heartbreak

They can break your heart, but they can't break your soul; poetry about lost love that comforts and uplifts.

Intersection. Honorable Mention in Villanelle of Regret Challenge.
I will never cease to plead For you to take another way. Why do you never heed? ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ Could you not just let me lead?
By Sonia Heidi Unruh10 months ago in Poets
Pining Season
Pining Season: A Villanelle Alone at night, I wake & reach for you. Whate’er shall I do if you don’t want me? A too brief kiss, you burned before you flew.
By Rebbekah Vega Romero10 months ago in Poets
Echo for Narcissus. Honorable Mention in Villanelle of Regret Challenge. Top Story - December 2025.
Echo for Narcissus: A Villanelle Can love be wrong that sets your soul alight? Pale reflection froze you in the mirror: Narcissus comes undone for your delight.
By Rebbekah Vega Romero10 months ago in Poets
"A dream of dreams"
From time to time I see the dream of dreams: Dream gifts me with a child that won’t be mine. From time to time, or only so it seems.
By Salomé Saffiri10 months ago in Poets
Seen
I don’t want to be read—I want to be seen. Still I refresh the numbers, watch them feed. Yet every night I bow before the screen.
By Patrick Gadoury10 months ago in Poets
The Voice That Never Leaves
The Voice That Never Leaves A path that keeps repeating what I knew, It winds through shadows where my voice remains, The past returns with echoes I pursue.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 10 months ago in Poets
Where Your Absence Lives
Each night the stars return, but not your face, The silence pools where laughter used to be. I wander hallways time cannot erase.
By Tim Carmichael10 months ago in Poets
The Place I Should Have Stayed
The Place I Should Have Stayed I walk the line between the gone and real, A path that keeps repeating what I knew, The past returns with truths I never feel.
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk 10 months ago in Poets
Where I Am Is Where I Am Not
Where I am is where I am not Casting myself instead to you Yearning for the touch ever sought - Anxious and waiting, days fraught
By EudaiLife10 months ago in Poets
The One That Matters Belongs to You. Content Warning.
Many the hearts I've trampled through One that causes me the most guilt The one that matters belongs to you * There are times I wish I could start anew
By Paul Stewart10 months ago in Poets
When Darkness Falls
When darkness falls and your sins you recall the paralysis can leave you feeling captive and it's hard to find joy in anything at all
By Paul Stewart10 months ago in Poets
VILLANELLE — Echoes of Regret
I regret not speaking to you when I had the chance My mind returns to you though you’re no longer near I long for the days when our voices could still embrace
By José Juan Gutierrez 10 months ago in Poets