No Longer Needing YouI no longer need you to do all I had liked to do with you,
I no longer need you 'cause now I have a better point of view,
I no longer need you in ways I thought I needed you.
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Categories:
moving on, break up, first love,
Form: Sijo
Survival Tips for Recovering Cynics
One:
Wake up slowly.
Admit it was never that deep.
Let your first word be hmmm.
Let your second be whatever.
Two:
Stretch, but not like you mean it.
Pop one joint, then stop.
You are not an overachiever.
You’re alive. That’s enough.
Three:
Brew something hot
and unnecessarily complicated.
Call it process.
Sip. Sigh.
Spill a little on purpose.
Four:
Reintroduce yourself
to color.
Start with gray.
Work up to a muted mustard.
No pressure.
Five:
Trust...
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Categories:
moving on, word play,
Form: Free verse
The day I moved onI think of you
And realize
I haven't thought
Of you today
I feel
Like I've done
Something wrong
Somehow
I've been missing you
For so long
It feels like
Second nature
And as I think
Of you, even now
There is no usual
Pang of hurt
Spiking in my heart
Somehow
The absence of it
Hurts more
And it hurts
Because I know now
I've moved on
Without my
heart
knowing
I've been having
Sleepless nights
Of thinking...
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Categories:
moving on,
Form: Free verse
ResolutionIt finally makes sense
You and him
No longer haunt me
The desperation is gone
The void is filled
And the wound is healed
The digging has stopped
The music is just music again
No one needs to understand
Because now I'm able
To stop the If Onlys
No tortured metaphors
No anguish in the back of my head
No longer in pieces
Now in peace...
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Categories:
encouraging, goodbye, moving on,
Form: Free verse
The Final GoodbyeThe final goodbye
Its not a surprise
I pushed so hard
Saw it happening
Couldn't stop it
Loathed myself for it
The final goodbye
I thought would hurt more
But it feels self inflicted
Which took the sting
I already felt empty
Now it feels complete
The final goodbye
They say it's sweet sorrow
Why did I make it bitter
And the worst part is knowing
If...
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Categories:
goodbye, loss, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Breaking, Escaping My DoldrumsBeing in a rut is driving me nuts.
I feel trapped in this doldrums.
In my mind, I am screaming …
Please, somebody! Get me out!
Writing is hard, nothing comes to mind.
Going out is tough, even to the market.
All I do is read, transporting me to Boston,
and Vermont, the settings of the stories.
Need to write, but my muse...
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Categories:
moving on, how i feel, me,
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:
moving on, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Give Me Back My MusicShe's so high
Higher
I fall to pieces
Crawling
Hanging by a moment
Its the end of the world as we know it
I miss you
In the end
A last resort
Nothing to lose
A lonely day
Its been a while
I'm in too deep
I stand alone
Lost
In the meantime
The last fight
The final countdown
No more sorrow
Nobody's listening
One step closer
One last breath
One week
Only happy when it rains...
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Categories:
break up, moving on,
Form: Free verse
The WoundThe wound is fresh
The pain so raw
Seems like it will never heal
As I cling to the thought
Of what might have been
As healing starts
Panic replaces pain
Scrambling to pick the scab
To feel the blood flow
The wound is fresh again
It keeps trying to heal
But I'm afraid to forget
To let go of the hurt
I need it...
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Categories:
hurt, loss, moving on,
Form: Free verse
FLY FLY FLY AWAY
FLY FLY FLY AWAY
Lift the burdens from my heart
this weight that feels so heavy
tear it apart with your joy and your love
let it Break Down The Walls of fear
the cage has been open
you have been set free
fly fly fly away Never Again to be
but this is not my...
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Categories:
moving on, heartbroken, love hurts, moving
Form: Free verse
I Sent The Text: An Epiloguemessages sent and unsent
confessions told and untold
heartbroken- and hearts we both broke
your memories linger around like a ghost
I still see your shadows at my door
scores settled and unsettled, you don't matter anymore
pierce through my heart or stab my back
the tattoos have already been scrubbed off
now you don't beat my drums anymore...
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Categories:
moving on,
Form: Free verse
Moving OnHow do you move on?
When you’ve lost your entire universe
In the blink of an eye they’re now gone
When all that is left is painful memories
How do you continue?
When your mind starts to fill with regret
And all you can think about is those last words you never ment
When you wish you could just take it all...
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Categories:
moving on, cry, dark, death of
Form: Free verse
And the Beat Moved On
What happened to the old ‘Do-wop’
piano triplets and ‘bop-she-bop’
Romantic ballads juke-box kissed
disco nights now wrapped in mist
Brian...
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Categories:
celebrity, moving on, music,
Form: Couplet
LET US BE ROAD BOUNDLet us disembark,
Leaving Middle Passage holes,
Let us hit the road:-
God is our engine,
Motoring us up the way;
Hope and faith fueling:-
Time waits for no one,
We need to hit the pedal;
It’s time to speed up:-
With eyes on the prize,
Let us shift to overdrive;
Mountaintop ahead:-
The sun is rising,
Palm trees palisade the road
The dream arriving:-
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Categories:
moving on, allegory, analogy, destiny, encouraging,
Form: Senryu
Love's last exileMy bewitched heart is bleeding
The burden of the banished
Bubbly times we buried into eachother
The butterfly of my dreams
Though bleak times never seemed so bad...
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Categories:
moving on, extended metaphor, feelings, longing,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Moving On Poems
Definition | What is Moving On in Poetry?