Love And Pain Poems

Love on the Edge of a Blade

when love was scarce and bitter-spun,
i craved the warmth of anyone.
no silver spoons, no golden light —
just hungry hands that learned to fight.

i licked the steel of sharpened lies,
and swallowed tears in my disguise.
the blades that cut, the wounds they made —
became the price my heart had paid.

yet still, i sought what stars conceal —
a
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Categories: love and pain, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Ain't Here

What a tragedy 
Nothing but life 
No love just reality
People making promises 
They say they'll keep 
But I've been wondering 
Where's the loyalty

Mindless sayings and
Heartless love 
Who on earth are
We supposed to trust
Family supposedly
The best remedy
But really just
a lot of misery
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Categories: love and pain, betrayal, conflict, love hurts,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberI Love Colors and I Love to Paint

I love colors – loud, juicy, wild, generously wonderful colors
I wish I liked coloring books, because this hobby would be cheaper
But no, I love paints and canvases. Especially acrylic paints.
I think oils are more vivid, but they take too long to dry.
I am an impatient artist. I do not want to wait three days between
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Categories: love and pain, art,
Form: Narrative

Remembrance

A soul dearly loved.
When its never to be found.
What a tragedy
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Categories: love and pain, 2nd grade,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberLove Can Be A Pain


Love can be such a gol darn pain
A delicious delectable pain
With a large helping of hugs and kisses
It can just about drive you insane

More than once I heard someone ask
Is it really worth all the trouble
You better believe it, at twice the price
Nothing else bursts my bubble

You sweat and mumble incoherently
To concentrate, it's really no
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Categories: love and pain, love,
Form: Rhyme


Love Is Pain

Love.
It's a happy feeling.
One that fills you with serotonin,
every time you see that one person.
But it can also be a sad feeling.
A hurtful feeling even.
Because when you see that one person,
after ending the happiness
it hurts.
It really effing hurts.
Especially when you still love them.
And you feel guilty
if you have someone new.
You feel the guilt of still
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Categories: love and pain, break up, cry, depression,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLove Can Be A Pain


Love can be such a gol darn pain
A delicious delectable pain
With a large helping of hugs and kisses
It can just about drive you insane

More than once I heard someone ask
Is it really worth all the trouble
You better believe it at half the price
Nothing else bursts my bubble

You sweat and mumble incoherently
To concentrate it's really no
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Categories: love and pain, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLove vs pain

How can love and pain 
define a person's worth 
when love can cause pain 

some pain can find love 
a bond that cannot be broke 
Hand in hand they grow
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Categories: love and pain, love, pain,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberLove Pain

It stares into me
That feeling of self awareness 
The thoughts that I don’t want
Reflection in the mirror 
The sorrow inside my soul
The bellowing cries of pain that gasp at the hope that is slowly dwindling away from me
My last breath of imagination of love
Slips away like the slit across my throat that takes away the
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Categories: love and pain, betrayal, emotions, heartbroken, hurt,
Form: Free verse

Love Is Pain

cyst
of time
splintered night
in silent ache.
dim light of side lamp
glistened halo of moon
in some other universe,
where I long to hold you captive
in my own immortal  galaxy.
drape my darkness in your radiant sun
hypnotized within your constellation,
blessed by Venus in her silver light
where I know  you're mine forever.
hold me or I'll float away...
vestige of your kisses
escalates
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Categories: love and pain, i miss you, pain,
Form: Etheree

Premium MemberLove Pain

Looking up from the bottom of this pit 
The smell of my own disgust permeates the damp soil surrounding my soul
I’m living in darkness
Alone, I peer out, above me 
Clinching my hands together, asking for Gods help

The stench of tears, lay waste, bellowing up around me 
Caving in the walls that my existence exist in,
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Categories: love and pain, betrayal, cry, god, love,
Form: Free verse

Not This Rose

I saw a dazzling rose,
Whose red petals cast blinding hues upon me.
She shot her cupid arrows from the Kabaka’s backyard,
And punctured the cocoon of my innocence.  

My heart burnt for a feel of her spangled petals,
My ferocious passions lost their sturdy grip on restraint as
I, like a pollen-famished bee, sniffed her whiff;
I gorged on
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Categories: love and pain, lost, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPaintings of Love - Above

Cozy crimson sky highlighted
Clouds, in corners, gold ignited
Cranes and cuckoos fly exited

Wherefrom is this ringdove?

Compassion in thoughts, words, and deeds
Complying with kind nature's needs
Cosmos cultivates complex seeds...

Is there, midst, a foxglove?

Calmness carves the clandestine cores
Cardinals commence carefree tours
Calcites and corals hug in scores

Cool breeze is on the move
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Categories: love and pain, nature,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberMunch On This - 'Love and Pain' 1895

At first glance ...
Amid turbulent strokes
and vivid hues,
eyes mesmerized by
maiden's molten-red mane—
Love and Pain

Gently kissing
her lover's nape
in tender embrace,
while Pain's
lurking specter
overshadows their
intimate space,
threatening Love's
fragile grace

Second glance ...
Gent's deathlike pallor
portrays a chilling
alternative motif.
Is love really her goal, or
is she nosferatu feasting
on a submissive soul?
Dark eyes reflect the
lurking specter's desire—
Vampire
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Categories: love and pain, art, love, pain, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis

Love and Pain

we have all felt love
but in the end we all change
pain takes its toll now
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Categories: love and pain, abuse,
Form: Haiku

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