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Heartbreak Life Poems

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

Splinter by Brianna Hobson

This relationship has rotting leaves
Tree blood boiled inside arteries
Veiny roots for the plastic surgery
I'll cut it down to build a house
For you, a roof in...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, break up, conflict, first

Gamut Of History Spans Everyday Life by matthew harris

Analogous, how said month name
     September under went
ramifications throughout millennium
     steeped in blood thirsty antiquity,
  ...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, 12th grade, 7th grade,

Belly by Brianna Hobson

Hopeless butterflies,
there's a fluttering inside
Cut myself open 
...

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Details | Haiku |

Categories: life, butterfly, crush, emotions, horror,

Cowslip by Brianna Hobson

Milk gums
Milk teeth
For all the years I didn't speak
Milk for all the children that don't exist

In desperation,
I drained it all into a bottle
Let it dribble...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, abortion, animal, baby, flower,

Kintsugi by Gregory R Barden


Broken, this aged vessel
Fractured by fate in matter and mind
Careworn and cracked like creeping veins of window frost ...

      ...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: appreciation, heartbreak, introspection, life,

Heavy Heart by feven teclemichael

My heart is working differently
Recently,
It is not pulsing rhythmically
It is beating very heavily
Driving me to sadness slowly

Yes, i am almost done with school
Yet, i feel...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, class, goodbye, graduation, heartbreak,

TRUE LOVE WINS by Lyric Man

A man could never love a woman more 
And to see her hurting rocks him to the core
But through the pain she finds her smile...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: life, angst, fear, heartbreak, longing,

I WONDER by Ogah George Lindsey

Sometimes I wonder if you ever think of loving me
Loving a man like me, loving a man who has know ideal who you are
Sometimes in...

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Details | Epigram |

Categories: life, cry, girlfriend, heartbreak, hurt,

Foolish by Casarah Nance

Holding on to empty hopes,
figuring out ways to cope,
sadness playing on the strings
while the jesters sorrow sings.

Foolish am I for holding on so,
foolish for thoughts...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: life, break up, heartbreak, leaving,

THE BITTER SCAR OF MY LIFE by NAOREM JENNY

It was Sunday night,
My husband’s family created 
A remarkable unresolvable lifelong scar.
The scar that changed my life.

I can never forget that day,
The day when me...

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Details | Narrative |

Categories: life, feelings, heartbreak, heartbroken, jealousy,

LIFE ON A ROLL by Graham Devenish

LIFE ON A ROLL

Another sunset to walk towards,
This day ending.  Boots worn down some more.
Rascal at my side.  We ate only once.
No complaints,...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: life, angst, bereavement, devotion, heartbreak,

Why's It So Hard To Let Go- of what's never been mine by M.P. Shaudd

Livin' ain't easy
When you wonder what this life could be
If we only
Had the chance to live out our dreams

I keep hoping
And pretending that someday I'll...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: life, emotions, feelings, heartbreak, hurt,

Allowing Anguish by Carol Connell

Anguish, it seems, can sore scold. 
Don’t let it end your story.
Be it the thing that does mold
 a tender heart for God’s glory.

6/8/18
...

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Details | Verse |

Categories: life, character, conflict, god, heart,

CONSEQUENCES by Brian Strand

happiness
        or heartbreak
two sides
   of the penny
of life,
the irony
     of chance
smiling
or
raining
upon our...

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Details | Verse |

Categories: change, life,

Happy Ending by kewayne wadley

Things between us have changed. 
Pretending only presents the underlying problem. 
We spend our time in seperate rooms.
The television on two seperate channels.
Still unable to...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, black african american, heartbreak,

destined for a life of sorrow by robin davis

There is a big dark shadow
Over my head that will follow
Me everywhere without relief
Bringing me such pain and grief
There is no plan to escape
This shady...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: life, fear, grief, heartbreak, loneliness,

Standing Strong by Heidi Sands

As the seasons change,
I think of all the changes in life
From the growth of a flower
To the loss when it dies
To the changes of color
As...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: change, life, seasons,

Phone Call from Heaven by Dona Salapar

With broken wings,
Eyes closed,
Silently she flew,
Up high into the sky,

You couldn’t sleep,
You couldn’t eat,
You are broken, 
You are crashed,

Cold air kisses you,
Amidst the silence,
Here goes...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, appreciation, death, feelings, heartbreak,

Extremities by Robertina B.

Extremities exist..
There is injustice..
In all walks of life..
Different continents of the planet..


Widespread poverty on the planet..
Of which there is widespread wealth..
Often at times 
We wonder..
Feast...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: death, heartbreak, humanity, life,

4PM by Merel van den Brink

Then I got stuck in my loneliness, 
And it’s four in the afternoon, 
It just feels like my life is but only a cracked beer...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: depression, heartbreak, life, lonely,