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Best Heavy Heart Poems

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Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of----

Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...

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Categories: heavy heart, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Arms of starry Skies
My eyes cry for
fuschia glimmer on 
indigo waves again,
but all I see are 
haunting hues
of black sequin
glittered epitaphs;
reflections of hollow 
clouds enveloping cold air;
building tension...

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Categories: heavy heart, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member We Push the Pen
We push the pen to make you feel
the gentle tapping of the falling rain,
the stinging burn of the summer sun
the heavy heart of despair and...

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Categories: heavy heart, poems, poetry, poets, senses,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Sadly Musing Life and Love
I sit alone as evening claims the day,
with common crow my only confidant.
I watch the sun sink slowly in the bay
while musing life and love...

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Categories: heavy heart, lonely, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Can You Spare a Teardrop
I cried for so long, so many nights,
and now no more tears can drop,
I'm all out, do you have some to spare,
cause you know once...

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Categories: heavy heart, cry, emotions, feelings, how
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Life Is Like a Leaf
We'll watch in awe and witness talking leaves
In multicolored hues their story told
With heavy heart their passing we will grieve
Their memory, like weather soon grows...

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Categories: heavy heart, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Today Is a Great Day
Today is great, and the sun is shining within,
The storms have said adieu to my joyless soul.
My sad, heavy heart instantly starts to grin,
Today is...

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© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heavy heart, feelings,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Battles with silence
“Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heavy heart, analogy, angst, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Cobwebs
rusted with disuse
heavy heart hammers in pain ~
spiders build cobwebs




10th January 2023...

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Categories: heavy heart, heart,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
I emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of 
…self-made...

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Categories: heavy heart, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lyrical Acrolect
P o e t r y fills my heart 
with lyrical acrolect:
slowly swaying 
my fingers
   to outstanding octaves, 
through 
  ecstatic 
...

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Categories: heavy heart, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poor Man Rich Man
I went to a poor man's house
There was an exquisite car in the driveway
I walked up to the grand entryway
Rang his doorbell
The chimes sounded like...

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Categories: heavy heart, heart, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In the Dark of Night
As you all peacefully sleep
My heart is awoken by the darkness of the night
I slumber through this empty house
For I carry in me a heavy...

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Categories: heavy heart, dark, december,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Prodigal Son
Waiting for his return, with heavy heart and a flicker of hope.


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Contest: Monoku #9 by Poet Destroyer A
Placed 1st...

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Categories: heavy heart, hope,
Form: Monoku
The Whispered Song
The warrior lays her weary head, 
With heavy heart she cannot bear, 
Burning tears stream down her face, 
As whispered memories touch the ear.

Her armour...

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Categories: heavy heart, childhood, daughter, death, dedication,
Form: Quatrain

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