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Lost Love Poems | Examples of Lost Love Poetry

Just a Memory, Not Your Misery
You told me it wasn’t too late that I could still mend the cracks. But it feels like I’ve been losing you long before the truth escaped your lips. Only God is my ally now, and to Him I surrender everything, so I can have your love back again. How did I become your misery? How did my words turn empty? How did I become…...

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Categories: lost love, allah, first love, future,
Form: Free verse
lost
Our old memories, the only comfort I have from you. Every day, you’re jogging around my mind, Like a ghost, haunting the same house. Forever moving further and further away. I wonder, do you still feel this way? Do I haunt your dreams? Do I pester your unconscious mind? In the rooms I stand in, you follow in the corners. I hear your...

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Categories: lost love, deep, desire, dream, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Too Much Is Enough
The sparkling dawn lights up my heart’s ebony horizon after the onyx night, spreads the sunburst colors of yearning in the fervent garden of desire, blossoming with the patina of my love, that swathes the facsimile of your floral face. In the vibrant valley of my mind, contoured by the lilting lattice of longing, I carve the enthralled course...

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Categories: lost love,
Form: Free verse
Too Much
I loved loud. Not in volume — in intensity. In showing up. In remembering the little things you forgot you ever said. In texts at 2am because I couldn’t sleep without making sure you were okay. I loved in playlists. In forehead kisses. In “did you eat today?” and “text me when you get home.” I loved...

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Categories: lost love, betrayal, depression, feelings, first
Form: Free verse
RIPPED RECOLLECTION
Rolling with the R's contest Sponsor Nette Onclaud 04.08.25 I tore up the letter; the last one you sent me. The memories it conjured up were just to painful for me to recall. Memories of happier days destroyed in just one page. Heart ripped in two, I tore ...

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Categories: lost love,
Form: Rictameter



Premium Member Lost Love
(Note: taken from a diary of a young lady) In memoriam of Jose` Maria aged twenty, drowned. I lounge on an uneven stone under the uneasy shade of an ancient carob tree, away from the hot rays of the summer sun. I sit alone, abandoned, I contemplate in vain, for my thoughts wander on you, who left me in the lurch. I...

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Categories: loss, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Why me?
I belong to no one. I wasn’t made to be loved it seems. And then there was you. You lied. If you were mine and I was yours, Why did you stomp on it? Was our love less real? Less worthy? Were you afraid? Did my realness slap across your face like a cold wind...

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Categories: lost love,
Form: Free verse
No Fairy Tale Love
Love is strange Oh so strange One day strong And then dead Oh so dead Left alone Oh so alone So you say I’ll never love again Can’t say I blame you My old friend For the same thing Happened to me And my tears Still know no end Just like me You’ll never be the same A reminder of Love’s cruel game So drink up And hear my tale Of a love so strong And...

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Categories: hurt, lost love, love
Form: Free verse
ABELARD’S LAMENT FOR HELOISE
songer.co/song/j1a384koqvh6fmx6jb40ftmf [Verse 1] I shut my eyes, and there you are, Like smoke that fades but leaves a scar. I reach to touch, but it slips away — A darkened ash where love used to stay. Your beauty, a spark that lit the night, Your words, sharp knives of truth and light. But now I’m bound in this silent cell, A man fallen from...

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Categories: lonely, longing, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Random Thoughts 6: Nighttime
I lie awake at night Thinking of the loves And opportunities for intimacy I have missed...

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Categories: emotions, heartbreak, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Night of the James Taylor Concert during Freshman Year at College
My friend most beautiful sat shoulder to shoulder with me after the lights went low and the show began. We took in ballad after ballad the tender voice hour after hour and a spell was cast. The song of Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight spoke to me— I could almost cry. I glanced at her and she looked straight ahead. This was the night I...

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Categories: kiss, lost love, music,
Form: Free verse
Room for Rent
Empty, Barren ribcage- Hollow in your absence. Rhythmic echoes of a love lost. No tenant could compare to you, my love. In vain, I try to fill the void. Dusty room, in ruins- Cobwebs take hold. Empty. Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud Written 8/3/25...

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Categories: lost love, heartbroken, i miss you,
Form: Rictameter
Premium Member The Journey Within
I drew a charcoal rendering of your face on the cave wall of my mind You were taken from me long ago I visit this cave when I am asleep When the world is still and I am alone and I crawl into my mind's lonely realm I carry a...

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Categories: lost love,
Form: Free verse
Forever became yesterday
The silent echoing sound Of rhythm I could hear forever, Attuned eyes glared in wonder As I swirled in sanity profound To rhythm of wishful thought The beautiful ray on bare skin, As you held me close to your embrace I saw forever in your longing eyes Maybe the sun mocks my delusion I stare in loss of the path...

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Categories: lost love, betrayal, break up, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Loved You Until You Said That
I was oh for once so happy. 'Til you said you could never love me....

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Categories: lost love, break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Crystalline

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