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Best Heartache Poems

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Heartache
Maples shed their trembling leaves, 
the scorch of daylight dies and evening drips 
in pools of reddish hue as I bereave the absence 
of my...

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Categories: heartache, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Heartache Pages Turned
Young and naive from a distance her heart leaped to its highest peak
On his terrace he'd sit lips utter words if the pages could speak
Her...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heartache, dream, heartbroken, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Stars Never Knew the Breadth of My Heartache
I was drawn to her in temporal depth of night,
glancing her way in beams of harvested light
But in mourning her, I wept behind shrouds,
concealed by...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heartache, lost love, moon,
Form: Elegy

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Heartache Carved Knots
Chilly the pride shredding me torn.
In soft grass I lay odd pieces
of my new wound, bloody from scorn
and wrath as pushed in my creases. 

I...

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Categories: heartache, abuse, character, conflict, peace,
Form: Hybronnet
Premium Member Between Happiness and Heartache
Between happiness and heartache
We search for higher ground
As we travel the peaks and valleys
Trying to save the love we've found

Build bridges over troubled waters
Carelessly burning...

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Categories: heartache, love, philosophy,
Form: Quatrain
Heartache
My heart has been broken, shattered like glass
My soul misguided, led from its path
Each new lesson becomes harder to learn
Love is a flame of fire,...

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Categories: heartache, girlfriend-boyfriend, loveme,
Form: Free verse



Voyage of Heartache
On a voyage of heartache, through one window I see,
the fading sun dancing on waters so deep.
Mile be mile, my destination is clear,
in my heart,...

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Categories: heartache, lost lovevoyage,
Form: Rhyme
Heartache
The shell of my heart has been broken, shattered like glass
My soul misguided, manipulated from it's path
     Each new lesson becomes...

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Categories: heartache, angst, sadme,
Form: Free verse
Hopeless and Filled With Heartache
Tell me why doe’s the wind blow,
When it seems that almost anything can over power this boat,
The waves rise slowly and surely a storm is...

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Categories: heartache, death, devotion, life, loss,
Form:
Premium Member Beautys' Heartache
The tears path defines the time of sorrows end,
A time where alone has a new beginning,
The watery stain across the flesh of her cheek, 
Her...

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Categories: heartache, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heartache
My love can never be expressed,
My heart can never be at rest.

I long to see his beloved face.
Yet, in his life I have no place.

I...

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Categories: heartache, love
Form: Couplet
Broken - Living With Heartache
Each breath she takes, 
her heart aches,
Her love has left, 
she feels bereft, 
Precious lives lost, 
dreams of a happy home tossed,
Days and nights spent...

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Categories: heartache, bereavement, heartbroken,
Form: Couplet
Heartache
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 Im choked up with nothing but 
tears
Humiliated 
as you bring to light all my fears.
I have so many thoughts but i cant 
seem to...

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Categories: heartache, heartbroken
Form: Free verse
Now I Lay Me
Now I lay me down to sleep
In my home that's really sweet
Had three large meals and a snack
There wasn't a hint of any lack
Comfortable shoes...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: heartache, 7th grade, africa, angst,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Three Teeth
three incisor teeth burst through fresh flesh...
opaque as pearls, strong as love, precious 

beautiful baby babbles assertively
mesmerized by mishmash sounds 
that her astounding mouth can...

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Categories: heartache, abuse, addiction, childhood, drug,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry