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Ache Poems - Poems about Ache

A Map of Quiet Fires
Her skin drinks light like rivers take rain, each dappled edge and sun-struck curve, a landscape under my hands, soft yet severe, where desire meets the edge of breath. Fingers trace the small hollows of her hip, catching sunlight in each soft valley, dipping, trembling, as if they might slip into some dark, endless tenderness. She is a map of quiet fires, a fever...

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Categories: ache, desire, kiss, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Familiar Ache
I keep planting gardens in my wounds, wondering why everything tastes like rust. Maybe I don’t want to heal— maybe I just want prettier scars. Some nights, I mistake my reflection for something I’m supposed to save. It’s not love. It’s recognition. I keep circling the fire because I built it. I don’t miss the pain— I miss having something to blame. I never wanted happiness. I wanted...

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Categories: ache, anxiety, conflict, dark, memory,
Form: Free verse



Aftertouch
I loved like a flame with no wind to fight, still I flickered—just to feel alive. He never stayed, but always lingered. The echo outlasts the word. I reach for what was never mine. Even ghosts are warmer than silence....

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Categories: ache, memory, silence,
Form: Free verse
Unsaid Prayers
She rose at dawn and laid the mat, not from longing, but from old habit. She bowed, then sat, hands curled in form, but the heart lagged— a breath behind. Whispers once lush now stumbled dry— echoes of names once called with fire. The tasbih clinked without intent, rolling bead by bead without a soul. She used to plead, soaking her sleeves, but now she blinked and called it done. Ameen, she mouthed— not out of...

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Categories: ache, endurance, god, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fragment of a Burning
Your voice cuts through my morning thoughts, While coffee grows cold in my hands. I memorize each word you speak— How foolish love can make demands. You mention rain and subway delays, Small troubles that fill up your day. I turn them into precious things, Though you mean nothing that you say. My friends show pictures of their dates, While I rehearse what I...

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Categories: ache, cute love,
Form: Quatrain



Ache
I am sick with want a hand to touch a kiss to hold an ache for something old as time, but new and blooming. To feel my teeth against teeth To laugh at how simple falling in love is To love, stupid fumbling love, unendingly to open my heart ...

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Categories: ache, cute love, kiss, longing,
Form: Free verse
A Last Whisper to Us
Even when the sky is cracked and grey, Adoring arms can’t hold what’s meant to part. Ghosts of your voice dissolve into the day, Left behind, a hollowed aching heart. Oceans of grief drown the words unsaid, Fractured time blurs love into decay. Grief gnaws softly where our dreams have fled, Memories fade like ghosts at bay. Days pass, but the ache still...

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Categories: ache, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Toothache
He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache William Shakespeare 'Cymbeline' (1609-10) act 5, sc. 4, l. [176] apparently, Mr. Shakespeare never needed a root canal!...

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Categories: ache, sleep,
Form: Monoku
Snowstorm
I danced with you through a snowstorm. You danced with me through the rain. Now I dance alone every winter, and cry every time that it rains. I see your residual image; I blink, and then you fade away. ...

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Categories: ache, absence, age, break up,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If That Wasn't Love
"If that isn't love The ocean is dry There's no star in the sky And the sparrow can't fly If that isn't love Then heaven's a myth There's no feeling like this If that isn't love" -Dottie Rambo How can this screeching ache persist deep in my bowels? Like he's continuing to rip my heart to shreds everyday. The promises we whispered ...

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Categories: ache, angst, break up, divorce,
Form: Free verse
Even When You're Near
"Even When You're Near" I saw you yesterday. You’re not far. Maybe five minutes, a handful of quiet streets. But I miss you. Not because you’re gone, you’re not. It’s just that the world feels softer when you’re in it, next to me, not just in thought. The couch feels bigger....

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Categories: ache, emotions, i am, i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Aging of Pain
ache lingers close a soft breath where pain once roared— gentle thief of hurt ...

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Categories: ache, emotions, forgiveness, loss, time,
Form: Senryu
Estranged
We are Estranged But— I hope my image stays in your mind forever —etched in your memory until your last breath. Whenever you tuck a strand of hair behind her ear—maybe, at least once, you'd reminisce about me. I feel unsettled, yet sometimes, I wish that when your lips meet hers, a faint echo of my taste still lingers. It...

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Categories: ache, absence, desire, destiny, faith,
Form: Free verse
Breath of a Forgotten Night
I don’t particularly remember it, Yet when midnight whispers through the air, —My heart aches. A sudden hurt, a lonely ache, As if the past is breathing near, A moment lost, yet somehow known, When the air smelled just like this, And I was breaking too. It feels like my heart is holding on, Though my mind can’t trace the past. Some feelings don’t need...

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Categories: ache, deep, freedom, imagery, immigration,
Form: Free verse
ACHE OF A THOUSAND SUNS
A thing that yearns in constant devour, And finds itself to be a constant sour, Totally dissolute… and an accumulation of none, Is the thing that burns, at a constant run. For the thing is… in all its effortless glory, The ache of a thousand suns. ...

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Categories: ache, art,
Form: Free verse

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