Poems about letting go often explore themes of release, acceptance, and personal growth. They reflect on the emotional challenges of moving on from relationships, grief, or past experiences. These poems highlight the strength it takes to release what no longer serves us, find peace in acceptance, and embrace new beginnings.
‘Let Them’ is a poem in which the poet offers their advice about relationships. They urge the reader to know their value and value others.
Just let them.
If they want to choose something or someone over you, LET THEM.
If they want to go weeks without talking to you, LET THEM.
‘So We’ll Go No More a Roving’ is one of Lord Byron’s best works, delving into the emotional toll of aging and the waning of youthful vigor.
So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.
‘Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,’ by Bob Dylan, is a song that explores his feelings about his girlfriend at the time moving abroad.
It ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
It don’t matter, anyhow
An’ it ain’t no use to sit and wonder why, babe
If you don’t know by now
‘Catrin’ portrays the intense, loving struggle between a mother and daughter, highlighting conflict and deep connection.
I can remember you, child,
As I stood in a hot, white
Room at the window watching
The people and cars taking
A slow and painful surrender to love is at the heart of ‘Sonnet 2’ by Sir Philip Sidney, where the speaker loses his freedom and masks his suffering through carefully crafted verse.
Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot,
Love gave the wound which while I breathe will bleed:
But known worth did in mine of time proceed,
Till by degrees it had full conquest got.
Louise Glück’s ‘Summer’ reflects on love’s evolution, from passion to quiet acceptance, using nature to mirror these changes through the seasons.
Remember the days of our first happiness,
how strong we were, how dazed by passion,
lying all day, then all night in the narrow bed,
sleeping there, eating there too: it was summer,
‘If You Forget Me’ speaks directly to the speaker’s lover, warning her what will happen if she falls out of love with him.
If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.
‘Four Movements in the Scale of Two’ traces a relationship’s lifecycle through musical metaphors, from harmony to dissonance.
Cut to us, an overhead shot, early morning,
Lying in bed, foetus curled,
back to naked back.
‘Where the Picnic Was’ mourns lost connections and times, contrasting warm past summers with the cold, lonely present of loss.
Where we made the fire,
In the summer time,
Of branch and briar
On the hill to the sea
‘Welcome to Holland’ by Emily Perl Kingsley is an essay that looks at life with a disabled child, using a travel metaphor to show how the unexpected can yield positive experiences.
I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this……
‘Flirting with lust’ by Pierre Alex Jeanty is a moving depiction of how a woman feels after her relationship ended. This poem centers on the theme of love vs lust.
You miss his touch, the way his hands held you, the way his lips became one with yours,
‘Pad, Pad’ is written by the English poet Florence Margaret Smith, also known as Stevie Smith. This poem deals with the separation of two lovers and how the speaker feels long after the break-up.
I always remember your beautiful flowers
And the beautiful kimono you wore
When you sat on the couch
With that tigerish crouch
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