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Premium Member Healing a Broken Heart
The bleeding sunset lingers on her mind
as night approaches and the sky goes dark.
Her soul is restless; how it craves to find
some words of comfort...

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Categories: a broken heart, heartbroken,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Broken Heart, For Sale
I have always been alone
I have always been the lonely one
In the corner, quiet and silent
Inside of dreams to come

So with determination
I build and build...

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Categories: a broken heart, beauty, fantasy, introspection, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow Old
You were beautiful, 
my tiny child, 
wrapped tightly in my arms, 
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless, 
you...

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Categories: a broken heart, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Time Traveler - a Visual Art Poem - POTD
POTD 6th Sept 2019

When the dawn kisses the dew on all thing that grow
and that first melancholy thought, ponderous and low
questions any relevant notions to...

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Categories: a broken heart, romantic, science fiction,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Yesterday's Fragile Truth
Betrayal devastates your trusting heart,
severing love's bond; before it can start.
And depression slowly entraps your soul
as disparaging lies exact their toll.

Chameleon clouds change to match...

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Categories: a broken heart, angst, betrayal, depression, hurt,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Caress My Soul Sweet Poet
Love's tend'rest touch, your gentle words reveal
Caress my soul. sweet poet, with your verse
Write dulcet lullabies which make me feel
Secure, like infants held at breast...

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Categories: a broken heart, appreciation, love, poetry,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Between the Words of My Father
I tried my best 
To live between your cruel words
Yet there was no room
I felt less
Smaller than small
So why didn't I fit?

I wonder
Now that you...

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Categories: a broken heart, farewell, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Phases
the night as black as a newly broken heart

      increasingly 
         the...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: a broken heart, lost love, moon, sad
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Why I Became a Poet
Because there is a God in heaven who demands an accounting. Because there are demons on earth who never sleep. Because the wind whispers words...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: a broken heart, how i feel,
Form: Bio
Premium Member Visits from Heaven



                 Was it really you dad? Not merely just...

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Categories: a broken heart, dream, father daughter, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member She By the Sea
I see the pain
Reflected via turquoise blue
Of the oceans hue
She stares out into the oceans depth
Lost
Her lover dead under the sea
The waves have made her...

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Categories: a broken heart, angst, beauty, conflict, death,
Form: Light Verse
A Long, Long Time Ago On a Cold Winter's Night
A long, long time ago on a cold winter's night

A long, long time ago on a cold winter’s night
Two hearts were broken the crest of...

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Categories: a broken heart, fantasy, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
I Owe You a Million of Thanks
You found me a broken soul
You didn’t need to know my past 
You just lifted me and carried me away
Your gentle touch assured me I...

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Categories: a broken heart, deep, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prayer For the Broken Hearted
Softly breathe on weary soul

                    ...

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Categories: a broken heart, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Heart and Soul Cry Justice
Love Justice made me wrest you from her bed
It’s right for you to lie with me instead
For you were mine before she came to be
A...

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Categories: a broken heart, pain, passion, sensual,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

Book: Reflection on the Important Things