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Best Love And Loss Poems


Love and Loss
"I love you."
Three important words
To show how we feel.
Too oft spoken
And not meant
Or too little spoken
When it is meant.
To cherish one you love
Is a noble ambition
And oft under-appreciated.
To let someone know
The place they hold
Deep within your heart.
If we knew how long we had
To be with...

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Categories: love and loss, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How Do I Tell You That I Love You
How do I tell you "I love you",
when all that's left to listen is a cloud?

And the tempest has blown away,
all that our hands built.

How do I get answers to my questions..
The ones pleaded, and prayed, and begged for.. 
Why you, why me, why now?

How...

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Categories: love and loss, hope, i love you,
Form: Free verse
For Ronan
Your soul was being attacked
Meanwhile mine carried bags
Of sorrow, devastation and guilt
For I knew your little body couldn’t handle this
This cancer that sprung up out of nowhere when you were two
But you got your army men and went to work
Fighting
How strong your little heart was
Bigger...

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Categories: love and loss, cancer, death, i love
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Forever In My Heart
Sometimes I look around me
and I see an empty space
where you might be playing
a sweet smile on your face
You might be calling out to me
asking me to play
and I would be there with you
and you would fill my day

At bedtime when I read to you
before...

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Categories: love and loss, baby, faith, i love
Form: Lyric
A sinner
FYI BEFORE READ. this was made as a personal note to a stepsister i lost over time, this is more of a note then a true poem. but i felt the need to share.

A sinner

Was I born this way? 
Did I change after that night?
...

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Categories: love and loss, absence, allusion, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse
Time Means Nothing When You Love
you can love 
in a just a single moment 
so deeply 
that the loss 
is felt for a lifetime 

it doesn't take time 
to form love's bond 
sometimes it is immediate 
a connection of heart and soul 
that defies logic or explanation

these thoughts crowd the...

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Categories: love and loss, introspection, loss, love, heart,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member You Know I Loved You
Said I was stayin’ home today?
That used to mean lovin’ play?
But your look told me... you’re confused 

Then I went and said the words?
Shock was followed by the hurt?
Love doesn’t mean we always get to choose 

You know I loved you... please hear me 
You...

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Categories: love and loss, forgiveness, i love you,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Humpty Dumpty House
Humpty Dumpty House

A home.
The one he promised you.
That white picket fence,
light flooded rooms.
A swing on a tree in the front yard.

He promised,
I'm sure he did.
He promised,
to fill it with laughter.
It was where you were both supposed to dream.
The gathering place of love,
of family,
of friends.
Sadly,
it was...

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Categories: love and loss, hope, i love you,
Form: Free verse
ONLY YOU
[Verse 1 – Sparse piano, falsetto opening]
Sailing toward a horizon I’ll never touch
Whispers break me, it’s all too much
I’ve left the beach
The sun stood still, the breeze was kind
Now I’m adrift and out of time
I can’t find peace

[Chorus – Ambient synths begin layering, slow build]
Only...

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Categories: love and loss, conflict, death, death of
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Your Love Is Actually Boring To Outsiders
If you look deeply and madly in the soup
You'll find the Love Poem Generator.
Just insert your loved one's name,
Flowers, colors, nouns and verbs.
Up will pop your own love poem
Personalized and made just for you.

Actually, love as a topic is done to death.
Who really wants to...

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Categories: love and loss, i love you, loss,
Form: Free verse
Would You Know
if my days should end
i've loved you with all my heart
would you wake knowing

Song: If Tomorrow Never Comes - Ronan Keating...

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Categories: love and loss, death, devotion, heart, i
Form: Senryu
Premium Member There's No Way I'M Giving Up On You
There's no way I'm giving up on you

We've been together-seems like forever
it's been sublime spending my life with you

In our existence- there is a distance
There's no way I'm giving up on you
'Cause I still love you!

I can't forget- the way you left
there was no life...

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Categories: love and loss, caregiving, devotion, grief, i
Form: Lyric
Don’t You Dare Stay, Don’t You Dare Leave
I didn’t ask you to come.
You came anyway--
like sympathy could scrub
the blood off my breath.
Don’t you see?
My grief is mine.

You’re holding tissues
like they matter.
You’re speaking
like you understand.
You don’t.
Not the burn. Not the echo.

Let me fall.
Let me break and
crawl through it--
I need the splinters
to feel like...

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Categories: love and loss, grief, heartbreak, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
If Time Can Be Turned Back
If time can be turned back


The sky isn’t blue 
But my heart is blue
Maybe I still miss you
This world is cruel.
My heart was ruined 
But that is a proof
Proving my love is ture.
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Categories: love and loss, break up, first love,
Form: Verse
He and I
He happened to me like an autumn
Just like the change of leaves
It was sudden
But it was raining, raining on that day
Raining with black umbrellas and hurried footsteps
With wet papers and cold classrooms
Then, just right then
I heard a shrieky little laugh
Just a glance and I was...

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© Il As  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: love and loss, first love, flower, loss,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry