22nd century wishing well>> true love, please.
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>> fine, then just love.
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>> …just happiness, then.
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Categories:
lost love, blue, happiness, life, lost
Form: Other
There's No Deep Affection Of WomanTo feel worthless and lost
can be the worst defeat;
don't wear that look of pretentiousness
it takes away every joy and sweetness!
No, there's no deep affection of woman ,
that once those lips whispered sweetly,
and that magical glow could never be broken:
I put my trust and faith in you so sincerely!
My existence is hunted by demons,
no...
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Categories:
lost love, anger, anxiety, emotions, fear,
Form: Lyric
Red
pulse()— //triggers beneath skin: jagged
>> syntax.error: heart overflowed: line 21
{ lips == burn; silence != a glitch in breath; }
>>>> crash report, rebooting…
#cc0000 //devours what logic left behind
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Written on April 26th, 2025
For contest 'Color My Mood'
Sponsored by Nette Onclaud
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Categories:
lost love, kiss, loneliness, lost, love,
Form: Free verse
TAKE BACK DECEMBER(Verse 1)
I remember the chill in the air,
When you said goodbye, like you didn’t care.
Your words cut deep, left me bare,
But I stayed silent, pretending I was fine.
You walked away, said you needed space,
That freedom would bring you back to grace.
But in your eyes, I saw a trace
Of something we couldn’t leave behind.
(Pre-Chorus)
I thought I’d...
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Categories:
lost love, break up, farewell, goodbye,
Form: Lyric
The Darkened Sky Stole My TearsDarkness devours my miserly despondent room.
Wide windows covered shutting all luminous light
A taciturn thief that stole even the stars.
I sigh, a sudden suffering, it steals my sorrow from my eyes.
“The Darkened Sky Stole My Tears.”
She had left for good, no reason given.
Sorrowful soreness cling to my weary heart.
I feel a dreadful dirge hurting...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Free verse
To Karin: Brandenburg GateLike some dark frail bird
she quivered and fluttered
there at my door
one dark cold Advent night,
swearing to return
come the new year
with a photo of Brandenburg Gate.
Arms, hands, fingertips, eyes,
then nothing between us
but electrified space –
her light tread descending the steps –
my heart drawn downward
by the diminishing sound.
Sometimes still my heart is snared
between winter
a swirling hem
and Brandenburg...
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Categories:
lost love, december, farewell, feelings, lost
Form: Free verse
You Left Me BreathlessYou Left Me Breathless
your beauty overwhelmed me
your life was so carefree
I loved you more than you did know
perhaps I told you more than show
when you said goodbye
tears fell from the sky
with you I was so blessed
without you I am so breathless
...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Rhyme
To Karin: A Plain Beyond the CityCoal-brown smoke smudged lightly
with hesitant fingers
into the wet grey sky at the edges,
a yellowing of dried grass
scattered with copper berries
fallen from their vines,
a leaf spinning crazily on a breeze,
a tentative parting of fingertips
and a face turned slightly from mine –
a profile obscured by dark hair –
and eyes scan and count the pylons
for something to do.
The...
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Categories:
lost love, farewell, goodbye, imagery, lost
Form: Free verse
To Karin: The Unsent LetterI called you my Magyar princess
because of your smoldering eyes
and dark hair and maybe you were—
or maybe just a woman
who knew how to disappear
while standing still.
I got your number from
your grandfather five years
after you departed
to visit the Brandenburg Gate
with a promise to return
in the spring.
A Florida area code,
and a man’s voice I...
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Categories:
farewell, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Missing YouIt's a funny
strange thing
When you're not around
Like the lack
of a smile
On a circus clown
Or a ferris wheel,
With all empty seats
a candied apple, More tart than sweet
Like a merry-go-round
That looks kind of scary
Or that huge prize teddy
You're not here to carry
An amusement park, On a winters day
And as...
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Categories:
lost love, lonely, longing, loss, lost
Form: Lyric
Into The Black Hole Sun - A Cosmic Ballad of Love, Loss and Illusion, Music Video
This piece was sparked by an idea in a fellow poet Tom Woody’s’ — “Last Dance Amid the Stars.” I however, followed a very different emotional path — one that avoids finality and leaves room for mystery and one’s own imagination. The story also touches on the true stories of a growing trend with...
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Categories:
anxiety, grief, lost love,
Form: Ballad
The Traveler CardIt could have been a jester
wrapped in shrink wrap
or a prince who danced
who spoke to me.
To go or stay
I didn’t know.
I didn’t know
as I drove to see a friend—
we’d just worked together
at a store but she left.
I followed the signs
to a new place.
I couldn’t get her
out of my mind.
Trees and parks
and rows of houses
rolled past...
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Categories:
lost love, extended metaphor, leaving, lost
Form: Free verse
The QuietThe day is solemn
time to reflect
a thankfulness for sacrifice
Flags placed to honor
Names carved on stone
Dates of lives gone
Grace and silent prayers
No need for spoken words
shed a few tears
White crosses far to many
numbering those lost
who gain us this day of remembrance
The Quiet screams louder than a thousand bombs
rapid screech of gun fire
explosion of a grenade
the agony...
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Categories:
lost love, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
Along With The Thunder
The seamless sky called life shined with cloudless ecstasy,
as in the rhapsody of zephyr rippling with rhythm of love
floated my butterfly mind with the motif of my heart.
On its wings I painted in colors the lattice of my identity,
for flowers in my valley bloomed in all seasons for you.
The dawning horizon splashed the spectrum of...
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Categories:
autumn, lost love,
Form: Free verse
chateau
legions …
of shadowed purpose
they rattle the parapets of my flesh
morning paints the
stark reality that lays like shards of
tea-stained saucers before me …
an iniquitous army of intent
poised to scale the ramparts of
all I’ve bargained and built
those sordid soldiers hold no
deference for me
there is no honor in the garlands they
drape upon this aged castle,
only thorns of...
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Categories:
analogy, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Lost Love Poems
Definition | What is Lost Love in Poetry?