Short Breakups Poems

Short Breakups Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Breakups by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Breakups by length and keyword.


Mental Castration

I never told you
I wanted you forever...
someone else had balls!


For "Relationship Breakups" contest sponsored by Russell Sivey.
By: George Aul
© George Aul  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu


Premium Member Relationship Breakups

A hole in my heart
There is no death with this pain
Life with no living
The stomach cramps with sorrow
Hope lost with only darkness

Edward J Ebbs 


Written for a Contest, "Relationship Breakups"
Form: Tanka

Parting Time

Right at our front door
Time awaits we both have dread
Severing our kindred ways
I beg you wind please
Don't blow fond memories my way
Parting time has come









Valerie Sherman
Relationship Breakups
Form: Choka

Rush Hour

bumper to bumper push
potholes detours red lights
rearview mirror past flash
regrets breakups foul-ups
windshield view onward, veiled
stressful blurry fearful



5/5/25
Contest: Into the Hexaline Grove
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Form: Verse

Premium Member Should I Send An Anonymous Letter

Edna gave advice to the love lost and lovelorn on the radio.
Her show was popular, but it would be the last place I would go.
Her breakups were many, her sour dour ways were no better.
I was thinking of sending this silly station an anonymous letter.
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member The Slap

There should be clearer signs, 
as a relationship starts to break up
- the hiss of steam, a twist of smoke perhaps 
or debris distributed across a hot,
cloudless, summer evening sky.
That way, the force of recognition 
wouldn’t be so much of a slap.

Blood Sucker

I once thought you were powerful
Elusive
As smart and as quick as Dracula himself
You kept me with your gaze
And your wanton touch

Shiny things a little at a time
kept me like a worm on a hook
But after awhile I saw the truth
You are no vampire
You are a mosquito
© Le Sain  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Heartache's Milkshakes

On this merry-go-round

     Of breakups and breakdowns

Singing the blues

     In our ding-a-ling shoes

We take our heartache's milkshakes

     Spiked with itty-bitty pity

Before we tangle and wrangle

     In the rebound playground.

4/16/20

Poem of the Day
April 18, 2020
Form: Rhyme

What's Left

You left me breaking and bleeding, 
The shards of my porcelain heart 
Are nothing but shattered 
Remains of what they used to Be. 
Useless. 
You left me to pick up 
The left overs of 
What we might have had 
Or what I felt for you 
But of course 
It meant nothing. 


~samantha clark
"relationship breakups"

Premium Member Breakups

Listen to poem:
Dark crown positions an imminent moon,
while the car benign a simple swan tune,
by a male world-renowned steady croon,
quaffs from a sweetheart, abrupt swoon,
as twain souls dissolution, way too soon,
while a solo spirit on, strangely immune,
limits another whose heart is now hewn,
of an unsalted berry to a strained prune.


2019 December 31
Form: Monorhyme

The Pool

A pool is perfect,
Splashing,
Tanning,
Writing,
Reading,
Baking in the sun,
Floating,
Drifting away,
Daydreaming,
Until you realize.
Your in a place far away,
Although the pool
Can be horrid
Breakups,
Shouts,
Fighting,
But most of all,
It’s usually calm and happy
Music blasting,
Children laughing,
Water drifting in the air
And you are relaxed.
Form:

The Language of Flowers

Flowers
can be used
for anything

Love
Breakups
Marriages
Death

A laugh alone
a smile with friends

Anything.

But if I had
a choice

I would prefer
you giving me
flowers while

I'm alive
and able to
enjoy their beauty

I want to be able 
to see them,
to smile

I would rather
I have joy alive

Than for you
to lay roses
on my grave

I Am A Romantic Person

I am a romantic person
I breathe, love 
Penetrate to the depths
I don't know how to go 
On the floor just a little 
I'm like that in business
In relationships 
In breakups and forgiveness.

I am a romantic person
If my life doesn't feel 
Like a fairy tale 
I throw the spears into my soul 
Tearing them apart 
Because it is not me 
Not about me 
Not with me.
Form: Bio

Premium Member 'a Once Sweltering Love'

all the signs were there I preferred to ignore them it became overt your actions were deafening so much louder than your words tears are all that’s left of our once sweltering love I had faith in us in love that connected us then I saw you in her arms
Contest Name: Relationship Breakups Sponsor : Russell Sivey Written by: Wilma N. Neels 021020112100
Form: Tanka

Premium Member over

(a simple breakup, in Senryus)

I said I’m “fine,” which
was absolutely true - just 
not where he’s concerned.

Our story ended,
a cancelled series without 
lesson or climax.

I was proud of us,
we ended things maturely, 
no one told the truth

He wasn’t in my 
life but somehow he never 
left my contact list
.
.
A song for this:
Only the lonely by the Motels
Form: Senryu

Premium Member A Spring To Summer Romance

he was not my type
but by the time it was spring
i wore that man's ring

once he wore me down
i flowered in the garden
of his sweet attentiveness
but began to droop
in the absence of his care. . . . 
July’s drought was hard to bear

that ring he gave me -
cheap like his lackluster love -
broke in mid-august

By Andrea Dietrich

(combination senryu and choka)
For Russell Sivey's 
Relationship Breakups Poetry Contest
Form: Senryu

Premium Member Conflicted Emotions

Look for love in your heart I'm leaving you with: Someday you will recognize Some breakups are doomed. Today I can be an unfulfilled poet Snoring and heartlessness alike star at night without its dense knots Even if it is a short iteration, bouncing over time and space It will only be a matter of perception to see and be seen To appear to be bluntly clear.
Written: March 1st, 2023
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Orphic Spells

Ex lovebirds of 
the tamest passion can turn 
so predatory.

Passive aggressive
schoolboys who mock whistle at
ex-girlfriends for spite.

Who scatter book bag
contents in mock accidents
for supposed revenge.

As witchcraft conjured
by the nonbelligerent
to silence the bully

I summon some sweet, 
musical, lascivious
words as orphic spells

In self-effacing 
defense to tame the awful
beast with dirty magic.
Form: Senryu

Fate of Love

In the dark lonely night, you stayed
With different words,I said
Whoever angered me, was slayed
All these love and joy, it paid

By thoughts of breakups
Which gave me hiccups
You shouted for lookouts
In the end love standouts

She took me for a fool
Thinking our love deep as a pool
Would quickly shrink
In the eye's blink

Roamed around aimlessly
Tortured mercilessly
Even though we separate
But love was our fate
Form: Rhyme

EVERY ETHEREE

EVERY ETHEREE

Two
Not one
Never Three
Just a couple
Not a family
Allowing enough time
To explore if love is real
And despite what people may say
It can be an ever growing thing
You can then count to ten and back again

But sometimes it can be a lesson learned
A painful experience for some
As breakups are more common now
Yet there will always be hope
That next time it may work
And not left alone
Sad and lonely
Just waiting
For the
One
Form: Etheree

My First Love

Just smiling, shining & indivisible,
All at the broader punch!
Alone approached the dependable,
Before-head a worst crunch.

My heart heading innocent,
Gave-up myself, my soul.
Wasn’t sure of the pretend,
To her, just in a joule!

She went, her shadows too,
Broke my heart in a bitter truth.
Cracked the confidence inside a blow,
I am at North, she’s at South!

You certainly would have,
What I had been living,
Yet, you will have,
What I am having!
Form: Rhyme

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