If one of your relationships ever ended badly or unexpectedly, you may have thought of writing broken heart poems to help you move on. Other times when may have written a poem are when you moved away from your friends, perhaps after a the loss of someone you loved or a pet, in fact, after any heart-breaking event.

But it is usually after a divorce, separation or simply a breakup, that you feel the need to write poems for a broken heart. Poetry is an excellent way of expressing how you feel. Unless you plan on being a famous poet, broken heart poems can be written however you please. It does not even have to make sense.

In writing a broken heart poem it is not necessary for you to know anything about rhyme, free verse, meter or any other jargon. You do not even have read a poem in your life to be able to write your own. What is important is that you be honest, so that it makes you feel better and helps you get over the painful breakup.

Before you start to write, you need to face your emotions as you learn how to move on from a broken heart. While you may feel better from denying you feel heart-broken, you will never be able to move on and open yourself up to anyone else if you do not deal with your emotions, and learn from the situation. And a great way to face the pain is to write some broken heart poems, where you can express your feelings on paper.

Do not worry about getting it perfect. Nobody else is going to see your broken heart poem, unless you want it to be. Just jot down your feelings, no matter how hard it seems. Do not try be some expert poet. Just write how you would say it, and arrange it however you want.

The best way to write poems for a broken heart is do not stop writing until all your feelings are on that piece of paper. So do not worry about paragraphs. It does not matter; just express yourself. Later, once you've finished you can go back and organize the your feeling better.

After finishing your first poem, you may feel you have more to say, and decide to write some more broken heart poems. That's wonderful - it means you are getting it all out. Just write everything down - the more the merrier - and you will feel a great sense of relief. Facing that breakup pain and getting it down on paper may be very emotional for you. But do not let that stop you. Keep going until feeling, thought and emotion is on paper, and you feel you can move on.

If you think that sharing your broken heart poem will help you move on, then show it to someone who you trust, such as a close friend or family member. You could even put your poem on-line for the world to see. There are hundreds of websites out there for you to express yourself. You can copy your broken heart poems to the Internet or even start your own blog, and feel a sense of satisfaction that you were able to let go of the past and share your experiences with others.