Sad Christmas Love Poems

For some Christmas is a time of great sadness, rather than joy. If you've lost a loved one, or split up from a partner, and find yourself lonely and desolate at Christmas, you'll find much to console you in the romantic trials and tribulations of others, which are sensitively portrayed in Paul's collection of sad Christmas love poems.

Christmas Is The Hardest Time

A poem about the overwhelming feeling of loneliness that strikes those who have lost a loved one. Company, friends, family are no consolation when one has lost one's soul mate, with the pain is most acute amid the jollity of Christmas celebrations.

Christmas Without Harry

A widow with young children struggles to sustain herself and retain her countenance during a family Christmas without her beloved Harry.

Christmas Folly

Attending a Christmas Eve party, the protagonist feel lost, lonely and regrets the love that he let go.

Sad Christmas

Looking forward to Christmas with a sense of fear and foreboding, the most attractive option is to forego the festivities completely.

Cold Christmas

Vengeful rather than sad, the man dumped un Christmas Eve looks forwarded to a unrestrained, drunken Christmas and wishes his ex all the ill will of the season.

Thinking About Christmas

Self-imposed solitary confinement is the Christmas of choice for the recently bereaved in this poem of loneliness and loss.

Candlelight

Two lovers separated at Christmas are joined as one by the candle burning in a church.

Christmas Does’t Live Here Anymore

The poem's repeated refrain of Christmas does’t live here anymore punctuates a desolate poem about bereavement which make a fitting, if bleak, conclusion to Paul's collection of sad love poems.