Love Hurts Poems | Examples

Letting Go

I  No longer look for any contact  
Your memory is fading like the past
Dreams we shared once alive
Dreams now give possibilities 
Values shape our soul endlessly 
Honor yourself and your family and open totally 
Dancing with myself is like singing in the rain
Future I welcome with excitement 
Fear is exempt 
Letting go has saved me 
Dreams are my right you see
Form: Rhyme

PERHAPS

“Perhaps,” he asked her nervously,
“There’s a movie you would like to see.”
She smiled at him and answered, “Yes,
There is this week, how did you guess?”
“Perhaps I’m psychic,” he replied.
“Shall I pick you up or meet inside?”
“Ah,” she said, “I have a confession.
Perhaps I gave the wrong impression.
I want to see the film, it’s true,
But there’s no way I would go with you!”
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Broken Hearts Destroy


A broken heart is capable of destroying
With ease the essence of being a man
Making it impossible for you to function
As it lays waste to your life's plan

Then slowly it begins to steal away
Your purpose and also your will to live
Continuing it's raid until you're depleted
In a longer have anything you can give

Your friends start to distance themselves 
You believe its because you wear a frown
The truth is sinister and harder to believe
They're afraid you will pull them down

When you have nothing to call your own
In the world has labeled you as a bum
Even your family will create some space
Quietly ashamed of what you've become

A broken heart only has one desire in life 
And that's to be able to hold you down
And the people you believed once cared
Ignore you and no longer come around

And then one day you realize you're alone
And nobody's there to lend you a hand
Your broken heart is trying desperately 
To hold you forever under its command

Will you be able to stop from falling
To the deepest depths of this living hell 
Will you be able to mend your broken heart
Or be another sad story that people will tell
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member I Feel Fire

      I see fire , feel fire
    
     Passion piercing heart.

      Ashes of lost love to fly.

      Bubbling blood to flood.


                  Sensing betrayal in smoke.
      
                   My heart is burning.

                   No consolation to soul.
             
                   Fire purifies.
Form: Other

Premium Member I Didn't Know

I didn't know all this time it was wrong
To have feelings so soon, so strong,
Until I lived through a chain sequence
Of swinging between lust and limerence.

I didn't know people would be so shallow
About matching with me: leaving me hollow.
I carried myself through every heartache,
I consoled myself each time in a new take.

I didn't know I was being innocently lead on,
With how each of them came and gone.
I sit alone in my room, wondering why,
Was it me or just because they were "shy?"

I didn't know how hard it is to find love,
How hard it is to pursue them without shove.
I'll always grieve my losses in romance,
But I know one day I'll have my chance.
Form: Quatrain


Premium Member I Was Stupid For Loving You

You never cared about me really.
It hurts to finally open my eyes and see.
Now I just feel so stupid and lonely.
I am nothing but a fool to society.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member Not A Fairy-Tale

what gives,
in tunnel waves,
a burial,
a three sixty
of tumbling
of the numbing
a red forest,
sleeping
needles here,
gently
pressing
against
her chest....
Painful
tomb,
not here,
near
to explode
near
her womb.
What's real,
a here,
of an object
of a princess
not crumbling
to your wishing
of her seas
Just leave
and her sleeves
in defense
of not wish to be.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member In love heresy

What truth hides
behind locked closets
that we bang
and try
to smash down.
Infinity
is eternal,
Your voice,
sweet to my throat.....

I was out of line
when I unlocked
and the door creaked
and something clicked....

Smooth shiny hair
in a bar of moments,
tender sweet flesh
I wish I wasn't there....

I wish I could escape
outside the mirror,
the abyss of gibberish
is all of something
like drunken-ness

Best friends like
a married rapid couple,
and I so much wish
it had remain so......
Your winning personality,
I guess just won me freely
without your heresy.

Gaelic Farewell

I say in love farewell.
I shared in love to you,
My thoughts and all my feelings,
Words my dreams outgrew.

I saw your beauty with eyes
That pity a blind man’s fate
For missing your heart’s radiance
That I will never shake.

I speak of twenty Helens,
Props to Marlowe and Poe,
But nothing else can match
The beauty with you I knew.
Form: Rhyme

Don Juan

She believed in love at first sight
was deluded and double-crossed
one more time put her heart on the line
everything she once had now is lost
never knew no one who'd dissemble and lie
stab her in the back as he looked her in the eye
made the mistake of giving him her trust
now she's all beat up broke down battered and bust
she who had the faith love conquers all
was duped deceived taken for a ride
if she knew then all she knows now
there'd be no heartbreak she'd be dry-eyed
what a charmer come to no harmer
he enticed her then sliced and diced her
he's a two-timing four-flushing freak
if anyone ever was the perfect portrayal of one
living on a diet of deception and betrayal
he's a true Casanova a real Don Juan
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Deserted

Deserted; you have left me 
wandering alone, only my mind 
to accompany my sad song. 
I sing it to an audience of one; 
myself. 

Confused; I remain lost, 
you say you love me, 
yet you refuse to speak 
the language of both 
our hearts. 

Waiting; my passion pleads 
to be expressed in its fullness, 
with no bounds, no limitations, 
even beyond our own 
expectations. 

Unrequited; I will not settle 
for one such as this; who fathoms less, 
who is unable to measure up 
to her own promises which 
I once accepted as reality.

A small garden

I'm a small garden of the soul -
A place where we keep patience in tending roses...
thinking of each other,
trying to blossom like flowers.

Anh oi
I'm not a fickle wind
That blows whenever I want
or only when your heart desires...

#hongphuongphan
Form: Rhyme

The bird couldn't do it


Gondola was prepared to welcome you 
You desired the white clouds instead 
A void settled on the palm of my hand
The bird too couldn't unfold its wings

              ________________

            6 September 2025

Premium Member break-up Senryus

Quick break-up Senryus.
Pick one to quickly, cut that old
relationship cord:

I'm sorry, say what?
I can't hear you (confused look)
- we’re breaking up.

You’re the guy that
every girl at our school wants
- it's their lucky day.

It's time that we took
our relationship to the
previous level.

I still cherish the
initial misconceptions
I had about you.
.
.
Songs for this:
Lovefool by The Cardigans
Nothing Can Stop Us by Saint Etienne
Forever by X-Cetra
Form: Senryu

Premium Member the dead choir

this choir only sings for one,
when once, blue-birds two,
the reflection of the splashing,
two souls, laughing against rapids,
when you danced, under moonlight,
I lost myself blinded to your sight,
a heaven, swiped two hands twice,
a mourning for a special someone,
the dunce springs off youth,
the affection of hand holding,
two nouns of sublimity,
Wish to rewind before that night.

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