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Love Hurts Poems | Examples of Love Hurts Poetry

Premium Member Not Entirely Alone
I know you have an entire life that's your own, Even though I am lonely, though not entirely alone, Just wishing I knew if what we have will be fully grown....

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Categories: love hurts, angst, depression, lonely, longing,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member I'm Almost Glad
I passed you on my path by chance, by the bench where we once sat with hands and hearts entwined. You looked on through me as if I were the fading apparition you left when you said goodbye. Your eyes saw past the flame of hurt, that dying love ember left behind as though you felt things that I did not. Your head and...

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Categories: love hurts, angst, emotions, feelings, goodbye,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Swollen Sore Heart
I've amassed a fair number of brown South Asian lovers. In my mind I revisit one whom I slept with beneath covers, As my swollen sore heart began beating ever sadder....

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Categories: love hurts, boyfriend, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Sijo
Blue Is The Warmest Color
We met in a coffee shop off Fifth Avenue In Jersey. You were so magnetic; your eyes shone so brightly. A couple of years passed by; and our paths crossed once more through the entanglement of interwoven destiny. We both ended up in that coffee shop again. I have to ask: Did the blue in your hair fade naturally, or did you lose...

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Categories: love hurts, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
My ribcage is a battleground
My ribcage is a battleground Echoing with footsteps and the sound Of soldiers in armour, soldiers in anguish Rumors of you, as I turn into ashes...

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Categories: love hurts, emotions, i love you,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I am Back once more
I’m back once more. I spent a long night contemplating which people to remove from my life, the ones who drag me down. It’s time for a transformation in 2026, a chance to relieve the pressure in my chest. Like a Maidenform bra that left an imprint, What a relief it is to let them go....

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Categories: betrayal, depression, love hurts,
Form: Dramatic Verse
SONNET ON CUPID
Oh! illusion of all illusions Art thou incarnated as Cupid? Depicted ye with wings And hath armed with love-shaft Entwines ye many hearts of innocence And warms thyself in their perdu passion Thou drowns many hearts of sanctity love Into your fathomless Lethe And creates many insane encomiast To eulogize thy illusion deeds As Apollo transformed Clytie to sunflower Thou endears innocent hearts bend towards you Cadeceus,...

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Categories: love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Telling me you love me isn't the same as being sorry
I've seen the underbelly of your persona. The despise you feel for La Verona. A hate you spew because I'm a woman. Hit me again, although you know you shouldn't. And I know the examples life set before you, Didn't show you the conclusions you should have come to . That when you're upset you should not bruise my body, And...

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Categories: love hurts, abuse, betrayal, feelings, love
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fifty ways to leave your lover
She was definitely dumping him All she needed was the right opportunity It was like that song Fifty ways to leave your lover Now just to get it through to him You’re crap in the sack Jack If only you were more like Stan What a man Or even Gus Though, you do have a lot in common with Gus You always go by bus God,...

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Categories: humor, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Room Was Empty
I got lost coming home tonight To my surprise, the room was empty You were not there, sweetie The bed was made and the floor was bright. I miss you, I miss you dearly The room was very cold and sad Like a lover who’s desperate and mad Frankly, my heart felt weak and empty. Your shadow was absent Your silhouette was inexistent You were...

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Categories: love hurts, depression, emotions, i love
Form: Rhyme
This Love, This Drowning
I love you. More than anything I’ve ever known, More than I can hold inside these quiet bones. Each second of the day, You live in my mind like breath But sometimes I forget… You’re not me. You’re your own being, And I want all of you, Everything you are, Even the parts that don’t belong to me. You say you admire beauty You notice, you look But...

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Categories: love hurts, husband, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Best in me
I would have my moments, and so would you, but I would choose to spend every failing moment with you, I never liked my hands until you held them, I always hated my smile but it’s all o ever did when I was with you, I hated my hair but you loved it, I break eye...

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Categories: love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
The Girl Who Writes Love Poems v2
The girl who writes love poems Finally became the muse She was so wrapped up in her delusion She didn't see she was being used. She poured out her heart into stanzas and rhymes And basked in the warmth of his gaze Little did she know the time that she’d waste Would haunt her the rest of her days. Though she spent...

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Categories: love hurts, crush, desire, first love,
Form: Quatrain
Drifting Into the Blue
I've always been afraid of deep water... So why did I believe it would make me stronger? Maybe I thought its beauty was sublime, But beauty can’t hold you afloat every time. I took a breath and went under, Trusting you through all the wonder. The waves pushed me towards you, A feeling so fresh and new. As I ventured into the deep...

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Categories: love hurts, beautiful, emotions, love, love
Form: Rhyme
Happy Hurt Day
You’re gentle, judgemental, A freak in sheep’s disguise Yet in some ways you’re burdened by self sacrifice, You’re obsessive, compulsive, Afraid to let me go You’re afraid of what’s left of you, If you have not my hand to hold You know I love you, But it’s time to move on Take a fall, and crash out, if I’m wrong Be scared, I’ll hold you, If...

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Categories: emotions, love hurts, Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme

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