Misty BlueOh, it’s been such a long, long time…
Jesus wept on the night that we met,
Never forget on how we would have made it last forever like Keith Sweat,
But things fell from the norm,
How can I stand the rain if I can’t weather the storm,
Oh, it’s been such a long, long time…
Just a mention of your...
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Categories:
lost love, poetry, sad
Form: Free verse
Half Past Summer, Two Months Till Fall Poetry Contest
The leaves have not yet begun to turn the bright colors of autumn,
but night air is chill as if it knows you have gone from my life;
gone with the warmth of summer; leaving my life lackluster....
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Sijo
The Last DanceTo whom it may concern,
We wrote in a rhythm that was soft and slow
Between the lines where we could go
You brought the bass, I brought the breeze,
Dancing together, pens moved fluidly
No label fit yet promises were made
Ones said were real never to fade
You spoke in beats, I answered low
And in...
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Categories:
dance, lost love, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Lingering
I saw you across the room
and I knew I shouldn't stay
But you walked up to me and said,
"How've you been?" I couldn't walk away.
I can't find the right words to say.
You etched the scars inside of me
Can't risk opening the wounds again
but from loving you, I'll never be free
The look in your...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Lyric
Taste of SummerThe scent of summer rain
eclipsed by love alone,
limbs stretched on golden sands
now laying still,
my lover that love barely new
is no longer home,
seas washed all traces
of loves sweet bitter pill.
I look back at the
taste of summer's,
of golden syrup sunrises,
coating hearts that squeezed
love from every day,
watching waves of love
drowning in your eyes,
til time...
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Categories:
lost love, summer,
Form: Rhyme
Echoes in Silk
Written: July 17, 2025, for contest by Joseph May
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Silk voice ties the tunes of the throng
As you play the chill, snake-hands song
Void doesn't just loom—he swoons and croons
Of the throng, silk voice ties the tunes
My...
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Categories:
appreciation, heart, lost love,
Form: Quatrain
ETERNITY IN A BLINKEyes locked, hearts spoke.
Love knocked, feelings woke.
I smiled, she blushed.
She mirrored, i gushed.
I was the fire but i melted .
She was the ice but "sun-hot".
Time danced slow as our minds began to plot
A story forged through the fire of desire,
Inked with hearts that synced in accord.
Strangers, familiar along the pages of prospects.
Wedding...
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Categories:
fantasy, imagination, lost love,
Form: Free verse
The Darkest NightEven the darkest night will end
And the sun will rise
Will you come to see me then
I’ll be quite surprised
Same as you - what an encounter
You would giggle at me
Love, it seems that I have found you
I’d reply to thee
The harsh reality, however
Extends that miserable night
Though the sun beats down like never
In its dazzling summer...
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Categories:
lost love, depression, extended metaphor, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Will She Be ThereCan I take your ear and tell you what I’m doing here
And will you stay to hear me through… as I relate my tale to you
All the people sleeping here are free forever of all fear
For one, I’ve left a red rose which I water with a tear
So look around at all the plots at...
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Categories:
lost love, heartbroken, i miss you,
Form: Lyric
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 learned to drown 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...
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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
Specific Types of Lost Love Poems
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