Brokenness Poems

The Songbird Still Sings

2025 Poetry Marathon Mile 14  Contest // Sponsored by: Mark Toney
( 1st Place )

Written: September 04, 2025


They said the songbird
her wings twisted and torn
should quiet herself...
that the sky held no place
for the fragile or the worn.

Yet she kept a sky tucked inside her - a 
place untouched by any hand.
At daylight she let her

Solar Eclipse Brokenness

Solar Eclipse Brokenness


The moon covers the sun’s bright lights
And brings a total darkness in our sights
Fades out the figure of fake possessions
Cuts out the string of short time connections

It brings cold feeling and gloomy emotion
Suddenly makes a person stuck in motion
The beats of the heart skips for a while
Not longing for love, the heart is

The Other Woman

I grieve the woman that I used to be
The one who did not know duplicity
Who thought that friends would have a constancy
I grieve the other woman that was me

I grieve the woman that I used to be
The one who looked at life with childlike glee
Whose heart of love made her a devotee
I grieve the other

Echoing Silence

Echoing Silence

I

Isolated  in an echoing unending room
Where loud noises destroy the silence
Breaks the confidence into million pieces
Nobody wants to pick the entire brokenness 


II

Drowning under the shallow regrets
Unable to go further, not even a single step
Both hands are tied up and mouth is covered 
No time to think clearly, nobody wants to listen


III

Loud voice,

Building my castle to the kingdom

Building castles within my own confinement 
only to be hit with the harshest of realities
 & replaying what it means to be broken, to heal, and relapse
 over and over again. 
Numbing the weight of so many life choices 
Drowning out screams from all different voices.

Lord please me show me your grace.
Seeing myself in the

Drifting Dream

Build me a sandcastle of drifting dream,
just to scatter every particle in the wind...
Lay me under the burden of brokenness,
until the shore gives in to a new dream. 

~Ayesh

BROKENNESS

Life without money 
Very boring and funny 
But educative
No company to commune with
Solitude your best friend
Constantly reminiscing and relearning.

A broke man, a lonely man
Bitter many days, always angry and worried 
Many label him lazy
Forgetting hard times humble people 
Many call's him crazy
When caught laughing and happy all alone.

When a man is down
If there's no leaning

Level of Brokenness

Author  Dana Redricks 
April 30, 2024

The level of Brokenness runs so deep even if I tried to explain I feel no one could understand. The pain in my heart has left a hole in my soul, and only God Yahweh can make me whole. My past haunts me, and how I long to be

Fixing the Broken

A broken thought holds meaning
Even though its not completed
A broken dream shines, envisaging
Even though its not really alive
A broken smile brings a sweetness
Even though its not always smiling
A broken tear falls from the soul
Even though its not filled with hope
A broken heart shares a silent light,
Even though it isn’t softly glowing…
Like candlelight, with assurance, knowing
That

Beauty From Brokenness

Broken bits of glass gleaming
Under the sun, beaming
Glittering and golden, glass glaring
Shattered shards shining
Shimmering sunlight
Revealing a striking glare
Slivered sections, subtle imperfections
Reflecting fractals, kaleidoscope window panes
Fragmented picture frames
Broken on the ground it laid
Sun saturates it’s broken seams
Cracks and creases cascade rainbow light,
Behold beauty from brokenness, bright

Power of Poetry: Broken Heart

I
Grow as Nature does around a human mining operation
Oil you hair, open your eyes wider, ears softer... roll heart over diction
Dry your tears, give broken heart to Dr. G O D, Jehovah Rohfikaa, Elohim

II
Broken hearts can mend, do not rush to hate or declare an end, stay a friend

Brokenness

People out here in this World are agonized, wounded for more reasons than anyone may decipher.
Where’s the compassion? For another human being. It’s so much going on in the world, it makes one want to hollar. Somebody please tell me what’s going on in the world.

Broken Into Pieces

Take me as I am, just as I am,
For I am broken into pieces
With irregular edges, my flesh
Was scarred by hopelessness,
And, sometimes, utter despair
From destructive forces which
I…I alone could not conquer.
The pieces of me have struggled
To come together to reassemble
To make my whole worthy, and I
Want you to know I am capable
Of love, Lord, if

In My Brokenness

In my brokenness, gripped by angst of futility
when unfinished goals reign midst schedule’s certainty
I cry to God for His guiding authority
dispelling despair and anxiety…
His help enables me move on toward victorious serenity.

Despite my brokenness, leaving me feel belittled
frustrated by weakness’ failure, sorely embattled 
I seek the Saviour Who keeps my heart safely handled…
His wisdom directs

Flawed Masquerade Carnival

Flawed Masquerade Carnival

Upon the midway of imperfection,
The traveling human circus, “illusion” of perfection,
A masquerading “mask,” in carnival unmasked,
Lies “cracked” in equinox
Like “torn” tickets discarded in the sawdust of dreams
As the “façade” crashes down into “flawed” fragments
To scatter splinters in wild spinning carousels
Flinging away the costumes of sideshows
All exposed wearing nothing but transparent truth.

Bathed in dignity
Integrity

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