Best Breadcrumbs Poems

rather crumbs with love
than a loaf ~
shared with crusty folk



05/10/18


 Bite Size Poem No.39 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Line gauthier

'baker's dozen contest' : Sponsored by: Maureen...

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Written: January 27, 2024
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"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary...

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Cuckoos hushed, rambling vines and plight.
Hordes of birch, beech, pine, spruce and oak.
Choke of darkness, forcing midnight.
Wax and breadcrumbs children-ditched folks.

Hordes of birch, beech, pine,...

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"Courting the Sublime Significance of Nothingness"



The blue lines ripple like waves
to the right side of the page
vacantly calm 

from the shallow depths 
of the ponderous...

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Let's play pretend 
Pretend you are the hero and I am the damsel in depression 

You sold me a magic future you'd crafted out of...

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"Wolves"



Pulchritude is not a beautiful word.

Dark can be beautiful
when walking with wolves
hearing their stories
sad songs of love lost 
soft they begin 
and then hungry
for the...

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"The Other’s Name"

Beautiful words
sonourous, they 
produce the pretty 
in the ugly of us all 
written poetically 
love calls us all in 
passion first 
above all

dripping...

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With lies you tried to hide your furtive eyes~
but breadcrumbs left impressions you betrayed,
and finding out the truth behind your guise
did shatter loving life that...

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You could feel it couldn't you
son who has left the room
mother electricity
the 1,000 bolts
10,000 volts
(not even 27 years could cure)

I give myself over
I fall
and I...

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Her love is a hot pot of oats
Radiating all the warm colour codes
Fuel for their endless conquests
Homing for her love requests

She lends them her wiser...

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Eleanor Rigby, picks up the rice
In the church where a wedding has been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face
That she keeps in...

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Chapters,

Dogeared and tired 
put down for another day
another time when chapters spin
and life begins to unwind

what leads the pages to unfold
before these very eyes
where have...

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A bunch of birds were pecking
On some pizza they had found,
Which someone had abandoned
And discarded on the ground.

A few blocks later was a mouse
Which scurried...

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Falling acorns gather like pebbles on a beach
Floating leaves sway which are hard to reach
Blue jays sounding, seeking food to eat
Squirrels scrimmage in brigades, not...

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