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Heartbreak Sad Poems

These Heartbreak Sad poems are examples of Sad poems about Heartbreak. These are the best examples of Sad Heartbreak poems written by international poets.

Just another heartbreak by Lorna Safronick

You told me you loved me
And want me as your wife
You pursued me hard
With promises of a new life

But like the others before 
It was...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: heartbreak, hurt, sad,

Starve 2 Depth by Micah Watkins

I wrote this in the dark with a candle and a hollow heart.

Devotion to a flame I can't maintain disappoint is my counterpart.

Emotion I contain...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: sad, betrayal, break up, heartbreak,

Separated Heart by Freddie Robinson Jr.


Forgive the urgency,
but hurry up and wait
My heart has started to separate

Lyrics from the song, “Look After You”
by The Fray 


You didn’t have to go,...

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Details | Dramatic Monologue |

Categories: sad, allusion, heartbreak, love hurts,

Lonely Aint Working by CayCay Jennings


When love rap-taps upon her door,
it is merely sound she ignores.
No more time spent taking pictures
or making family dinners …
     ...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: sad, depression, grief, heartbreak, longing,

He Left At Midnight by Heidi Sands

**FICTION**

He left at midnight
As it struck my heart
With the deepest pain
How could we be apart?

He left at midnight
Hollow sounds, left behind
Bursting tears fell
With nothing to...

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Details | Quatrain |

Categories: heartbreak, loss, night, sad,

Dark of Night by GLORIA HAMILTON

Dark of night; Angels in flight.
Darkness hues; coloring all of my views.
Take these stakes, the cause of my heartbreak.
I can see Home; so why must...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: sad, angel, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,

Queen of Spades by Shagesa Mattheeuw

Comfort me Queen of Spades
Hearts are just for show
Tired of putting my own on the market of trades
There are no benefits and the profits are...

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Details | I do not know? |

Categories: sad, desire, emotions, feelings, goodbye,

Broken by mermaid girl

Broken,
Pieces scattered on the ground
Shattered little fragments,
Crushed without a sound
People walk all over them,
Grind them into dust
Blow around, forgotten,
Swept away in a gust...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: sad, abuse, anti bullying, anxiety,

I Have a Pecan Tree by Colette Dright

I found a pecan on the ground
I picked it up when no one was around
Sitting in the hall outside of class crying because her classmates...

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Details | Narrative |

Categories: sad, cheer up, encouraging, heartbreak,

I Will Love You Forever - Tale of a Broken Heart by Rajneesh Yadav

Woke up early in the morning 
With eyes full of tears of happiness 
And a heart with a bit of craziness 
Walked towards the mirror...

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Details | Romanticism |

Categories: sad, betrayal, heartbreak, heartbroken, love,

STILLBORN by Tiffany Harvester

YOUR EYES SEE THROUGH
THE WALL BETWEEN US
BUT YOU CAN'T REACH IN
AND GRAB ME
SOLACE IN MY SOLITUDE
MAKES MY HEAVY BURDENS GAIN
THE FALL OF OUR MADNESS
WAS WHEN...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: angst, heartbreak, sad love,

Close by Juanita Oosthuizen

I’m dwelling through dark places  -
empty and alone.
I’m searching through hollow faces  -
to find the one I know.
I look around  -
I want...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: sad, addiction, heartbreak, miss you,

THE POISON APPLE by Sheer Terror

the serrated edge of steel
cuts a heart deeper to still
the sharp insisting texture
hard press a pulse severe
desires first words
pull into the soft of a whisper
the...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: sad, anger, heartbreak, imagery, poetry,

When I'm Lonely by Caitlyn Smith

Met at boy at a football game
He was 17 and it seemed insane
To think he’d ever notice someone like her
She was 14 it was freshman...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: sad, betrayal, boyfriend, break up,

Do You Remember by Wendy M

Twenty years on and she still remembers. 
The pain still fresh in her mind.
That love that seemed sweet.
Something that made her blind.

A call in the...

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Details | Ballad |

Categories: sad, betrayal, heartbreak, heartbroken, love,

Another Road Kill by Lindsay Laurie

Spent all day cleaning up my car for a trip to Broken Hill.
Serviced, oiled and greased. The petrol tank is filled.
Left Adelaide for the open...

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Details | Ballad |

Categories: car, heartbreak, sad,

Fractured Intensity by Freddie Robinson Jr.


Passion fell by the wayside
Cold Phoenix doubt rose from the ashes
smouldering on the inside

Broken candlelight date invitations
rue glow leaves grey matter with dark, unsettling thoughts
Giving...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: heartbreak, imagery, metaphor, sad

The World Is Drowning In Hatred by robin davis

There's a saying we all know
Sharing is caring-- you will show
How much love is deep inside
If everyone had only tried
To follow this one simple rule
We...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: sad, emotions, heartbreak, recovery from,

Gone by Tatum Pruett

Anxiety in my chest
Bearing myself for heartbreak,
Calm?
Desperate?
Everything seems wrong,
Fiction, my life is a lie.
Gone,
Here,
I'm not really here.
Just stop,
Know the truth.
Let me forget,
My mind needs to...

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Details | ABC |

Categories: sad, 9th grade, anxiety, beauty,

Brandy and heartbreak by Alex Duffy

I fell asleep thinking of you, I woke with tears in my eyes
Cold and alone because you're not here by my side
I did everything you...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: sad, deep, depression, emotions, lost