Best Lost Love Poems
Below are the all-time best Lost Love poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of lost love poems written by PoetrySoup members
tell the night to hold me -
I made for you, a castle
but I built it in the sand
I steadfastly tried
to constrain the tide
but the bastions didn't stand
I planned for you, an...
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Categories:
lost love, forgiveness, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form:
Lyric
It Matters NotIt hovers here, a moon opaque,
obscuring mountain trails I take.
No other living things appear.
A moon opaque. . . It hovers here.
I follow on along a...
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Categories:
dark, lost love,
Form:
Quatrain
Cup of EmptyShe pours him a cup of empty
From a teapot of childhood dreams
He loves the sound of her giggles
Hers is the light of a thousand moonbeams
Moonbeams...
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Categories:
lost love, addiction, adventure, beautiful, dream,
Form:
Quatrain
I Think of You - An Alternative Universe - 6From childhood it was a world of two...you and I...
I leaned lightly, leisurely against your heart and you let me in.
We were five I use...
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Categories:
lost love, best friend, cute love,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Like Ice --- the Waltz"Black Ice"
Sorrow flows from the first sunrise
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before
At core death awaits
-...
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Categories:
lost love, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form:
Alliteration
Love Beyond the PaleYou lay upon the warm wet earth
now ripped from limb to limb.
Your present shape denies the girth
of your form in its prime.
A life cut short...
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Categories:
abuse, devotion, lost love,
Form:
Quatrain
For One Pass of Your Breathyou write your words and they make me cry
you write those word and you know i die
but i've died so often now
i held you in...
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Categories:
lost love, love, love
Form:
Free verse
No Thunder Without LightningLightning rarely strikes without thunder,
causing havoc in gloomy skies.
Humans can't control their plunder,
seeking shelter until the storm dies.
Once, I was your prince - full of...
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Categories:
absence, angst, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
How Do I Hold the WindOn the edge of silence
beyond the mossy-muffled stone wall
a wind chime chants — faint, like falling sparkles of stars—
honeyed musings of a wind spirit...
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Categories:
grief, longing, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Whose Muse Elusive DewThe worldliness within the sphere
reflecting morning light,
as poignant as a single tear
idea bright is crystal clear
and frames...
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Categories:
destiny, life, lost love,
Form:
Rhyme
My WinterYou entered my room
a long time ago
across many summers,
now when this winter looks
at the trees shedding the leaves
you are by the closed window
leaning on the...
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Categories:
inspirational, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
The Red Leafthe raspy whisper
finally
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..
the crisp red leaf
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...
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Categories:
lost love, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form:
Free verse
Too Good To Ever LastToo good - to ever last suggested bpm 80
Vs1
When we first met, I never thought
that you could ever love me...
You were the...
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Categories:
lost love, break up, feelings, heartbreak,
Form:
Lyric
Someone Who Used To Be YouWhen splendor of love spun dreams ecstatic
Musings of fantasy waltzed joyous themes
On blossoms of meadows in prime of spring
And giggles of streams donning green prairies
I...
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Categories:
dream, lost love, love,
Form:
Blank verse
When Eyes of Turquoise Dyed the SkiesI see you ‘cross the vast expanse,
a love disguised in dreamy whirl
and clothed in raiment sun-spun gold
as wispy cirrus wraps your dance
the music of your...
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Categories:
lost love, beauty, death, grief, longing,
Form:
Lyric