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Wistful Poems - Poems about Wistful

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Shades of dull titanium unwavering illume~ A Wistful evanescence is she Her orbs light gifts us freely ...

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Categories: wistful, light, love,
Form: Verse
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Micro Poem - 4/29/25 Seventeen Words ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Wistful Winter flees on Pensive wings Leaving behind ephemeral ice Longs to taste warm sunlight - Inhale lilac’s perfume. ...

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Categories: wistful, farewell, leaving, longing, winter,
Form: Free verse



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traipsing down moonlight's path bamboo sway on errant winds jasmine perfumes the air ~ scent of wistful memories ...

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Categories: wistful, memory, sad,
Form: Verse
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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
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Wistful, wondering why. Weeping. She cried alone, as she sat on rugged rock, ...

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Categories: wistful, lost love,
Form: Verse



Premium Member WISTFUL
forlorn woebegone in pensive musing this yearning this longing melancholy becomes a rueful pining almost nostalgic contemplation...

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Categories: wistful, word play,
Form: Verse
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,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wistful Thoughts
Dreaming of castles in the sky wishing that I could drop by I could maybe learn to fly Seeing unicorns passing silvery coats glistening as sun beams are shining Leaping frogs croaking at flies that are teasing by merely swooping Trees are slowly creeping ashes and oaks are bowing forest is breathing Ah dreams escaping each is speaking leaving me wondering ...

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Categories: wistful, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Snow
I’m getting old, and where I live I doubt I’ll see it any more, except maybe on screen When troubled towns are featured in the news, Or in those festive greetings cards with sleighs Or frozen pines, perhaps a coach or deer And mystery. Always its rarity was there, And as a child I’d pray for it to come, To fall like...

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Categories: wistful, beauty, christmas, environment, snow,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wistful
I felt alone, though there were multiple crowds around me. I felt, I should go to a lonely place and cry aloud. Why, though the environs are full of flowers, there's no glee? Death snatches the joys of the humble as well as the proud. You were young. You, often, dreamed of a new heaven and earth. Your thoughts, words,...

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Categories: wistful, death, friend, longing, nostalgia,
Form: Sonnet
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"Wistful/Wishful: sometimes if a word can ever be realized, just an 'alphabet' change will suffice," ... by the Poet The coconuts have gone awry, and its fronds they seemed to deny, their stumped stilts beaches pierce the sky, an empty beach where birds fly by, no imprint sole of surfing guy, except I write the reasons why, appropriate it with a sigh. It's...

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Categories: wistful, absence, analogy, appreciation, imagery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wistful
Written: April 10, 2024, For Constance la France Contest Rumi Quote: "Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed". ...

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Categories: wistful, dream, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wistful
Like branches of a rooted, sturdy tree my family survives- each limb entwined. ...

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Categories: wistful, devotion, family, love,
Form: Dizain
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"The pain is deep when the heart is spent"...Poet Your face floats through my mind in vaporous wistful dreams of illusion that drape over my soul in an invisible cloak of yearning the footprints you left on the soft ground as you vanished in the shadows when the rain poured the last cold kiss devoid of feeling frozen...

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Categories: wistful, lost love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
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~~~ Soul is the character that is made up of mind, will and feelings of a person and the spiritual part or connection to other humans while spirit is the deep connection to Him. ~~~ ~~~ Quote by...

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Categories: wistful, self, senses,
Form: Free verse

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