Flowerflowers that have flourished in winter
made beautiful in the frost,
from the same chilling breeze they have grown lost.
one flower stands out in its sunny meadow,
the other still frozen in a field,
envying the other flowers that get to grow along in that meadow,
waiting to be revealed.
every once in a while the pollen of the flower...
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Categories:
love hurts, deep, flower, lost, love
Form: Free verse
Blue PortraitThe ships gone adrift
On the blue portrait of us
Were just two strangers
No destination in mind
Every port just looks the same
...
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Categories:
love hurts, how i feel, loss,
Form: Tanka
Broken TrustMint
Flavored
Emotions
Chomping on heart
I can no longer be the one you trust
...
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Categories:
loss, love, love hurts,
Form: Tetractys
Scars Of My Soul
You wrote me in scars.
You’ve made me like this.
You tell me I’m not the same as my old self—
That I am something you pay for.
Am I something to be paid for?
I am torn apart by the way you treat me.
I am crushed by the comments you pass.
Am I not good enough?
I’m weighed down
By your words.
You’ve...
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Categories:
betrayal, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
STRANGE LOVE
Such an immense love
disrupts my infinite thoughts
can't know what to do...
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Categories:
allusion, love hurts, perspective,
Form: Haiku
Love is like a Bounced CheckBrown face is a strainer for tears
Like lace they fall poetic to all
A ribbon of red bloody fears
You still call but I no longer talk
What occurred is reality set in
I’m no longer your prisoner
No longer your passionate sin
No longer your world to live in
I see your smile and see denial
You only loved the...
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Categories:
love hurts, angst, break up, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Love's Beginnings and EndingsThis, is where it began,
and this is where it ended.
Here
my heart knew
it must close what it started.
I gave you my heart,
but you knew I never belonged there
before I had a chance to walk away
you made friends with the grim reaper and sent him out to play.
Play time's over.
Now it's time for time-out.
Let's think hard...
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Categories:
love hurts, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Deprived Of Your Love
I can’t rid of the bags under my eyes
The crowfeet despise, all were lies,
Conjured was an illusion of you
Throughout my groping confusion
evasive, flimsy
A-m-o-r-p-h-i-c, innuendos
I was subjected to your derision
dissing me relentlessly
deriding my appearance,
disparaging my intellect
as I stumbled and fell into the abyss
Mocking doesn’t suit my countenance
My lips desert dry, thirsty, parched
An amazon...
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Categories:
love hurts,
Form: Free verse
tideyou came back
like the tide that forgot
it wasn’t supposed to.
i had a whole life stacked up,
like driftwood, like sandcastles,
and you knocked it down
without even touching it.
you hold his hand like it’s borrowed.
i kiss her like i’m apologizing.
we pretend we’re strangers,
but my chest still aches
in the shape of your name.
i don’t love you,
i say it again.
and...
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Categories:
love hurts, absence, age, betrayal, desire,
Form: Free verse
Chasing GhostsDating vague memories
Voice from the distant past
Do I dare brave the unknown?
Am I chasing dreams
Or am I chasing ghosts
...
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Categories:
loss, love, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Just set me freeAll I have to do
to keep loving you
is to play that game
like you always do.
You hide your love
cause you were hurt before,
so you measure our love
like a game to score.
You stood by my side
till you took me for a ride
I couldn't have imagined it so,
You told me that...
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Categories:
heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
I Am The Giving TreeI am like the giving tree,
ready to tear myself apart,
letting him seep into every fragment of me.
I carry the weight of him—
swirling in the depths of my stomach
at the mere mention of his name.
If to love is to truly know,
I’d spend every waking moment
memorizing each gesture,
every reaction he might show,
just to prove my devotion.
I’d offer...
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Categories:
love hurts, 11th grade, angst, deep,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
love hurts, creation, cute love, feelings,
Form: Acrostic
HeyIn case I never write another poem again,
here's what I've been thinking
I've had a rough time wrestling
with the rigid grooves inside
my red hard, head -
heading nowhere really,
getting no place clearly,
drearily coming to a head -
where spine meets brain
and runs its creviced terrain
it spent too many hours of my life
building.
Beautiful though, isn't it?
All of it...
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Categories:
love hurts, anxiety, emotions, heartbreak, lost
Form: Spoken Word
Melancholy of MiseryHaven't I loved you enough?
Then why do you have to be tough
All the time and hide
Your vulnerabilities that reside
Like a happy family inside
Of your heart, oh, heart, alas! your heart!
Why did you become such a cold bard?
Your heart's nothing but a broken shard.
So, tell me, why wasn't love sufficient
And why it...
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Categories:
love hurts, heartbreak, heartbroken, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Love Hurts Poems
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