Poems about "Longing"
Another way to describe this feeling might be "long-distance love." Not the same as "Long-distance relationship," mind you. It's a statement on the distance between the lovee and the loved in mental miles, or in attitude; the psycological distance the lovee perceives between his love, inside, and her knowing.
- Witnessing
- Thinking about his love, the narrator describes some of how he feels about her.
- TrŽs Intressant
- French and German for "Very Interesting"; a peek into the thoughts the narrator thinks while he searches his mind for his feelings.
- Shadow Woman
- The narrator, after a particularly embarrasing or painful rejection, reveals that he still longs for her.
- Wide, though the Earth is round
- The narrator has an interesting experience searching for his love, with a surprise ending ...
- Off, as though we knew what we were doing
- The narrator meets up with a former flame, years later ... time may heal all wounds, but it does not extinguish all fires ...
- Twist Goes the Knife
- The narrator reads something from his flame that implies that he is less than dangerous ...
- Arise, sweet one
- The narrator tries to convince himself that he will survive the tests he is presented with.
- The Same River
- A Shakespearian-style sonnet. The river is clearly a metaphor ... but, for what?
- Try this for a change
- I don't know what to call this form, but check it out. It's basically a 2/3/3/2 (syllable) form. The narrator thinks some things while he or she is ... occupied (use your imagination!)
- If the grass were ever green on my side of the fence
- Fanciful conversation between the narrator, the wind, and the stars. Allegorical.
- Our friends, ourselves
- One view of how friends ought to relate to one another.
- Broken
- The narrator gets some news he didn't want to hear ...
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