Call It A NightThe fire’s down to embers and the candle’s burning low
And I cannot remember when we stopped watching the show
The morning’s coming quickly but we’ve still so far to go
‘Before we have to greet the early morning light.
Maybe just another drink then we can call it a night.
The bottle’s on the table but that’s halfway ‘cross...
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Categories:
lost love, love, love
Form: Rhyme
Stone Cold and HeartbrokenIn the quiet of my lonely room,
Your laughter echoes, a distant tune,
Time zones stretch, and miles divide,
A love once close now feels like a sigh.
Letters linger, words on the screen,
Each message a hope, a flicker unseen,
Days turn to shadows, weeks follow fast, ...
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Categories:
lost love, heartbreak, heartbroken, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
Joyous Heartbreak"The measure of love cannot be weighed in words or deeds ~ the heart chooses its own journey and learns to either sink or swim, I have drowned many times." Poets Own Quote"
The heart that bleeds,
bleeds not for you, but me,
for my words fell short and silent
of what love was,
lost voices filled empty seats...
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Categories:
lost love, extended metaphor, heartbreak, lost
Form: Elegy
Mugging
My bones float over her, I'm glass
Now on memories drunk I sip —
Another sun that must be asked.
My bones float over her, I'm glass.
I gave myself, my skies; cup's pass
A blue bookmark upon your lips.
My bones float ~over her~ I'm glass
Now on memories drunk I sip.
...
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Categories:
lost love, angst, deep, drink, lost,
Form: Triolet
The Cartographer and the SeaHe drew maps for a living.
Not of roads, but of promises—
soft lines where her laughter once lived,
tiny arrows
where her eyes used to point
when she couldn’t say stay.
She was the sea—
ever folding into herself,
a hymn of salt and leaving.
No harbor could hold her,
no anchor dared ask.
He traced her tides in silence,
built cartographies of could-have-beens,
and marked in...
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Categories:
break up, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Rolling the Dice
Ruby Tuesday caught him on the rebound
They met at a Rolling Stones Concert
He was glad she came into his life, he conceded
She was nice to have around
To fill the void his heart needed
Before he met her, he was in bars drinking whiskey and gin
Where honkey tonk women danced,...
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Categories:
absence, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Heartbroken, Yet Love Remains"I'm not sure if the love that brought us together
was worth the pain that tore us apart." ~ Boomsumo.com
I have to unlearn what some label 'love'
not the kind that coos like a turtle dove
That's the type of romance that makes you dance
But I was struck by lightning from above
with emotions that never had...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Heartbroken Wanderer In Wasteland
“When the heart breaks the trail of longing
gets lost in the debris of its shards”- By Poet
The sparkling dawn enwraps my heart with hues,
spreads the sunburst luster of my yearning,
paints golden garden in mind’s blank canvas,
blooming with the patina of my love,
unfurls buds of fervent facsimile
of your astral floral face, I adore....
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Free verse
On My Way Home - I'm All Alone!
The road was rough, the path well-worn,
My boots were dusted in what we mourn.
I walked by the field we used to know,
Where dreams were born, but failed to grow.
A window glows behind a hill,
A face I loved, maybe there still.
But time's moved on, and so have we,
After we fought - I lost the...
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Categories:
lost love, love,
Form: Lyric
Black hole loveMy love is a black hole,
silent, vast, misunderstood.
It doesn’t explode. It swallows.
Soft things. Sharp things.
Every memory. Every maybe.
I give and give and still it spins,
pulling everything in without return.
I don’t know where it leads,
only that it holds so much:
letters never sent,
touches never returned,
hope that clings even when hands let go.
People think black holes destroy,
but I...
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Categories:
heartbreak, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Other WomanTrying to make some sense of it all
but ready to begin
my exit from this fated tryst
with baggage worn and thin
One last goodbye is all I leave
for you and you alone
who held me through the darkest nights
— my home away from home
(Villanova University: July, 2025)
...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Rhyme
I do not love youI don't love you
We can say I don't know you
We can say I haven't given you a chance
We can say that maybe love will grow if we are patient
We can say there is hope
But as of now, I don't love you
What we can't say is that I don't know what love is
I know...
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Categories:
lost love, break up, deep, i
Form: Free verse
I am the girl who loves too muchI am the girl who loves too much.
The one who bakes brownies instead of saying,
"I miss you,"
because sometimes sugar feels safer than truth.
The one who writes long birthday cards
and sends postcards filled with drawings,
because my words can be too heavy,
but my heart refuses to stay silent.
I fill pages with prayers,
scribbled in hand-written cards with too...
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Categories:
lost love, i love you, i
Form: Free verse
Heartbroken, still I loveI used to think heartbreak missed girls like me,
the ones who waited, who stayed soft and sure.
For years I prayed, “Lord, guard this fragile heart,”
believing stillness meant I’d skip the fall.
Then he arrived. The first to hold my hand,
the first to kiss me like it meant something.
He made me feel alive in quiet ways,
like maybe...
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Categories:
lost love, heartbreak, i love you,
Form: Free verse
To the Moon and Backill drive down the highway at one eighty two
you'll say that'll we'll die but i know that can't be true
cause the strings and the signs of fate pulled us together
and they won't tear us apart for as long as i'll remember
the moon in the sky is so far away
in a big pit of darkness...
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Categories:
lost love, 12th grade, allusion, light,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Lost Love Poems
Definition | What is Lost Love in Poetry?