Best Crushed Poems

Look past
the faded little girl    braids and bows 
in a       polaroid picture
buttery yellow skirt 
curtsying     a smile
frog prince 
imprisoned      in her palm
under a creamy pound cake ...

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Life shattered, soul crushed, another one has perished 
once gone from this world was all she ever cherished
No amazing and joyful tales to tell the kids
just naked silence, from raging of black rapids
From heavens above, truest of gifts handed down
romance sent, from He that wears...

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Love Was Sent, Treasure That Healed Two Crushed Hearts, 
A Collaboration with Susan Ashley
 
Life shattered, soul crushed, another one has perished 
once gone from this world was all she ever cherished
No amazing and joyful tales to tell the kids
just naked silence, from raging of...

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CRUSHED CONCRETE UNSTEELED / SEPTEMBER BLUES

BOMBS xxxxxxxxxx           HOPE                           ...

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In their eyes a disingenuous dream, pertinacious pestilence in their stream,
Solitudes sanctioned in their scheme, sacrificial surrenders in their scream…
Hearts contused crippled and crushed, of their voices hindered and hushed,
Landscapes forgotten and flushed, bruised, and battled for death has brushed.

In their world, a cataclysmic crumble,...

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I don't have to be
your ocean,
your sky,
your moon and stars and sun.

Just let me be the ground that carries your weight,
every move you make rearranges me.

Let me be the earth that is crushed with your heaviness,
all your steps marking over my flaws.

Please let me be...

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That Day, Life Crushed

I was resting on a lake dock that was in deep decay
it ran fifty yards out into the seamless water
that day my baby brother had went to swim with his friends
a normal summer day that shone with splendor
and peaceful was the soft...

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Sadness only taggs along after elation,
chains prefer to cling to the freeman's skin,
heartbreak only follows trust and expectations.

trying to breathe,
with lead-lined lungs,
In an oxygen deprived world
during an asthma attack.

Grasping for the peices.
Pulling them back.
my mind ceases 
on the brink of a panic attack.

my hands begin...

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~   Hey, Karin - returning your note   ~

Perhaps I'm not your type, alas
          But I'm behind you, here in class
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You were a bright, yellow daisy 
in the garden of life, so cheerful 
kind and accommodating. 
I basked in the sunlight of
your tender care and attention
my own flower bloomed and thrived. 

Our roots ran deep and grew strong
in the rich soil of our lives
together, you...

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Life’s not like it used to be
my world’s caved in.
I am a vacuum, a hollow vessel
hopeless in attempts to bend and flex.

The shape of things is crushed.
Deformity replaces beauty and
I am cast off with others
ill-fated as myself.

Dumped into a droning darkness
many, some half some whole
speak...

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Fragile are crisp clean lines that edge an invisible thread
Carelessly crushed beneath the unknown forceful dead

Efforts of gripping the reality through truthful grief pained wash
Casual condolences lessened love communicated instant message loss

Reversal to rewind wheels spinning overtime must stop
Cursed hearted minds bottomless drift into a...

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I hear it though a friend
and my knees begin to bend.
"It's Sasha"

My eyes grow,
the world begins to slow.
my heart stops beating
logic is fleeting

Hands quiver,
a gut-wrenching thought
clings hold in my chest

Vision blurrs,
tears well up,
lungs get tight.

8 pills she took
for hope she forsook.
Not one word on her...

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   Awake on a numb dark night he wonders--
      tired cells of his existence blazing
  on fiery topanga in crushed slumber.
      Anxious, chained, gasping at barriers
  of individuality or a species...

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He unexpectedly lost the other half
     of his soul. Now he's merely 
    an empty shell, crushed under
    the elephantine encumbrance
          of unimaginable grief.

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