Short Breakups Poems

You and me just once 
breakups are hard to handle 
two times will be rough...

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three words I couldn't say,
paralysed today,by fear-
so sorry,my dear

Brian Strand Relationship Breakups...

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


For "Relationship Breakups" contest sponsored by Russell Sivey.
By: George Aul...

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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"...

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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...

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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
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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....

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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"...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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...

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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
...

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