Long Breakup Poems

Welcome to a typical 'Luau' spread. The first thing that is best to learn is the Hawaiian word, 'ono', which means, delicious. It's a word bandied about before and after food goes in your mouth....

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In New Haven, Lisa misses the sad, dark, city aesthetics of her hometown. Its crime podcast vibe, actinic crime-lighting and sirens in the distance, that lull her to sleep like lullabies. She has a disturbingly...

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I had to come round, word on the street tells me you were caught in

bed with big Brenda.

Well, let me just put that rumour to bed right now. I wasn’t in bed with her, she...

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I lay awake in that dark hour and was reflecting on my life
From all the travelling I had done to the breakup with my wife
I was an architectural painter and was very successful too
And after...

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GRACEFULLY...

If I could go back and do it all again,
I would have NEVER  let you say goodbye my friend.
Want to go back to the way things used to be
To the place where u got...

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In life Relationship, 
Useless Battle Between Couples 
Must be avoided
Because there is no need for negative energy 
In the midst of Love
My Bible say love cares
Love protects, Love put a smile on faces
Love forgives &...

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An Echo Poem by Neethu Panicker and Brian Johnston

WHY DOES IT HURT?
 
Why does it hurt,
When you whisper “Good-bye Love?”
Why does it hurt,
When you don’t sigh “Oh Hi Love?”
 
Why does it hurt,
When you say...

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I’m sitting alone in this damp street
No one but me and the moonbeams
Stars are shyly showing off their dazzling charm
The wind is passionately touching the tree’s silhouette
I'm silently watching them dancing to my mute melancholy
My...

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Whisper Softly To Me Again As You Fade

No more stones, my dinner plate is too full
my teeth broken on that hardened black heart.
Broke, heavy iron chain you loved to pull
dead, tired old horse that dragged...

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You miss me
I know that you do.
There’s always a doubt 
In the back of my mind
But not about this
Because I know you.

I know you 
Better than 
You know yourself.
So I’ll tell you why
You miss me.

You...

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I could ask you to stay,
But there's really nothing left to say.

This breakup has been emotional and long,
But I know I'm strong.

I guess we naturally grew apart,
But it still hurts in my heart 

We went...

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Your life may be full of sparkles and ove-lay but the rest of us sometimes struggle under storm clouds.

Anna (one of my roommates) broke up with her BF of a year. It seemed to happen...

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He knew he would never find
another woman who was as smart
and as stupid as me
That was his reason
for hanging on to me for dear life
Keeping me around meant 
he'd always have a brain
Needing to feed...

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Caught a Flight out of town 
Hadn’t seen you in while
Wondered if you’d still look the same
Still want me to be ya number one dame
At one time you offered me your last name
Then in a...

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Of course, as soon as a new poetry contest was posted I had to immediately enter.  In this 
contest, you had to email the sponsor to get your own, unique theme.  

Off went...

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It’s 5 in the morning and all I can think about is you.
I go through your Instagram.
Those aesthetic accounts you follow.
Meaningless quotes of misunderstood media.
Made by teenage girls with nothing better to do.
But I look...

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Yearning for love at a young age
Left both of us exploited and desperate
To fit the missing piece we had within us. 
I wish I could be alone
To sustain myself without you.
But I wish for your...

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You can hate me all you want 
I will
Still 
Love you
Put no other above you
Let no devil touch you
Only angels
You're a star that's spangled
Like America's banner
Seeing you was always in my planner
But now you hate...

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Maybe I want to be.
I can’t help it
I feel like I have some sort of right
To be part of your future
Even though
Your idea of me
Is stuck in the past.

Would you be interested in me?
Who I...

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Each of us is a special case of music and noise on the ground
So listen, sit down and listen to His rhythmic laughter, scholar.
You are just a hertz of His, a cell, a particle of...

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Dark night, gloomy clouds
Fears of life-controlling the glow of my face, loud and proud,
I pinch my eyes with each drop of rain,
Touching my face,
like pearls falling on the floor,
Tender and hard, strong and yet vulnerable....

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I remember you were very happy to find your partner
You were in deep love with each other
Life seems to be too short then
Time was flying fast
You wanted extra ages from GOD to enjoy more of...

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First times 
are meant 
To be special 
Or so I wish.

With a lack 
Of experience
And a timid 
Demeanor,

I never learned
How to say no
To a person
That I liked.

When I look
Back on it now,
I think to myself,
How...

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What is love? 
This sentence came to me one day. 
What is love?
It’s when my spouse kisses me, you say
But is that what love is? Doesn’t it have more than one meaning?
What about when you...

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How foolish am I?!?
YEARS beyond our sad end.
Multiple relationships past the
Joy of all that we shared and were,
I doubt I even (fleetingly) enter your mind,
Let alone time the cadence of your heart to mine,
Or polish...

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