These 6 poems capture the essence of unrequited love. Share them with that special someone who doesn't feel the same way, but ...

Love and suffering have always gone hand in hand, written and painted about for millennia, as pointed out in the poem “Like Love.” Love has certainly been painful for Mitchell.

Emotional poems capture pain, love Author Hilda Raz is the long-time editor of Prairie Schooner.

A hundred-something pages later and past the ruminations on love, hurt, pride, politics, parody, fear and fetish, you’re likely to leave her poems feeling like you’ve made something for ...

Culture & Society Poems: Pain And Healing Pain is a bedside lamp. It blinks like a jackal’s eyes, from the night bushes.

When I am hurt, I turn to “ On Pain,” which reflects the inevitability and necessity of heartbreak. “On Pain” is one of Gibran’s shortest and least resolved poems.

Zan’s poems show the pain of loss, the seeking of meaning in loneliness, the joy of growth through years of sacrificing self, and the epiphany of life after going through hell.

Thomas Dooley’s debut collection of poems, “Trespass,” deals with the duality of vulnerability and forgiveness via the narrative of a family.

In part four of Essential Poems (To Fall in Love With), Daisy Goodwin offers a classy alternative to weepy love songs with an examination of poems that deal with the pain of falling out of love.