Best Sad Love Poems
Below are the all-time best Sad Love poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of sad love poems written by PoetrySoup members
I Wandered Lonely As a Boat"I wandered lonely as a cloud." William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a boat
a shallow dingy left behind,
alone in marsh...
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Categories:
sad love, age, boat, fate, lonely,
Form:
Lyric
Some Hearts Can Never Be TamedOnce when my soul spoke,
you betrayed every word.
Then your tongue promised
to only sing with sincerity.
I danced for a brief while,
lost in your angelic orchestra.
Until...
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Categories:
sad love, angst, loss, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
sad love, lost love, moon, sad
Form:
Free verse
We'Ll Always Have San Andreas-rearranging the stars-
How could we agree to separation?
If you were destined to be my soulmate,
Why would we allow the stars to change our fate?
They've...
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Categories:
depression, relationship, sad love,
Form:
Alliteration
Tin Foil HeartsOn pensive planes of wraith-like existence,
Are stoic shadows feigning affection;
Crimson lips of withering consistence,
Have lost their craze for craving confection.
Tear-filling prisms tilling a rueing sphere,
Pathos...
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Categories:
sad love, life, lost love, sad
Form:
Sonnet
Bluewing FallingHer magic is drawn
from an ocean's
million hues
reflecting
boundless skies
slain by her trembling perfection
you grab hold of her
to save yourself
...
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Categories:
beauty, butterfly, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Night LightNight Light
Enfold me in your tender loving embrace
that reaches out from the past with
long arms to keep me near you....
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Categories:
sad love, blue, light, loss, moon,
Form:
Free verse
I Pass the GraveyardI pass the graveyard deep in snow.
One woman at a headstone weeps
all dressed in black like winter crows
as memories in warmth she keeps.
While icicles from...
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Categories:
death, sad love, winter,
Form:
Terzanelle
SunsetThe golden hope
Of brighter tomorrow
Slides into the salty ocean
No steam or bubbles
Just the crimson joy of the clouds
Escorting
With their shifting ochre tones
While fiery...
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Categories:
love, sad love, senses,
Form:
Free verse
Love's Last HeartbeatIn the moorlands of desires,
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs,
In the dream...
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Categories:
angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form:
Free verse
Fractured SoulShes sits in her worn out familiar chair
As the sun wakes for the day
Her being weary before the day begins
From wishing her life away
Nothing matters...
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Categories:
grief, loss, sad love,
Form:
Rhyme
Gentle Summer RainShe writes about Fall's beauty in the rain
The falling raindrops' dance ascribing thence
Bespoken verse that lightens her refrain
before the time they met...
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Categories:
sad love, beauty, care, creation, imagination,
Form:
Sonnet
Date Night (And the Day After)Opening line from "Highway Five Love Poem" by Ruth L. Schwartz
This is a love poem for all the tomatoes
I squished to make our Date-Night spaghetti.
Our...
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Categories:
sad love, food, lost love, sad,
Form:
Villanelle
Images of Feathers"Once upon a midnight Poe"
Underneath the midnight mask, I remove the makeup at last,
The moon is an anvil to my mood, mooring along the vacant...
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Categories:
sad love, allusion, devotion, loneliness, muse,
Form:
Alliteration
Soul Mates SolaceWhen my final shadows cling on desperately
Where I fight formidable battles
to merely hold the light
I send you loving vibrations
and soul sustenance
Deep from the cathedral
of one...
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Categories:
sad love, art, bereavement, body, care,
Form:
Free verse