Best Cracks Poems

Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back together again...
Each of us witnessed her fall,
yet we failed to gather those colourful leaves.
I believe we could have laid them...

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Peeking through
Thin fingers burrow
Anxious eyes follow
For a new gift on a new day

Forgotten heels tremble
Under the seas cold splash
The moonlight a distant ways
Her shadows a mutant ray

Thin sand hide in between toes
Hopeful plans align themselves in rows
Written notes of lessons learned now under a strikethrough...

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as best she can
she tries
to insulate
each gap
of silence

the voids the cracks
with everything she can

anything to blur
the reality
she wants
so desperately
to gloss over
and forget

mindless chatter
most times sadly pathetic



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We broke in two and it amused him that I was still counting...

I could hear the night whisper beyond his ears, the bed we lay ourselves down upon and
passion was considerate when his mind let go....

she was direct and unforgiving and I...

gave.in.


I could listen to...

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Here in this wrecked house
passion's corrupted
and there’s molded love
in the cracks of the threshold...
tragic are the echoes within.

The air is infected with the stench
of rotting hope...rotting dreams...
Scents suffocate and I am apt to scream...
but the silence is just too loud...
time is stressing with its second...

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WHERE EVERY FOOTSTEP CRACKS

Walking on ice, where every footstep cracks
Frozen toes in socks that once were warm
Every snowflake on my frigid curls stack

I never meant to do anyone any harm
Every step I take, my disappearing feet
Frozen toes in socks that once were warm

I tried to...

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The cracks in my heart

                       can barely be seen by eye

            ...

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New cracks in old stone
Just beginning to show,
Reveals things never shown
Things only one could know 

Just beginning to show
A solid surface scrambles,
Things only one could know
Shedding into shambles

A solid surface scrambles
Every chisel brings a change,
Shedding into shambles
In time, it must arrange

Every chisel brings a change
Upon...

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lightning cracks outside

thunder rolls across the sky

rain comes pounding down

Summer leaves us with a storm

tonight I'll sleep like a babe...

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28 Cracks In The Ceiling


I take my red-inked dagger in hand
And succinctly spew its secrets for all to see.
28 cracks in the ceiling, and I lost count.
There’s a storm moving out of the west.
I can smell the thunder and
The titillating turbulence of tintinnabulation.
An old lady...

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When shadows creep on a darkened streets

and the lampposts have gone dim

When trouble lurks around each bend

and life's happy path turns grim

Will I be there to catch you

before you fall on through the cracks

Will I be there to guide you

to let you know I have...

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After the world has bottomed you up
like a brown bag, no label wine.
All. Day. Long.
Plopping your worn glass, 
empty, on a Whirlpool cardboard box...
Absorbing, drying
all once-upon-a-time, 'Made In China', 
condo-walled dreams.

Your buddy, 'Thunderbird', twitches whiskers
over glistening gutter teeth.

Dandelions in cement cracks.

Ah, life is good. Sleep...

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chaos elements of normality
insects buzzing in lamp dome
reveals alluring mouths

he breathes out a photographic desire
the contact lenses pops out
caught in pink mesh stockings

black curls colored bluish by the sunlight
like the children's drawn doodles
no shiny surfaces

          ...

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National Nut Day is Oct twenty-two.

   My favorites are almond and cashew.

      But all nuts don't grow on trees.

         Two nuts who are really sleaze,

     ...

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A Georgia country preacher stayed up to prepare for his sermon all night.
He put the outline on a notecard to eliminate any oversight.
It was going to be a doozy, and he couldn’t wait to preach that morning.
He was on fire for God, his pure heart...

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