Category: Poems about Relationships

Poems about relationships

09/21/25 A New Somonka for a New Day

Photo Credit: Christian Lue

You left me behind
I was always by your side
But you walked away
Now there’s no one to lean on
As I pick up the pieces

I was there for you
Each time that you needed me
But it was too much
I couldn’t keep going like that
I just needed it to end

This is my attempt at a Somonka, a Japanese style that is two tanka poems back to back. Often it is two love letters, but here they express their “love” through the pain of a breakup.

This was my original version, but later in the day, I rewrote the second stanza to the one above:

You left me behind
I was always by your side
But you walked away
Now there’s no one to lean on
As I pick up the pieces

We wouldn’t have lasted
We were just sinking slowly
Grasping each other
I had to end it before
Either of us got too hurt

09/09/24 A New Imayo for a New Day

Photo Credit: alatyren

He kneels for a nice long sob – soft licks smear his face
He turns his glum gaze outwards – his dog pants waiting
Tears breach the dam his eyes held – the dog strides his lap
He whimpers now aware that someone’s there to care

This is my first attempt at an imayo, a form of poetry made of 4 lines. Each is 12 syllables, split into a 7 syllable and 5 syllable section.

Blast from the Past:

Wake happy and cry
By the day’s end. Start doubting
And end satisfied.

09/03/25 A New Sijo for a New Day

Photo Credit: Tan Dao

She told me that we were no longer together
But I could not love again if she and I were to part
So it’s with much trepidation that I give both of you my heart

Today, I tried writing a sijo.

Blast from the Past:

A hell of a ride
We had, but you thought we were
Riding to heaven.

08/26/25 A New Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: Alexander Krivitskiy

I don’t believe in anger
I don’t believe in rage
I can’t stand your pain
I don’t want your cage
None of this will lead me
Back to you again

(I lost internet for a few days, so I was not able to post the poem I wrote that day until several days later.)

Blast from the Past:

Not proactive enough, not obedient enough,
Not developing enough, not restraining enough,
Not enough good questions, not confirming enough,
I have had enough enoughs

08/23/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo credit: Vishal mallik

The end of the earth
Inability to do
Are you happy now

(I lost internet for a few days, so I was not able to post the poem I wrote that day until several days later.)

Blast from the Past:

The road is bumpy
But the hardship is worth it
The happy ending

08/15/25 A New Haiku for a New Day

Photo Credit: Happy Face Emoji

The feelings that hurt
To act that’s the true wisdom
Shipwreck of my soul

Blast from the Past:

Unsure what to feel
Facing another day where
Everything’s in flux.

08/09/2025 A New Anagrammatic Poem for a New Day

Photo Credit: goodinteractive

Title: “Relationshipped”

Had intense passion
Attained the pursuit
A relationship

To see it slip
Into nothing
Depleting

All that persists
Is tiredness
At the idea of
Another one

This is an anagrammatic poem. I can only use the letters of the word in the title.

Blast from the Past:

If
I
If I
If I would
If I would let you
If I would let you go fully

This second one is a Fibonacci poem, where the syllable counts follow the Fibonacci sequence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQR1NY03zIA. Mathematically, the Fibonacci sequence is about adding the previous two numbers together to make a new number, so I replicated that by starting with two words “If” and “I” and after each line adding words more to the previous line to change the meaning of the statement.