Love Poems
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
Poetry about lost love, heartbreak and relationship problems
Previously covering both the sides of love, this section now focuses on poems about the dark side of love, heartbreak and the hurt caused by lost love. Happy love poetry now finds a home in the "upbeat poems" section. This category is reserved for love poems about troubled friendships and relationships and it's where poets offload emotional pain inflected by (ex) boyfriends, girlfriends, wives, husbands, family and friends. Which all begs the question, what is love anyway? Maybe you'll find out here.
Betty
Poem Published
Today 3:34pm
Today 3:34pm
exigence
I’d beaten my id
against a research proposal
that should have ended with
letters after my name
My meat left the skin when
my new advisor
gently
put her hand
on my shoulder
from behind and
scared the shit
out of me.
I hyper-focus.
(You know that.)
And I didn’t hear her
come into my office.
She broke the news:
The same fucking study had
just been published.
And my exigence was belayed.
A year of
recalibrated neurons,
gone ...
against a research proposal
that should have ended with
letters after my name
My meat left the skin when
my new advisor
gently
put her hand
on my shoulder
from behind and
scared the shit
out of me.
I hyper-focus.
(You know that.)
And I didn’t hear her
come into my office.
She broke the news:
The same fucking study had
just been published.
And my exigence was belayed.
A year of
recalibrated neurons,
gone ...
#anger
#love
58 reads
21 Comments
Poetryman
Poem Published
Today 12:48pm
Today 12:48pm
Poem Titles I Didn't Write You
Oh Well
It Wasn't Ment to Be
Mistaken
It Stinks
My Head Aches
You Smell
I Wish I Had Known
If Only
You are Killing Both of Us
Your Existence Rests Caressed in Your Fingertips
Nothing Matters Anymore
I Cared When I Thought I Loved You
The Darkness You Can't See
The Fog of Death Robs Your Oxygen
I Was a Fool
Fantasies of You and Me Gave Me False Hope
Fake Fucks and Simulated Orgasms
Dawn's Reality
When the Smoke Cleared the Mirror Broke
Leave Well Enough Alone
In Your Next Life, Look Me Up
It Wasn't Ment to Be
Mistaken
It Stinks
My Head Aches
You Smell
I Wish I Had Known
If Only
You are Killing Both of Us
Your Existence Rests Caressed in Your Fingertips
Nothing Matters Anymore
I Cared When I Thought I Loved You
The Darkness You Can't See
The Fog of Death Robs Your Oxygen
I Was a Fool
Fantasies of You and Me Gave Me False Hope
Fake Fucks and Simulated Orgasms
Dawn's Reality
When the Smoke Cleared the Mirror Broke
Leave Well Enough Alone
In Your Next Life, Look Me Up
#heartbroken
#FeelingLost
#hurt
32 reads
3 Comments
AverageJoe
Poem Published
Today 11:42am
Today 11:42am
Pictures
There are pictures I wanted to take of you
Poses of pictures I wanted to paint
Not pictures of beauty in a fading light
But paintings of beauty in this time of our life
I could paint you every day
Pour my heart and talent into bringing you to life
So that maybe you'd believe in the beauty that I see
That maybe you'd believe in you
And me
Poses of pictures I wanted to paint
Not pictures of beauty in a fading light
But paintings of beauty in this time of our life
I could paint you every day
Pour my heart and talent into bringing you to life
So that maybe you'd believe in the beauty that I see
That maybe you'd believe in you
And me
#love
31 reads
2 Comments
AverageJoe
Poem Published
Today 10:54am
Today 10:54am
Prayer
I truly prayed for you today
My heart on its knees
Not that you would change
Not that I would remain
But that you could be who you needed to be
That you would find that strength
That peace
In your weakness and and anxiety
That you would find love
Self love
Acceptance
Of yourself
For who you are
Until then all you chase
Each man you meet
Will simply be the wisp of dreams
Like me
I prayed for you today
Every positive thought and hope
Not for me
But for you
Life's...
My heart on its knees
Not that you would change
Not that I would remain
But that you could be who you needed to be
That you would find that strength
That peace
In your weakness and and anxiety
That you would find love
Self love
Acceptance
Of yourself
For who you are
Until then all you chase
Each man you meet
Will simply be the wisp of dreams
Like me
I prayed for you today
Every positive thought and hope
Not for me
But for you
Life's...
#love
35 reads
0 Comments
rubyredheart
Poem Published
Today 8:26am
Today 8:26am
Unspoken yet Known
From the depths of alone
It’s your voice I hear
Your words that assure,
“It’s okay”
In the face of my fears
Your comfort draws near
Somehow I know
I am loved
While I crave the concrete
With evidence real
Reassurance I find
Still in you
For whatever may come
The promise is true
“______, I DO love you”
It’s your voice I hear
Your words that assure,
“It’s okay”
In the face of my fears
Your comfort draws near
Somehow I know
I am loved
While I crave the concrete
With evidence real
Reassurance I find
Still in you
For whatever may come
The promise is true
“______, I DO love you”
#love
26 reads
wolfatthedoor1966
Poem Published
Today 6:52am
Today 6:52am
flood
if my
heart
which now
becomes
infected
with love,
shall i
cut
it out
to keep
from
compromising
my soul?
heart
which now
becomes
infected
with love,
shall i
cut
it out
to keep
from
compromising
my soul?
#love
#kindness
#hope
#admiration
#emotions
34 reads
6 Comments
Maple666
Poem Published
Today 5:02am
Today 5:02am
Running
You think you can out run your past and
all those feelings. Socks and Nike’s and
feet . Blisters and plasters meet you
years after all you did was catch your
breath and found out you didn’t come
first you came last and running
isn’t the answer . Love is .
all those feelings. Socks and Nike’s and
feet . Blisters and plasters meet you
years after all you did was catch your
breath and found out you didn’t come
first you came last and running
isn’t the answer . Love is .
#love
#strength
#hope
#TimeHeals
#redemption
35 reads
2 Comments
adagio
Poem Published
Today 3:52am
Today 3:52am
Freckle on My Pillow
As the moments tick away
of memories from yesterday
sock hops and soda pops
Doo-Wops and Sha Na Na...
tuning in to Wolfman Jack
when egos were a pack of gum
poodle skirts were for flirting
and you wore my Class ring
around your neck...
but bring her home by 9 PM
I was your feller and not a dude
remembering, you chewed pencils
you were my true love and still
until the angels took you away
but I still have one of your freckles
on my pillow
of memories from yesterday
sock hops and soda pops
Doo-Wops and Sha Na Na...
tuning in to Wolfman Jack
when egos were a pack of gum
poodle skirts were for flirting
and you wore my Class ring
around your neck...
but bring her home by 9 PM
I was your feller and not a dude
remembering, you chewed pencils
you were my true love and still
until the angels took you away
but I still have one of your freckles
on my pillow
#love
#memories
37 reads
8 Comments
Betty
Poem Published
Today 3:51am
Today 3:51am
Uncomfortable eye contact with the guy I f**ked over
#breakup
#lover
53 reads
10 Comments
Betty
Poem Published
Today 3:43am
Today 3:43am
slut
When you told me
your body-count
I laughed.
Nobody’s a bigger
slut
than a woman
seeking
revenge
against men
against the world
against (myself)
your body-count
I laughed.
Nobody’s a bigger
slut
than a woman
seeking
revenge
against men
against the world
against (myself)
#lust
65 reads
10 Comments
smackdownraven
Poem Published
Today 3:15am
Today 3:15am
Emptiness
aching realization mortal company can be fleeting
moving in the elements the immortal surrounds me
encompasing my soul
stirring a feeling so familiar
knowledge found and wisdom lost
I want to be accepted
thumps the drum of my heart
pushing my sadness through my soul
within me I sigh
you listen intently and say nothing
I wither without you
lingering in doubt
touching the darkness of being
a taste of divine
then emptiness
moving in the elements the immortal surrounds me
encompasing my soul
stirring a feeling so familiar
knowledge found and wisdom lost
I want to be accepted
thumps the drum of my heart
pushing my sadness through my soul
within me I sigh
you listen intently and say nothing
I wither without you
lingering in doubt
touching the darkness of being
a taste of divine
then emptiness
#love
29 reads
2 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
Today 00:33am
Today 00:33am
Nothingness
My hurt spoke to me of nothingness
and I long to let go of myself
Deep into the darkness
never to feel anything again
I don't want to try anymore
trying to fit in and still standing out
The one I love just wants to be accepted
I am cast out
I expected him to shiver with me in the cold
the cold spoke nothingness into my soul
and I long to let go of myself
Deep into the darkness
never to feel anything again
I don't want to try anymore
trying to fit in and still standing out
The one I love just wants to be accepted
I am cast out
I expected him to shiver with me in the cold
the cold spoke nothingness into my soul
#sadness
#love
#acceptance
55 reads
3 Comments
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