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Best Breakable Poems

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Premium Member Glass Slippers
Inspired by Victor Buhagiar’s romantic writes.

GLASS SLIPPERS

He sees their shine -
on his knees, he’d kiss
her glass slippers.

The ballroom floor -
first date jitters,
diamond waxed.

The newness of...

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Categories: breakable, romance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Understanding Suicide Understanding Me
Understanding Suicide Understanding Me

Awhile back I had a dear friend contact me to ask if I heard about the young mans suicide at a nearby...

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Categories: breakable, character, childhood, courage, death,
Form: Free verse
Doom of Ancient Bloom
Oh, this impish ill!
this mystic flock of ever-roaming pain;
You now possess fully
my body and my life.
I am at your full attention and mercy;
Do you not...

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Categories: breakable, conflict, death, funeral,
Form: Elegy
Mother
She looks so fragile. Her posture, usually so straight and confident, is hunched. Her eyes - those brilliant sapphire-blue eyes that captivated my dad thirty...

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Categories: breakable, family, love, mother,
Form: Haibun
Light On the Devil's Chord - Day 25
I was restless all the night,
The demoness softly singing a haunting tune
The Holy Spirit sifted in swirls around me,
And she touched with her claws its...

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Categories: breakable, courage, gothic, heart, light,
Form: Epic



Premium Member Fragile
FRAGILE

I watched my mother
Beautiful, petite, smart
Widowed at 28 with three small children
And people said, "Be extra good, your mother is fragile."

A blonde Jackie Kennedy,
Right down...

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Categories: breakable, abuse, children, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Never Enough.....
You are not enough...
Your body, the lethargic blood in your veins, little red rivers...
Your aging heart, gallantly beating – 
I want to kiss its straining...

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Categories: breakable, devotion, love
Form: Free verse
Backdrop of Loss
Memories move like shadows,
A slow and mocking waltz
Across a backdrop of loss.
Breakable as glass, tiny fissures
Through my mind.
Malleable as sand - eroded by time, 
Washed...

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Categories: breakable, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Scream - Ekphrasis On An Edvard Munch Piece of Art
Oblong outlines of a soul
Stretched in elliptical misery
Redefines the perfect circle
To a breakable volatile tautness

Loosely cloaked in sheaths of epitonic blue
Draped upon the shrinking body...

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Categories: breakable, fear,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member wabi-sabi
the cracks begin to show   and flawless floors
are not what shift and shatter here

but fear   a frangible tear   gold...

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Categories: breakable, life, metaphor, relationship,
Form: Free verse
God of Atoms
God of atoms
break my purpose,
my workable clay.
Feed me
clumps of sorrow,
sods of joy
one particle at a time.
Seed me not too much
of your breakable sadness,
plow me much
with...

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Categories: breakable, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A Dental Alliteration
A Dental Alliteration

Both bearable breakable bicuspids became beautiful 
by being blatantly brushed by me.

How is that for an alliteration? You don't have a
category for dental.

James...

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Categories: breakable, courage, inspiration,
Form: Alliteration
Wait
"Wait"


“Wait”
 
Why do I wait?
 I’m so breakable, and fragile
 But it’s ok to cry
 
I wish they would stay
 They let me go
 Why...

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Categories: breakable, age, angel, beautiful,
Form: Villanelle
Friendship
Friendship is a thread
Made of trust and affection
Easily breakable...

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Categories: breakable, friendship, life,
Form: Haiku
Cyber Shag
CYBER SHAG
             (A silly poem)

It's good to cyber shag, talk message or chat...

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Categories: breakable, fun, happiness,
Form: ABC

Book: Shattered Sighs