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Lost Poems | Examples of Lost Poetry

Heartsick
Heartsick that foolish thing Thumping through my bones Shooed away, an errant puppy Still waiting for the stick throw It has sat so long Barely remembers what it misses now Some flicker of imagination A sense of who it was Yet refusing to let go Honouring it says To let it go, lets it end Drowning in defiance Knuckles white to the stone Yielding no blood ...

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Categories: heartbreak, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Crayon Box Dreams
When days and dreary hopes could not feel duller, and gray heavens escape my pencil’s reach, —oh misery!, I could not set it to speech,— my crayon box dreams of unbridled color! When weeks waste wanton hues with guitless squalor, and paintings take the faded tone of bleach, —or worse!—, if poetry can no more teach, my crayon box weeps for richer...

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Categories: lost, art, creation, depression, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet



the 22nd century wishing well
>> true love, please. [ERROR]unable to retrieve file 'true' >> fine, then just love. [ERROR]file 'love' can’t exist without 'true' >> …just happiness, then. [ERROR]requires connection to server 'live'...

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Categories: blue, happiness, life, lost
Form: Other
The Bird Who Lost it's Song
Once, I sang without thinking— notes spilling like sunlight through trembling leaves, a language woven from breath and wind, a melody that painted the endless sky, dancing on the morning breeze, weaving stories of hope and light. My voice was free, each note a flickering flame, threading the world together from dawn’s first blush to twilight’s soft sigh, lifting hearts and stirring dreams with the simple gift of...

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Categories: lost, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse
My PTSD
It's three o'clock in the morning, and I'm sitting here on the bathroom floor, reliving that day—reliving your death. If only crying could ease the pain... Maybe I would be able to live my life again. Instead, I close my eyes and hear my voice blubbering to 911. Dad is at work, so I know...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, lost, stress,
Form: Rhyme



There's No Deep Affection Of Woman
To feel worthless and lost can be the worst defeat; don't wear that look of pretentiousness it takes away every joy and sweetness! No, there's no deep affection of woman , that once those lips whispered sweetly, and that magical glow could never be broken: I put my trust and faith in you so sincerely! My existence is hunted by demons, no...

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Categories: lost, anger, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Lyric
aquamarine
I dreamt of a siren with crystal skin and quaint braided hair. her eyes, slow swirls of undying azure, coiled around, her salt-sweet chorus tightening at my throat The alluring notes pierce through my rasp scream— In cold sweats I wake up nauseous— My vocal cords enfolded in her skin. ...

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Categories: beauty, blue, color, lost,
Form: Acrostic
Cemetery Holds The Living
Hairline chasm threads cobweb white through obsidian— wrapped around carved names once warm on living tongues. Those who lived visit with heads down, pretending it’s superstition— not guilt. not memory. not fear of love ending abruptly in a plot of land, a handful of dates. So they leave behind flowers— a sign: I came. A silence follows them home— petals bruised beneath their steps....

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Categories: lost, death, death of a
Form: Free verse
Red
pulse()— //triggers beneath skin: jagged >> syntax.error: heart overflowed: line 21 { lips == burn; silence != a glitch in breath; } >>>> crash report, rebooting… #cc0000 //devours what logic left behind __________________________ Written on April 26th, 2025 For contest 'Color My Mood' Sponsored by Nette Onclaud __________________________...

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Categories: kiss, loneliness, lost, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost
I lost my beautiful dog today I lost my dearest friend She took with her a piece of my heart I’ll never feel again I know you’ll say there will come a day when your heart is filled with another but you didn’t know my Chuli girl A dog unlike any other I’ve never cried or felt...

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Categories: lost, animal, death, dog, friend,
Form: Rhyme
the lost tribe
The Lost Tribe Holocaust, this tragic word, millions of lives lost in its name, and it has not ended. This time, it is the Palestinians who are victims of a people who have learned only one lesson to survive one has to be and able to tell lies and cynically play on Europe’s common guilt. Hitler wasn’t able to remove the Jews;...

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Categories: lost, betrayal, cancer, dog,
Form: ABC
TAKE BACK DECEMBER
(Verse 1) I remember the chill in the air, When you said goodbye, like you didn’t care. Your words cut deep, left me bare, But I stayed silent, pretending I was fine. You walked away, said you needed space, That freedom would bring you back to grace. But in your eyes, I saw a trace Of something we couldn’t leave behind. (Pre-Chorus) I thought I’d...

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Categories: lost, break up, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Darkened Sky Stole My Tears
Darkness devours my miserly despondent room. Wide windows covered shutting all luminous light A taciturn thief that stole even the stars. I sigh, a sudden suffering, it steals my sorrow from my eyes. “The Darkened Sky Stole My Tears.” She had left for good, no reason given. Sorrowful soreness cling to my weary heart. I feel a dreadful dirge hurting...

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Categories: lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Karin: Brandenburg Gate
Like some dark frail bird she quivered and fluttered there at my door one dark cold Advent night, swearing to return come the new year with a photo of Brandenburg Gate. Arms, hands, fingertips, eyes, then nothing between us but electrified space – her light tread descending the steps – my heart drawn downward by the diminishing sound. Sometimes still my heart is snared between winter a swirling hem and Brandenburg...

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Categories: december, farewell, feelings, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Left Me Breathless
You Left Me Breathless your beauty overwhelmed me your life was so carefree I loved you more than you did know perhaps I told you more than show when you said goodbye tears fell from the sky with you I was so blessed without you I am so breathless ...

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Categories: lost love,
Form: Rhyme

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