Best Brittle Poems

Another layer of lavender scented lotion
Rubbed in vehement laughter

A quelling of sadness
Covered up in mascara insanity
Livid strokes of feathered paintbrushes

Hoping to see the big picture

She cried like oil paintings without a purpose.

A treasure hunter searching for rubbery remedies
Without heart’s sanctified atrium
To light the way

She bled...

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To wake up with the rising sun
Wishing me old bones stay in bed
No longer do I feel to run
Life is all but over and done

I look in the mirror feeling blue
Front teeth no more, leak like a canoe
Getting old, this is no fun
Spending my days...

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In January’s chill, my woe is exposed 
Like a mesh of rough woolen lint
Hanging on thick icicles when hours pale ;
As brittle fleece of dreariness
Grips my pores, longing for a cashmere night.



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I was wrong to think that roses would last forever
You brought them to me that day so long ago
My heart was captured by your boyish smile
You were not yet a man and that I didn't know

We made promises and our hearts were glad
But you were...

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your brittle hands were once like mallets    upon the lace of my youth



picture #2...

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...Continued from Part 1...

Poor little Evelyn, her poor physical conditions at birth puzzled local doctors,
It was a mystery she was born with a dislocated hip and a deformed right foot.

And evidence of bone damage whilst within her mother’s womb, that happened,
9 months  of exhaustive...

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Brittle Bones Break

It is heartwrenching to read today of a grotesque medical anamoly…
When a cute little girl of four suffers  from a cruel bone malady…
The medical journals have identified it as Osteogenesis Imperfecta…
A dreaded enough disease that begets in a baby at its mother’s...

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Peanut brittle broken in tiny pieces
The immutable desire drove him forward
There was no interlude from the increases
Of his huge appetite sketched out straightforward
It was with formidable search for words
To describe how so a tenuous man decreases
The candy dish's immutable contents rearward
Not demurely but open-faced stuff'n...

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My life has become a brittle bouquet 
Of dead red roses in rapid decay 
And all that I thought one day I could be 
Is now but a part of lost history.

I look to the East and yearn for the West, 
Confusion conceals the best...

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Closed jars
of crystal mind
nesting our emotions
butterflies of many colours
colours of joy,sorrow,love,hate and more
those jars are more fragile than glass
handle them with much care
if once broken
it's gone!



Date:24th January,2012...

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At times I wish I could be…….
-Just like everybody else
But then I feel I could get better
-Being true to myself with everybody else

I am hard, strong & so unstable,
-emotions running wild and rampant
-deep and pensive my soulful thoughts
Though a shame to waste such depth in...

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Gotta little gray in my beard
A little pain in my tears
Gotta little anger in my fears
And a little problem that has reared

Gotta little ache that appeared
A little smile for most leers
Gotta little heart for my peers
And a little up for my geared

Gotta little place so...

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Often we say the most lovable things to each other
But often we lie
We speak for the moment 
And fall victim to Reality 

Love’s brittle bone syndrome
The plated chrome covers the real issue
Because too little has been refined by the fire
In order to show the standard...

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Am eating some my wife made right now
so thought that I would write this poem.

Hansel and Peanut Brittle

We heard that when Hansel was little;
He always liked eating peanut brittle;
With petal to metal,
He ran over Gretel;
While around he would like to fiddle.

Jim Horn...

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Brittle boy, body of porcelain
     feelings of glass

   A flurry of punches left him battered
     the slightest insult, shattered...

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