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Starlit Destinies
"I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart) I am never without it..."
E.E. Cummings
Amber hues kissed twilight's platinum pigments that night,
beckoning ivory pearls to weave patterns of astral flames.
Charm of...
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Categories:
absence, lost love, romantic
Form: Abecedarian
UnscathedUnscathed
I didn’t know
I was coming apart at the seams
Until i came undone
I didn't know y arms were mangled
Until they fell off
Until I heard my heart break
I didn't know i wanted to cry...
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Categories:
lost love, angst, emotions, heartbroken, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Raven and WrenRAVEN AND WREN
As the world wakes up
To the sun’s gentle rays of light
Frozen memories melt and flow
Penetrate but do not satiate
Moments of insipid sight
A scenery of incessant delight
As the raven chases the wren
Back to...
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Categories:
lost love, bird, fate, hurt, leaving,
Form: Free verse
NIGHT WINDDistressful notes of pain
Strained with tears of plight
Echo through the silent night
Filling the empty spaces in my heart.
Like a tribute song at a funeral
The notes constantly rise and fall.
Like spaces in...
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Categories:
lost love, 12th grade, betrayal, break
Form: Free verse
Misty Blues Oh, trees of once so forest green
now shrouded to me in pale hues
as my hearts reflection of blues
mirrors a lifeless figurine
Pray hide from me sunbursts of glow
for the sky is of mist alone
and where...
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Categories:
lost love, solitude,
Form: Quatrain
If Only You Knew
I must have rehearsed a thousand times,
but the words just floated away;
if you only knew how much I loved you,
how much I wanted you in my life.
Each moment we shared is a memory,
to cherish...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Verse
PROMISES
You promised to love me till death us do part.
I promised I’d always be faithful to you.
Our lives seemed idyllic back then at the start,
As, day-after-day, my deep love for you grew.
Then, right out of...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Ottava rima
If Only You Knew
Withered meadows of yesteryears ache, recalling memories forlorn,
As discords of then mourn, assailing vibes of now, emotions torn;
Yet I believe, love would have still vouched~ together we belong,
If only you knew, how to strum, sensuous...
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Categories:
lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
IF ONLY YOU KNEWIF ONLY YOU KNEW
I could have made you happy
I know I could
But you never knew.
You didn’t see the love shining from my eyes
Bathing you in an iridescent glow.
You knew nothing of my heart
Pounding whenever...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Free verse
If Only You KnewLove came and went like a lost Autumn leaf
tumbling from a naked limb of death
though beauty was found her kisses turned brief
tender, gentle, then a Winter's breath
in my heart's landscape, my eyes are crying
darkness falls...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Sonnet
IF ONLY YOU KNEWIF ONLY YOU KNEW
If only you knew what words to say
Thinking none at all might be best
Yet feelings need to have their day
If only you knew where love resided
Not in the brain, but an aching...
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Categories:
loss, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Window to the SoulWindow to the Soul
The eyes of lovers are open doors, unlocked by true love and intimacy.
Each of us holds ourselves captive in that inner panic room, that shelter we begin building upon our first...
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Categories:
lost love, heartbreak, hurt, loneliness, lost
Form: Free verse
For all the Ticks
you and
all your natural beauty
looked my way today
with these vege thread eyes
i could just curl up beside
and watch for all the ticks
speak their nonsense or
not - they give me life...
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Categories:
lost love, remembrance day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Had
Yes once, I
had a love
now, I sigh !
He flew above
and I weep
a mourning dove !
My grief deep
death, oh why ...
memories I keep !...
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Categories:
lost love,
Form: Other
PrayersWe all need prayers
My brothers and sisters
Even if you don’t believe
As we breathe and live
We all need prayers
We all love flowers
We all enjoy living
Talking, eating and singing
We fear God’s wraft
True or false? We love life
We...
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Categories:
lost love, feelings, flower, heaven, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Lost Love Poems
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