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Best Jilted Poems

Below are the all-time best Jilted poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of jilted poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Wild Sage
The breeze annoying trees entices me,
I drift away    afar to fields abloom,
with silver tongues untied their whispers free —
..ah, prairie-weed does burn...

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Categories: jilted, first love, flower, lost
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Dangerous Dalliance
Perilous is the journey, sordid is the quest, flashing flirtatious desire,
Treacherous is gaudy aspiration, playing with torrid flames of fire;
No matter how thrilling, how visceral...

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Categories: jilted, desire, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sleep Paralysis
“Sleep paralysis is like a waking nightmare, except you can’t escape it.” – Unknown



Tonight, when the 
jilted bells toll, 
my decayed 
soul sighs,
I lay paralyzed...

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Categories: jilted, dark, night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Only You Knew
Withered meadows of yesteryears ache, recalling memories forlorn,
As discords of then mourn, assailing vibes of now, emotions torn;
Yet I believe, love would have still vouched~...

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Categories: jilted, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope
While gelid breezes of winter, quiver emotions of decaying rays,
And arc of horizon cedes to dusk, evoking grimace of malaise,
Casting shadows tenebrous, shrouding glimmer of...

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Categories: jilted, hope, inspiration, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member All Her Dreams Turned To Dust
No one followed her as she ran away
fleeing from the altar on her wedding day

She’d been jilted by Jed her handsome groom
so locked herself away...

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Categories: jilted, betrayal, sad love, wedding,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Endless Chorus of Tears - Diana Ross Tribute
Her life turned upside down, endless chorus of tears,
jilted she hoped he would stop in the name of love.
What was once endless love was now...

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Categories: jilted, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Garden Party
All dressed in green, the rose bush beams
like a child's blushing cheeks and pursed lips;
these debutants jilted by bees
forever wanting to be kissed.
A carpet of...

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Categories: jilted, garden, nature,
Form: Sonnet
Rabbit Don'T Run

My shy moth eyes
were attracted to the beauty of your flame
The pleasure of knowing you
was worth the risk of me feeling the pain
From the hurt...

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Categories: jilted, allusion, angst, dark, sad
Form: Ode
Premium Member Sense and Sensibility Speak
He was debonair, full of flare
charm exuded here and there
but she was so unaware
and she let her heart to dare
poured out love and all her...

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Categories: jilted, books, love,
Form: Monorhyme
Premium Member Inspector Tweede
There was no finer detective than Inspector Thaddeus Tweede of Scotland Yard!
He was most astute in solving crimes and could quickly detect a fake canard!
He...

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Categories: jilted, funny, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Abandoned At the Altar
ABANDONED AT THE ALTAR


You cast me aside
Like an unloved old rag doll
You no longer wanted me.
Jilted as your bride
Your betrayal took its toll
Where is my...

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Categories: jilted, betrayal, heartbreak, wedding,
Form: Sedoka
Ode To the Salty Tear
O' Salty tear, a mere clear drop that you are
You've emerged for a million different reasons
many of which only the shedder knows
for you've emerged in...

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Categories: jilted, sorrow,
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member Ophelia: the Evergreen Heroine of Shakespearean Tragedy
The quintessential of nyctophilia, wrapped in bridal attire, slowly and slowly as in somnambulism there goes the heroine of timeless tragedy to supersede her lovers...

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Categories: jilted, angst, anxiety, books, conflict,
Form: Free verse
The Clock It Mocks
Left out in the cold
Silent night; my jilted star
That once blazed in cherish across her world
That once lit up her heart and twinkled her toes
Now,...

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Categories: jilted, break up, heartbroken, jealousy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs