heartbreak

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

Wave to Orion. Top Story - May 2025.
I count 4am stars over the dashboard glow of our metal box and sounds of incomprehensible heartbreak bleeding through the stereo...
By sleepy draftsabout a year ago in Poets
The Freed Consciousness
My mind wears a collar, but the leash lies loose behind. They tried to straighten my spine— mold it into silence, teach it a foreign grammar of obedience.
By Olivia Chastityabout a year ago in Poets
Pure White
You have me in the grey Similar to being in the dark But I can see a little Just enough to play delulu Like things are not that white and black
By L.I.Eabout a year ago in Poets
One Drop Left
I found it in the old box. Forgotten. Rusty cap. Smelled like old rain. I opened it. I shouldn’t have. But I did. One drop on my finger.
By Billys Zafeiridis about a year ago in Poets
A letter to Your Past Self
Dear 14 year old me, you don’t know it yet but you survive. Not just the people that dimmed your light but the quiet tears at night. You saw yourself as weak but you wore your pain like it was nothing. It was as if it was invisible;I remember how you felt.
By Unfilteredabout a year ago in Poets
Make It Plain
On lock Limited access No code No key To the heart, the mind, and soul Not wasting time Not on wanted Love Not even on a wishful connection
By L.I.Eabout a year ago in Poets
Into The Deep . Content Warning.
Things I never say * * I take off my sweatshirt My socks and my shoes That have covered the hurt I’ve got nothing to lose
By Kelli Sheckler-Amsdenabout a year ago in Poets
APES
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By Atomic Historianabout a year ago in Poets
A Loser In Your Game of Chess
What is this strange game of chess That has all of a sudden begun? A relationship turned into an ugly mess Once your king and you, my queen
By Calvin Londonabout a year ago in Poets
Saidnamyzo
We look down on ye from the shoulders of gods For we have vanquished the usurpers that have kept mankind in chains for two thousand years
By Atomic Historianabout a year ago in Poets
In Case I Never Fall. Top Story - May 2025.
To My Parents My voice is sometimes clearer when written. Not tangled in sobs, not silenced by the weight of unshed tears.
By Nicole Fennabout a year ago in Poets
What Time Taught Me
The world whispered in my ears the moment I opened my eyes: "Every smile you see hides a tale of sorrow—walk gently through life."
By Usamaabout a year ago in Poets