Heartbreak Poetry

Do you find yourself constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, struggling to let people close because it feels safer to keep your guards up? If you are a Christian recovering from deep betrayal, you know how exhausting it is to live behind an emotional wall. Many faithful believers carry a hidden, quiet burden: the instinctive need to protect their hearts after trust has been shattered. You want to love deeply and experience authentic community, but when you look at your relationships—or even your relationship with God—it feels like a fortress of caution is keeping everyone, and ...

Iced Coffee and Depression is a raw and poignant collection of poetry that explores the complexities of depression and anxiety, the highs and lows of love and heartbreak, and the journey toward healing. Through vivid imagery and candid language, Diana Townsend takes the reader on an emotional journey that is both relatable and deeply personal. Whether you're struggling with mental health issues, recovering from a broken heart, or simply looking for a deeper understanding of the human experience, this book is for you. With its powerful and honest voice, Iced Coffee and Depression is a ...

"Life is a beautiful, chaotic mess - a fact that John Bowie captures flawlessly in his stunning third poetry collection." The pages of this book are filled with raw, unfiltered emotions that will take readers on a journey through the human experience. From the highs of love and life to the lows of inescapable death, each poem is a window into the complexity of our existence. Bowie is a master poet, weaving together words that will tug at your heartstrings and make you see the world in a whole new light. With an unapologetic and soulful writing style, he invites readers to embrace the ...

For fans of Between Two Kingdoms and Milk and Honey, a dazzling, unconventional memoir—in essays and verse—of a young woman’s sojourn with breast cancer; a chronicle of the most tragic moments in loss, and a celebration of the most tender moments in life. Question: If one breast is triple...

LOVE LETTERS I NEVER WROTE is a moving contemporary poetry collection that dives into the bittersweet realities of love, internal heartbreak, and personal healing. In her own narrative style, Strigas offers a raw, honest look at the emotional echoes of what could have been and what never was. Through vulnerable verses and introspective reflections, these poems show depths of resilience, battling the ego, how easily the heart breaks, as well as healing and honour. These poems are sprinkled with last line punches and intimate imagery. No matter what chaos is going on in the world, Strigas can...

What happens when a wounded soul still chooses hope? Between Heaven and Earth: The Fallen Poet is an inspirational poetry collection for anyone who has ever felt broken, lost, heartbroken, spiritually uncertain, or caught between the person they once were and the person they are becoming. Through deeply personal poems about healing, heartbreak, grief, loneliness, faith, self-discovery, emotional pain, spiritual awakening, and finding purpose after loss, Anthony Wedderburn takes readers on a journey from falling apart to slowly finding the courage to rise again. These poems do not pretend ...

A love letter to the healing power of collaboration and feeling seen, The People's Purge: Words of a Goat Princess Vol II is a must-read for anyone looking to rid themselves of the guilt of existing and get lost in the razor sharp mind of Jessie Reyez. Born from a popular long-running series on...

Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath...

Heartbreak Agony & Pain is a collection of poetry and prose that takes the listener on an odyssey of heartache, grief, agony, and pain coping with the aftermath of a breakup.

Brought to you by Penguin. A collection of powerful contemporary poetry exploring themes of masculinity, love, grief and connection, from British poet and viral phenomenon Lucas Jones. 'You're here to make All the wonder make sense You're not the life - You're the living itself' How do you...

From the bestselling author of the flower that went mad comes a new collection of poetry that focuses on the many things that people have been too afraid to open up about: grief, heartbreak and rejection, loneliness, depression and suicide, loss, and healing from trauma. the words i could never say allows you to feel alive again, to express and not be judged for once, and to inspire at least one more person next to you. Most importantly, it centers on the value of life and the power of hope. You’ve slowly surrendered yourself to all the misery around you. But there is something that you ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER For fans of Rupi Kaur and Cleo Wade, this first collection of poetry from the viral TikTok poet Josie Balka evokes themes of nostalgia, love, envy, and hope, speaking to the universal longings that live deep in our souls. I’ve never seen anyone at a public...

the first heartbreak is the most difficult one to deal with my coping skill is writing so i had to put our story into words

A “beautiful poetry collection” (Electric Lit) that breaks open notions of faith to ask how a daughter, alienated from kin, can find love and a home in the world, from the award-winning author of If They Come for Us and When We Were Sisters “There is, in Daughter of the Mountains, an...

From the bestselling author of The Flower That Went Mad comes a hauntingly tender new collection of poetry exploring the heartbreak that lingers long after love is gone. I Wish You Never Left is a raw, unfiltered journey through loss—the kind of pain that keeps you up at 3 a.m., scrolling through old messages, hoping they’ll say something different this time. It’s about missing someone so much that their absence starts to feel like a second skin. It's about waking up and checking your phone out of habit, only to remember, again, that they’re not coming back. These pages bleed. They ...

The author's original music compositions accompany each poem—a feature exclusive to the audio edition. Instant National Bestseller From TikTok star and author of I Hope You Remember—which John Stamos called a “gift to the world”—Josie Balka comes this evocative collection of over...

Luis D. Guess, an African-American poet, unveils a mesmerizing debut novel, 'Words from a Broken Man's Soul.' With poignant eloquence, Guess navigates the complexities of emotional anguish, transcending race to capture the universal human experience of heartbreak and healing. Each verse is a delicate brushstroke on the canvas of pain, weaving together the raw emotions of loss and the whispers of resilience. In this transformative journey, Guess showcases the extraordinary power of words to mend what seems irreparably broken. 'Words from a Broken Man's Soul' is a masterful celebration of the...

This program is read by the author The debut collection of poetry from Lili Reinhart, the actress and outspoken advocate for mental health awareness and body positivity. I seem to be your new favorite novel. One that keeps you up at night, turning my pages. Fingers lingering on me so you don’t...

A moving poetic debut from a talented artist, USA TODAY bestseller Words of a Goat Princess is everything you love about singer/songwriter Jessie Reyez—her rawness, her love affair with the ugly truths of humanity, and so much more. Words of a Goat Princess is the USA TODAY bestselling debut...

Saltwater & Smoke by Mason Carter is a soul-stirring collection of poetry that explores love, loss, longing, and the fragile beauty of what we leave behind. With haunting imagery and lyrical depth, these poems capture the ache of almosts, the weight of goodbyes, and the echoes of love that linger like salt on the skin and smoke in the air. Perfect for fans of Atticus, Lang Leav, and Ocean Vuong, this collection weaves together themes of heartache and hope, memory and forgetting, and the quiet, unspoken moments that define us. Each poem is a reflection on the fleeting nature of love—how it...