1. Sad Poems For The Broken Heart
There’s no feeling in the world as painful as havingyour heart broken. Whether your partner left you for someone else or simply fell out of love, heartbreak hurts the worst.And no matter how strong you are, there are moments when the pain gets unbearable. We say, talk to your friends, family members or even a therapist. Develop a new hobby or binge-watch all your fave TV shows and movies. Better still, scroll through our list ofpoems for the broken heart people.
Table of Contents
- Sad Poems For The Broken Heart
- Broken Heart Poems To Heal
- Emotional Broken Heart Poems
- Short Poems On Broken Heart
- Famous Poems For The Broken Heart
- More Poems To Read
Sad Poems For The Broken Heart
Sad Broken Heart Poem
Heartbreak sucks. No matter what you do or how you keep yourself busy, there comes a time when you just cannot take it anymore and break down. And that is totally okay. We all have gone through it, some more than once.
For those times, here are some sad poems for the broken heart that may make you feel a little better.
Black And White – Broken Heart Poem
I feel nothing any more
I everything all the time
I hate the people who crushed my very being
I love the people who destroyed my soul
I am hollow from the hole in my chest
Yet I have a heart which can be broken
The pain kills me from the inside
Yet it comforts me
I know I am lost
But I feel at home
What hurts the most is the lie that I believe
The lie that I wish was real
So I could truly feel again
Forever Sleep – Poem About Broken Heart
To sleep forever and forget the pain,
that once was felt with no gain;
He tried his best to no avail,
his heart could stand no more hell;
So he ran away to be forgotten,
so that he could die alone and rotten;
For his heart was gone shattered to bits,
forever lost in the deepest pits;
If you wish to find him look into the shadows of every hole,
if only to remember what you left in his chest that is now not whole.
I Tried So Hard – Sad Broken Heart Poem
I tried so hard.
I tried my best.
I gave you my all,
And now there’s nothing left.
You stole my heart
Then tore it in two.
Now I’m falling apart
And don’t know what to do.
Divided by decisions,
Burned by the fire,
Confused by your words,
Tempted by desire.
I’m living in the present.
My mind is on the past.
Not knowing what I’ll lose,
Not knowing what will last.
Blinded by fear,
Drowning in doubt,
Struggling to be free,
Looking for a way out.
Broken Heart Poems To Heal
Broken Heart Poetry in English
Things get broken, only to heal. Always remember that! With that being said, here are some poems for broken heart that’ll help you heal in no time.
My Baby Is Worth It – Poem For Broken Heart
With tears in my eyes, I’m going to write this
It’s not easy but I will try
This is my life till I die
I can’t change it
Even if I wanted
Cause my baby is all that matters
I’ll pretend if I have to
I’ll give in to whatever I need to
But seeing my baby happy is worth it
Her smile and laughter will be my heart
Her hugs will be my beat
And her love will be my goal
To achieve this ill have to keep being myself
Someone fake and unhappy
Willing to give her life
With tears and heartache, I will keep living
Even if reality sinks in like nails that on my skin are digging
Our Many Never Endings – Broken Heart Poetry in English
You entered the bedroom and fell to your knees.
I wait the rest of my life to hear you say, I made a mistake.
Inside my chest, a mangle.
Inside yours, a deflating balloon.
You took the vacuum cleaner, the ironing board, the dish rack
and left me some lint, an iron to scorch shirts, one chipped plate.
I would like to say at least we perfected
entrances and exits, like professional stage actors
honing their craft, but even that’s a fantasy.
Mostly on TV the lions ate the hyenas
but sometimes the hyenas
formed a posse, and tore a lion up.
Occasionally you came in out of the rain
and I was glad to have you.
Love, I’m Done With You – Broken Heart Poem
You ever wake up with your footie PJs warming
your neck like a noose? Ever upchuck
after a home-cooked meal? Or notice
how the blood on the bottoms of your feet
just won’t seem to go away? Love, it used to be
you could retire your toothbrush for like two or three days and still
I’d push my downy face into your neck. Used to be
I hung on your every word. (Sing!you’d say: and I was a bird.
Freedom!you’d say: and I never really knew what that meant,
but liked the way it rang like a rusty bell.) Used to be. But now
I can tell you your breath stinks and you’re full of shit.
You have more lies about yourself than bodies
beneath your bed.Rooting
for the underdog. Team player.Hook,
line and sinker. Love, you helped design the brick
that built the walls around the castle
in the basement of which is a vault
inside of which is another vault
inside of which . . . you get my point. Your tongue
is made of honey but flicks like a snake’s. Voice
like a bird but everyone’s ears are bleeding.
From the inside your house shines
and shines, but from outside you can see
it’s built from bones. From out here it looks
like a graveyard, and the garden’s
all ash. And besides,
your breath stinks. We’re through.
Emotional Broken Heart Poems
Sad Broken Heart Poems
It’s okay to cry, let all your feeling out. Read these beautiful sad heart break poems that will make you cry and eventually, help you heal.
Dear Love – Poem for Heart Break
You dream in the language of dodging bullets and artillery fire.
New, sexy diagnoses have been added to the lexicon on your behalf.
(“charlie don’t surf,” has also been added to the lexicon on your behalf).
In this home that is not our home, we have mutually exiled eachother.
I walk down your street in the rain, and I do not call you.
Iwalk in the opposite direction of where I know to find you.
That wedo not speak is louder than bombs.
There are times that missing you is a matter of procedure.
Now isnot one of those times. There are times when missing you hurts.
Soit comes to this, vying for geography. There is a prayer stuck in my
throat.
Douse me in gasoline, my love, and strike a match.
Let’s seethis prayer ignite to high heaven.
Forever – Heart Break Poetry
My heart is now in so much pain.
My tears are falling like pouring rain.
I can no longer sleep a full night.
I can no longer fight.
We broke each other’s hearts.
We were torn apart.
We are no longer together.
What happened to forever?
No one can save me from the dark’s might.
This time there will be no light.
I’m not going to fight.
There’s no reason to.
When I did fight, it was for you.
I know I never did show how I felt.
Just believe me,
every time I saw you,
my heart would melt.
Just know…
I loved you then,
I love you still.
I promise
I always will.
I don’t know why
we had to say our goodbyes…
but I’ll love you till the day I die.
My heart is broken,
but I still have hope.
One day
we might get back together.
Maybe next time will be forever.
If I’d Never Met You – Poetry for Broken Heart
If I’d never met you,
I wouldn’t feel the pain
Of losing your sweet love;
I wouldn’t feel insane.
But if I’d never met you,
I wouldn’t know the pleasure
Of ecstasy’s warm gifts
And memories to treasure.
Now moving on with life,
I force a wistful grin,
Questioning what went wrong
And wondering what might have been.
Short Poems On Broken Heart
Short Poetry On Broken Heart
We get it, heartbreak is extremely painful. But these poems are actually too beautiful. Read these heart-touching short poems on a broken heart.
And What Should I Do – Poetry for Heart Broken
Watching you standing over there
While I’m Sitting in the middle of nowhere
Without You…
What Should I Do??
Somewhere through the time
I forgot to how to make you feel safe and fine
I forgot how to Hold your Heart close to mine
Watching my memories flying away
as it all about you
So What Should I Do??
Feeling You slipping away
Outside my day
Somehow I lost my way back home
In my empty soul I stand alone
Without You…
Tell Me What Should I Do??
You Screamed For me But I could hear your Sound
Yes I Guess I Let You Down
Now I Lost myself with you, and will never be found
I Let You Go
Never Knew How Much You Mean To Me
I Was Too Blind to See
I Never Knew till I Lost You
Please Tell Me What Should I Do??
To Be With You
I Wish – Short Poetry on Broken Heart
I wish I never see you again,
I wish you will never come back,
I wish I will be much more stronger if I will ever see you again,
I wish I could kill my heart for loving you like crazy,
I wish I just knew you will leave me alone,
I wish you just stayed with me forever,
I wish all the words you said to me were true,
I wish I would have never ever wished to be with you,
I wish the first time I saw you, I could turn my back and walk away!
A Pity, We Were Such a Good Invention – Poem about Heart Break
They amputated
Your thighs off my hips.
As far as I’m concerned
They are all surgeons. All of them.
They dismantle us
Each from the other.
As far as I’m concerned
They are all engineers. All of them.
A pity. We were such a good
And loving invention.
An aeroplane made from a man and wife.
Wings and everything.
We hovered a little above the earth.
We even flew a little
Famous Poems For The Broken Heart
Famous Poetry for Broken Heart
If you want to ‘celebrate’ your heart getting broken, then read these famous poems for the broken heart right away.
Love Is Not All – Poem About Broken Heart
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink
And rise and sink and rise and sink again;
Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath,
Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone;
Yet many a man is making friends with death
Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for release,
Or nagged by want past resolution’s power,
I might be driven to sell your love for peace,
Or trade the memory of this night for food.
It well may be. I do not think I would.
When I Die I Want Your Hands On My Eyes
When I die I want your hands on my eyes:
I want the light and the wheat of your beloved hands
to pass their freshness over me one more time
to feel the smoothness that changed my destiny.
I want you to live while I wait for you, asleep,
I want for your ears to go on hearing the wind,
for you to smell the sea that we loved together
and for you to go on walking the sand where we walked.
I want for what I love to go on living
and as for you I loved you and sang you above everything,
for that, go on flowering, flowery one,
So that you reach all that my love orders for you,
So that my shadow passes through your hair,
So that they know by this the reason for my song.
Never Give All The Heart – Broken Heart Poem
Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women if it seem
Certain, and they never dream
That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
For everything that’s lovely is
But a brief, dreamy, kind delight.
O never give the heart outright,
For they, for all smooth lips can say,
Have given their hearts up to the play.
And who could play it well enough
If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
He that made this knows all the cost,
For he gave all his heart and lost.
I Am Not Yours – Poetry for Heart Break
I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candlelit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
Oh plunge me deep in love—put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind.
More Poems To Read
Now that you’ve read some sad broken heart poems, it’s time to change your mood with these broken heart poems. Just don’t forget to share them with your bae!
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Romantic Poems: Are you a complete romantic at heart? Then these love-filled poems are just for you. Let your heart be filled with immense love with these romantic words. Don’t forget to share them with your bae!
Sex Poems:Is it just us or is it getting extremely hot in here? Time to raise the temperature even more with these sex poems that’ll get you in the mood. Read it for self-pleasure or dedicate them to your partner, but one thing is for sure, things are getting hot tonight!
Women’s Day Poems: Wish to read beautiful poems that empower women or are about empowered women? Check out our collection of best women’s day poems
Love Poems for Him: Wanted to dedicate a love poem to your partne? Checkout our list of romantic love poems for him.
Short Father’s Day Poems! – Express your love for your father with these short fathers day poems that’ll help you say more in less words
Friendship Poems: Send these friendship poems to your BFF right away to bring a smile to their face.
PS: Read these poem for broken heart and heal yourself. We hope you do find your one true love, someday!
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FAQs
How do you make yourself feel better when your heartbroken? ›
- Give yourself permission to grieve. ...
- Take care of yourself. ...
- Lead the way in letting people know what you need. ...
- Write down what you need (aka the 'notecard method') ...
- Go outdoors. ...
- Read self-help books and listen to podcasts. ...
- Try a feel-good activity. ...
- Seek professional help.
“Spring and Fall,” written by Gerard Manley Hopkins in September, 1880, and collected in his Poems and Prose, is the saddest poem ever written.
How do you motivate yourself from a broken heart? ›- Cry as much as you can. ...
- Accept the truth. ...
- Believe that time heals. ...
- Forgive yourself and those who caused you pain. ...
- Know that you have no other way but to move on. ...
- Surround yourself with family and friends. ...
- Rediscover yourself. ...
- Believe that someone better is meant for you.
- Acknowledge the truth of the situation. ...
- Identify relationship needs — and deal breakers. ...
- Accept what the love meant to you. ...
- Look to the future. ...
- Prioritize other relationships. ...
- Spend time on yourself. ...
- Give yourself space. ...
- Understand it may take some time.
- “Something in the Way” – Nirvana.
- “Nothing Compares 2 U” – Sinéad O'Connor. ...
- “Tears in Heaven” – Eric Clapton. ...
- "I Will Always Love You" – Whitney Houston. ...
- "Close to You" – Rihanna. ...
- "It's Too Late" – Carole King. ...
- "I Can't Make You Love Me" – Bonnie Raitt. ...
- "Death by a Thousand Cuts" – Taylor Swift. ...
- REM – “Everybody Hurts”
- Sinead O'Connor – “Nothing Compares 2 U”
- Eric Clapton – “Tears in Heaven”
- Whitney Houston – “I Will Always Love You”
- The Beatles – “Yesterday”
- Adele – “Someone Like You”
- Celine Dion – “My Heart Will Go On”
- Roy Orbison – “Crying”
- Still I Rise by Maya Angelou.
- Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare.
- O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman.
- The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
- Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas.
- i carry your heart with me by e.e. cummings.
- Power by Audre Lorde.
- The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” The Good News: Though you may feel defeated, God is closer than you realize. He is always with you and can heal your heart. “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
What is the best quote for a heartbroken person? ›“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” “The saddest thing about love is that not only that it cannot last forever, but that heartbreak is soon forgotten.” “I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.” “It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again."
How long does it take to heal a broken heart? ›When looking at the timeline of breakups, many sites refer to a “study” that's actually a consumer poll a market research company conducted on behalf of Yelp. The poll's results suggest it takes an average of about 3.5 months to heal, while recovering after divorce might take closer to 1.5 years, if not longer.
What emotions make you cry? ›
These arise from strong emotions. Empathy, compassion, physical pain, attachment pain, and moral and sentimental emotions can trigger these tears. They communicate your emotions to others. Emotional tears make you feel more vulnerable, which could improve your relationships.
What emotion is crying? ›Crying is the dropping of tears (or welling of tears in the eyes) in response to an emotional state, or pain. Emotions that can lead to crying include sadness, anger, and even happiness.
What are sad things to cry about? ›Another way to make yourself cry is to reflect on past experiences in which you were memorably sad: breakups, deaths of loved ones, or times you felt betrayed or hurt by someone close to you. Or try imagining scenarios, hypothetical or otherwise, that would make you very, very sad.
Can you ever stop loving someone who hurt you? ›So long as you can establish healthy boundaries and protect yourself from harm, there is nothing wrong with loving your ex for the rest of your life. In time, you will learn to love other people as well, and they will all form part of the unique tapestry of experiences that makes you who you are.
How do you let go and move on? ›- Create a positive mantra to counter the painful thoughts. ...
- Create physical distance. ...
- Do your own work. ...
- Practice mindfulness. ...
- Be gentle with yourself. ...
- Allow the negative emotions to flow. ...
- Accept that the other person may not apologize. ...
- Engage in self-care.
- Recognize when it's time. Learning when it's time to let go is often the most difficult part of this process. ...
- Identify limiting beliefs. ...
- Change your story. ...
- Stop the blame game. ...
- Embrace the “F” word. ...
- Master your emotions. ...
- Adopt an attitude of gratitude. ...
- Talk to someone you trust.
Why does it hurt so much? Studies show that your brain registers the emotional pain of heartbreak in the same way as physical pain, which is why you might feel like your heartbreak is causing actual physical hurt.
What is the saddest song to play at a funeral? ›- I'll See You Again – Westlife.
- Over the Rainbow - Eva Cassidy.
- Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler.
- Nothing Compares to You - Sinead O'Connor.
- Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd.
- drivers license. Olivia Rodrigo. 4:02.
- Someone You Loved. Lewis Capaldi. 3:02.
- Bored. Billie Eilish. 3:00.
- Arcade. Duncan Laurence. 3:05.
- Memories. Maroon 5. 3:09.
- Lucid Dreams. Juice WRLD. 3:59.
- Be Alright. Dean Lewis. 3:16.
- Die From A Broken Heart. Maddie & Tae. 3:08.
- Lay Me Down by Sam Smith. ...
- Diamonds by Rihanna. ...
- How Long Will I Love You by Ellie Goulding. ...
- Flying Without Wings by Westlife. ...
- See You Again by Wiz Khalifa. ...
- You Raise Me Up by Westlife. ...
- Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz. ...
- Time to Say Goodbye by Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman.
What's the saddest song that will make you cry? ›
- Scared To LiveThe Weeknd.
- everything i wantedBillie Eilish.
- Before You GoLewis Capaldi.
- Truth UntoldBen Wolf.
- Another LoveArash Behzadi, Lika Starinets.
- ButterflyKimberly Polanco.
- FallingHarry Styles.
- FlawsTravel With The Sun.
Sentimental R.E.M ballad Everybody Hurts has been voted the song most likely to make men cry. In a survey by songwriters and musicians group the Performing Right Society for Music, published online, the 1992 hit topped the list of men's top tear-jerkers, followed by Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven at number two.
What is Sylvia Plath's saddest poem? ›“THE MOON AND THE YEW TREE“
The poem revolves around the underlying theme of Plath's strained relationship with her mother and the untimely death of her father.
search. Tragedy and grief can be encountered privately or publicly, felt in secret or experienced and expressed as a community. Poems of tragedy and grief address the occasions where words are difficult, from personal heartbreak to the Vietnam War to September 11, illuminating and sanctifying private and public loss.
What is a tragic poem called? ›An elegy is a poem of serious reflection, and in English literature usually a lament for the dead.
What is the hardest poem to write? ›Also known as “the little sonnet,” the [décima] is one of the most complex forms of popular poetry, consisting of ten-line stanzas with a difficult rhyme scheme.
What is Sylvia Plath's most famous quote? ›I talk to God but the sky is empty. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise.
What is the shortest poem of Sylvia Plath? ›The poem is one of Sylvia Plath's shortest. 'Contusion' is only 12 lines long, divided into four tercets. The lines themselves are also quite short. Many are individual phrases that loosely connect through the poet's overall dreary and depressing tone.
What is the saddest line of the poem Tonight I can write the saddest lines? ›Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.
What are the two tragic emotions? ›The Tragic Emotions1 David Konstan Among the critical ideas—such as imitation, catharsis, recognition , and peripety—that Aristotle's Poetics has bequeathed to the world is the thesis that tragedy engenders two characteristic emotions, pity (eleos) and fear (phobos).
What are the four types of tragedy? ›
(5) There are four distinct kinds of tragedy, and the poet should aim at bringing out all the important parts of the kind he chooses. First, there is the complex tragedy, made up of peripeteia and anagnorisis; second, the tragedy of suffering; third, the tragedy of character; and fourth, the tragedy of spectacle.
What is tragic in love? ›A tragic romance should end in suffering, often as a result of death, illness, or some other circumstance that tears the lovers apart.
What are the 5 elements of tragedy? ›According to Aristotle, tragedy has six main elements: plot, character, diction, thought, spectacle (scenic effect), and song (music), of which the first two are primary.
What is a poem with 5 lines called? ›The same goes for the quintain, a poetic form that must contain five lines.
Who are the 4 great tragic poets? ›Aeschylus, 2. Sophocles, 3. Euripides, 4. Ion of Chios, and 5.