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Heartbreak Free Verse Poems

These Heartbreak Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Heartbreak. These are the best examples of Free Verse Heartbreak poems written by international poets.


To the Strongest Woman I've Ever Known
To the strongest
Woman I’ve ever known,
The brightest light in every 
Room, Church,
Hall and building
That she 
Ever entered.

To the strongest 
Woman I’ve ever known,
You never knew
How...

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Categories: anxiety, grandmother, grief, growing



Lost
In you, I lost. I lost a lot. Somehow, in you, I lost you. I lost my virtue, my dignity, my sense of self. I...

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Categories: betrayal, heartbreak, heartbroken, high

spring turned into fall
Heartbreak is rising heat in spring.
Summer welded my heart back together, 
Fall leaves reminded me that time has passed so effortlessly.
You’re turning into a faded...

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Categories: change, happy, metaphor,

Some Wounds Want Witness
My darkest needs 
never beg forgiveness—
they crave a mirror.

One that fogs
with your touch,
not your abandon.
...

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Categories: anxiety, courage, dark, heartbreak,

The Poisoning of My Mind
There are days the sun drags itself across the sky like a wounded thing,
and I follow behind it,
meek as a shadow no one asked for.
My...

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Categories: deep, depression, growth, heartbreak,



I came anyway
I heard you were gone
from someone who didn’t know
what you once meant to me.

They said it flat,
like it was weather.
“He passed last week.”
And suddenly,
the air...

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Categories: beautiful, courage, heartbreak,

I almost forgot how you felt
I saw you before you saw me.
Still walk the same.
Still carry the world
like it owes you something.

And just like that—
a flood of years
came rushing through...

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Categories: beautiful, courage, heartbreak, relationship,

meant to be, but couldn't stay
We were right—
God, we were right for each other.
Same dreams,
same broken pieces
that fit like a puzzle no one believed in but us.

You knew how to...

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Categories: beautiful, courage, heartbreak, relationship,

Premium Member Howling Wilderness
 Gnarled trees yawn under a starless sky
As a swift coldness mixes with the "howling wilderness,”
Crescendos until pure silence strangles the macabre atmosphere.
Preparing for the...

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© Sara Jama  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: beautiful, deep, gothic, imagery,

Solitude Sea
A feather floating away from your brain.
As he is whispering your name.
Pushing all your feelings away from me.
Landed on a box, In a solitude
Sea
 People...

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© John Diket  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: depression, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,

Premium Member Postcard, to a Friend from Twenty-Four Years Ago
They treated me for bipolar disorder.
I wanted you to know.

Although we still think it was the Adipex-p
and weed mimicking a disease—
because it hasn’t happened since.

Hard...

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Categories: desire, forgiveness, heartbreak, independence

Enchantress
You arrive like the first word
of a language I didn't know
I was born to speak—

slender as the space between
breath and prayer,
a rose opening in the...

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Categories: cute love,

Not so platonic
Yellow  in your eyes—
seemed bright, but honeyed words didn’t feel right.

Letters that questioned truth and dare,
asked other girls—
green-eyed, now I won’t spare.

Engraved in my...

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Categories: 11th grade, beautiful, confusion,

Ashes Where Heaven Should Be
Is heaven real?
Maybe.
Or maybe it’s just another myth—
like love that stays,
like people who mean what they say,
like pain that disappears
when you’ve earned enough of it.

They...

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Categories: heaven,

Fulcrum of a Rose
(The rose you dropped )
Roses are beautiful, ain’t they?
You see them once,
and for a moment
you believe in softness again.
In something that won’t leave.
But beauty tricks...

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Categories: lost love,


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