Brokeness Poems

Premium MemberPromises

...The algorithm of promises did I pour

too much emphasis,  trust in other's 

expectations  of promises? Constantly

seeking within other's answers, hopes, and

affirmations, uncertainties,  a...
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Categories: brokeness, 5th grade, absence, age,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberPieces of Me

...I once knew a little girl coming of age. She often put her trust in people, places and things. She met liars, cheaters, users, abusers frequently in her mind, soul
her self esteem broke, her kindnes...
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Categories: brokeness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Carpe Diem


You Live and You Learn

...Baseless Battleships Bear Brokeness But 
Hearts Heal Harmoniously ~
Thus Teaching Timeously 

28 June 2022...
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Categories: brokeness, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme

Brokeness

...Before your throne Lord I fall on my knees
Reaching out to your merciful compassion
Only through your sacrefice I am worthy
Knowing the deep wounds of your love
Every step you took to show father...
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Categories: brokeness, christian, christmas, jesus, religion,
Form: Acrostic

Premium MemberMail It

...I’ve sat here questioning myself numerous times do I want to open this Pandora’s Box? Am I ready to experience the backlash that will come after all of the pain I will have dropped?
Dropped into you...
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Categories: brokeness, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme


That Broke Me

...that broke me
exhaustion sings a lullaby
and shadows come alive
dancing on walls in memory
reciting sentimental journeys
the long forgotten perpetrator
chases me to the precipice
willingly I j...
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Categories: brokeness, abuse, anxiety, cry, pain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCup of Brokeness-

...Cup
Filled up 
With just 
Liquid 
Made of 
Glass it burst the room 
And clean it up
A cup of brokenness

9/7/21
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2021©...
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Categories: brokeness, allusion, analogy, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBroken Words

...His presence was like the screeching
From someone scraping a fingernail 
Down a blackboard
But I would miss him despite it all

He wasn’t the one for me really
He was tempted by dri...
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Categories: brokeness, addiction, grief, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDepression and Angels

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOalk0coEwU


YOU ARE DEEPLY ENMESHED AND THOSE DARK CLOUDS THAT SURROUND YOU ARE STEALING YOUR LIGHT OF DAY . YOU SEE DARK AND WONDER EACH DAY IF THIS WILL BE YOUR...
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Categories: brokeness, angel, depression,
Form: Narrative

Rain Check

...Love it is 
Love it will be
Love is what i feel 
This is love and 
Happiness 


I know this isn't love
Love is what i need it to be
Love is what i want this to be 
But my heart is like a li...
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Categories: brokeness, anxiety, betrayal, blue, break
Form: Free verse

Confessions of a Caged Soul

...One word,one scratch . I keep consoling myself as I keep losing this battle . One more scratch, maybe they won't notice . As I fail to realise even a thousand scratches go unnoticed, my kind of cry f...
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Categories: brokeness, 11th grade, anxiety, boyfriend,
Form: Blank verse

For the Girlchild

...To this brokeness of women, the world flopped and flipped out.
How life flawed and tampered the ice of the girlchild!
How green became red images to their eyes is still a misery to our flammable fa...
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Categories: brokeness, abuse, africa, art,
Form: Blank verse

Linger From Me

...
linger from me
blink for me
oh eyes
of
scorn

in this moment

my heart beats
beasts
of
morn

day break
from me broken
brokeness
of
spokenwords

silence
becomes me
toget...
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Categories: brokeness, art,
Form: Blitz

Fading Dreams

...Don't let those dreams fade into their eyes,
And water their guilty souls to an able pains.
We are the nexus of an abyss of paradoxed war
Return the tooth you took from the lyrics of
The song pla...
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Categories: brokeness, age,
Form: Free verse

The Hidden Lines

...Now as i weave my poetry, he says to me

"You look good beautiful

From the tips of your fingers to the ends of your nails"


I smile back and continue to my second stanza

I'll give you...
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Categories: brokeness, love, pain, words,
Form: Free verse

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