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Ex Poems - Poems about Ex

Simply Lost
You love me, but somewhere along the way, I couldn’t keep up, couldn’t stay, your words stopped meaning what they once did, and I felt lost in what we hid. You gave me all, I couldn’t give back, I thought I was ready, but I lost track. I tried to make it work, tried to find the key, but the truth was clear...

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Categories: ex, appreciation, break up, cute,
Form: Rhyme
National Poetry Month
Ghost, River, Gaze, Erase, Tender, Cold. Memories of you, Ripple across my thoughts. Your smile , Your gaze — Though I suppose both were cold to my touch— I still hope you felt something. Something to be haunted by, So the ghost of my laughter keeps you up at night— I know you don’t care. So don’t pretend to be tender, You acted like my...

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Categories: ex, best friend, depression,
Form: Free verse



Letter to an ex
everything started off smooth and fast maybe why it wasn't meant to last rejection was for my own protection lovers to roommates best reflection forged a facade of a family dynamic resulted in sinking like the Titanic convenience played a hefty role help slow down separating goal push came to shove due to regret fights and arguing always upset so called love dissolved overtime missed the...

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Categories: ex, freedom, how i feel,
Form: Couplet
Release of an EX
you are my ex for many reasons I stayed past my learning season thanking you for many lessons hard but true hidden blessings in a situation that was tainted horrible picture of me you painted you were broken in many places feed off me and my good graces several years past and u still the same don't want to heal only want to blame your...

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Categories: ex, break up, goodbye, moving
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Deus Ex Machina
Deus Ex Machina AI can: diagnose disease recommend treatment write poetry write music make economic predictions and much more What happens when it: can think on its own hate laugh feel cry make war sue for peace reproduce Will we still be in charge? Or will it demand our worship? ...

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Categories: ex, god,
Form: Free verse



Flower hands
Your hands that once felt like flowers blooming under my skin now just feel like hot embers being placed on me Your scent once so sweet and beautiful turned ugly and putrid Your arms which I would obsess over and feel safe within now terrify me and hold me down My words were stolen from your hand...

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Categories: ex, 10th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member This World is Not Yours
Alas, we are taught as children, this part of the God’s Earth is all mine? That might have been true, decades ago, but no longer does that slogan shine! I just hope that we do not blow each other apart, by the spread of false narratives! In which invalid nations, will kill children and throw them into a...

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Categories: ex, abuse, anger, bereavement, chanukah,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The greening of my ex
Spent a day with my ex this Christmas season. Both his hands were now green so I asked, "what's the reason?" Was he painting, a project, and they didn't come clean? His pigment was tinted in a mossy green. I touched a hand, pulled the skin, gently pinched. He showed no pain, didn't even flinch. Could he be turning into the Grinch? He...

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Categories: ex, humor, men,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member To My Ex-Husband: I Was Fluent in What Failed Us
I missed the window of my telling you who you are. My greatest talent, f*cked too thin to mend, or maim when it mattered most. I’m not mad anymore, just sifting through the wreckage of my gift— this heft of language, all I ever said, only salve on hand to save us, too often out of stock. Words flawless on paper, I fell...

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Categories: ex, analogy, games, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Free verse
O Holy Night
Fall is breathing its dying breaths and a chill settles deeper into the air. The first flakes of snow have dusted the ground leaving the world glimmering, starlight reflecting off each crystal and casting a beautifully eerie glow. Nighttime silence is unbroken save for the sound of my surreptitious breaths, which cloud in front of me as they’re slowly released. I can sense...

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Categories: ex, christian, christmas, love, religion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I'll Forever Be Your Ex-Wife
Shikata ga nai Poetry Contest Silent One My Dear, The sun will rise tomorrow And there will be some sorrow For I'll be out of your life And I'll forever be your ex-wife It saddens me to let go However I need to grow And blossom Instead of playing possum I need to get back on my feet Instead of taking your back seat It's like I...

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Categories: ex, break up, divorce, loss,
Form: Rhyme
When You Met Your Ex
Happiness, sadness Love and hurt Familiarity and longing All came rushing back All in an instant Emotion overload....

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Categories: ex, emotions, introspection, memory,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Happy Birthday To A Former Friend
Former friend, I remember that today Is your beautiful birthday But I am not going to call you Because you never answered my calls Life is made of ups, downs and falls Sometimes, the sky is gray, white and blue I understand that things change And nothing stays the same I’m fine. I’m not the one to blame I’ll pray for you in...

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Categories: ex, age, anniversary, birthday, death
Form: Rhyme
A Eulogy for the Toxic Ex
A hundred thoughts echo through my mind A hundred emotions I cannot unwind 3000 yearnings, 9000 turns of regret Walking in the shadow of death I walk slowly with a cold mind and angery heart At the crossroads I take the broken sigh Waiting as I wait for the one to show up To die I plot the death with poisonous...

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Categories: ex, abuse, boyfriend, depression, fantasy,
Form: Elegy
Ex on the beach
I watch Ex on the Beach - a fun TV show , Young folks trying to make a love connection, Two girls tested -not a match. for one -oh no! A feast of love -the players get affection, The folks head in a twirl. what a way to go, From what I see -tough...

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Categories: ex, growing up,
Form: Ottava rima

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