Dearest ReaderDearest reader, I have many secrets
But I wont tell you now, I'll wait till you're older
Heavens know I have many regrets
But I wont tell you now, please wait till I'm bolder
There are many things about me you dont know yet
But I wont tell you niw as you rhetorically cry on my shoulder
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Categories:
beauty, sad love, self,
Form: Rhyme
Too Close To The Sun
Have always known my limitations
it's a fact that can't be missed
I'll always go out on a limb
and you're an attraction I can't resist
am I being reckless to gamble on such a crazy game
am I overconfident and like a moth to a flame
will I melt my wings
these and a thousand other things
will I crash and burn...
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Categories:
sad love, flying, romantic love, sad
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful EyesBeautiful eyes
Tell vicious lies
In the middle of a storm
I’m not surprised
I haven’t cried
Searching for your warmth
I love you
But who knew
You didn’t feel the same
Did you love me too
Or was I just new?
Your favorite little game
A brand new toy
For you to enjoy
My light died within me
I fell for a boy
It was me he destroyed
Forever lost in...
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Categories:
sad love, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Between Safety and Danger
tiptoeing
through a minefield
f r a u g h t
with combustible opportunities
a groom
jilted at the altar by bride
who'd rather stay
"just friends."
humiliated at his...
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Categories:
sad love, break up, devotion, love
Form: Narrative
Heart PalpitationsSo sick of this world and generation
they tryna take ahold of my heart confiscation
the taste is bitter or tart
when it turns to ashes
cremation
I still got attachments i'm full of frustration
love seems to be my passion
eternally waitin
cant find as if its out of fashion, yet i still got patience
bout to have me ration and give up...
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Categories:
sad love, heartbreak, loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Life Is But A Dream
Row, row, row your boat
Violently through the river
Up creek without a paddle
There is nothing left to give her
Row, row, row your boat
Crashing into the shore
Choking on all the sea foam
The venom of The Whore
Row, row, row...
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Categories:
sad love, betrayal, break up, love
Form: Rhyme
Speed DialHang ups,
I’ve got plenty of those
Like a phone with
too many busy signals,
I couldn’t get through to you.
I think the number you gave me was out of service.
You said, “Dial me up”
but the damn phone was a push button.
I called long distance,
the operator said
“Put another quarter in.”
Sadly I only had one thin...
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Categories:
sad love, 9th grade, angst, crush,
Form: Free verse
Pains with no reprieveYou take joy in seeing my heart bleed,
Because of your avarice and greed.
The pains you caused come with no reprieve,
Yet you’ve the audacity to leave.
I invested every ounce in you,
Your ponderings control all I do.
My bitter cries you heedlessly sought,
Yet you’re blind to the hatred you brought.
How can your mind ever be at peace,
When the...
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Categories:
sad love, anger, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Deeply SleepingChorus
I'm deeply sleeping
while she's breathing;
two breaths mixing,
two hearts beating.
Verse I
The wintry night totally dark and cold
embraces us, it can never make us shiver;
we keep warm and feel behind delighted
each heartbeat measures a minimal fear.
Verse II
The many secrets of past loves remain inside,
we've buried all evidence, too afraid to reveal any
of them that...
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Categories:
sad love, anxiety, betrayal, dark, desire,
Form: Lyric
The voice I once forgot was mineI was married,
but to me, it wasn’t marriage.
It was poverty-induced—
a fate sealed by hunger and silence.
I was an orphan,
taken in by my mother’s brother—
the uncle who accepted
that I could live with him.
But he was abusive,
an emotional robber.
He broke the seal of my womanhood
when I was just into the third of the teenage years.
Long story short—
he...
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Categories:
sad love, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Narrative
Missing The Good ThingThe good thing is I am never going to be crying,
But the truth is there is still this deep heartaching longing
For that very something with that very someone I am missing....
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Categories:
sad love, break up, first love,
Form: Sijo
Movement without motionInspired by Bob Dylan's song
"Abandoned Love"
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Your fire burns deep in my ocean,
But where is the ash of its burn?
It's a movement without motion—
A facemask fixed on the stern.
I would rather fight a phantom,
Than see your heart be fully claimed.
I chose you—perhaps at random—
To repair a heart love had maimed.
My heart still jumps into my mouth
Whenever...
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Categories:
sad love, anger, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Words That I Can't SayI wander the streets that my feet know you've roamed
Back when you were still here and this city still felt like home
I search for your shadow - love, where did you go?
Without you, I'm nothing, so I turn to what I know
Which is broken keys, broken melodies
A broken song for a broken me
I'm tongue-tied, can't...
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Categories:
loneliness, music, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
ember loverLooking at her is like
a grainy old romance
warped in a bathroom mirror—
time distorts in her footsteps.
She’s always smiling,
even when tears circle in her eyes.
Only on certain nights will she
pull off the mask
and fracture in hush, splintering inward.
She speaks little—
perhaps the quietest soul I’ve known.
Her days revolve around his breath,
his smile...
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Categories:
sad love, longing, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
A Reply To IntactLife span expires around 100
That final flash behind the brain dies fast —
If I could choose, I’d leave this fleeting land
Beside the man I love, my lifelong friend.
Yet fate is cruel; now I must live on,
As if the one I love has gone away,
Learning how to bear the restless storm,
From someone long lost in my...
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Categories:
sad love, desire, emotions, encouraging, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Sad Love Poems
Read wonderful sad love poetry on the following sub-topics:
for her, for him, friendship, haiku, life, lonely, lost, missing you, pain
and more.
Definition | What is Sad Love in Poetry?