Just a Memory, Not Your MiseryYou 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
lostOur 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
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 MuchI 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
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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
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 LoveLove 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
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[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: NighttimeI 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 CollegeMy 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.
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Written 8/3/25...
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Categories:
lost love, heartbroken, i miss you,
Form: Rictameter
The Journey WithinI 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
I Loved You Until You Said That
Categories:
lost love, break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Crystalline
Specific Types of Lost Love Poems
Definition | What is Lost Love in Poetry?