The Thorns of Prior
Categories:
love hurts, desire, flower, longing, love,
Form: Rhyme
Transparent TeardropsThese transparent teardrops gently smack onto my table,
As I am writing a letter to the first love of my fable,
Praying for him to soon forgive me as much as he is able....
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Categories:
love hurts, cry, first love, i
Form: Sijo
Scornful NostalgiaDew doth drop with gentle hue,
On petals tinged a bashful blue,
As bees swoon to swollen pollen;
I crave back that view to fall in;
‘Tis you, ‘tis you.
As sea kisses the night sky,
Before day doth due the two goodbye,
I lie; a rock on thine tender shore;
And beg thou to crash upon forever more.
But; by then, thou hast...
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Categories:
love hurts, longing, lost love, love,
Form: Rhyme
FORGIVEForgive the day, the sun did not shine, for we needed the cloud to bring the rain.
Forgive the mother and father, that was not perfect, for they loved you with all they had.
Forgive the friend who hurt you, for they were misunderstood.
Forgive the wife and husband who left you, for they did...
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Categories:
love hurts, america, loss, love, love
Form: Rhyme
Cut Wide Open
The tearing wasn't neat,
no surgeon's precise incision,
but a raw, ragged edge,
like fabric ripped by a sudden,
brutal force.
Air, thick and unfamiliar,
rushed into spaces
once sealed, private.
Organs, usually shy and tucked away,
now blinked in the harsh light,
vulnerable, exposed.
Words, once carefully chosen,
now spilled out, a crimson tide,
unfiltered, screaming truths
the polite tongue had always
held captive.
The inside,
a landscape never meant for...
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Categories:
love hurts, psychological,
Form: Free verse
You Called Me FriendI watched you from quiet corners of thought,
Not to be noticed, just gently caught.
In the hush between moments, I saw you smile—
A glimpse, a grace, enough for a while.
I never belonged to the light in your eyes,
But I cherished the warmth like borrowed skies.
You lived your life, bold, unaware,
While I stood beside you in silent...
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Categories:
love hurts, lost love, love, love
Form: Rhyme
I Know I Am WrongIt’s shameful, the way I clutch.
Like a child with a broken toy,
believing if I just hug it tight enough,
it’ll fix itself.
I know people aren’t possessions.
But tell that to the part of me
that has only known love as something
that gets taken
just when I start to believe it’s mine.
I rot with envy when he smiles at someone...
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Categories:
deep, emotions, love hurts,
Form: Prose
Speaking loveSpeaking love
By Reggie
As I think of you, my mind begins to unbind,
and my nerves start to level and calm.
As you come to grasp my heart, and as soon as I feel your touch,
The beats begin to play a loving tune as we head toward the room,
to be alone.
I can tell you my real tone and...
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Categories:
love hurts, appreciation, change, dream, love,
Form: Free verse
KeyYou found the door -
The door which protected my worst nightmares
I didn't know existed,
and sheltered the basic needs my heart shunned
but never new it pined for -
Tell me you didn't
You found the key
that unlocked the spring to my eternal winter,
the warmth to an endless frigid existence,
the glow within my ceaseless, hopeless night,
the feast no...
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Categories:
love hurts, depression, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Lyric
Her Scars Tell a Story
Admist the twilight, she dares to creep,
Her scars tell silent stories, buried deep,
Each line, a testament, a thread of her past,
Woven with resilience, they hold her steadfast.
They’re not marks of weakness, but pathways of grace,
A roadmap of heartaches, each curve has its place,
In the magnificence...
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Categories:
appreciation, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Pining Heart - Sijo TrioPining away into the cosmic dust everyday
Faster than the second hand flies across the face of the moon
Changing its course in an elipse of untold counting.
Here lies the one that got nowhere with no one on the earth,
The burst of flames made the way that told its ending would be soon
Amongst the ashes of the...
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Categories:
emotions, heart, love hurts,
Form: Sijo
Maybe She SurvivesHer parents, distant as ever, don’t notice. They’re caught up in their own lives, their own struggles, their own disconnection. They don’t ask about her health anymore; they don’t wonder if she’s okay. If she’s honest with herself, she doesn’t think they ever really did. They didn’t know how to love...
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Categories:
love hurts, 10th grade, absence, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Quiet GriefMother’s Day feels like a joke with no punchline, like the kind of card you don’t buy because you’d have to lie in cursive. I stare at the shelves lined with pastel lies, the soft-scripted thank yous, and the you’ve always been there's. I want to scream at the cardboard. Always been there? Where? In...
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Categories:
love hurts, 10th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
i love youyour countless lies leave a sour taste on my tongue
“i love you” you claim
yet it’s muttered using all of the air in your lungs
your breathing stops
and you have nothing left to give
yet i catch myself screaming out
“please just live”
stay with me awhile longer
i can’t face reality without juggling your saunter
the tear stained...
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Categories:
love hurts, break up, cry, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Stuck separated together, part 1They say that when two people are together for too long, they begin to lose themselves. They start to shift, fade into each other like colors blending on a forgotten canvas, and, in the end, you can’t tell where one begins and the other ends. But they never mention what happens when two people...
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Categories:
love hurts, abuse, family, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Love Hurts Poems
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