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
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
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 Hearts
On 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 Falling
Her 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
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
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 anvil to my mood, mooring along the vacant vast...
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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
The Special RoseShe sits and rocks, so gently back and forth
Her chin leaning heavily on her chest.
In her hands she cradles, one flat waxed rose
And sighs as...
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Categories:
sad love, grandparents, lonely, love, old,
Form:
Narrative
My Gift of TearsLeave you my tears?
I think you already own them . . .
They sparkle in dew on the grasses,
on your windows they cling to look in;
They...
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Categories:
lost love, sad love,
Form:
Rhyme
One Step Away From EternityAlas, I stand atop this mountain crest,
and gaze upon the valley down below;
the graveyard where your body lays at rest,
sits in the center shadowed by...
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Categories:
sad love, death, lost love, sad
Form:
Sonnet
You Let the Moment PassEternity within your grasp
My plea? To undo the clasp
Let Desire wash away
Tomorrow and yesterday
Every other thought and dream
Meaningless I make them seem
Had you let the...
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Categories:
leaving, sad love,
Form:
Rhyme
Mystical Lore of the Moonlight Moth
Mystical amour of moonlight moth's whimsical lure,
a glowing flame in sensual saffron gold attire;
restless tease with every breeze, gilt-cavorting contour,
pale green fluttering, her wings stirring...
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Categories:
sad love, allegory, desire, fire, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme
Edge of a Whisper
How kind of you to open up my veins,
With little but his name upon your...
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Categories:
sad love, beauty, break up, goodbye,
Form:
Sonnet
ALL HER DREAMS TURNED TO DUSTNo 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:
betrayal, sad love, wedding,
Form:
Couplet
Winter BluesWinter Blues
If you have to lose a love then
not in winter
when words are cold and eyes are
closed to light
while watching falling snowflakes you remember
a...
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Categories:
blue, sad love, winter,
Form:
Free verse
When Winter Comes, Remember Me••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
When Winter comes, remember me
beside you on lush ivory sand
If slushy fingers beckon thee,
arise and brush aside her hand
As you awake on...
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Categories:
sad love, assonance, autumn, heartbreak, remember,
Form:
Quatern
We Will Never KnowThe sky was orange, red and peach
we strolled towards each other
on a deserted pebbled beach
a smile that got us talking
together slowly walking
till twilight crept unseen
then...
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Categories:
sad love, absence, beach, longing, lost
Form:
Verse
For Only A MomentDid it have to last for only a moment,
our love withered before the flowers you sent,
white carnations, a pure love they meant,
a relationship so newfound...
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Categories:
sad love, absence, break up, loneliness,
Form:
Pantoum
Come Hell or High WaterShe looks out the window and sees him in the distance.
So much fear inside leaves no room for resistance.
If she ran right now...
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Categories:
sad love, abuse, anxiety, fear, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme
FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS - COLLABORATION WITH JAN ALLISON
You told me we’d always be friends
Out of the blue our friendship ends
I was your ‘forever friend’ - you told me so
Now you...
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Categories:
sad love, betrayal, emotions, friendship, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
You Know I Love YouWinds may howl,
Wild animals growl,
The forest grows cold,
For I am lonesome and old
As the sun peaks through the clouds,
I hear your soft, young...
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Categories:
sad love, absence, allegory, beautiful, blue,
Form:
Rhyme
Eucalyptus LongingThe rushing wonts of action render these happenings unmovable,
These feelings, passionately felt, to dull words ill and strained
She clings, my koala, with chocolate eyes pining...
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Categories:
sad love, beauty, dedication, for her,
Form:
Personification
I Need Time to HealTell me why, but tell me True-
Spare me the heartbreak of a Lie
I would lay forever in these meadows...
Forever, until I die!
To rid myself of...
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Categories:
death, pain, sad love,
Form:
Rhyme