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Give me your break-up poems

I want to read poems about break-ups. I want to feel all the emotions that can come with break-ups. Pain, sorrow, heart-ache. Heart break. Anger, loneliness.

Be creative. Use imagery. Make me feel whatever it is that you are trying to get across.

Don't just tell me that so and so is a rotten guy because he left me. I want to know how it felt to have the love of your life leave you because....

You can use pictures and backgrounds. I think that they if chosen correctly can only add to your wonderful words. A warning though just make sure that I can read your wonderful words. If I can't read it how can I comment and judge them.

Rules are simple:

No sticky caps
No bashing other writers.
No cutting or suicide poems please not my favorite reads.
Left align unless you tell me why you didn't.
If you use a form please explain it.

The most important rule though is this HAVE A LOT OF FUN

oh and you can enter more than once. No pre-writes though for this one.

Edited: Pre-writes were asked to be allowed. So I am allowing them. Thanks for asking and giving an excellent reason for allowing them. You talked me into it. The only thing is the poem must be about break-ups only. No other topics will be allowed.

Contest is Over

  • Contest was judged on January 5
  • Rewards: Gold: 400
  • Final notes:
    Thanks for sharing all your wonderful writings with me. There were some wonderfully talented people here on AP.

Contest Winners

  1. Little Ways
    Again, I lay down tired but empty
    as though I have walked a great distance
    by Mark Rickerby 89 lines, 25 comments, on Oct 24 12:04 AM 2003. In Love
    Gold trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  2. Cupids Missfire
    A lifetime of emotions
    in the lines of my face.
    by BluesMan 38 lines, 15 comments, on Sep 2 7:46 AM 2008. In Contest, Sad, Emotional, Pain
    Silver trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  3. ~ Meadow Sweet ~
    The warm summer breeze caught her hair
    like a child playing tig
    by onesugar 92 lines, 17 comments, on Dec 14 9:56 AM 2008. In Life, Love, Lost love, Sad, Pain
    Bronze trophy winner
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  4. the day his heart stood still
    by lowercase prelude 21 lines, 24 comments, on Jul 7 12:19 AM 2008. In Love, Pain, Teen issues
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  5. 1/12/2007... A year ago today
    I dripped myself into this cup in front of you.
    Poured my all into a drinkable liquid.
    by Hikari Lady 17 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 30 3:14 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Life, Thoughts, noguest
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  6. I can't believe it's over.
    It’s the way
    My own mother
    by fake-or-real-smile 24 lines, 7 comments, on Aug 19 3:07 PM 2008
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  7. Falling in love, it's never all smiles and butterflies in the stomach.
    I miss what we had so much
    And I miss the person you were even more so.
    by fake-or-real-smile 19 lines, 3 comments, on Jun 20 6:09 AM 2008. In Sad, Personal, Love
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  8. Black on White
    by toomysterious 54 lines, 3 comments, on Dec 18 7:55 PM 2008. In love, life, losing
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  9. I'll Never Tell
    I'll never tell that I still think of you and cry,
    That the pain overwhelms me when I look you in the eye.
    by Rainna 35 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 23 11:57 PM 2005. In Sad, Love
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  10. Dear John
    The note was slipped
    underneath her front door
    by theladybluedevil 19 lines, 1 comment, on Dec 20 3:44 PM 2008. In Personal, Sad, Love, Goodbyes
    • Commented on by judge. [remove]
  11. Watch For the Vultures!
    In her eyes I saw forever. I took comfort in the warmth of her skin. In my eyes she saw desperation. On my skin she preyed.
    by x Emo Cheese 0 lines, 1 comment, on May 21 7:38 PM 2008. In Angst, Personal, Pain, Sad, Love, Life, prose
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]
  12. The Empty House
    by Mark Rickerby 93 lines, 44 comments, on Mar 5 1:31 PM 2005. In Love
    • Commented on by judge. Prewrite [remove]

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  • Mark Rickerby gold member
    January 6
    Edit | Reply
    Thank you very much for the gold and the two HM's. We open up veins when we write, especially love poems, so it's a great feeling when we know somebody "got it." Life is empty without communion with other like-hearted people. Thanks again.

    Mark