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.
Psyodine
Poem Published
Today 7:47am
Today 7:47am
Falling All Over
I don't know how, but I met him.
I met him in the most unexpected place,
And I merely met him seconds to my new found fate.
And our journey began,
Like two roads collide
I swear one day he'll be mine
And I'll be his.
Sweet how two souls find one another while everything else was amiss
And he found love in me, and I found out my love is his.
I don't know how I met him,
If given a second shot at life
I know I'd meet him again.
For life is funny in its own ways
But at first kiss
and a look in his eyes, and I still...
I met him in the most unexpected place,
And I merely met him seconds to my new found fate.
And our journey began,
Like two roads collide
I swear one day he'll be mine
And I'll be his.
Sweet how two souls find one another while everything else was amiss
And he found love in me, and I found out my love is his.
I don't know how I met him,
If given a second shot at life
I know I'd meet him again.
For life is funny in its own ways
But at first kiss
and a look in his eyes, and I still...
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Ghost223
Poem Published
Today 7:43am
Today 7:43am
Yours for Good
If I decide to be cruel, I will,
But I know you'll love me forever still,
So while I'm out on your window sill,
Just know it's my entire heart you fill.
If I could be yours forever, I would,
But there's so much going on that I never could
Understand you like I know I should.
I just want to be yours...Yours for good.
If I could stay your friend, I might,
But it's too late to have that goal in sight.
I know for sure that you were right
In saying that not all ghosts walk towards the light.
If forever were enough, I'd count the days ...
But I know you'll love me forever still,
So while I'm out on your window sill,
Just know it's my entire heart you fill.
If I could be yours forever, I would,
But there's so much going on that I never could
Understand you like I know I should.
I just want to be yours...Yours for good.
If I could stay your friend, I might,
But it's too late to have that goal in sight.
I know for sure that you were right
In saying that not all ghosts walk towards the light.
If forever were enough, I'd count the days ...
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Lookawaynow
Rose
Rose
Poem Published
Today 6:11am
Today 6:11am
Love Hungry
Here to serve & deliver
upon nights when I'm
hungry for fantasies
with little more than a
creative wetted appetite
for feasting between us.
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cloventongue89
Poem Published
Today 5:46am
Today 5:46am
True Ugly Is On The Inside
Nothing hurts better than the truth
Your flaws add character to your perfection
I want to love you till I hate you and can't live without you
Romancing dysfunction
Undulating between drama and heartbreak
You're just my guilty displeasure
Settling for seconds of the next second best
Tangled up in the knots of crossing soul ties
Test driving used hearts
Missing all the best parts
Where is my place when last place is reserved for nice guys?
I'm too kind to finish first
Because I don't want a trophy to self-affirm
You sold yourself...
Your flaws add character to your perfection
I want to love you till I hate you and can't live without you
Romancing dysfunction
Undulating between drama and heartbreak
You're just my guilty displeasure
Settling for seconds of the next second best
Tangled up in the knots of crossing soul ties
Test driving used hearts
Missing all the best parts
Where is my place when last place is reserved for nice guys?
I'm too kind to finish first
Because I don't want a trophy to self-affirm
You sold yourself...
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DecipherMe
Poem Published
Today 3:49am
Today 3:49am
Ly-Lan
Even you seemed to hide behind ceramics.
But the day I walked into class, I could see nothing but pottery.
You, on the other hand, showed brilliantly behind the normative presentations.
The eloquence of your need shrouded in the mystique of your distinguishment.
Your voice is strong but carries a sentimental melody.
Your lyrics are forceful but all they claim is love, like a hand snatching at the faraway sky for a single atom of water vapor to quell your heart.
Your are the coolest and most beautiful girl I've ever known.
But the day I walked into class, I could see nothing but pottery.
You, on the other hand, showed brilliantly behind the normative presentations.
The eloquence of your need shrouded in the mystique of your distinguishment.
Your voice is strong but carries a sentimental melody.
Your lyrics are forceful but all they claim is love, like a hand snatching at the faraway sky for a single atom of water vapor to quell your heart.
Your are the coolest and most beautiful girl I've ever known.
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ParadoxZero
Poem Published
Today 3:05am
Today 3:05am
Hollow glass
My eyes burn of sleepless nights
My body aches of restless days
I've spent too much time thinking
I'm sure I ruin everything by drinking
I always hollow the bottle
I got to run full throttle
Pedal to the fucking ground
Drunk again losing my crown
I'm losing her
I'm losing her
Fuck my life
Losing my sight
My body aches of restless days
I've spent too much time thinking
I'm sure I ruin everything by drinking
I always hollow the bottle
I got to run full throttle
Pedal to the fucking ground
Drunk again losing my crown
I'm losing her
I'm losing her
Fuck my life
Losing my sight
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Thesittingiraffe15
Poem Published
Today 2:31am
Today 2:31am
Dying Love
It's me the man inside your heart bagging to be free, where's the love you showed to me when we were ment to be. These walls of pain are closing in I'm loosing all control, on my knees you ruined me just like the one before. I showed you love and love you gave, but now there is no more, a tear will fall and that is all, Iv done this all before, so let me free, this is the end for love there is no more.
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Duke_Raoul
Poem Published
Today 1:51am
Today 1:51am
UNWEAVING HER TAPESTRY
thread-bare tapestry, missing a grommet
use to be something wonderful, splendid
tear-stained and splattered in writer's vomit
unraveling ends are now unended
hung-out-to-dry, but only cross-winded
poetic piece, (once belonged to a bard)
perhaps past the point of being mended
with handwoven pattern of avant-garde
scarred, marred, too many faults to disregard
hanging rod sways and cracks in partial breech
ready to be charred/ destined for graveyard
overly beaten and smelling of bleach
leeched of all color, overly-sunlit
sold as an...
use to be something wonderful, splendid
tear-stained and splattered in writer's vomit
unraveling ends are now unended
hung-out-to-dry, but only cross-winded
poetic piece, (once belonged to a bard)
perhaps past the point of being mended
with handwoven pattern of avant-garde
scarred, marred, too many faults to disregard
hanging rod sways and cracks in partial breech
ready to be charred/ destined for graveyard
overly beaten and smelling of bleach
leeched of all color, overly-sunlit
sold as an...
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Jabbo
Poem Published
Yesterday 00:02am
Yesterday 00:02am
Alone...it comes.
It comes, the rain
I saw it cross the plain
Thick dark clouds, dark blue sky
I feel it, loneliness once again
Raindrops tap as they land on the tin
Big drops drop drop on my skin
I inhale the smell before the storm begins
Sensation unanswered, loneliness comes again
The birds have disappeared
Traffic on this lone road has slowed
The thunder shakes my bones
The lightening almost making my heart explode
Alone
It comes
Comes again
The touch of the neck
The kiss on my lips
The smell of warm skin ...
I saw it cross the plain
Thick dark clouds, dark blue sky
I feel it, loneliness once again
Raindrops tap as they land on the tin
Big drops drop drop on my skin
I inhale the smell before the storm begins
Sensation unanswered, loneliness comes again
The birds have disappeared
Traffic on this lone road has slowed
The thunder shakes my bones
The lightening almost making my heart explode
Alone
It comes
Comes again
The touch of the neck
The kiss on my lips
The smell of warm skin ...
25 reads
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poetryaccident
Poem Published
Yesterday 9:38pm
Yesterday 9:38pm
Who We Are
Visibility has its place
a time to share who we are
alignment along the middle way
away from ends of left and right
desire comes in many forms
there’s not one template to explain
or the two that some embrace
instead the spectrum is in play.
Myths are spun by outsiders
made from dogma held in books
without a face put to words
it’s too easy to damn strangers
for encounters singly had
with a stamp ascribed by chance
by human nature had by all
on a segment now despised.
Against the stones of ignorance
and the...
a time to share who we are
alignment along the middle way
away from ends of left and right
desire comes in many forms
there’s not one template to explain
or the two that some embrace
instead the spectrum is in play.
Myths are spun by outsiders
made from dogma held in books
without a face put to words
it’s too easy to damn strangers
for encounters singly had
with a stamp ascribed by chance
by human nature had by all
on a segment now despised.
Against the stones of ignorance
and the...
16 reads
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Trouble_Loves_Me
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:40pm
Yesterday 8:40pm
TORN
My one love
I putting you on show
Briefly, so others can
Share your beauty and warmth.
At your altar
On hands and knees
Beg you to never forget me.
Your heart lies in my grave
Your love swims forever.
A man drugged by your beauty
Held ransom by your fingers on my skin
Boyfriend in a coma?
It was serious,
I love you Sabeen.
These are the final words
I will ever write about you.
An epitaph of where the
Sun fails to shine
And even the Moon
Her pallid light exposed
Teasing to creation
Turns...
I putting you on show
Briefly, so others can
Share your beauty and warmth.
At your altar
On hands and knees
Beg you to never forget me.
Your heart lies in my grave
Your love swims forever.
A man drugged by your beauty
Held ransom by your fingers on my skin
Boyfriend in a coma?
It was serious,
I love you Sabeen.
These are the final words
I will ever write about you.
An epitaph of where the
Sun fails to shine
And even the Moon
Her pallid light exposed
Teasing to creation
Turns...
22 reads
2 Comments
Lookawaynow
Rose
Rose
Poem Published
Yesterday 8:11pm
Yesterday 8:11pm
Attention to Intentions
My attention to the little
details, focusing on one
moment at a time
So you'll know
my intentions
be always true
for you
27 reads
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