Brokeness Poems | Examples

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Premium Member Back to The Mount of Olives

Back to the Mount of Olives
Back to prayer and surrender.
Back to the feet of Jesus
Back to repentance rendered.

Back to a place of brokeness 
Back to earnest pleading.
Back to our faces to the ground
Back to see Jesus bleeding.

Back to new consecration 
Back to submission and tears.
Back to persevering prayer 
Back to reverent fear.

Back to praying against temptation 
Back to one hour of prayer.
Back to appalled by a misused kiss
Back to commitment there.

Back to a solitary place
Back to review what your call is.
Back to "fervently seek first His kingdom"
Back to the Mount of Olives.

Premium Member Promises

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 great deal of

let downs, brokeness, disagreements,  catch-22's.

Promises  recycled intentions? Traumas, limitations 

often glomminess,  anger, emotions often displayed.

Promises you've taught me, succumbing  to life's 

lessons on promises,  Presently promises are no

longer relevant to me and has no restraints  in my 

psyche and inner being.

Premium Member Pieces 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 kindness taken for weakness she was labeled a fool,
crazy, stupid because she cared too much. ungrateful individuals seemed
to be captured by her presence. places she treaded searching for an escape
only to face mental abuse on repeat that turnt to broken trust, disappointments,
and physical abuse that turnt to brokeness. weariness seeking to regain her 
Self-control, spiraling out of control, continously lied on, her name scandalized. She's wearing these labels for game? and often the topic for belittlement, She
was ridicule . This little broken, despite that she is overcoming, striving to stay
on track for this little girl is blooming into a woman that holds love in her broken
spirit to dim her light yet stillness and tranquility remains in her heart.


You Live and You Learn

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

28 June 2022

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's love
No one could understand your anguish
Each day I am reminded of your presence
Sometimes I look away than toward you
Seeking your solace and loving embrace

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 jump to escape him
avoiding the fall that broke me


contest 45 words or less ~ personal brokeness~ JmStorm - Vivacious
37 words © 7 months ago, Sharon


Premium Member Cup 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©

Premium Member Broken 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 drink
And women and anything that 
Wasn’t a reality in his life

His life is filled with lost moments
And lost causes because he 
Doesn’t give in to the need to be
Responsible and caring

He said he loved me with his heart
But it was a love for what it brought
When I gave to him all that I had
And didn’t take anything back

He was afraid to really open up
No one knew what he was
Because he only showed his mask
Of joy and kindness and no grief

Grief was a part of his deepest heart
It wound around his soul creating
A wound that wouldn’t heal or scar
Because it was continually reopened

He was a liar with all that he said
No promises whispered that were fulfilled
He didn’t want anyone to see the real man
The one who had problems deeper than sin

And, sometimes, some ways, I miss him
Even though I never once believed in him 
I could not because he was a broken word
That refused to be spoken or written down

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 little child 
praying and wishing for it to be...
Love 


I'm living a delusion 
It's filled with clear skies and beautiful white flowers
It makes me feel invincible 
It makes me feel whole 
It makes me feel...
Loved

Is it that difficult for me to face the storm?
Is it that difficult for me to face the music?
Or am i just in deep need of feeling love 
Maybe I'm just afraid to be alone 
To be...
Loveless


I cling onto anything that shows me affection 
Creating a pretence for love 
My eyes are blinded to the world. No!
I chose to blind myself to...
Reality

It is what it is
Clear skies before the storm
And the storm is here
The grizzling thunder roars that it awakens me from my 
delusion
Lightening bolts running through my heart 
It falls it into...
Million pieces 


And all that i am  left with is...
Brokeness...

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
together
we
breathe

lesson with me
here
in
love

spell
your sleep
prepare this
new found
love
think
blink for me
linger from me
to me
?

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 played to the orphan children.


We need not those dreams to fade into the air,
We need peace among the black tribe in the land
Not a fading dreams but a hope fully fact to come.
Drew a piece in the side of your soul before night,
Make the rhythm of my seasonal sermon echoes.



We are here for the future, take my hands,
Fade those trouble lurking among your eyes,
This land must be lifted high above its height.
Let the york be eased from the sons of men,
Tomorrow holds the fortune of this very soil
When we stand with our hands lifted up.


If the drums are from the ghost of shame,
Let the sky speak of land with no single crime.
If the thunder question today's rain, we'll protest,
The green land of ours must be protected with 
the spirit of unity not of war and brokeness.
We are here for all of us, heal Nigeria now!.


©John Chizoba Vincent

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 my beauty for free, i think painfully

If you can erase all my hurt

All my brokeness

For beyond my shellac

There is a tarmac road full of potholes and cracks


And i wish you could see that

I wish you see me that way because am not fully put together

The foundation hides, that which i wish you could love

The eyeliner drives, that which is not there

Read my poems

Read me

Read my pain and then love me

Mechanical

Together, we take mechanical steps towards happiness to the beat of two broken hearts who fell in love over a mutual brokeness, out of necessity, and not necessarily by choice
we keep up with the ticking away of our time, bc neither of us want to waste what we have left to share each other's weight before it crashes and we're left with two separate worlds to carry in two separate sets of shoulders,
and do not apologize to me for the robotic way you show affection bc it only makes the world seem larger with the weight of both of our disappointment of what might have been but never quite was

There Are Times

There  are  times  when I get  lonely

 There  are times when i get  lonely
 I sit   in the dark and listen to myself breathe
 Its quiet and Im alone.
 The air is dry with  the power to cool
the wisp of my thoughts  is all i  feel.

There are times  when I get  confused
I think, theorize and even try  to pray,
All i get is a one sided thought
The  world my friend a thing i cant call  mine
wondering still maybe  just  maybe!

There are times  when i  want  love
someone to  be by  myside,
my heart  has a brokeness that cant  be healed
I yearn  each moment a friend, a love just  someone.

There  are  times when   I am lost, confused, and  lonely 
all i can  do is look  to heavenly father and  know that  everything will  be  ok 
if i just have faith.

Premium Member Welcomed Home

Today in Heaven a celebration
One of God's children has been welcomed home
Alex arrived at the gates of Heaven
Thankfully he didn't travel alone

Jesus lifted him from his brokeness
What was temporary has slipped away
A body of Glory gifted to him
With renewed strength he can start his first day

With a smile on his face and youthful strength
Alex knows God's promises are true
His days on the Earth have come to an end
Alex did all he needed to do

Special ones lost, who went before him
Are all gathered to welcome him home
All of his tears have been wiped away
He knows he will never be alone

Although on earth we are sad today
Alex looks down on us with a smile
He does not wish, for us to be sad
We'll be reunited with him in a while


Dedicated to our Brother in Christ
who has been welcomed home.

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