Divorce Poems | Examples of Divorce Poetry

The Bottom of the Glass Where do we go when we need to escape? Moving forward, who do we blame? Sometimes we go to a place to hide. From here on out we don’t let anyone inside. We live a lonely life. While we leave the past behind. Apart from another, There's no going back...

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we're living with shadows, I know we can't forget. We are not the same ones we were. Quite the opposite. You gave me your reasons, and I couldn't live with them so you don't owe me a thing. Can I ask you this? If you have an answer and I find a question for it. Can we dance in...

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We had to divorce daddy the five-year-old said Her mommy had planted this inside her head He is uncourtable she announced with sass What does that mean? I asked the tiny lass We are angry with him, Mommy and I A tiny tear slid out of her little left eye Daddy still loves you, I told her, of course He got me...

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My Hands Today My hands are getting old today. They are getting old right in front of my eyes. I suppose the rest of my face is following, But I can not see that happening. There is some peace in that, But my hands…? I don’t mind hard work. I never minded hard work. I liked hard...

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With these rings, we said, "I do," Never planned to play the fool. Too young to grasp loves weight, Too blind to heed its rules. We were D—drifting, never devoted. We were I—insensible, inconsiderate. We broke our Vows, splintered trust. We were O—reckless, outrageous. We were R—tangled, bitter root. We were C—careless, never committed. We were E—estranged, unraveling fast. A word we swore would never be...

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"When our dance of love became frantic, I faltered, and you danced on my grave." *** "How did it come to this, my darling one? We may never know the answer, but with the rain in my eyes, you look so beautiful in red." *** Every direction only led further from you. Every decision was the...

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I divorced the cirrus heat that once laced the sky with fire, carrying searing sins of the scorching sun ~ burning the soft bronze of my melanin; an unabated rage, a labyrinth of blooming lilac, an assortment of angst, a library of healing lullabies homed beneath the glass-skin silence of my quivering chest~ like wind through cathedral clusters, a poison to my psyche, too bright for the...

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Our Cup is Overfull ...

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Divorcing self from awful negatives I step ahead, bouncing through God’s power Gladly inspired with cheerful directives To share love's bliss and peace of grace-shower. Triumphing against selfishness-trial Freeing from “me-I-mine” so prison-bound To reach-out for others, sans betrayal My heart sows goodness seeds on kindness-ground. Persisting against vain personal gain I join with fellows midst blest partnership Prevailing against separation-pain Creating new vibrant relationship. ...

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In the conjugal life’s complex topography, vowed to traverse to the end together within the sacred institution of matrimony, the path may bifurcate where distrust dust gathers. Marking the legal dissolution of marriage, the partners once embraced by love and commitment, walk divergent walkways through the emotional corridor, away from incompatibility, for they grow apart over time. The common course...

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Ardent ardour rippling in romance. Glamour in amour also to dance. Marital life running smooth with bliss. Ideal family, I succeeded to establish. No complaints in marital relationship. ...

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for Divorced Poetry Contest Sponsored by Kai Michael Neumann ---------------- "I need a brake" words that twisted my heart- shattering the dream that we would never part. I asked myself 'what ever did I do wrong? sad, gloominess could`ve easily been my song. I wouldn't let the anger and misery grow or cultivate- uprising feelings I wanted to curb and mitigate. Took deep...

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Written: May 12, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Kai Michael Neumann Quote: “Set yourself on fire and seek those who fan your flame.” By Rumi ********************************** I sliced through the strings that thawed my dreams in shadow, tossing them into the time tiara of celestial...

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Piercing the heart, yet, no bloodshed, killing just the same, words. Eyes fixed, frozen like death, discordant silence, reluctant surrender, forlorn, aching expectancy. Imploring, why? Succumbing, melancholy anguish. Deceived. Defeated. Divorced. Divorced, and thus— the walls remain, yet bear no witness, for memory does not ask permission to fade. Time, indifferent to the weight of names, carries neither grievance nor absolution— only motion, only fact. To grieve what was lost is to argue with...

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In gilded chains, he wandered blind, Love's cruel mirror, the heart entwined. Seven years, a dance of pain, Her laughter echoed, a siren’s bane. Red flags waved a storm in disguise, Yet in the tempest, he sought her skies. A heart so wide, he sheltered her lies, While she wandered, seeking fleeting highs. Death's grip held him, feeble and frail, Yet she slipped from...

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