Love Songs to Heal a Brokenheart


Love pains and heartaches- all has to go through the said emotions at some point in our lives and it is not easy. It is a struggle to cope and gradually recover from the perils of a brokenheart. Thankfully, the world is full of beautiful music and soothing melodies to help us heal fast: 

If You Walk Away by David Pomeranz
If you walked away from me today
I am sure that who you were going to
Would feel the way that I do
Baby it's you
Who fills up my life
And if you walked away from me today
Never to return until the journey
That you made had ended
I know you planned it
Just to fill up my life
Fill my life
Till now
No one's been able to show me how
To fill my life like you
You are the woman who taught me to
And if you walked away from me today
It wouldn't change a thing
I'd still be singing celebration of you
Baby you do
You fill up my life
Fill my life
Now I know
What it feels like to overflow
Until my life is through
All I'm here for is here for you
Fill my life
Now I see
What it feels like to be set free
Until my life is through
All I'm here for
Is here for you
Just for you
Only for you
Hey hey...oooo


What About Me by Kim Carnes and James Ingram
I see you here with me
I've waited all my life
For someone like you
Someone to give
My heart and soul to
I look into your eyes
Your love for me
Was such a welcome surprise
I think at last
I've found forever
But what about me
(I'll always love you)
Oh, what about me
(I'll always need you)
You were my love before
But I need so much more of you
Time after time
I feel I'm losing my mind
Or maybe this is what
Lovers must go through
It never entered my mind
We could be wasting our time
What am I gonna do
What about me
Oh, what about me
No reason to pretend
True love affairs don't
Have to come to an end
The moment we don't
Have all the answers
I nearly go insane
(Oh, I go insane)
Each and every time
I hear you whisper my name
I feel the same
When I'm around you
(But what about me)
I'll always love you
(Oh, what about me)
I'll always need you
This is so hard for me
I wanted so much to be
With you, whoa
Time after time
I feel I'm losing my mind
Or maybe this is what
Lovers must go through
It never entered my mind
We could be wasting our time
What am I gonna do
Time after time
I'm losing my mind
It never entered my mind
We could be wasting our time
But what about me




"Someone That I Used To Love" by Natalie Cole
When I wake up each morning trying to find myself
And if I'm ever the least unsure, I always remind myself
Though you're someone in this world that I'll always choose to love
From now on you're only someone that I used to love

As for me it's getting down to the last unspoken part
When you must begin to ease the pain of a broken heart
Tell me why should I even care if I have to lose your love
From now on you're only someone that I used to love
Yet it wasn't enough for you
All the love I had to give
I did my best to keep you satisfied
I guess you'll never know how much I tried, I really tried
And if ever our paths should cross again
Well, you won't find me being the one to get lost again
Once I had so much to give but you just refused my love
From now on you're only someone that I used to love
I did my best to keep you satisfied
I guess you'll never know how much I tried, I really tried
When I wake up each morning trying to find myself
And if I'm ever the least unsure, I always remind myself
Though you're someone in this world that I'll always choose to love
From now on you're only someone that I used to love
From now on you're only someone that I used to love
Though you're someone in this world that I'll always choose to love
From now on you're only someone that I used to love
From now on you're only someone that I used to love


Selected Poems by Jose Garcia Villa

POEMS BY JOSE GARCIA VILLA

God Said, “I Made a Man”

God said, “I made a man
Out of clay –
But so bright he, he spun
Himself to brightest Day
Till he was all shining gold,
And oh,
He was handsome to behold!
But in his hands held he a bow
Aimed at me who created
Him. And I said,
‘Wouldst murder me
‘Who am thy Fountainhead’
Then spoke he the man of gold:
‘I will not
Murder thee! I do but
Measure thee. Hold
Thy peace!’ And this I did,
But I was curious
Of this so regal head.
‘Give thy name!’ –Sir! Genius’”

Leaving as heritage this islet this poem,
You and I, this country yours and mine,
This child dreaming on the edges of life.

Excerpt from "Have Come Am Here" lyrics (1942):
     In my desire to be Nude
     I clothed myself in fire:–
     Burned down my walls, my roof,
     Burned all these down.
     Emerged myself Supremely lean
     Unsheathed like a holy knife.
     With only His Hand to find
     To hold me beyond annul.
     And found Him found Him found Him
     Found the Hand to hold me up!
     He held me like a burning poem
     And waved me all over the world.



"The Anchored Angel"
     And, lay, he, down, the, golden, father,
     (Genesis', fist, all, gentle, now)
     Between, the, wall, of, China, and,
     The, tiger, tree, (his, centuries, his,
     Aerials, of, light) —
     Anchored, entire, angel!
     He, in, his, estate, miracle, and, living, dew,
     His, fuses, gold, his, cobalts, love,
     And, in, his, eyepits,
     under, the, liontelling, sun —
     The, zeta, truth — the, swift, red, Christ.
     The, red-thighed, distancer, swift, saint,
     Who, made, the, flower, principle,
     The, sun, the, hermit's, seizures,
     And, all, the, saults, zigzags, and,
     Sanskrit, of, love.
     Verb-verb, noun-noun:
     Light's, latticer, the, angel, in, the, spiderweb:
     By, whose, espials, from, the, silk, sky,
     From, his, spiritual, ropes,
     With, fatherest, fingers, lets, down,
     Manfathers, the, gold, declension, of, the, soul.
     Crown, Christ's, kindle, Christ! Or, any, he,
     Who, builds, his, staircase, fire —
     And, lays, his, bones, in, ascending,
     Fever. Verb-verb, king's, spike — who, propels,
     In, riddles! Six-turbined,
     Deadlock, prince. And, noun,
     Of, all, nouns: inventor, of, great, eyes: seesawing,
     Genesis — unfissured, spy: His, own, Arabian,
     his, love-flecked, eye!
     The, ball, of, birth, the, selfwit, bud,
     So, birthright, lanced, I, hurl, my, bloodbeat, Light.

      And, watch, again, Genesis', phosphor, as,
     Blood, admires, a, man. Lightstruck,
     Lightstruck, into, the, mastertask,
     No, hideout, fox, he, wheels, his, grave, of,
     Burning, and, threads, his,
     Triggers, into, flower: laired,
     In, the, light's, black, branches: the, food, of,
     Light, and, light's, own, rocking, milk.
     But, so, soon, a, prince,
     so, soon, a, homecoming, love,
     Nativity, climbs, him, by, the, Word's, three, kings.
     — Or, there, ahead, of, love, vault, back
     And, sew, the, sky, where, it, cracked!
     And, rared, in, the, Christfor, night,
     Lie, down, sweet, by, the, betrayer, tree,
     To-fro, angel! Hiving, verb!
     First, lover, and, last, lover, grammatiq:
     Where, rise, the, equitable, stars, the, roses, of, the, Zodiac,
     And, rear, the, eucalypt, towns, of, love:
     — Anchored, Entire, Angel:
     Through, whose, huge, discalced, arable, love,
     Bloodblazes, oh, Christ's, gentle, egg: His, terrific, sperm.

Lyric 17
I can no more hear Love’s
Voice. No more moves
The mouth of her. Birds
No more sing. Words
I speak return lonely.
Flowers I pick turn ghostly.
Fire that I burn glows
Pale. No more blows
The wind. Time tells
No more truth. Bells
Ring no more in me.
I am all alone singly.
Lonely rests my head.
—O my God! I am dead.

Lyric 57
My most. My most. O my lost!
O my bright, my ineradicable ghost.
At whose bright coast God seeks
Shelter and is lost is lost. O
Coast of Brightness. O cause of
Grief. O rose of purest grief.
O thou in my breast so stark and
Holy-bright. O thou melancholy
Light. Me. Me. My own perfidy.
O my most my most, O the bright
The beautiful the terrible Accost.

Lyric 22
O lovely. O lovely as panther. O
Creation’s supremest dissenter.
Enter. Teach me thy luminous ire.
O jewelled, pacing, night-displacing
Fire. O night’s nimble-dancing, No-
Saying lyre. Embrace me. Defy me.
Reave me. None shall defend me.
Not God. Not I. Purify me. Consume
Me. Disintegrate me to thy ecstasy.
O lovely and without mercy. O dark-
Footed divinity. O lovely and terrible.

O death irreducible. O unimpeachable.


Love Poems for Valentines


Valentine by John Fuller
The things about you I appreciate may seem indelicate:
I’d like to find you in the shower
And chase the soap for half an hour.
I’d like to have you in my power and see your eyes dilate.
I’d like to have your back to scour
And other parts to lubricate.
Sometimes I feel it is my fate
To chase you screaming up a tower or make you cower
By asking you to differentiate Nietzsche from Schopenhauer.
I’d like to successfully guess your weight and win you at a féte.
I’d like to offer you a flower.


Another Valentine by Wendy Cope
Today we are obliged to be romantic
And think of yet another valentine.
We know the rules and we are both pedantic:
Today’s the day we have to be romantic.
Our love is old and sure, not new and frantic.
You know I’m yours and I know you are mine.
And saying that has made me feel romantic,
My dearest love, my darling valentine.


A Red Red Rose by Robert Burns
O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June:
O my Luve’s like the melodie,
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.

And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ ’twere ten thousand mile!


A Valentine to My Wife by Eugene Field
Accept, dear girl, this little token,
And if between the lines you seek,
You'll find the love I've often spoken
The love my dying lips shall speak.
Our little ones are making merry
O'er am'rous ditties rhymed in jest,
But in these words (though awkward very)
The genuine article's expressed.

You are as fair and sweet and tender,
Dear brown-eyed little sweetheart mine,
As when, a callow youth and slender,
I asked to be your Valentine.
What though these years of ours be fleeting?
What though the years of youth be flown?
I'll mock old Tempus with repeating,
"I love my love and her alone!"
And when I fall before his reaping,
And when my stuttering speech is dumb,
Think not my love is dead or sleeping,
But that it waits for you to come.
So take, dear love, this little token,
And if there speaks in any line
The sentiment I'd fain have spoken,
Say, will you kiss your Valentine?



Phil. Lit Love Poems 2: Tagalog




Ang Kanyang Mga Mata
By: Clodualdo del Mundo

Dalawang bituing
kumikislap-kislap
sa gitna
ng dilim. . .

Tambal ng aliw
na sasayaw-sayaw
sa tuwing ako’y
naninimdim. . .
Bukang-liwayway
ng isang pagsintang
walang maliw!

Takipsilim
ng isang pusong
di magtataksil!

Dahil Sa Pag-ibig
by Iñigo Ed. Regalado.
KAHAPON...
Sa tingin ko’y tila pawang kalumbayan
ang inihahandog ng lahat ng bagay,
pati ng mabangong mga bulaklakan
ay putos ng luksa at pugad ng panglaw;
akala ko tuloy itong Daigdigan
ay isang mallit na libingan lamang.
Mangyari, Kahapon
ang dulot mo’y lason.

NGAYON...
Sa mga mata ko ay pawang ligaya
ang inihahandog ng bawa’t makita,
pati ng libingang malayo’t ulila
wari’y halamanang pugad ng ginhawa;
sa aking akala’y tila maliit pa
itong Daigdigan sa aking panata.
Papaano, Ngayo’y
nagwagi ang layon.

BUKAS...
Sino baga kaya ang makatatatap
ng magiging guhit nitong ating palad?
Ang buhay ng tao ay lunday sa dagat
na inaamihan at hinahabagat;
itong Daigdigan ay isang palanas
na nabibinhian ng lungkot at galak.
Bukas! Ang pag-asa’y
mahirap mataya...
Kahit Saan
by José Corazón de Jesús

Kung sa mga daang nilalakaran mo,
may puting bulaklak ang nagyukong damo
na nang dumaan ka ay biglang tumungo
tila nahihiyang tumunghay sa iyo. . .
Irog, iya’y ako!

Kung may isang ibong tuwing takipsilim,
nilalapitan ka at titingin-tingin,
kung sa iyong silid masok na magiliw
at ika’y awitan sa gabing malalim. . .
Ako iyan, Giliw!

Kung tumingala ka sa gabing payapa
at sa langit nama’y may ulilang tala
na sinasabugan ikaw sa bintana
ng kanyang malungkot na sinag ng luha
Iya’y ako, Mutya!

Kung ikaw’y magising sa dapit-umaga,
isang paruparo ang iyong nakita
na sa masetas mong didiligin sana
ang pakpak ay wasak at nanlalamig na. . .
Iya’y ako, Sinta!

Kung nagdarasal ka’t sa matang luhaan
ng Kristo’y may isang luhang nakasungaw,
kundi mo mapahid sa panghihinayang
at nalulungkot ka sa kapighatian. . .
Yao’y ako, Hirang!

Ngunit kung ibig mong makita pa ako,
akong totohanang nagmahal sa iyo;
hindi kalayuan, ikaw ay tumungo
sa lumang libinga’t doon, asahan mong. . .
magkikita tayo!