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Best Fractured Poems

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Premium Member Fractured Soul
Shes sits in her worn out familiar chair
As the sun wakes for the day
Her being weary before the day begins
From wishing her life away

Nothing matters...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fractured, grief, loss, sad love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Death of the Poet Destroyer
~The Untold Fatal Attraction Poem~

Mid-morning she sees the sun ahead
Her death flowed in a messaged bottle
Gazing into her brown eyes upon all open sores,
Her conscience...

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Categories: fractured, birth, change, conflict, death,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Violin Notes Fall From Heaven No More
Her trembling twilight 
dims with streaking purple tears
bruised by youthful years of bleeding pain
hurting but never hugged --
locked in the arms of atmosphere’s apathy
that smeared...

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Categories: fractured, child abuse, death, Lullaby,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Hunt the Bugaboo
With the morning crisp and frosty
    and the Earth yearning for autumn's heat.
Darkness gave way to a fractured dawn
   ...

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Categories: fractured, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poems I Never Wrote
These are the roads I didn't take
A pause too soon, a turn too late
Lost in the love I never spoke
The poems I never wrote

Gone are...

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Categories: fractured, lost, muse, writing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Eccedentesiast
His smile is like a white crescent,
but a murky sky is hidden inside.

Afraid to portray mourning's of his mind
nor describe sour sickness of his tongue.
Piercing...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fractured, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frozen-A Collaboration With Shane Cooper
The frozen sap of mirthless trees,
The fractured flow of icy streams.

The howling wind that claws at life, 
The forest shrouded in endless white.

Skeletal ice hangs...

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Categories: fractured, autumn, halloween, winter,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Views of You
Now, when the day is cool and new

While fragile light is still allowed

My paper captures views of you

Your eyes, the shape of shifting clouds

While fragile...

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Categories: fractured, future, hope, perspective,
Form: Pantoum
Amid the Jagged Shadows
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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; "
                ...

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Categories: fractured, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
I Look To the Moon
I look to the Moon, hanging aloft
Among the clouds so milky soft.
How must it feel, so high above?
So chilled and bleak and void of love.

Collapsed...

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© Mike Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fractured, depression, loss, lost love,
Form: Personification
Third Person
He speaks metaphorically to avoid dealing direct, 
shows the unknown hand he’s against too much respect, 
writes about his bravery though it’s no where to...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fractured, anxiety, depression, introspection, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Child
A child lights our way in life...
The greatest gift there is to be.
They suppress our selfish inclinations...
They set our passions free.

They give sense to our...

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Categories: fractured, children, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unrequited
Unrequited

The things i think about,
never settle below
they float instead
and fester inside
as I pluck your name in the air
a sacred memory folds over
foaming layers, floating vapors
Creating...

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© Rowe Weiss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fractured, angst, change, conflict, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
I emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of 
…self-made...

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Categories: fractured, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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Categories: fractured, child abuse, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Book: Reflection on the Important Things