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Premium Member Relationship Breakups
A hole in my heart
There is no death with this pain
Life with no living
The stomach cramps with sorrow
Hope lost with only darkness

Edward J Ebbs 


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Categories: breakups, dedication, depression,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Heartache's Milkshakes
On this merry-go-round

     Of breakups and breakdowns

Singing the blues

     In our ding-a-ling shoes

We take our heartache's milkshakes

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Categories: breakups, funny love, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreams Fade
You found your dream love
as a naive youth.
And asked God above,
to confirm its truth.

Yet that dream would fade
as the years slipped by.
But those feelings stayed
and...

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Categories: breakups, angst, anxiety, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Quatrain
Take Me To Your Heart
O, Darling
I want to be lost in the deepest core
of your heart,
as my soul flutters like a butterfly.
You are the woman I had been waiting
for,...

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Categories: breakups, beauty, deep, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lover's Fate
Was it the jewelry or cash.
Is this why we wouldn't last.
Was it the late night disagreements.
That led to so many arguments.
Tell me what was it.
Or...

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Categories: breakups, friendship, hope, love, me,
Form: Rhyme



Cheers To the Teenage Years
Cheers to the Teenage Years

Heartbreak and Sorrow, 
The complaining never ends
He never called you back 
And you're fighting with your friends

Partying and Hookups
Bullying and ...

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Categories: breakups, teenteenage,
Form: Rhyme
Love Is Never Enough
Your first words were so sweet and poetic;
and our first date so real and romantic.
Our first dance was so daring and dramatic
but now the tears...

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Categories: breakups, lost love, love, love
Form: Monorhyme
Girls Need Affection: Guys Need Sex
Girls need affection 
Guys need sex
When a guy knows he’s not getting it
The warning bells scream next…
Girls think of the future
Guys hold onto “now”
I think...

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Categories: breakups, break up, conflict, girl,
Form: Rhyme
Imagine a World
Imagine a world
Imagine a world with Equality and Respect
Imagine a world with no drugs
Imagine a world with no war
Imagine a world with no enemies
Imagine a...

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Categories: breakups, angst, caregiving, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
Mobile
Life was simple and unrushed 
There was a certain laze we had more time
Along came a device which took overnight
Our private time , deep into...

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Categories: breakups, technology,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Spring To Summer Romance
he was not my type
but by the time it was spring
i wore that man's ring

once he wore me down
i flowered in the garden
of his sweet...

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Categories: breakups, lost love, me,
Form: Senryu
Fornification
Fornification is my sin and I can't put down my hands because I confess this to Him and He is a merciful Lord of Hosts,...

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Categories: breakups, deep,
Form: Acrostic
Broken Relationships
So many times I hear of broken relationships.
Harsh words spoken…  
And broken friendships…

Even in many of the “Christian” homes…
There’s things being done
 in the...

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Categories: breakups, brother, confusion, daughter, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Diamonds Are Forever
Hollywood couples in their own dramatic way
Are like characters in a Shakespearean  play
To be or not to be
That was the question you see
When they...

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Categories: breakups, people,
Form: Rhyme
Christmas Biography
quatrains

My mom and dad loved one another
They said their “ I do’s” in ’37 
then birthed two girls with their big brother
by their tenth Christmas...

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Categories: breakups, 11th grade, childhood, christmas,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Reflection on the Important Things