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Love Hurts Poems | Examples of Love Hurts Poetry

The Petals Hurt Too
Each petal cuts me in my sleep— you call it soft, but I bleed every time I touch it. The mirror doesn’t cry with me anymore. Only the fog stays. It hums like a swallowed scream. ...

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Categories: absence, cry, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Good enough for you
I'm too quiet I talk too much I'm too involved I'm way too out of touch I'm too messy I care too much about things being clean I'm too kind I'm way too f*ckin mean I'm too close I'm too far away I went to bed too early I stayed up too late I'm too skinny...

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Categories: love hurts, abuse, angst, confusion, love
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Wedding poem Wedding Vows
May we forever be lovers, May we forever be friends, And should we hurt each other, May we quickly make amends. May we enjoy our passion, But never let compassion die, Thinking in selfless terms as we, Never emphasising I. May we forever be soul-mates, May our love eternally last, May the food of love sustain us, May we never have to fast. May we use each...

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Categories: love, love hurts, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hade's Calling
She appears like a quiet flow of gentle timeless and pure glowing show from a waterfall of sustenance. Smooth skin, angelic sweet of a gift touching my demonic diary memoirs, frozen in time as the pages flicker and re-writes like a newly pressed hand. Her eyes a purity of splashes of green illustrated mesmerizes me with a gaze loving silk sown teasing dress, fiery red silky worship of...

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Categories: love hurts, angel, longing, love, love
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Illumination
I escape to a shiny lake where waters are calmer, my mistakes are not raked and the nights are warmer. Without sting rays and cold-ness of days, This town is deserted buildings flood vacancies I dream of flirtation and of illumination, so much for singularity, bringing one to peace. Thoughts are floating like ashes in the summer. I begin playing, A lost & found harmonica....

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Categories: love hurts, dream, introspection, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Rhyme



Forever And Always, For All Eternity
Infinite love Has come to an end The white dove? Its neck has a bend What was promised forever Did not last Continued for never And came in last Eight months To be continued Eight months You promised no issue You promised forever You promised always You promised to never But you did anyways I cannot be mad I could not do that to you But boy am I sad To watch what we...

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Categories: love hurts, crush, cry, loss, love
Form: Rhyme
Blue summer
BLUE SUMMER vs 1 IT'S BEEN A SAD DAY, I FOUND OUT THE ONE I LOVE, HAS GONE AWAY... IT'S HARD TO RISE ABOVE vs 2 NOW THE DAYS ARE ALL EMPTY NOTHING LEFT TO LOOK FORWARD TO... FEELS LIKE THE WORLD IS ENDING... AND NOW I'M ALL ALONE CHORUS GONNA BE A BLUE SUMMER YEAH IT'S TRUE... GONNA BE A BLUE SUMMER IT'S HARD HERE WITHOUT YOU I'LL DREAD...

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Categories: love hurts, blue, i miss you,
Form: Lyric
Nullspace
Every day I walked by the dead cockroach on The second floor’s third stair. I was out of breath by the sixth. On the eighth I’d stop, And wait until my heart slowed. I'd step out. How was his night? Emesis? Pain? Did he sleep? Evening would roll around. I'd walk by the clock stuck at 4:52. The elevators were faster...

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Categories: love hurts, cancer, dad, devotion, father,
Form: Free verse
Same spirit, different bodies
What were the chances? Even if just one percent, I would redo the calculations, Till my body turns to ashes. The times we spent together— Were the ones that made me fall in love with existance, with you. Even when we're not on good terms, If the universe gave me another chance, I would. However things aren't the same, Like seasons, The summer left and winter...

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Categories: love hurts, art, crush, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Truth At Heart
Whom am I in the endless plot of fate? Your perfect perfection used as bait. Whom am I to reject perfection’s grace, Amidst my turmoil in karma’s embrace. I sought not, yet there you stood, A calm in my storm, I never understood. You were the answer to my whispers unheard, A soft light to which my shadow was led. An eternity I...

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Categories: love hurts, break up, fate, i
Form: Rhyme
Inevitable truth
An eternity in your eyes I saw Yet behind broken dreams I stand, I blame you not, for this is my flaw, Hoping for that which no mortal shall have. Memories of an eternity I had made, In the sands of time I watch them fade, Was this ever meant to be? Or was this but a fleeting moment of karma. Deep in...

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Categories: love hurts, adventure, cute love, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nothing's All I Got
She wouldn’t let me in So, I stand on the porch With all the other men Still carrying a torch I thought I had a chance I thought I had a shot I thought I’d get a dance But nothing’s all I got She had no open door She always kept it locked So, like all those before I stand out here and knock I tried to...

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Categories: love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Ruined Us
I ruined what we had With my mincing words misplaced, Words that made you mad With a feeling as though also disgraced. I ruined what we were With things in which we never concurred, Things I was just unsure Of whether it is my path that has occurred. I ruined our bond With feelings long suppressed, Feelings as shallow as a pond, In which I drowned...

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Categories: love hurts, break up, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member An Unforgettable Christmas Day
It had been so long since I’d felt loved and wanted. Then I met John. We basked in our late-in-life romance. Gone was the loneliness that had left me feeling haunted. Our relationship proved I had been wise to take a chance. Though somewhat set in our ways, we adjusted well, each accommodating the other. He often mentioned how much we...

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Categories: love hurts,
Form: Quatrain
Movement without motion
Inspired by Bob Dylan's song "Abandoned Love" —————————————— Your fire burns deep in my ocean, But where is the ash of its burn? It's a movement without motion— A facemask fixed on the stern. I would rather fight a phantom, Than see your heart be fully claimed. I chose you—perhaps at random— To repair a heart love had maimed. My heart still jumps into my mouth Whenever...

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Categories: love hurts, anger, emotions, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse

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