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Sad Love Poems | Examples of Sad Love Poetry

BLUE SHIRT GOODBYE
[Verse 1] I was half a man in a boy’s disguise, Wore my silence like a second skin. Didn’t know how to break what I couldn’t define, So I broke it with a nervous grin. You were books I hadn’t read yet, I dog-eared pages just to feel wise... You danced in the rain, I stood in it—awkward, trying to improvise. [Chorus] But I still...

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Categories: sad love, absence, angst, break up,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Response to love letter
Dear Eos, I wish I still felt passion in my heart toward the generous soul that you are. You always saw beauty in the world and painted strokes of life with a brush of sweetness and delight. I am sorry for the suffering life's put you through. The heart is a fickle thing. It simply was not meant to be. We've walked...

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Categories: sad love, break up, life, lost
Form: Free verse



Dream On
'Follow your dream' easier said than done as the girl of my dreams for me she is the only one and yet for her I don't exist she sees through me sad to say don't have what (it) takes her fancy won't even look my way as ships which pass in the night our two hearts will never meet I find mine's a dead-end dream on...

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Categories: dream, sad love, word
Form: Rhyme
Black hole
Why can’t I exist without you? Each time I try to leave you suck me back up into your blackhole. Can’t help but love you for the way you make me feel it’s like a loop of love and I’m stuck in it, swirling around your finger and getting caught up with you once more. But I...

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Categories: sad love, 12th grade, deep, for
Form: Free verse
clouded
Today, the sadness slid in like fog— not sudden, just there. Heavy without being invited. I sit with it, ashamed, like I’ve broken something sacred by feeling low in the presence of someone so bright. She laughs like clear water, touches my hand like forgiveness— how can I ache when she exists? But the ache doesn't check who I love, only who I am. It loops. A guilt for feeling, a guilt for...

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Categories: sad love, absence, depression, feelings, how
Form: Free verse



I Lost My Body
If I could go back in time, I’d go back to when I believed in soulmates the way I believe the stars in the night sky guide us to a predetermined destiny. Poorly illuminated by the moon, leaving you to seek yourself intentionally. Well, I’ve learned you can throw away fate when you make an extremist choice, deviating against that destiny. Like salmon in...

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Categories: sad love, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Twine that Binds
Out of my mind and lost in time Holding on to a love unkind Unwind the twine that cruelly binds Me to my severed valentine Her voice still calls through echoing halls As madness clings to crumbling walls All consumed in lingering perfume Her presence like a ghost haunting this room. Left behind—a love consigned A fantasy born within my mind She gave...

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Categories: sad love, betrayal, dark, gothic, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why embarass yourself?
You're not doing a stellar job distracting me with idle chatter. Life is not something to be ignored and swept under a mat. I've been living in limbo no matter how you sugarcoat it. Life is short and every beat matters. Every day is another notch in the cog of time fleeting. Life is a race to the finish line, an obstacle course of...

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Categories: longing, relationship, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Black Hole Love
grab your pail, we'll clean the sea fetch a comb to coiff the sand don't fall for burning cities, to be eternalized as a pinnacle of table salt pinch me, porfa! looking up/down—that's insurance perilous looking back psychics looking forward pronouncing words over tomorrow's world should you be dissolved by hands furious at future-telling feats well, you would have seen it coming... stay simple pick peppers plant cotton gin it for reason ...

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Categories: sad love, abuse, grave, imagination, love
Form: Free verse
Heartbroken, still I love
I used to think heartbreak missed girls like me, the ones who waited, who stayed soft and sure. For years I prayed, “Lord, guard this fragile heart,” believing stillness meant I’d skip the fall. Then he arrived. The first to hold my hand, the first to kiss me like it meant something. He made me feel alive in quiet ways, like maybe...

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Categories: sad love, heartbreak, i love you,
Form: Free verse
Heartbroken yet not broken
“I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanently empty heart forever.” –H.C. Paye ........................................................... Pure wickedness sets you apart, Meanwhile, true love you led me to assume. You purposefully broke my heart, Leaving my vases filled with wilted blooms. Yet I deter not; my heart lives to love, Through many heartbreaks, still I'm...

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Categories: sad love, anger, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Dearest Reader
Dearest reader, I have many secrets But I wont tell you now, I'll wait till you're older Heavens know I have many regrets But I wont tell you now, please wait till I'm bolder There are many things about me you dont know yet But I wont tell you niw as you rhetorically cry on my shoulder There is a version...

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Categories: beauty, sad love, self,
Form: Rhyme
Too Close To The Sun
Have always known my limitations it's a fact that can't be missed I'll always go out on a limb and you're an attraction I can't resist am I being reckless to gamble on such a crazy game am I overconfident and like a moth to a flame will I melt my wings these and a thousand other things will I crash and burn...

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Categories: sad love, flying, romantic love, sad
Form: Rhyme
Beautiful Eyes
Beautiful eyes Tell vicious lies In the middle of a storm I’m not surprised I haven’t cried Searching for your warmth I love you But who knew You didn’t feel the same Did you love me too Or was I just new? Your favorite little game A brand new toy For you to enjoy My light died within me I fell for a boy It was me he destroyed Forever lost in...

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Categories: sad love, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Between Safety and Danger
tiptoeing through a minefield f r a u g h t with combustible opportunities a groom jilted at the altar by bride who'd rather stay "just friends." humiliated at his...

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Categories: sad love, break up, devotion, love
Form: Narrative

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