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Break Up Poems | Examples of Break Up Poetry

Heart break
Heart break. It’s not just a feeling, it mentally messes you up. Heartbreak is so strong, it’s like a pain in your chest that won’t go away, it’s like you can physically feel your heart splitting in two. I wish I didn’t know how it felt to have your heart broken but unfortunately I do so...

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Categories: break up, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Ocean
I am a glass of water he sees right through me yet nothing to him is crystal clear. I thought he knew me but all my depths are shallow to him, I fear. I drown in my own feelings gasping his name, but he cannot hear that it's him I'm calling out for all the same. I ache from words forced to stay unspoken until the space between us spans out of...

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Categories: break up, farewell, fate,
Form: Lyric



BRING ME HOME TO YOU
Listen to the song: songer.co/song/zno9jbgddbdsebdipbrqumf6 [Verse 1] That mountaintop, a distant thought, High feels so low when I’m alone, If I had known the weight of regret, I’d have never let you go. [Verse 2] I remember way back then, Just you and me, no need to pretend, We laid on the sand, chasing clouds, Hearts unspoken, but so loud. [Chorus] Now I’m out on this raging...

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Categories: angst, break up, hope,
Form: Lyric
Reversed Signs
Isn't it ironic? You sat on my right side when we first met And you exited my life making a left turn down my street It was my right hand that comforted you in the beginning And it was my left hand that tore off something that was supposed to be permanent in the end How the directions changed...

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Categories: break up, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Philip Island Cowes in June 2025
2025.06.15 It was quite a while ago, I came here and wrote, "BB was not here" and "JJ is here On Queen Birthday 10 Jun 2024". These words were written on the sand On the the shores of both sides of the pier. As time passed on, JJ sat and watched The waves washed up onto the words, Slowly encroached, engulfed and wiped Them...

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Categories: beach, break up, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Paint It Black
On days like this, I just want to Paint It Black, Turn all the Rolling Stones into black holes. I know You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But I’m tired of Tumblin’ Dice trying to win. I just want to be one of those Wild Horses, That runs through the sunflower meadow on this Ruby Tuesday. When I look to the...

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Categories: break up,
Form: Free verse
Truth At Heart
Whom am I in the endless plot of fate? Your perfect perfection used as bait. Whom am I to reject perfection’s grace, Amidst my turmoil in karma’s embrace. I sought not, yet there you stood, A calm in my storm, I never understood. You were the answer to my whispers unheard, A soft light to which my shadow was led. An eternity I...

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Categories: break up, fate, i
Form: Rhyme
Acceptance
I haven’t truly lived until now. I have been locked away for so long In a small room in a place that was never my home. Home is where you feel safe. My freedom without judgment is where I feel most safe, maybe that’s home. That’s how I feel now. Full throttle and no chain...

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Categories: break up, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Ruined Us
I ruined what we had With my mincing words misplaced, Words that made you mad With a feeling as though also disgraced. I ruined what we were With things in which we never concurred, Things I was just unsure Of whether it is my path that has occurred. I ruined our bond With feelings long suppressed, Feelings as shallow as a pond, In which I drowned...

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Categories: break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Missing The Good Thing
The good thing is I am never going to be crying, But the truth is there is still this deep heartaching longing For that very something with that very someone I am missing....

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Categories: break up, first love,
Form: Sijo
Wishful Glimpses Through Timeworn Windshields
I would Wish you The worst But yours Came true First Feels like That red light Gets longer every day Though I can’t Help but stare At the place I last kissed you Counting The cars In the driveway Making note Of the purple bike Left in the grass Picturing The perfect happenstance That you...

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Categories: break up, imagery, moving
Form: Free verse
Behind the facade
I gave up on everything, I gave up on everyone. I know this is a heaven, but I just don't think it was meant for me. If you knew me you would judge me for all those mistakes So like the rest of us I carry this smile on my face and act like everything is alright...

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Categories: break up, allusion, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Gone Golden
Gold on ancient atoll? Gone be prospector's hope! Gore, doth coat the brazen bull? Golem, get the rope? Best for those politest men? Better think again. Bone a-broken, dive in den? Flicker on the fen... Torn like life tormented? Break upon, O wave. How the gods lamented! O shroud hung on the grave! Yellow as a predator's eye? Dun the desert doubt. Riddles, rivers, thy reply? Time will sort it...

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Categories: break up,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Desire is Clearer
Where the grass is turning brown in patches, I buried my memories. I protect my heart from negativity because I deeply yearn for a kind of happiness, I’ve never truly experienced. I long to fall in love again, so I’ve chosen to bury my painful memories deep beneath the bare umbrella trees, making space for new...

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Categories: adventure, break up, emotions,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Emerald Stone
Emerald stone stands in the eyes When possessive lovers lose their prize...

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Categories: break up, dark, jealousy,
Form: Crystalline

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