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Yearning Poems - Poems about Yearning

Yearning Poems - Examples of all types of poems about yearning to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for yearning.
Premium Member Yearning
Body mind and soul my heart yearns for attention will you give it?...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, emotions,
Form: Senryu
Energy For Life
Burning, a furnace in my chest, a fire for life, a relentless quest. Craving, the taste of truth, the sting of the real, a soul in motion, a spirit unsealed. Raging, against the lies, the whispers that deceive, a warrior's heart, a spirit that won't grieve. Shattered, by broken vows, by...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, confidence, creation, endurance, heart,
Form: Free verse



Yearning To Rise
Tiny heart, world inside Waiting for a hand to guide I'm a seed, life's whisper Promise of a thousand branches Canopy reaching for the sky ROOTS! Plunging deep Earth's embrace, sustenance I seek Mighty trunk, strong and proud Touch the clouds, defy time's...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, anxiety, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Yearning Lips
Hearts designed to beat together torn asunder, grope and stumble Seminal streaks of lightning flash ...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, heart, kiss, light, love,
Form: Rhyme
Shadows of Yearning
In the darkness where our voices merge You moved forward, causing me to stumble and bend. Your gentle touch sparked a fire within me Now yearning, longing, without ending. You approached first, your eyes bright like...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, absence, break up, for
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Yesterday's Wishes
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. - Robert Nathan Folded in hope, singing light over the fading melody, wind’s song, Soaring on wings of mesmeric peace, Glorious freedom, rising to retell the...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, blessing, dream, hope, time,
Form: Free verse
Dry and Desperate
This longing in my heart A yearning as deep as the ocean An emptiness in my soul A void as the depth of the hades Like a fallen branch from off the vine I am as dead as the dried...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, absence, anxiety, depression, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Look Closely
Praying It was just yesterday, his love was a quiet smile, embracing the faith, the sigh, like a heart who can see, past the ugly in me, through the expanse of shadows, pouring over my naked palms, awakening dreams in a heart, who is...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, grief,
Form: Free verse
I wish you saw
I did great today. I saw pride in the faces of people I loved. I saw them open their arms For a hug, for a pat on my back. Cheers, smiles and praises greeted me As I walked past them...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, angst, appreciation, celebration, farewell,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Oh, land of yearning, soil of the pandemic
Oh, land of yearning, soil of the pandemic, Across your bereaved fields, a lone wanderer carries His tattered garment of helplessness, In his steps echoes the cry of the land that cannot comprehend him. Through your white villages, withered...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member YEARNING
"I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Pleiades
Yearning
Yearning deep Leaves cracking Pain shuddering Hearts beat Touches spark Wild teeth Run fast Forest fire Nothing waits Everything ages ...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, creation, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Through dreams in purple and infinity, where ceaseless yearning throbs
Through dreams in purple and infinity, where ceaseless yearning throbs, A voracious dance of constellations, through my veins relentlessly flows, It's an ode of bodies, igniting with touches, in boundless love aglow, And each whispering of fingers murmurs...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Faintly, Smiling Faintly
I tell the world of you, Your smile and your glow. The fondest embrace you gave Made a mask full of lies fall off, And gave tears to a dry set of eyes. I say, “Nevermore, will I plead For a...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, for him, longing, love
Form: Free verse
When Gone Again, I Sigh
When glancing at the shine I see your face, Morning dews like crystal gems gleam A rainbow reflection to your cheeks. When birds sing, I hear another tune That was yours, a hum so pure. I feel at ease Even when...Read the rest...
Categories: yearning, sad, sad love,
Form: Free verse

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