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Sad Love Poems

These Sad Love poems are examples of Love poems about Sad. These are the best examples of Love Sad poems written by international poets.

A Sad Song by Goran Rahim

Getting through the night 
with a song,
A sad song 
Perhaps the words are unknown to you. 
But tonight 
That song is desired by my tearful...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: love, blue, crush, good night,

Less Than by HEIDI SHIPKA

Less Than

She was living in a puddle of poor decisions,
Soiled in messy outcomes

Her downtrodden steps shuffling path of humiliation, 
embarrassment, 
self-loathing.

For a long time, I...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: conflict, emotions, fear, love

Taketh Me Away by Ian Milligan

I used to feel so warm next to you,
As I await my peaceful sleep to come.
I would lay my head on your chest,
Cause I knew...

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Details | Blank verse |

Categories: love, anger, betrayal, death, grief,

I Think I've Found The Address To Hell by M.P. Shaudd

I think I've found the address to hell
There's a jukebox even laughter
And sad stories to tell
Our souls are long gone
From the heartache we've felt
I think...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: love, abuse, addiction, deep, hurt,

So Live and Love by Tyra Moore

I didn't DECIDE to be unsure when he holds me in his arms.
I didnt DECIDE to question it the first time he mumbled "I love...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: anxiety, love,

WASTELAND by Tiffany Harvester

I AM THE DESERT
WAITING FOR RAIN
I THIRST FOR YOU
IT'S DRY AND HARSH
THIS SEASON OF LONGING
HOLDING BACK TEARS
FOR LACK OF MOISTURE
THE AIR IS ARID
STINGS MY FACE
THIS...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: heartbreak, lost, love hurts,

The Chair by Frederic Parker

Footprints have frozen in Winter's hard ground
from a cold angry night when my love fled
into a world of despair and rain
the cabin door is still...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: lost love,

Deporting love again by Katherine Braithwaite


They took my blood and ethnic group, they did.
My soul was skulking, knowing of the strains
If I have no visa, they’ll get mad

Reading my thick...

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Details | Villanelle |

Categories: love, absence, abuse, angst, relationship,

Bowing Out by denis bruce

To Lesley do  I owe a big debt
No more over verse will I ever  sweat
Reading her nuanced advice between the lines
My motivation ...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: lost love, poems, sad,

A Little Kindness Never Hurts by Caren Krutsinger

I pass the woman, but when I meet her sad brown eyes,
Something godly stirs within me, and I sagely feel,
We have a vast spiritual connection,...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: love, 10th grade, 11th grade,

Me, in verse by Dave Timperley

As I stand at the gateway of a New Year,
I look all around and no one is near.
Wondering why I am left, all the others...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: life, loneliness, love,

The Spectral Cellist by Evan Palmer

awoken from a deep slumber 
                   ...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: child, father, imagery, love,

It Should Have Been You Who Wrote This Poem by Mike Hauser

To tell the truth
It should have been you
Who authored this sad poem

Instead of me
Who clearly didn't see
Your lies as they were told

The heartache that I'm...

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Details | Light Verse |

Categories: lost love,

Starve 2 Depth by Micah Watkins

I wrote this in the dark with a candle and a hollow heart.

Devotion to a flame I can't maintain disappoint is my counterpart.

Emotion I contain...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: love, betrayal, break up, heartbreak,

Solutio by Luke Hobbs

how many times can one say never,
again, I just wanted to forget,
push all the feeling from the center,
trying to give you another life,
no room to...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: love, freedom, growing up, hurt,

Where a Rainbow Meets Its End by M.P. Shaudd

Lucky in love, ain't something
I've ever been 
We're just stuck here makin love tonight
In my mind once again

She knows that I want her
Yet here's where...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: love, deep, emotions, feelings, heartbroken,

Its heartbeat stilled by Gershon Wolf

I'm in love; everything's going my way
   The sun is shining; it's a beautiful day
The forest's a-twitter, birds chirping with glee
  ...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: flower, lost love, nature,

TICKLES IN MY HEAD by Anyabolu Ifeanyi Gentle

TICKLE TICKLE IN MY HEAD


The heart can be merry,
Even if the man is not a jolly,
Gaiety of life appeases yhe heart,
Festals make even the sad...

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Details | I do not know? |

Categories: love, crush, family, fun, funny

Separated Heart by Freddie Robinson Jr.


Forgive the urgency,
but hurry up and wait
My heart has started to separate

Lyrics from the song, “Look After You”
by The Fray 


You didn’t have to go,...

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Details | Dramatic Monologue |

Categories: allusion, heartbreak, love hurts,

Gemoirs by Mike Gentile


Memories often come to mind
     through anything that we may find
perhaps, collected in a box
     stowed away...

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Details | Couplet |

Categories: family, life, love, memory,