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Heartache Poems - Poems about Heartache

Heartache Poems - Examples of all types of poems about heartache to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for heartache.
Gone, But Still Here
It hurts saying goodbye never making a phone call again, never ranting to you again, never hearing your voice on the other end. You're gone. The world is that bit darker without you. You always had time, always offered encouragement, always listened. Nights spent...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, anger, death, deep, for
Form: Free verse
Good night and good bye
Good night. After 45 x 365 nights, I just realised. They were only my dreams. They lasted so long I do not remember what they meant. Whatever they were, they have gone forever. I do not want them to come...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, dream, feelings, heartbroken, how
Form: Free verse



A night at a cliff
On a cliff I stood alone A night so dark, with no place to call home The wind it howled, like a mournful sigh As I gazed out, at the darkened sky The stars above they twinkled bright But brought...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, city, cry, depression, for
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member Moonflower Of Maleficent Magnificence
Ah, luminous white she blooms a deceptive ghost lover of dark arts of charisma and night moon seducer logic diffuser defense reducer user of dreams abuser of romance tempter-serpent twines and vines...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, angst, beauty, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse
MOM, MY GUIDING LIGHT
Her heart is a warm, golden light Patience is her title In a distressed nine months, she held onto me Facing changes and discomfort in her body At the edge of losing herself, she held on Waiting patiently with...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, africa, appreciation, caregiving, mom,
Form: Free verse



To Love in Silence
My heart longs deeply, and I am unable to remain unfazed whenever I see you. It’s tragic to think that, aside from the fact that there was never a "you and me," I cannot even hold your hand freely. I...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, feelings, heartbroken, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Since You've Been Gone
I am undeniably sad Consumed by dismay I am angry at the world Out of sight & in shadows, I stay My stomach churns wild A tempest inside At what my life has wrought I am consumed...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, death, depression,
Form: Free verse
October, a lament to love and heartache
October breaks my heart When it ends, begins And the days in between It never lives up to my expectations I am often disappointed in the weather And other various things It is anxiously waiting for the days to draw colder...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, autumn, death, feelings, grief,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Embracing heartache
Saying goodbye ripping through my core, stirring up sadness that is too hard to ignore Sorrow seeping into the dirt of my soul while questioning if I will remain whole Not pushing around the feelings coming my...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, angst, grief, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Free verse
To Heartache
You made those quiet tears fall from my eyes, No one around me, sadness intervened, As the burgundy sun clung to the eaves Like ice.Through my heartache, I watched a burnt Horizon paste darkness against the stars. A...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Mama, Don’t Get Old
In the stillness of dawn, where shadows softly creep, I find my heart is breaking, in the silence where I weep. Mama, hold back the years, defy the cruel, swift tide, For every beat of your heart is...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, age, encouraging, hope, longing,
Form: Narrative
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I sit here, you sit there, and there is only space. I sit here, you sit there, and there is nothing to say. I sit here, you sit there, and time passes into another day. Here...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, growth, heartbreak, love, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member for a moment
In the rush of living my heart stops between each beat and for a moment or maybe just half a moment she is there. Not once, but always; Waiting for me between those beats, in every...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, for her, heartbroken, loss,
Form: Free verse
You know what they say
They say no one is perfect, but you were. In the beginning, it was you and I. Now I see, that it’s us, you, them and everything else in between. Two islands across the sea have a...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, beauty, black love, break
Form: Narrative
Seamstress
I whispered goodbye with my forehead pressed against the pane. My breath fogged my words as I watched you walk from my thoughts. The loneliness is longer this time.  My side seems so bare now that the threads...Read the rest...
Categories: heartache, break up, heartbroken, how
Form: Free verse

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