Heartbreak Blank Verse Poems

Every rotation on your turn-table eye,
Or every buzz that the radio hums:
"Ah, I see, music sings through you.
So no, I know,
I won't be okay."

The green...

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The demons
They lurk at the bottom
The bottom of the bottle
The violence, the rage 
The death calling my name 
It's all there on the last sip
I...

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I Did Not Mean It

I didn't mean it.  

I didn't mean to hurt you,
I didn't mean to deceive you,
I didn't mean to lie,
It hurted...

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and here i am .
still struggling with our memories .
telling myself you dont need me anymore,
but with a part of me fighting back against that.
i...

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First crawl


I learnt to crawl in a tie,
Banker’s suit and smile on a lucky tot.
Learning the secrets of trades and service,
I’d make a difference with...

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I gave you my heart
But...
You wasted my time 
Guess I gave too much than you deserved

© Oluwasola Elisha - ABSOL...

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I miss the thing we were, I miss us
Everything started with you
And everything with you halted
"I am scared to lose you" might have been a...

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Comedians have a skill of cracking people's ribs:

Can you imagine, I went for Police recruitment. They ordered us to run 200 metres. I ran and...

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Can we meet again?
You, wearing your black jacket;
Me, empty in mind or thought.

You ask what I want.
I want long hours of chatter.
Know you are happy,
even...

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I remember my phone ringing loudly
The sun had only just begun to peer across the horizon

There was a familiar voice on the other line,
“It’s grandpa...”

I...

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Each teardrop from her cheek,
bore her grief,
and grazed the coffin near the altar.
The grange hall chapel was so quiet.

A few hollers away,
on...

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Expel those bitter pangs of unrequited love
Lest the pungent taste of gall infest the soul,
And steal the joy unattended in your heart
For love that’s lost...

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Sitting in the darkness
We stare at the technique harlot screen
Where a see-through celluloid sex symbol
Stands, hands thrust crotchward,
The air tearing at her pleats.

She is spread...

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Eleven months I watched you slowly fade away
Not once did I hear you complain or cry, you said
Soon you would embark on the greatest adventure
Of...

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I simply don't understand, like why? Why couldn't she see through the pain and bull in me to the good in me? Why do good...

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