Best Breaking Poems

A millstone around my neck and weight about my feet
drag me down so deeply 
that I’m being pulled toward something. . .  
something from a darkened dream - nihility -
the place to lose chagrin 
and then to taste absolutely nothing.
Tropical delights do not swim...

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Breaking Bad


Criminals
dance with slum lords
they shed fake tears
victims they shout
from Ivory towers

Mock and attack
they of dark cloth and deceit
possesses no real God
they whoreship only their prey
living by night not day

Some even screech praise untowards
sick is the mind who follows
dead morals and upended graves
they really are...

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I can't take it no more

this is too much

Your words are just words

you use as a crutch

My mind is a mess

these pills just dont work

Why don't you care

I'm going beserk


One minute I'm up

the next one I'm down

This life is strangling me

I might as well drown

I...

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I feel trapped in a shell and want to get out
It get so frustrating I want to shout
Trying to figure out what put me here in the first place
Before I leave this cramped little space

Not wanting to return to what put me here
Trying to avoid...

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I am removing the chains that have held me,
Held me prisoner and in fear of change;
Over the years getting just heavier,
It is time to set myself free.

I want freedom and to feel my power burn,
A fire has been lit inside of my soul;
Watch out because...

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BREAKING NEWS

We have breaking news right here on the soup!
You can travel back in time if you write about poop.
Back to sixth grade is where we’ll get sent.
There is a time machine waiting that’ll send back our scent.

We can giggle at farts that we rip...

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The sound of her breaking heart
pierces my mortal soul.

Each sigh; each moan; each falling tear
splinters my heart as well.

Especially,
because she sobs not for me....

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I stab my heart 
with metaphorical daggers,
wishing it was me in your place.

I'm impatient
waiting for you to say something.
How ironic you always despised silence,
now I wait for you to break yours

because your
motionless malady of muteness,
torments the tenderness,
of my apprehensive heart.

How i miss your melodious voice,
how...

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I’m Breaking Up With You, P.D.


I’m breaking up with you, P.D.
This is the very last poem you’ll ever get from me!
So understand me, Poetry Diva, we’re seriously through!
My husband will certainly leave me if I don’t leave you.
Let me explain it like this, my lovely,...

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You tug and bend at the chains weighing down, 
struggling to even make one small dent. 
You try to burn the chains that have you bound, 
but to no avail... Not one link is bent. 
  
Cruelty and sadism are expressed here, 
in the...

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Lake Breaking News

Early this morning, there was a robbery
A turtle mugged a snail down by the pond
The shell the turtle jacked, was off the poor snail's back
and when he turned around, the thief was gone

He went down to the station, after much deliberation
And told the...

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six a.m.  
gray dulls the straight horizon
with morning tumble-burst rain clouds
look, even the sun is breaking!
so am I
tied to my bed in thoughts of the having, the holding,
the breaking

broken glass is nice 
it cuts less, grinds down instead of in
in fact, broken glass can't...

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Breaking Dawn

Night sky frays to day
Headlights make holes in the slate
Driving out the dark



© September 2013—Kim van Breda...

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We have some breaking news, straight from the U.S.A.,
her citizens had a meeting and here’s what they had to say.
We’ll send old Joe to the nursing home and turn off Trump’s remote,
and as for the 2024 election, there’ll be no need for anyone to vote.
...

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I used to be so optimistic 
Now, I feel like a pathetic stranger
I used to be so enthusiastic
I have to deal with more danger…
Now I am
Lacking potential, 
strength and intelligence 
I used to be a cheerful kid
I used to be a real bad boy
But, now...

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