this 
wistful world
woefully willing 
to wear itself down.
In order to be 
branded as 
something of 
your own.
Form:

The Woman Who Waited Too Long

THE WOMAN WHO WAITED TOO LONG

               Empty womb
        Springs tumble winters
              The clock ticks

            Plum blossoms
         Yearnings of passion
               Wept away
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Affordable Health Care

America believed "Congress"decided effortlessly for giving health incentive justification,"knowing" love may not open prior questions regarding special things under vague wrong xenophobic yearnings zonked!!
Form: ABC

Tempus Absumitur

No time for the memories,
no time to refrain
No time for the questions,
as answers proclaim
No time for the yearnings,
 regret hovers close
No time for new learning
—all time but a ghost

(Dreamsleep: December, 2015)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Escape


sensual touches sate a need that aids depressed hearts seeking passion patches to cover twin aches worn as scars from rejection escape needs fulfilled covers hold two stories told ~ desperate duet
Form: Other

Waves from the Tigris



Green woods 

Barefoot I walk 

Chalk half broken 

Unspoken yearnings 

Earrings from the caves 

Waves from the Tigris 

Enslaving existence 

Distances chopped 

Pearl drops

  ________

July 2, 2025

Premium Member Dreams In Ether

As
A
Bubble
Coveted dreams
Waft in the ether
Illumining opalescent
Hankering yearnings in your sanguineous veins stream
Awakening the enthusiasm to wake up each morning with a sense of purpose 











5-8-2016
Form: Fibonacci

Premium Member Simple Yearnings

Simple yearnings are the only ones I’ve ever known
                   Gentle as the sparrow’s wing forever having flown
Easy as the summer sun that rises in the sky
                 Just to be loved and to love for dreamers such as I
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Yearnings Stillborn

slate gray day's
nocturnal mood
souls sensitive
often brood

upon nature's
whimsy, caprice
yearnings stillborn
know no peace

darkness settles
in forest, meadows
'pon every plateau ~
doused, flames' embers
in shuttered chateaus
Form: Verse

Premium Member Kyle

Knack for keeping kisses and kindnesses kindled while
Yoking yearnings to stars without yielding to fear yarns and
Leaping over list of limits doctors labelled as his life so he may
Eagerly enjoy evidence of all his joyous emotions empower
Form: Name

Silent Voices

External conflict
(versus)
self-disaffection

The first a misdemeanor
(the second)
a higher crime

Inarticulate
powerful yearnings
trapped in between

Inarticulate
powerful yearnings
—of that forever lost

(Dreamsleep: August, 2022)

Premium Member We Sang, We Saluted

Remember when, 'way back then'
Our flag we flew -- to cheers, not boos

Old Glory, all saluted
No one taunted, no one hooted

'Star-Spangled Banner' folks sang
Off-key, tear-stained twang
     
We believed every word
Deep yearnings stirred
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Zen Mode

fear sets in motion
a negative desire
to experience denial
of bountiful abundance
that is always available

desire sets in motion
yearnings of ignorance
to secure an object
that is but a fleeting mirage
within the lucid dream

02-May-2023

Premium Member February

FEBRUARY

Fiercely independent these
Eclectic February days.
Bravado, masked in the madness of
Revelry’s raucous, windy,
Ululations bowing the
Aspens in prayerful
Resignation to the simmering
Yearnings of Spring.


John G. Lawless
2/1/2016
Form: Acrostic

Premium Member Monologue To a Passed One

monologue to a past one


and now you know
all of my transgressions
my rending yearnings plastered
and replastered into my heart
my whole self is bare before 
spirit eyes

will you judge me now as the truth
can no longer be wrapped in my body

Premium Member My Yearnings

MY YEARNINGS 

                  My yearnings only to get best
                  right reward what I do deserve.
                  If diligent and competent,
                  I wish for success to observe
                 and  reciprocation in I love.
Form: Rhyme

Long Run

Time passes
long wait...
And none of us
arrives at the appointment...
the watch of life
still loose
unmarked
the final moment...
But the inexorable fear
is looking for me
of our yearnings...
And we, when
we finally arrive...!
To our destination...

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