Sad Love Poems

I looked up to the moon love, I heard your words. 
Saying, I love you, and I mean it. 
That we are one, that we...

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Dylan Song Tribute Poetry Contest -  Oliver Mckeithan
June 11, 2025

Boots of Spanish Leather

From Barcelona, she shipped me boots of Spanish leather,
with a note that...

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Red Flags

He hides his phone when you’re near,
Fingers fumble, clouded fear.
Notifications off at night,
Darkness veils the glaring light.

Silent whispers in his chest,
Half-truths spoken, half repressed.
“Just...

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He's a flirt with his anxieties,
Collecting tauted nerves.
She's a pen who haunts his remedies,
And with these words she serves.

He'll romanticize the painful,
And unto pleasure, gain.
Where...

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Emptiness
That is what has been filled inside of me these days
A second feels like a minute and then eternity feels short
I'm slapping on a smile,...

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I wish I were a fancy artsy
living off my creative exploits.

I'd wish to mingle with its class,
commune with the type of people 
who live and...

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under the sad moon
shadows of two hugging lovers  –
a love memory? 

...

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There is a star up in Heaven
Deeply nested in my lonely heart
I talk to it every night
Its beauty is ethereal
I still love you the same
The...

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Genghis needed to get his teeth clean
leaving Sassy alone for her first time felt extreme
gather the little guy to get him there by eight A...

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"The clouds parted like the pursed lips of desire".


After many cold winters, they met again, 
Under the poplar tree on a starry moonlit night.
Though they...

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When we finally feel emotionally attached to someone, we tell them we LOVE them 
When you finally truly LOVE someone, even the smallest of their...

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I thought we were in love
One of us was
For the first time

I thought we were married
I know I was
Unsure what you thought we were doing

My...

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I call her Ms. H
because names are easier
than saying—
I was too much.
Too soon.
Too wrong.

She isn’t loud.
She doesn’t speak.
She waits—
in the gap
between what I gave
and what...

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[Verse 1]

I grew my farm roots beneath your starry-eyed loam
In soils of silence where dreams slip by, lost and unknown
But you were the willowing wind...

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Why don't you love me  friends
Anymore my dear friends
It leaves me sad
Knowing that you
That you don't love me
Anymore
I am also feeling very sad
My dear...

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