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Heartbreak Poems | Examples of Heartbreak Poetry

I can't compare
I hold my heart behind locked doors, Worn and bruised from love before. Each scar it bears, a whispered name, Each beat a flicker wrapped in flame. I’ve stitched this heart too many times, With trembling hands and fraying lines, Each patch a whisper from the past, Each crack a vow that didn’t last. I’ve stood in storms with open chest, Hoping love would...

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Categories: heartbreak, angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
No Longer Us
Single but it’s getting old. I’m tired of trying to heal when all I want is to love you. Who cares what went wrong or what went right? What mattered was how I felt that night. It’s scary getting lost in my thoughts all I see is you with him, when just last month, you were mine. It’s eating me from the inside. The thought of him...

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Categories: betrayal, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



Lost interest
the songs i dont play anymore the love i once had for you it just melted to the floor .. useless, absurd, what was the point? A wasted heart given to the wrong one it was like a pain felt in my joint will i ever love again? I dont know i guess thats just how how this world flow. ...

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Categories: heartbreak, feelings, first love, for
Form: Rhyme
Stone Walls
It is a dawn, my love did call as misty rain on fields did fall l wept for thee, they didn't see it wasn't meant to be it is a night, the light burnt bright but shadows , on walls , did write l sang my love, across hills above to echo's, of my, true love It is the morn, l...

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Categories: children, heartbreak, humanity, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Eyes
Beautiful eyes Tell vicious lies In the middle of a storm I’m not surprised I haven’t cried Searching for your warmth I love you But who knew You didn’t feel the same Did you love me too Or was I just new? Your favorite little game A brand new toy For you to enjoy My light died within me I fell for a boy It was me he destroyed Forever lost in...

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Categories: heartbreak, betrayal,
Form: Free verse



Misty clouded heart
Misty clouds fill my eyes, After you stabbed my heart, With a blade forged in hate. Pain oozes out like blood, But neither red nor caked – Yet it outlives all thought. Contest Name: Some Kind Of Misty Poetry ...

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Categories: heartbreak, betrayal, break up, cry,
Form: Free verse
How Is It Possible?
I want to see him as someone who did me wrong... in order to let him go. I want to no longer love him at all and just see his true colours as brightly as they show. Put up a wall, draw a line in the sand. Let go of his hand. And see him...

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Categories: heartbreak, betrayal, break up, deep,
Form: Rhyme
The Efflorescence of a Half Moon Love
The Efflorescence of a Half-Moon Love An immutable desire to awaken and experience the night’s breath… Where saddened petals elate at the ability to whisper open at the cusp of dawn. I reach to orbit near you: where carnal might kiss deity, and the air between us smells of divine pollen. A heavenly flower exhaling eternity from the soft rupture of its...

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Categories: daffodils, heartbreak, longing, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hurts So Good
She is deliciously unhappy. Listening to heartbreak songs in minor keys, the melodies seem to flick her heart…flick,flick…Like the 4th grade bully who sneaks up behind everyone to flick an ear, thinking causing jolts of pain is the funniest thing since The Three Stooges. Yea, that's...

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Categories: heartbreak,
Form: Haibun
Heart Palpitations
So sick of this world and generation they tryna take ahold of my heart confiscation the taste is bitter or tart when it turns to ashes cremation I still got attachments i'm full of frustration love seems to be my passion eternally waitin cant find as if its out of fashion, yet i still got patience bout to have me ration and give up...

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Categories: heartbreak, loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Lesson Relearned
A love match perfect until the truth won out she was a natural imp and a gifted daughter of nature he was a darkling with mortal appearance to try and gain what wasn't his he tried to cast her into the flame she forgave time and again until the rope tightened around her throat and he...

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Categories: betrayal, fantasy, heartbreak,
Form: I do not know?
YOU TOLD ME
You told me you could never leave You told me you would never say goodbye You told me you never wanted to be free But you told me a lie—just another goodbye Your words were empty, your promises all broken You had me believing, but now I just cry Your ‘I love yous’ were just lies you told” Trying to forget but...

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Categories: betrayal, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Lyric
Guilty of Silent Complicity
Not submitted for any contest From the shallow ruins of Man's soul to the blindness of hearts that we sold to the flightless voices without a goal tears we don't shed, a world dark and cold. Is our sorrowed silence waiting have we placed our hearts on hold Are our fickle thoughts worth berating Time to take our hearts in...

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Categories: feelings, heartbreak, silence, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Halfway-Nowhere
Love, is not a moderate image to paint ! I have tread a serene parks walk with colourful abundant trees and beauteous scenes Yet Love : “let me honour those who favour you their forte”! Lustful young love and bitterness in sweet red wine Patience in a white steady car awaiting traffic to mind time Everything coming together ,...

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Categories: age, betrayal, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Start it over
Old yet young, accomplished yet diminished. Regret with anger and pain, life hasn’t started and yet it feels as it has ended before it has begun. Has it ended for the mistakes I made or because I will have to live a life without you. Is life worth living for if you do not exist in mine. Dull...

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Categories: heartbreak, 12th grade, feelings, first
Form: Rhyme

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