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Lost Poems | Examples of Lost Poetry

Lost Poems - Examples of all types of lost poetry to share and read. This list of lost poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples of lost poetry. This list of works about lost is an excellent resource for examples on how to write lost poems.
Happiness after heartbreak
It's tough I know, moving on From a long relationship, now sadly gone You sit and cry and reminisce Of all the memories you Yr first kiss You go through life with its ups and downs Sharing the worries the...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, break up, depression, family,
Form: Free verse



Lost Between
The backside of tomorrow The frontside of today Every look retelling Of what the past betrays Caught within the doldrums All time fades in the mist Until that day that ends itself And nothing more — exists (Dreamsleep: June, 2024) ...Read the rest...
Categories: lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unfinished
Sunlight spills onto the hardwood, seeping through a crack of the hallway’s last door. Steps echoing heartbeats, click, click; click, click, a building crescendo like coming thunder. A hesitant nudge spreads the door's gap, releasing an ominous creak with a surge of sun. The thick silence swallows the...Read the rest...
Categories: color, farewell, grief, lost,
Form: Free verse
Come Back to Me
I have made my decisions in this life I'm living. Put forth my best to bring you happiness, but I'm still giving. I watch my family regather, Sharing moments of joy and laughter. I too am pursuing what everyone's after— a...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, appreciation, feelings, forgiveness, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member this is the reroute 2015
THIS IS THE REROUTE THE RUT FOR THE RAM NOT LIKE A DODGE WHERE YOU GOT ALL YOU CAN THIS IS THE REROUTE LIKE A YEAR FOR A SCORE A WANDER NOT REACHING FOR A HEART TO WANT MORE THIS IS THE REROUTE...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, analogy, car, encouraging, growing
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Rescue of innocence
you have draped your innocence in the warmth of muslin your dark eyes speak of your loneliness in this strange land your lips whisper within yourself your desires when they should be screaming out loud for justice do not...Read the rest...
Categories: lost, anti bullying, child abuse,
Form: Suzette Prime
The Empty Room
The room beckons to me, Its silence speaks to me, There’s a volume in its emptiness, A mystery in its void. The past is revealed, The hidden is shown, I see children in a meadow, Playing in the embrace of twilight. There’s a...Read the rest...
Categories: children, dark, lost, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pieces of a dream
Now and then things remind me. Of a time, none could find me. And the place where your eyes did. In the raw candor of summer. Where wine and secrets poured. Out of your mouth. Into a somnium reverb. As the night...Read the rest...
Categories: deep, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sunflowers
I'll bring Sunflowers calling on you, Dear. Bouquet sworn vows until promises wear time's ragged edge begs my suicide flight from top floor ledge I miss...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shape Shifting Soul
The songs I sang in my lives before, still I hear sometimes in my dreams, the silence I know from times past, had voices that once spoke to my soul, the tears are memories that rain through, but the sadness...Read the rest...
Categories: blessing, confidence, fantasy, lost,
Form: Free verse
Trust Me
"Trust me," he said, and gave me such an impish grin it melted my apprehensiveness. "I wouldn't lead you astray." And so I did, trust him, and let him lead me down the garden...Read the rest...
Categories: desire, emotions, feelings, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Always On My Mind
Not a day passes that I do not think of you, when I open my eyes in the morning; when I am going about my daily activities, ...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love,
Form: Verse
My Love
You were going to be my forever, Had a whole life planned for us, You made me lighter than a feather, Floating, loved, careless. All my life waiting for the girl of my dreams, Finally found my one and only, All...Read the rest...
Categories: heartbroken, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
What I believed
Looking back, I shouldn't be surprised at all; thinking of the lies they claimed were gospel true: Humpty Dumpty didn't sit upon the wall, families don't really live inside a shoe, Jack and Jill just made it up about...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Farewell
He’s the same, as usual What a boring man Utterly delusional Is his far-fetched plan Sitting in the arm chair With his eyes shut Doesn’t seem he’s there Where his body’s at Would you like to tell him What he didn’t know If it could...Read the rest...
Categories: deep, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Lost Poems

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