I Miss You Poems

I Miss You Poems

Thinking of You Poems

When someone you love has left you there is a feeling of missing a part of yourself. Like one who has had a limb removed, you constantly reach for the phantom lover. You may wish for this uncomfortable feeling to leave you so that you can function properly. However, the truth is that the place in your heart that feels a sense of lacking represents the hole where your relationship goes. It is natural to feel that you miss the person the belongs in your life.

36 Poems About Missing Someone You Love

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  1. 1. Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines

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    Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

    Write, for example, 'The night is shattered
    and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'

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    Neruda's poem resonates. Letting go is a process, when love is not requited anymore. How is it possible to do so easily? It is not. Today we are constantly surrounded by memories. The pain...

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  3. 2. Love

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    Because of you, in gardens of blossoming
    Flowers I ache from the perfumes of spring.
    I have forgotten your face, I no longer
    Remember your hands; how did your lips

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  5. 3. Choice

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    I'd rather have the thought of you
    To hold against my heart,
    My spirit to be taught of you
    With west winds blowing,

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    I have never read anything by Angela Morgan, but this truly speaks to me right now.

  6. 4. When We Two Parted

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    • By George Gordon, Lord Byron

    When we two parted
    In silence and tears,
    Half broken-hearted
    To sever for years,

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  7. 5. The Game


    Let me tell you about a game I play
    Where I close my eyes and fade away

    I float away to a special place

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    I wanted to cry when I read this. I didn't realize how often I do this, even throughout the day. This one touched my heart. My husband has been in jail for 3 years. He got 7 years and there...

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  8. 6. I Cry


    I'm sitting on the porch,
    Wind blowing through my hair.
    The ducks are frolicking in the pond,
    But I just can't seem to care.

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    Wow, this poem is how I end almost every letter to my husband. They took him the beginning of summer also. Our daughter was 6 months old, and today she turned 1 year, and he missed it. I cry...

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  9. 7. How It Used To Be


    • By Melanie Edwards
    • Published by Family Friend Poems August 2008 with permission of the Author.

    I remember how it used to be
    when nothing else matter but you and me.
    Music, country roads, and future dreams.

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    Zachary, I just saw your comment on the poem I wrote. You know, you can miss someone when they are sleeping in the bed right beside you every night or miss them when they move on. Either way,...

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  10. 8. Stuck In A Dream


    • By Mssparklyone
    • Published by Family Friend Poems July 2011 with permission of the Author.

    Last night I had a dream.
    We were walking hand in hand
    On a deserted island beach,
    Over endless miles of sand.

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    Never has a poem hit me so hard and touched the pit of my soul. People talk about meeting their soul mates, and for forty years I thought stuff like that only came out of fairy tales. That...

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  11. 9. Without You


    • By Dawn
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2016 with permission of the Author.

    All these days and nights without you here,
    It's a little bit more than I can bear.

    The days are cold and so very long.

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    The first time I had a boyfriend, we dated 6 years (basically from when I was in 4th grade until now). Very recently, we broke up because he was always busy, and I hardly saw him. Now that...

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  12. 10. For Love's Sake


    I'm so tired of this empty feeling.
    I'm so tired of being alone.
    I lay here staring at the ceiling,
    Waiting by the phone.

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    I recall feeling almost obsessed over my young life boyfriends. Looking back, I am glad I let the bad company go and went on with my life as had I not let bad ones go, my life would have...

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  13. 11. What I Miss...

    • By Thalia Jones
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2015 with permission of the Author.

    I miss how we used to be,
    So vibrant, so honest, so wild and free.

    I miss the way you would understand,

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    I read this story, and it sounds like something that happened to me, almost the same. I couldn't have written a better story of what happened to me and one of my closest friends. I also did...

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  14. 12. I Could

    • By Chrys Lea
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2017 with permission of the Author.

    I could dream of you forever,
    But it wouldn't put me beside you.

    I could call your name on end,

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    This poem is deep. It calls you out. I'd been friends with this guy for about 6-7 years. When we first met I remember getting those butterflies, that instant feeling of knowing it was him. I...

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  15. 13. You Will Always Hold My Heart

    I remember the first time we met.
    It is something I will never forget.

    The beauty that was shown in your face

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  16. 14. Still Thinking Of You

    • By Lilmaris
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 2008 with permission of the Author.

    I ask myself why am I thinking of you so much.
    I think about all the moments we shared together and the way we touched.
    You know that this was hard for me,
    but you decided not to see.

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    To the most important person I've ever had in my life, I miss you every day that passes. You're always on my mind. Constantly I think of you. Because of the mistakes I made, I lost you. I...

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  17. 15. I Know It

    • By Misti L. Green
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2007 with permission of the Author.

    It was love at first sight.
    When I saw you, I knew
    Together we would be,
    Just me and you.

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    My boyfriend did 2 months in jail then he got out and went to a inpatient program. He has been in there 4 and a half months, and yesterday was his first overnight visit to spend time with me,...

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  18. 16. Without You

    • By Daniel X. Wofford
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2016 with permission of the Author.

    Without you, days seem endless.
    Without you, my nights are lonely.
    Everything seems so empty.
    Only with you I know I will be fine.

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    Sweet memories. experiences always make a man complete. Real chivalry is in maintaining this beautiful relationship while you or she is alive. Difficult - yes, but not impossible. God bless...

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  19. 17. Forbidden Love

    • By Penny Pierce
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 2008 with permission of the Author.

    I love you with a love that's forbidden, yet I can't stop.
    You make me feel like no man has ever made me feel before.
    With just a look I swoon.
    I dream of your arms around me, your lips on mine.

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    This poem has touched me deeply because I'm in love with someone that is about 6-7 years older than I am, and my family can't get over the age factor. He's my best friend. He's been there for...

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  20. 18. I Miss You More Than I Can Say

    • By Emilia E. Allen
    • Published by Family Friend Poems September 2016 with permission of the Author.

    I wish upon the glistening stars,
    I pray night and day.
    I'm sad that we're so far apart,
    That you're so far away.

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    Every day of my life is pain since I lost my lover. She had respect and forgiveness for everyone. I'm just alive in my body, but to be honest, my heart is already dead. Tanya, my wife, was...

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  21. 19. The Love Of My Life

    • By Dave
    • Published by Family Friend Poems September 2008 with permission of the Author.

    To the love of my life,
    though fate never allowed me to make you my wife.
    When we met so many years ago,
    it was love at first sight, that I know.

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    This is my story. It starts out beautiful and amazing, and like many love stories, it went downhill too fast. During the summer of 2015, I met this most amazing, funny kind, and handsome man!...

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  22. 20. I'm Busy Finding Me

    • By Lorelei
    • Published by Family Friend Poems February 2021 with permission of the Author.

    I miss you in silence
    And every moment in between
    But I’m a little busy unfolding
    Those pieces of who I used to be

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    One has to find themself, I agree, and not be totally reliant on somebody. I know because I was never allowed to live freely; now my independence I treasure dearly.

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