spring breakage
University midterm periods bring early mornings charged with energy drinks and espresso shots. Evenings are spent trading quizlets in Bass Library or in late night cram sessions in the common room. After several days of stressful testing, midterms suddenly end.
But we’re like those Indianapolis race cars that’ve just run 500 laps, we come off our
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Categories:
breakage, boyfriend, feelings, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Your Love Is Monumental
Today is an another wobbly morning where I have opened my eyes to collect my pieces and recollect the transient peace of last night which soon gave it's way to a tentative traumatising earthquake and perhaps this morning I found myself lying in the epicentre of breakage , placed perfectly in the centre or our
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Categories:
breakage, love,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Spring Breakage
Who knows how much breakage
Or when it will happen.
Not the lover who is trying not to lose,
Nor the watchful blackbird warming her eggs.
Yet the worm cracks loose
And the running stream has broken
Its icy shackles.
In this warming green light,
How shall I describe that which crumbles
When broken into words?
Then out they come:
Sudden dogwood flashes in dark woods;
A
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Categories:
breakage, break up, spring,
Form: Blank verse
Deception of Breakage
Broken hearts, but fixed faces.
No scares on outer appearance.
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Categories:
breakage, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Revive the Breakage
High upon the highest heights
I see the most tremulous sight
A small girl, fair and tranquil
Smiling strangely, sitting still
Beneath a sobbing willow tree
She recites a verse upon her knee
She sings a rhythmic hymn
Not of death, nothing grim
But prays that life will return
Even for those who are doomed to burn
The girl is a woman now
Beneath the tree
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Categories:
breakage, allegory, death, devotion, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme