Break Up Love Poems

Heart of Steal
With a heart as strong as steel, heart always searching the cosmos for love? The man of steel stands tall and proud, his...

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A fellow poet says
don’t start a poem
with looking out the window
but I am—

I am
looking out
the window
to see the lawn
outside my window
has grown.

A neighbor says
there are...

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I’m done with co-dependence or so I say
I’ve burnt so many effigies for others
I’m the giver in my codependency
The taker burns all my oxygen 
She...

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hope …

dismay
heaven, hell
gods, mortality … love
all live within us
we create our own realities
and we dwell there …
oh, we are taught the tools for life -
the...

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i see the way you look at him,
holding his hand,
kissing him,
and i see  you’ve been cursed.

cursed to love a man you never truly loved,
cursed...

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We thought life would have been
so simple: flowers and hugs,
sentimental nights and songs;
then, reality came with its pain...
we were no longer that invincible,
rather two people...

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Bel Canto
___________________

We sang  a rendition of
the Lovers fight song
where two lovers
asked the world what
they were doing wrong
her cursings tongue spoke
until all her frustration
was gone

She...

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I tremble in these shadows, wrestling all forms of demons
'Cause, after you, I've learned how to soundly defeat them
For far too long, I've put up...

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Her bathrobe hangs forgotten by the door.
Her clothes strewn all across the bedroom floor.
And I find that I don’t care anymore
For she’s still with me.
Her...

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The Sorrow of the Skies

The sun and the moon were once great lovers
In ancient days gone by.
The clouds formed from their sorrow, and the rain,...

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The place you left, it’s shrouded with leaves now
Hasn’t got a touch of my skin since
For my heart, it never did allow
Turned many times, in...

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I'm sick of you, 
Tired of trying, 
In love with your lies, 
A mind-made paradise, 
I made for myself, 
All sugar coated with your colourless...

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I once had a heart of gold,  
Now it is black and cold, 
Seeing him kiss another, 
Wishing I had listened to my mother....

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You caught me running, constantly looking back,
tears merging within the rain. 
If I took a leap, would I fly?
Left behind, the mole above your lip,...

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I still remember our first talk, 
A memory stuck in my mind, 
Like a sinner to his sin, 
Bless the man who revealed the secrets...

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