Shatter Poems

Child Abuse Month-Linking Pin Sonnet

"Raise the Shields"
(Dr. Spence Linking Pin Sonnet for Child Abuse Prevention Month)

Cries pierce the silence where trust should have grown,
Grown are the shadows where safety's unknown,
Unknown are the wounds that no eye can see,
See how the soul screams while lips whisper "free."

Free them from hands that betray every vow,
Vow to stand firm and protect them

Sweet Season Stone Shatter

Written: April 2nd, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Constance La France

Quote: "No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its time, and April instills a feeling of freshness so sublime. By Poet"

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The wildflowers now bear the base lay,
 Delicate petals dance in a gentle

a shatter of silence

“A fight of voice exceeds one of fists.”

Bludgeoned, broken, cast away,
Time devours, your name decay,
Ascend beyond the gilded throne,
Unsung, unrested, still overthrown.
 
Happy Women's History Month!

Some things shatter, some things bloom

Crushed.
Dust chokes the air
And encircles the vicinity

Burnt.
Charred and battered.
A blackened stump,
The remains of what once was alive.

Hacked to pieces.
Still, lifeless—
Left to die

Will you still bloom?
Will you rise from the ruins,
Brush off the kiss of death?
Will you cling on to the fact that—
You still breathe?

Get up.
They crushed you.
They burnt you—
Tried to turn you to ash,
Hacked you

Wind cannot shatter your tree of glass

Wind cannot shatter your tree of glass
Your performance of involvement pushes you afar

A moon can shine with euphoric light
It shines and tries to avoid its dark side
But you stand, shifting, alive and in place
Hands steady 
Shakes buried
Somewhere not today.

Your breath a sign of angels
Your soul not out of place
A beauty in your angles
And not a

Shatter the Delusion

Shatter the Delusion


Enormity of lies
Creates infallible illusion
Humanity obeys unable to resist,
as though with some instinct of feigned rebellion,
were it ever really enough - for
Earth's previous bluest skies

And so unaware then naïveté persists,
And so, it sticks and it stays.. 
As with all the constant absurd lies, 

Black White, Left Right include, 
Knocking on the door
for their

Too late

I woke up morning late,
oh, forsake I hope I’m not late. 
Black Friday! 
It’s that time of year. 
The official season for shoppers is here. 
I hustle simultaneously with rut of shoppers,
on the road flocking to stores and malls,
while some shop by phones making calls.
 To bustle for the best deal to get. 
When prices

Who will shatter as I shatter when you're not here

Who will shatter as I shatter when you're not here?
Who will burn in the silence of your absence, desperately longing to be near?
Who will let their soul break, eyes fixed on the door,
knowing you'll never walk through it anymore?
Who will be consumed by jealousy at every glance that dares to touch you,
while I am devoured

Shatter

You broke me down hard,
Splinters of me everywhere,
Are you happy now?

Shatter

We drifted apart and yet struck together
We carry the precious or is it yet to gather
Was it mere inconvenience or bigger bother,
That a world was created and now we watch it shatter.

Shatter

Shatter me
 The aching, hollow pain that carves out the very essence of my heart burns through my veins, filling this fleshy vessel of mine
 A mystery that is as obvious as the crimson of raw blood 
Bigger than just a muscle tucked away behind my ribs 
Working away innocently, never stopping even when I

Death Shatter

The sound was  unmistakable: 
   glass   splintering   
   on the tile floor. 

T'was my  heart  
she   slipped away  again
   breaking into  innumerable
slivered   fragments of love.

perhaps
one  should have
   a plastic  heart 
 

Shatter Me

Your arms engulfed me as you swirl me through the air,
Sensing the unrelenting effort put into me, 
The desire to gain my trust and love,
Longing even though you barely know me, begging me to let you in;
Waiting for me to be ready to give it all.

The fear, the trauma, the hurt. 
Somehow fading away with

Shatter Me

You know that hurt when I gave you my glass heart, I gave you the warning but it seems it came out like a silent plate because you tossed me onto the floor, shattering me and watching me with a knife filled smile as my pieces shattered across with a few cuts of trust and

Contacts

clarity seeps the wound 
the flip phone missing digits 
a womb infused with violet hues 
it's quiet till it fidgets 

happenstance and bruise 
it swells for martyr avenues  
the screen is cracked yet vivid 

seed in purple 
seized usurper 
seems the impact killed it

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