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Best Separation Poems

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Premium Member 'separation' - the Art of Edvard Munch
When love is torn asunder and there is nothing left but dissent,
a lover's heart will be shattered, mortally wounded and rent.
In a relationship that was...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: separation, lost love,
Form: Ekphrasis



Premium Member 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: separation, depression, relationship, sad love,
Form: Alliteration
My Rose Was Not Seasonal
 My cherished one...

Here I am ,alone with stone wall paper

in the silence of my room.

The pit-pattering raindrops upon my windowsill 

help me to remember,...

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Categories: separation, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Timeless
Love knows no separation
                     not...

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Categories: separation, introspection, love,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member A Bridge of Love
There is a bridge, it crosses over deserts
It cements oceans, binds the icy seas
Flies over fiery vulcans, sings melodious 
Breathes over you a cooling welcome...

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Categories: separation, friendship, life, love, poetry,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member A Dream
Let there be no hidden or disguised facades
Let there be achievable dreams; not hopeless mirages
Let there be no sorry but sunny days of happy faces
Let...

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Categories: separation, america,
Form: Free verse
The Little Box
There's a little box found in my room,
With heartfelt memories, I won't open soon.

 A box of pictures, to reminisce.
They break my heart, it's you...

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Categories: separation, child, dedication, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Disorientation
My distant spirit is dying, 
disheartened, disintegrating and self deprecating.
Defenceless, as hope disappears,
emotionally shipwrecked in deep waters,
yet to be discovered. 

In the sadness of sentimental...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: separation, angst, death, depression, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grief of Losing a Life Partner-Potd
It is important we know this eternal truth,
that our earthly lives may be linked but not our deaths!
you may have special memories from early youth,
but...

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Categories: separation, anxiety, lonely, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Borderline Personality Dodoitsu
We Are All the Same
Listen to the reeds as they sway apart;
Hear them speak of lost friends.
At birth, you were cut from your bed,
Crying and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: separation, love, mental health, relationship,
Form: Dodoitsu
This Is Me
You wake up in the morning to look in the mirror,
To say "This is me".
To Compare yourself to what you think you should be.
"I'm fat.",
"I'm...

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Categories: separation, beauty, change, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Verse
I Did This To Myself
The days go by so faintly,
But the pain throbs in my heart.
I wish I could do this over,
And begin again from the start.
Words are scattered...

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Categories: separation, life, losssad love, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Together, At Last
Setting: A man and woman are reunited in a garden after an unbearably long separation. From the viewpoint of the man.



Now the sun is slowly...

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Categories: separation, absence, day, flower, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crossroads To Heaven
My heart stopped, you see
Three times, thanks to foolishness ...
But within the horror of it all I learned something ... extraordinary
And the following is, for...

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Categories: separation, appreciation, faith, god, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bemused Wonder
to sit in the darkroom of silence
trying to remember your name, your face
to gaze upon time's long ribbon of passing
and find the moment, when we...

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Categories: separation, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs