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Heartache Poems - Poems about Heartache

Never Trust A Man With Sly Eyes
Does your so-called honesty only lead to tribulation? Honestly, life without you makes me feel nothing but blissful vindication- indication of all the time you stole out from under me. I was blind not to see the slyness hidden behind your eyes. And my foolishness nearly led to an early demise. But if you're a fox,...

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Categories: heartache, anger, angst, animal, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Tune of Smoke and Fire
It's funny. The mind goes there and back, Switching between lyre to inspire - And the sober thoughts of black. If all I love is theory, And if all I know is fiction, Then why do eyes get teary, To the tune of my prediction? I could dream a thousand times, And play the songs that flow. If nothing else at least it rhymes, With...

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Categories: heartache, deep, emotions, fire, friendship
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Love
Take good care of your precious pain. Wrap your strong arms around it. Hold it against your warm chest. Rock it gently, telling it softly that it is loved. It is needed. It is important. It makes perfect sense. And love it, just as it is, in all of its agonizing beauty....

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Categories: heartache, cry, emotions, eulogy, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I FORGOT THE WORDS TO THE SONG
i forgot the words and hummed along As the music fell silent And the band went home Your voice was so quiet Like a page torn from a book That I had read but somehow forgot Many years before What we had was over Long before you left me Or maybe it was the other way around They say you never forget But with time the pain...

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Categories: heartache, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Blurred Edges of Us
I still think of that day, rain pitter-pattered gently around us, clouds were the color of gravel. Your smile broke through shadows, and our laughter mingled like gold. Paint splattered against a canvas- that's what we were. Unpredictability. Chaos. Adoration. Does any of it make sense? Does it not make you want to crawl...

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Categories: heartache, beautiful, devotion, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Ephemeral Heartache
How far must I go for love? How much of myself must I erase before I am worthy of staying? I love you more than I love myself. Is that enough? No. I'll be better. Skinnier, prettier, quieter, a reflection of what you desire, not what I am. Is this love? Do I even know what love is? Should it leave me hollow when you inevitably go? If...

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Categories: heartache, 12th grade, black african
Form: Free verse
Pedestal
3/2/35 03:19 I glorify men Placing them high on a pedestal Where my father fell short The bar is in hell And the bare minimum are the crumbs I live off Satiated from nothing and empty promises An illusion of fullness As I see myself in half As I saw myself in half As I stand here with a...

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Categories: heartache, anger, dad, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
A Valentine's Cry
This day seems so bleak though I see joy all around, I hear their laughter, see their smiles The paper hearts that line the halls, the gifts that fill each room, the flowers and chocolates and deep thought poems, the hugs and kisses endowed by couples around each corner The jewelry adorned on youthful girls, the gentle bears...

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Categories: heartache, 12th grade, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
His Heartache
A moment of bliss, a secret seductive kiss of flesh, where the jealous eyes couldn't bear witness, for the bowl of stew he accepted as he watched her, he pledged to her the protection of his sword, his very honor and to her and only to her, his immortal heart ever to her to be...

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Categories: heartache, desire, fantasy, fate, heartbroken,
Form: I do not know?
Gone, But Still Here
It hurts saying goodbye never making a phone call again, never ranting to you again, never hearing your voice on the other end. You're gone. The world is that bit darker without you. You always had time, always offered encouragement, always listened. Nights spent talking, instigating, deliberating, debating even plotting our next steps. I had you in my future, but now, you’re becoming my past. Just yesterday, we were making...

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Categories: heartache, anger, death, deep, for
Form: Free verse
Good night and good bye
Good night. After 45 x 365 nights, I just realised. They were only my dreams. They lasted so long I do not remember what they meant. Whatever they were, they have gone forever. I do not want them to come back and give me heartache. I either we took it or left it. There was no but about it. Why did not you...

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Categories: heartache, dream, feelings, heartbroken, how
Form: Free verse
A night at a cliff
On a cliff I stood alone A night so dark, with no place to call home The wind it howled, like a mournful sigh As I gazed out, at the darkened sky The stars above they twinkled bright But brought no comfort, to my troubled night The world below, it seemed so far away As I stood there, with nothing to say The...

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Categories: heartache, city, cry, depression, for
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Moonflower Of Maleficent Magnificence
Ah, luminous white she blooms a deceptive ghost lover of dark arts of charisma and night moon seducer logic diffuser defense reducer user of dreams abuser of romance tempter-serpent twines and vines — slither noiselessness vanilla viper she’s a fever teaser —damn well make you a heartbreak believer celestial and terrestrial she’s a territorial force spider-veined...

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Categories: heartache, angst, beauty, dark, desire,
Form: Free verse
MOM, MY GUIDING LIGHT
Her heart is a warm, golden light Patience is her title In a distressed nine months, she held onto me Facing changes and discomfort in her body At the edge of losing herself, she held on Waiting patiently with love and care to see my face She held me with joy, with tears in her eyes when she held...

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Categories: heartache, africa, appreciation, caregiving, mom,
Form: Free verse
To Love in Silence
My heart longs deeply, and I am unable to remain unfazed whenever I see you. It’s tragic to think that, aside from the fact that there was never a "you and me," I cannot even hold your hand freely. I am completely unable to call out your name or look straight into your eyes to say: "Whenever I don’t see you, my eyes...

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Categories: heartache, feelings, heartbroken, longing, love,
Form: Free verse

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