heartbreak

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

Learning to Breathe
I didn’t know how to stand after the world tilted— how to hold a cup, or my own name without spilling something sacred.
By Printique Studiosabout a year ago in Poets
what's wrong
I kinda just don't want to do this anymore even though that's a sucky thing to say ~ even though I know I'd be missed I'd still rather not do this
By Belleabout a year ago in Poets
Old Fashioned Dissolve. Runner-Up in Instructions for Disappearing Challenge.
Crush the raw cubed sweetness, in the bottom of a glass. Wet it with a tincture of sorrows, fashioned from the brine of your grief.
By Ellie Hoovsabout a year ago in Poets
Buried Without a Sound
No plaque no cross No record no name A child was here A soldier was too They whispered to the wind The world looked away Years passed without pause Rain washed their trace What if they mattered What if they dreamed No stories left behind Only soil and regret We walk and step On silence and sorrow They wait unspoken Still hoping for tears Still buried without a sound
By Hazrat Usman Usmanabout a year ago in Poets
Names Worn Away
Stone cracked by time No date no voice Boot prints long erased Grass sways over bones Each morning brings light They sleep
By Hazrat Usman Usmanabout a year ago in Poets
The Mother-in-Law Who Never Looked My Way
You never really saw me. Not beyond the introductions, not past the polite smiles and the practiced small talk. You didn’t ask where I came from,
By The Arleeabout a year ago in Poets
How to Disappear Without Leaving
How to Disappear Without Leaving Step One: Smile like it’s muscle memory. Not joy, not humor—just mechanics. You’ll get good at it. So good, they won’t notice the edges cracking.
By Huzaifa Dzineabout a year ago in Poets
Indebted to Survival
the cost of survival can leave you in the red they don't tell you that growing up or maybe they do and it was just me who didn't know
By Lolly Vieiraabout a year ago in Poets
When the Stars Forgot to Shine
The sky once whispered dreams to me, A thousand lights in endless sea. They told of hope, of love, of time, Of melodies both soft and prime.
By Mahmood Afridiabout a year ago in Poets
Remember the Day You Won First Prize
Remember the Day You Won First Prize Remember the day you won first prize grinning like mad with those wide bright eyes holding that ribbon like it meant the world
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk about a year ago in Poets
It’s Now or Never she Has To Go
It’s Now or Never she Has To Go She didn’t whisper she didn’t weep she walked out fast while they were asleep Four little ones
By ♿ V+ Marie381Uk about a year ago in Poets
Failed Tutelage Of Love
Failed Tutelage of Love I have tried poetry I have tried prose I have explained myself with And also without clothes I have tried expository
By Victoria about a year ago in Poets