Best Heartbreak Poems
Below are the all-time best Heartbreak poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of heartbreak poems written by PoetrySoup members
Tell the Night to Hold Me
I made for you, a castle
But I built it in the sand
...
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Categories:
forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
My Affair With A Frost Flower State Of Affairs
There’s a beguiling danger in beauty…
seduced as I was by the fickle fingers of fate musingly stroking my hair,
I envisaged
this lusciously lavish landscape
of sun-raptured...
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Categories:
betrayal, dark, emotions, heartbreak,
My Heart Will Go On
POTD 30th August 2018
The gently swaying branches of the old oak should elicit calmness
And yet a sense of foreboding permeates the midnight air
Wild imaginings?...
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Categories:
grief, heartbreak, lost, romance,
Venus Gifts A Yarrow's Kiss
Oh, weeping willow shed your sorrow
on whispering breeze to soothe your grief
within whose breaths a healing yarrow
to whisk away tears upon your leaf.
Sweet rustling zephyrs...
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Categories:
emotions, heartbreak, hope, sorrow,
Midsummer BreezeMidsummer Breeze
How may I extol a midsummer breeze?
As soft as rose petals in cooling wind
That flutters leaves upon the verdant trees,
And endeavors to make...
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Categories:
flower, heartbreak, son, summer,
Held aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...
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Categories:
heartbreak,
Memories Of Bygone DaysMemories Of Bygone Days
O' yes, how well I remember her still
giant black oak atop big wooded hill
Those treasured days now long flown by
our free...
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Categories:
emotions, farewell, goodbye, heartbreak,
BEHIND THE SMILEJust another sinking tear
In this river full of pain
Racing fast to nowhere
A world that's gone insane
Hope committed suicide
Before I had the chance
Forced to live without...
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Categories:
heartbreak, angst, betrayal, break up,
BLUE MOON RISING ON A STORMY NIGHT - TITLES CONTESTBlue moon rising
on a stormy night
I sit sobbing
without you
Sadness,
when we fell out of love
The point of no return,
drifting apart
You broke...
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Categories:
heartbreak, moving on, relationship,
In Woes And Throes Of Sorrow
I rise and fall like melancholy tides
in ebb and flow of wistful disrepair,
our separate in consciousness divides,
the whiff of grief fills broken-hearted air.
Neglected now, heartstrings'...
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Categories:
emotions, heartbreak, loneliness, lost
Last breath of sunsetRoyal blue sky scattered sapphire clouds
On horizon embroidered in navy blue attire
Summoned by the onset of marigold sun
Emitting amber gold on tuscan yellow fire
Where...
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Categories:
heartbreak, sunset,
I died a little insideIn the silence of sadness,
what will the winds bring tomorrow?
In the sadness of silence,
my soul sighs soft breaths of sorrow.
Where did those rainbows go,
reminiscing happier...
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Categories:
angst, heartbreak, sad,
Dirty Laundry(She's Got Cooties)
Bitter every night, she speaks of another man
In dialogues, she rips and shreds my brothers sheets
Her moves are naught more than an exposed...
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Categories:
abuse, betrayal, devotion, heartbreak,
It Only Hurts When I SmileI put a smile on my face when I go outside
My friends all see the pain I try to hide in my eyes
And I...
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Categories:
heartbreak, break up, cry, divorce,
For SaleMy Heart
Used
Still beats
My Heart
Low mileage
Over rocky roads
My heart
In vaulted box
Shipping included
No strings attached
...
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Categories:
heart, heartbreak, heartbroken, horror,
A Child's PrayerClutched tight to my chest, the doll smiles lifelessly
sending vacant stares down the darkened hall.
A solitary line of pink light sneaks through a crack in...
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Categories:
bereavement, child, heartbreak, loss,
SHATTERED LIVESAfter all these years, we've weathered many a heavy storm
Now my life is empty with no one to keep me warm
Bitter tears I've sadly wept,...
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Categories:
best friend, betrayal, heartbreak,
HIT AND RUNEMOTIVE WRITE
I never had the chance to meet my Mummy
She was killed in an accident … they couldn’t save her
Hit and run that’s what Daddy...
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Categories:
death, grief, heartbreak, heaven,
Fat Girl Criesfat girl cries
big fat tears
splash
crash
down her chubby cheeks
down her pillar like neck
which was once
much like a swan
now gone
fat girl sighs
big fat sigh...
a heart groan of...
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Categories:
anger, beauty, change, heartbreak,
Brokenhearted sunsets
It's never anything big, just a nagging defeat
Of wanting to be exclusive in your ambit,
For in your eyes, I see an opportune disguise
Living as a...
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Categories:
heartbreak, love hurts,
A Tear Drop on a Rose
A Tear Drop on a Rose
For here I stand amongst the garden
Vines along the gated path
Songs of never left forgotten
Blooming in the aftermath
Thus I find...
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Categories:
grief, heartbreak, loss, sad,
Edge of a Whisper
How kind of you to open up my veins,
With little but his name upon your...
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Categories:
heartbreak, beauty, break up, goodbye,
The path I'm onNights once brought such pleasant dreams
But the sweet memories no longer exist
As persistent nightmares continue to insist
Those dreamy-nights never belonged to me.
Searching for meaning of...
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Categories:
heartbreak, lost love,
How To Fall'Saw you fighting back the teardrops
All by yourself........
You didn't have to say a word...
I knew just how you felt
So, you haven't been here either
Just happened...
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Categories:
blue, emotions, freedom, heartbreak,
Elder AbuseHe sits quietly in the corner of the room
and dabs his face removing the blood that
still gently trickles down his cheek. Flinching
from the pain...
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Categories:
abuse, confusion, heartbreak, old,