Heartbreak & Loss Poetry
Read powerful poems about heartbreak, grief, loss, and the pain of endings. These works honor the deep emotions that come with losing someone or something you love.
Trauma.
April 30, 2018 · Heartbreak & Loss
I found you unconscious, foaming at the mouth. Failed to resuscitate you, before my screams filled the house.…
Three. Sixty. Five.
March 28, 2018 · Heartbreak & Loss
I - Bones rattled and teeth chattered, like unwanted shrapnel from some unsavoury stew. Smiling whilst administering lethal injections …
Equanimity.
March 28, 2018 · Heartbreak & Loss
Like the fog protects the sky, I held you close, with watchful eye. Incapable of enduring another loss, as trees mourn leaves slain by the…
Us.
March 28, 2018 · Heartbreak & Loss
You and I were like Alexander and Genghis Khan—we conquered the entire world; In your arms I was the oyster, who proudly displayed his…
when the dams burst, we will patch them up with words
November 25, 2017 · Heartbreak & Loss
"Tell me again, where is it you stop and the succubus begins? Why is it that once we separated we both ceased to exist?" A vanishing act,…
Puzzling.
June 12, 2016 · Heartbreak & Loss
And he makes me want to carve myself. Starving from extended winter, I beckon to you with a finger. Trembling; my veins fill with splinters.…
Separation Anxiety.
September 17, 2008 · Heartbreak & Loss
The fire burning inside me had started to subside, caught up in memories of a love you were unable to provide. …