Best Broken Record Poems

Two hands in folds of shoddy cotton,
in clouds of cheap champagne and cigarette smoke.
My ringing ears

Echoing the television murmurs,
but it’s the same news on a broken record,
broken record horrors.

Now the clock— It’s snickering, a thief, consuming time and stealing
the 217 kisses, the 32 chocolate milkshakes...

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Scars on her wrists

They never to seem to fade

This will be how it is the rest of her days

A broken record, 

Still trying to force its self to play

What kind of life is this

A smile on her face

But secrets hidden deep

If they knew their opinions...

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An experience from long ago,
He held onto, inside it made his heart cold,
He never let all the bitterness go inside,
With every new face these feelings he thought he could hide,
Transferred emotions, he couldn't even see the abuse,
The next person would pay, and he would subconciously...

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The only 
lesson 
 I have learned 
is that 
everything
was meant 
to burn .
Leaving in 
it’s ashes 
the repeating 
rueful record 
that’s 
always stuck 
on one track. 
Puttering 
out those 
once persistent 
fervent feelings .
 Which makes you 
yearn for her 
in your 
arms again.

But...

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BROKEN RECORD
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


Like a stray dog with no one to share
I quietly meander hoping someone will care
But that won’t happen I’ll just rail in despair
I’ll just go over to Vic’s take my usual chair

Some folks look at me, their disdain so easy to spot
That’s...

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Here we go again
Im confused again
I thought i had put everything behind me
Cleared my path and and here you are again
Why do we keep going back and forth
Like a broken record
That history recorded,
Is it because its what we are
A broken record

That history recorded
I wish i...

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the current malicious mouthpiece of the
world’s current policeman
stands behind her podium & insists to the
rest of us that 
“Russia & China will have to pay”
for the time that they have spent 
not going along with the empire &
their buds,
to overthrow yet another country
under the guise...

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same with a test today
similar with a challenge tomorrow
identical my reaction then
exactly my response now
change is a bell broken down, restructured, and repainted
when the jingle is heard, the reality of life kicks in like a sudden episode of nausea
the realization then comes that everyday is...

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Like a broken record
That keeps on skipping
You keep on repeating
What I've already heard

So why must you repeat?
Why must you bring up
A mistake that I try
Not to make again?

I'm just doing my best
To do my work to the fullest
Take a little breather
When an extra minute is...

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everlasting tune
        over and never over~ 
              insult injury...

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Tear stained cheeks, she paces the room
wondering how to make him happy...
happily ever never....this man's as bad as the last
Moonless sky overcast,  she's peering through clouds so grey
praying tommorow is one of his good days
anguish is her surrogate lover,  embracing the pain thats...

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My mind feels like a broken record, 
I keep thinking about the same old things.
I feel so stuck in déjà vu,
Running through the same old scenes.
Day in, and day out, 
My mind is never empty. 
But sometimes I wish it was, 
So I could sit...

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Everyday was like the same old song,
her life methodical all along,
feeling like a needle stuck in the groove,
she was too comfortable to get up and move,

Always dreaming of taking a few classes at college,
or get a different job somewhere else,
but the months and years would...

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My Heart Is A Broken Record

Have you ever tried to play a record that was all scratched up? You place it on the player and the sound coming out is so rough
The needle scratches over the groove embedded deep inside, and the music doesn’t sound...

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I am sick of hearing,
That same song.
Change the record
The feelings have gone.

The refrain is not the same anymore,
Now that you have left me,
Alone, and walking out of the door.
Without saying goodbye,
As someone else had caught your eye.

You declare your feelings for me were strong.
Not strong...

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