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Best Heart Aches Poems

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Now I Am Back To School
Many a year so far
a sweet sensation would within surge 
as back to school season 
has just begun..
The feelings of a child 
eager and joyful...

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Categories: heart aches, confusion, devotion, education, engagement,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member One Step Away From Eternity
Alas, I stand atop this mountain crest,
and gaze upon the valley down below;
the graveyard where your body lays at rest,
sits in the center shadowed by...

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Categories: heart aches, death, lost love, sad
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Night Bird Sings
When sleep deserted me
I crawled out of my bed unseen
To delve into the crevices of the dark
With the curiosity of an explorer
And the near comatose...

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Categories: heart aches, fantasy, night, poetess,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member O' How Long and Well This Night's Dark Shadows Oft Play, Poet Dedication Series
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE-- Number One- (INSPIRED BY AND FROM HIS FROST AT MIDNIGHT POEM).

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O' How Long And Well This Night's Dark Shadows Oft Play,
Poet Dedication...

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Categories: heart aches, allusion, appreciation, art, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Ashes - Edvard Munch
Inspired by Edvard Munch's oil on canvas painting - Ashes (1894) 


The fire of passion between us has burned itself out, 
These woods taunt us...

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Categories: heart aches, art, inspiration,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member If It Wasn't For Poetry
Sound of rumbling midnight train awakens young girl. The glow of nightlight invites her to soiree with poetic guests who, on inked pages, dwell. She...

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Categories: heart aches, passion, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Is Short
it seems in just the twinkling of an eye
life passes by
and one's left at the brink
with time to think
before the fall 
into the great abyss
where...

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Categories: heart aches, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Fair Weather Friends - Collaboration With Jan Allison
You told me we’d always be friends
Out of the blue our friendship ends
I was your ‘forever friend’ - you told me so
Now you simply don’t...

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Categories: heart aches, betrayal, emotions, friendship, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
I Only Understand Now
We talked at length
The hours we passed
The life you lived
Oh the horrors 
So many men's live snuffed
Oh Arizona, a dedication
Whose souls be at rest
Amidst oily...

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Categories: heart aches, death, father, introspection, love,
Form: Elegy
We Danced In the Downpour
We danced in the downpour

The rains falls
not hard, more of a drizzle
this late Winter night
leaning on the light post
across the street,
watching the light in your...

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Categories: heart aches, good night,
Form: Epic
Premium Member An Emptiness Inside
something feels out of place,
 maybe my thoughts are twirling in the wind
- i am just not sure which one, at this moment in time...

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Categories: heart aches, emotions, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beyond Night's Sky
Farther than mantles of a pewter night,
Comets reel in their own immeasurable world
Past earth's sky,  gloaming through lattices
Woven by celestial bands... a grandeur
From a...

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Categories: heart aches, creation, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Favourite Songs
I saw you across the room
You were with my best friend
Dancing to a slow song -Harvest Moon
You held her tightly in your arms
Then planted a...

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Categories: heart aches, love, love hurts,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member If I Were Your Love
What is love my dear love?
When you cry, my heart weeps,
when you laugh, my heart rejoices,
when you have pain, my heart aches.

How much do I...

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© Jay Narain  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heart aches, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Destiny's Door - Fiction
Nothing eases the unending sorrow
Of lost love that brought joy to each morrow
Wish there was something that could ease the pain
Of longing to be together...

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Categories: heart aches, feelings, lost love, romance,
Form: Rhyme

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