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Love And Loss Poems - Poems about Love And Loss

Don’t You Dare Stay, Don’t You Dare Leave
I didn’t ask you to come. You came anyway-- like sympathy could scrub the blood off my breath. Don’t you see? My grief is mine. You’re holding tissues like they matter. You’re speaking like you understand. You don’t. Not the burn. Not the echo. Let me fall. Let me break and crawl through it-- I need the splinters to feel like proof that I was touched at all. And yet, if you leave now I...

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Categories: love and loss, grief, heartbreak, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
When the Light Forgot Me
I whispered your name into the bruise of the storm and it whispered back like it missed me too. Your voice— I remember it like warmth I no longer deserve. They keep telling me the sky is clearing, but I am rain. I am always rain. And when I tried to let you go, my fingers bled from the holding....

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Categories: love and loss, grief, heartbreak, longing, loss,
Form: Free verse



Of Love and Loss
Why speak of love with tales so grand, If you never learn to hold a hand? Why make promises sweet and wide, If you never intend to stand by their side? Why is it truth, that only when gone, Do we miss the light we had all along? Is value found only in absence and pain— Do hearts awake only in rain? The...

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Categories: love and loss, loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Alas, to write of love and loss and death
Alas to write of love and loss and death Should cause us all to savor every breath And yet we squander time and precious ink Commenting on the thoughts that others think For thoughts are woven from recycled thread Rekindling the life of things for too long dead Cause us to search for long forgotten tears For thoughts of death awaken all...

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Categories: love and loss, death, loss, love, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Love and Loss
Love and Loss Ghosts of missed chances, haunt my restless mind, Regrets and what-ifs, leave my heart confined. Yet I raise my glass, to hope’s flickering flame, Praying for love’s revival, a second chance to claim. So I wander through...

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Categories: love and loss, dark, death, gothic, grave,
Form: Rhyme



A poem on Love and Loss
The wind was blowing east Then it kissed me on the cheek Why was it all Greek? Was it blowing from the west? The wind lifted me up, Every single little part Of me was free With those three words You gave me to the world The wiles turned to smiles The beers turned to cheers That one little decision Was a big gift for me You knew...

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Categories: love and loss, allusion, analogy, break up,
Form: Rhyme
The Shadow's Embrace: A Tale of Love and Loss
In the shadows where silence reigns, Death's icy touch, no soul refrains. A whisper soft, a chilling breath, Steals away, the sting of death. In the depths of night, where fears abide, Grim specter lurks, where shadows hide. With hollow eyes and ghostly stare, It claims its prize, with little care. A mother weeps, her child now gone, In sorrow's grasp, she's left alone. A...

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Categories: love and loss, dark, death, emotions, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Legend of the Sun and Moon
The Lakota Sioux tell a story about the sun and moon which is ultimately a story about love…and loss… about two tribes that lived on either side of a river… a river they were forbidden to cross. But one day a young girl from the moon tribe on one side of the river and a young boy from the sun...

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Categories: love and loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Twice As Much
When they fell in love he felt blessed to find a person he adored. He couldn’t control his happiness…he’d never felt such love before. He thought he loved her more than anyone could love her… He thought he loved her like no-one ever had… until the day she took him home and introduced him to her dad. Immediately they understood...

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Categories: love and loss, love,
Form: Rhyme
Love and Loss
Oh, the ballad of love and loss A tale that's oft been told Of hearts that break and love that's lost Leaves a heavy weight on one's soul Once, I loved a fair maiden Her beauty like the morning sun But she left me, without warning And my heart was undone I wander now, through fields and forests Searching for what I've lost But she's...

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Categories: love and loss, beauty, heart, lost, love,
Form: Ballad
Love and Loss
I have never known addiction in the way that I know it when I feel you caress me when I feel your lips touch mine when I hear your voice in my dreams you walked into my life as if you were a force of nature enchanting me from the moment I saw you captivating my soul, my heart, my mind enthralled by your...

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Categories: love and loss, break up, depression, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Souls Suspended In Love and Loss
Love and loss are a heaven and a hell; a purgatory and limbo, a place of sorting out: a place where lovers fell; and entered a reflective, lonely space, a realm that's not a lover's citadel, but still a place where souls may yet embrace....

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Categories: love and loss, bereavement, break up, emotions,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Download Link For My Anthology Memoirs of Love and Loss
https://drive.google.com/file/d/13JR1KYgV0eDFqxRYMj9ORmfHbWpmaZtt/view?usp=drivesdk My debut Anthology Memoirs of Love and Loss is now available for download for free on Google Drive....

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Categories: love and loss, africa, allusion, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Blank verse
A Tale of Love and Loss
**************** since my youth I’ve been motivated by passionate reveries that the very essence of my soul sees- family and friends seeking only kindness from me, as I pay love forward ten times more once, two roads forked into unknown paths and with all my strength I followed the grey horizon, then gifts flowing from my hands began to heal- a tale of love...

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Categories: love and loss, life,
Form: Free verse
Love and Loss
Once upon a time I saw you there Across the room, I couldn’t help but stare Something new was being born A feeling, I didn’t know I soon would mourn The perfect future flashed before my eyes Not like the one to come, with tears and lonely cries We did not know what the future would bring And yet you gave me...

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Categories: love and loss, loss, love,
Form: Quatrain

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