Best Shattered Poems

Test me
I am willing
To fail

Failure
Is not fatal
At all

All things
Are born to be
Broken

Break free
From the outer
Hard shell

Shells can
Hide the beauty
Within

With love
Flowing freely
We glow

Glowing
For all the world
To see

Seeing
All the beauty
They smile

Smiling
Brings them pleasure
As well

Welling
Up from their soul
A gift

Gifted
To all who are
Shattered


I decided to call this a ...

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After all these years, we've weathered many a heavy storm
Now my life is empty with no one to keep me warm
Bitter tears I've sadly wept, I begged you not to let me go
You couldn't look me in the eye  - you didn't want to...

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A Shattered Peace 
(as a privileged white man searches his soul)

A shot rang out that gave a fright
and shattered peace in dark of night.
For just a while I gave a pause
then ventured out to seek the cause.
I saw a shadow in the dark
as I approached...

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Come near me, my love.
Come and hold my hands.
I've been merrily waiting for you.
Can you hear that wistful piano sound?
Everyone had gathered, prayers are spoken. 
 
Come near me, my love.
Come and sit on my side.
Why can't you speak a word?
Don't you think I look...

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Within Shattered Heart, Remained A Fire Still Lit

Beset by grievous sorrows, his past full of sins
facing darkest evil truth, not mind's wishful spins,
what else could a deeply broken man try to do
when lamenting soul was tormented by loss of you?

Life carried on, nights became his...

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Broken
Wounds will not heal
Surrounded by sadness
Grief pours from every single line
Constance

Form used traditional Cinquain  2,4,6,8,2 syllables

Contest: Fragment of Life
Sponsor: Broken Wings
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How do I tell the truth without telling a lie?
Spill my guts and walk away
Leaving someone else to clean up my mess
I threw the rock that broke the glass
Now to kiss and tell and wish you well
You had all the best and I'm left with...

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I can't look...

I watch in disgust
As the scale goes up,
And my stomach drops.

The scale is both my best friend 
And my darkest enemy.
It can either save me,
Or be my utter demise.
But either way,
It doesn't lie.
It always speaks the truth,
No matter the consequences,
No matter the circumstances.

Too...

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I heard it on the news today
All my dreams have been blown away

I’m sitting here now in my bra and knickers
With a bottle of gin and family pack of Snickers

Oh no it’s such a sad depressing day
George Clooney’s getting wed today

Oh those eyes so dark...

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I loved you so much it hardly mattered,
Blinded by your million, shiny shards of glass,
Before we laid our love to waste, bruised and battered.

I failed, refused to see the tattered.
Splinters of your future, forged from your broken past,
I loved you so much it hardly mattered.

Our...

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i park my car
and i step outside
hoping that the quiet
will help me clear my mind
i always mend this way
but it didn't work this time

cus for a second
i look up at the stars
and it comes rushing in
just how small we are
that kind of self awareness scares...

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Her childhood indelible painted upon her brain. She can still see the knife in her stepfather’s hand and her screaming mother pinned to the bed beneath him, and she knew her mom was dead, even before the last breath escaped her body. But for one...

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Shattered Voices

Could I have not screamed or say No?
Am I Guilty?
I still feel as if it was an act of love...
But yet I still feel filthy
I have yet to meet someone that could satisfy me
As my mind wanders inappropriately
I see couples holding hands intimately
I look...

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I remember the dream of Austria
As the war for me was finally closing 
High in my turret upon the Sherman
I entered this mountain paradise at last
Until I reached the earthly gates of hell

Within those eyes I found despair
That spark of life long dead
Their hearts filled...

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Shattered Glass
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You took my heart
 And shattered it
 Then left it out in space
 Each tiny piece shines brightly
 full of love I won't replace
 Now all thats left
 are songs and words

 To remind me of your face
 So I will leave...

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