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Best Heartrending Poems

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Life
Life…………………….
 
Its mysteries
Its wonders
Babies born
Everyday
Thieves
Criminals 
New friends
New enemies
Adults pushing their   
Dreams
Threw their 
Children
Too many
 gangs
Not enough people
2 b their victims
Aids, STDS, too many
Things...

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Categories: heartrending, confusion, life, baby, education,
Form: I do not know?



Ashurah
(Every year in the lunar month of Muharram we Shia Muslims commemorate the brutal martyrdom of the grandson of our Holy prophet Muhammed (s.a.w) and...

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Categories: heartrending, history, islamic, remembrance day,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
My Love Story
et me begin the amorous tale of my love 
story,
In seven of ages a heartrending pillory,

With maximum make believe of childhood 
love,
Cycling after her with...

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Categories: heartrending, arabic
Form: Ghazal
Dream of a Saguaro
Although flowers bloom it’s awkward to say that they are flowers
because they are not flowers, but thorns disguised as yellow pistils 
and stamens surrounded by...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heartrending, flower, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
The Quickening of Haida
While watching Bill Reid’s wooden sculpture 
“The Raven and the First Men”(1)

One day, 
after the long and countless searches of bottom of the abysmal waters
with...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heartrending, allegory, birth, imagery, men,
Form: Narrative



Spy Breidenthal -Part 1-
“Without you, now I see
How fragile the world can be
And I know you've gone away,
But in my heart you'll always stay”  –Katie Melua


There is...

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Categories: heartrending, animal, appreciation, cat, dedication,
Form: Narrative
Echoes of a Silent Heart
Subject - Echoes of a silent heart!!

Bottled inside are the wounds never healed
Tears held back, songs without a melody
Words never uttered, thoughts not verbalized
A fire...

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Categories: heartrending, absence,
Form: I do not know?
Tale of My Love
Let me begin the
amorous tale of my
love story,
In seven of ages a
heartrending
pillory,

With maximum make
believe of childhood
love,
Cycling after her
with no worry,

To the taste of
truffles and muffin,
Felt...

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Categories: heartrending, first love, i love
Form: Ghazal
Starved Rock
On this peaceful land where we live comfortably 
with the neighboring villagers sharing the sun and moon, 
stars and clouds, winds and waters, rains and...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heartrending, america, pain, people, river,
Form: Narrative
Why the River Hebrus Murmurs
When drifting water of the river Hebrus murmurs 
a heartrending cry surges from the bottom of the river, 
and when this cry reaches the midsummer...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heartrending, heartbroken, horror, lost love,
Form: Free verse
When Sadness Haunts
Bewildered and haunted through flashes of memories that relive themselves
I sit and ponder and look into the sky
there is no pain greater than been lost...

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© Ovi Odiete  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heartrending, courage, deep, emotions, fear,
Form: Elegy
The Poor *****'s Rock
A woman who lost everything she owns stands there 
by the waterfront where the waves beat upon the shore.

The woman-transformed-***** is a prisoner of war...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heartrending, anger, cry, death, mother,
Form: Verse
Tragedy In Reverse
You make me feel so complete	 
You brought me up to my feet
You’re the good company that I’d like to greet
I shouldn’t ever doubt you...

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Categories: heartrending, beauty, change, devotion, grief,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member elegy, ours -
the stars weep ...
but not for heaven
they weep for vacant eyes
and hearts of parched desire
with tears untold ...
and uncounted

for where is the hunger -
the yearning...

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Categories: heartrending, analogy, appreciation, life, loss,
Form: Free verse
Collateral Damage
I look pleadingly into their eyes
as they pull the last of my fingernails,
The pain is excruciating and I pass out
amid my heartrending screams.

When I come...

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Categories: heartrending, abuse, power,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs