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Lost Love Poems | Examples of Lost Love Poetry

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Premium Member The Death of Love
All she wanted was love, but he forgot the dreamy days of yore. Gone were those sweet caresses, Gone were the walks hand in hand, Gone was any passionate lovemaking. All sentiment evaporated into bank accounts, and soon he found others...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, lost love, suicide,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member candlelit room
in my candlelit room I am in a meditation and total withdrawal and I am travelling back, back, back in time with a sad sigh I know what comes next and I want to weep with love my...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love,
Form: Free verse
Parting Time
You're lips close to me Yet your heart is far away Let's part anyway....Read the rest...
Categories: lost love, break up, conflict, lost
Form: Haiku
There was a time
There was a time, I used to look at her, In a different kind, We used to meet At the same place and at the same time. I know you were mine, When I saw you the first time, And...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love, for teens, i love
Form: Rhyme
Sweet Yesterday - Ephemera
Letter of the past, Now a treasured piece, Letter of gone years, Now a keepsake. She wrote it to show her love, She wrote it to tell me how proud she was of me, It had words from the depth of...Read the rest...
Categories: death, grandmother, lost love,
Form: Free verse



The Waitress
In the dim-lit corner of a forsaken cafe, I dwell alone, as time slips away. He strides in with an air of indifference, Yet his gaze betrays no hint of penitence. Briefly, our eyes entwine in sorrow, A fleeting moment,...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love, abuse, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Walking Again Down The Path Of Youth
Time has wrinkled our weeping faces, never withered any of the embraces; oh, how delightful is to walk again down the path of youth and not fear whatever fate brings upon us: joy or pain... nothing can tear down...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love, emotions, feelings, joy, lost
Form: Rhyme
First Love: Ephemera
There’s a box lying somewhere. Somewhere in a dusty cupboard. Somewhere behind old paper, older words, and wounds older still. Somewhere no one can find it. I think about it, sometimes. Sometimes, when I breathe. Sometimes, when I exhale puffs of...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love, beautiful, first love, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Zephyr
Gentle zephyr, now caress me like the tender words which ere he whispered to me, so did beguile  to let him stay a little while and dine the night from my fruit tree. We’ll sail my yacht, we two, said...Read the rest...
Categories: betrayal, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Another poem about love
Love how can I describe you? Poets endlessly found a piece of you I’m one of a million blind mice You are a colossal elephant I feel you but do not know you Let me measure every inch of...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love, father, god, jesus, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Love Laced By Lunar Lure Ephemera
The silver orb of the luminous full moon ascended, slithering silent on the satin slope of sapphire sky. Enticing cadence of the dancing sequins sensual pulsated through the aura of the argentine night. Rhapsody rolled on the waltzing waves...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
The Heartache of Farewell
The heartache of farewell Comes in layers and degrees of torment and suffering Some good and Bad, some may say it is all good in the end But regardless of platitudes and positive thinking after reflection at the...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love, farewell, goodbye, heartbreak, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Midnight Stroll
and I wandered under the stars the balmy taste of wind on my lips a whimsy of love in the air just a few notes unrecognizable tickling the nape of my neck that’s when loneliness embraced me the lover I recognized...Read the rest...
Categories: lonely, lost love, nature,
Form: Free verse
A thought carried throughout this life
Do not memorize the words I whisper about thee in this dreamy life. I have all the traps to combat these bad habits, they stop me from living this life inside my head. Tired of running to...Read the rest...
Categories: lost love, fate, heartbreak, heartbroken, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Seed of Love
Love is like a seed, casually planted in the heart of two people. It must be given a chance to grow, watered, fertilized and nurtured by strong ties of proper moral values. I saw such planting once. They were young and...Read the rest...
Categories: feelings, lost love,
Form: Free verse

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