Love this competition – Rachel at Ask Rachel is giving away movie tickets (for NZ peeps only sorry) to the winners of her Haiku Competition.  You need to write a Haiku (5 syllables, 7 syllables, 5 syllables) about one lover.

There are some great ones already posted – one particular funny poem:

I gave you the flu

I learnt what a player does

Fair is fair really

Just getting my Breakup Poems site up at the moment, perhaps I need a whole page for Haiku as I did find some wonderful Japanese love poems.

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We stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod,
–They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.

Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles solved years ago;
And some words played between us to and fro–
On which lost the more by our love.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing….

Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God-curst sun, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.

Neutral Tones, by Thomas Hardy

For other beautiful, sad, painful and inspirational breakup poems check this out.

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