More songs to heal a broken heart?

Anyone know some good songs to encourage and console people who are feeling broken-hearted?

I’ve noticed that several people are arriving at my blog by googling various phrases that appear in my post “Songs to heal a broken heart“. So clearly I wasn’t the only one looking for songs about love that give an encouraging message to people whose love lives have fallen apart.

Music is so powerful – sometimes sad music that expresses all the agony of heartbreak is what we need, but I quickly found that if I only listened to that sort of music, it made me feel worse rather than better. So I started looking out for music that gives a more positive message – that it is possible to survive the loss of love, to rebuild your life either happily alone or with someone new. Songs that talk about regaining your strength, of putting yourself and your life back together!

I’d love to collect some more songs about healing the wounds of lost love – it would be a lovely theme for a concert or a CD! (talk about making lemonade when life gives you lemons!)

So please leave a comment with your favourite medicine for the heartsick!

To get you started, here’s one of my favourites – Pink Martini’s Hang on Little Tomato – with a lovely slideshow that someone posted on youtube:

Fighting for love – patchwork poem

I am fighting for love.
In my solitude,
inner battles rage -
and still no peace to be had.

Quietly throughout my youth,
I fought for love
in childlike innocence.
It was a dive into the unknown.

After twenty years,
thirty years, fighting -
always fighting for love –
love lies asunder.

And I forget
how to fight for love:
teetering precariously
I disguise myself.

With time
this heart in me,
turned towards him,
will stop fighting for love.

And lovingly fight my
invisible opponents -
eradicating
heart-hardening lies.

Soon the war will be over.
This heart in me,
tender yet clumsy,
not fighting, just loved.

This is a patchwork poem drawing on lines from the following poems

jillypoet – Guts
Mariacristina - Song of Knitting
paisley-gift of youth
gautami tripathy - endless possibilities
writerwoman – teetering precariously

(Sorry Scott and Lissa, yours came in after I wrote this!)

For more information on patchwork poems and other poems made from the same source material, see this post on the Patchwork poetry blog.

This is my first attempt at a patchwork poem, so all feedback gratefully received. It’s very interesting to see what phrases jump out and how they shape themselves into a different story. It’s also interesting how it partly expresses my thoughts but at the same time isn’t quite my voice – I’ll be intrigued to see what others come up with from the same material!

I’ve tried to stick to the rule of using whole lines and changing as little as possible. But I couldn’t resist taking one half-line from “endless possibilities” – the whole line wouldn’t have fitted either in sense or length! The poem structured itself around the line on fighting for love, which I made slightly different each time I used it.