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Best Breakup Poems

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Go Ahead I Dare Ya Breakup Poetry No One Should See
And He
my dearest
maturest mate to date
has bitterly regressed
to a child irate
from man of logic
to impish state
a hexer vile
filled with hate
while I don't believe
I've changed a...

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Categories: breakup, anger, break up, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



The Breakup
She's quite an intellect 
A beauty skinned in fair reasoning
Clothed in fumes of rationalism 
Her eyes were made up with eyeliners of 'what's your next...

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© Arum Dusu   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breakup, break up, confidence, encouraging,
Form: I do not know?
September
Soft eyes of brown, hair a cascade of curls, 
Your smile, a contagion that enraptured the world,
Dispositions like whispers of a wondrous spell, 
With a...

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Categories: breakup, august, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Rhyme
It
~ It is pure moonlight shining down on the sea. It is a vibrant rainbow after a dark thunderstorm. It is seeing fully bloomed flowers...

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Categories: breakup, 9th grade, beauty,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Mirror Mirror
Mirror Mirror

Do not lie. I know that you want to. 
I know that you may need to.  
I am broken, and soon…
You will be...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breakup, 12th grade, cinderella, happy,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member The Fashion Zebra
The Fashion Zebra

I am a flake. 
That is the term for people that do not follow through. 
It may not be fair. I have spent...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breakup, freedom, funny, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Food Bank Store
There's been bedlam down at the food bank store
Rushing and shoving through the opened door
I've even seen fighting there on the floor.

What's happening to people,...

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Categories: breakup, break up, child, food,
Form: Rhyme
Let Me Go
Insomnia? I think not 
I'm probably tired. I am tired!
But it does not register to my mind and heart...
These feelings has even caused my sleep...

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© Dee Raa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: breakup, boyfriend, break up, desire,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Brideshead Revisited
I lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I...

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Categories: breakup, england, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Hope Is the Path
 
"... they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings as eagles; ...." 

    ...

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Categories: breakup, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Things Go Wrong
Love hurts and people change. Things go wrong and things get strange. But life goes on and you only life it once. Be strong cause...

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Categories: breakup, boyfriend, care, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Say Nothing
Say nothing; I’m breaking up with you.
You're not the one for me, so we're through.
There is no way I can stay with you.
Say nothing; I’m...

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Categories: breakup, break up,
Form: Lyric
The Red Square Nebula
The word of anger spoken by the square
mouth of the dark, an interstellar swear,

addressed to who knows whom. A scarlet curse,
a four-horned furiousness, which in...

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Categories: breakup, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When We Woke, Suddenly Thinking We Had Died and Went To Heaven
When We Woke, Suddenly Thinking We Had Died And Went To Heaven

O' that aroma, jasmine fragrance from her hair
She virgin goddess I an uninformed young...

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Categories: breakup, beautiful, beauty, desire, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Night In Question
The Night in Question
 
	You ask again,
	about the night in question?
	that night in question, 
        three thousand ...

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Categories: breakup, emotions, feelings, love hurts,
Form: Free verse

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