Shattering the Unbroken Cycle
Shattering the Unbroken Cycle
Bully's shadow looms, a pervasive stain
across all sectors, absurd, yet sustained
Governments and schools deny workers' rights
incentives, facilities, and dignity's light
Seniors torment juniors with blows and pain
emotional scars, hunger, and shame's stain
Educators wound with words, with physical might
abuse and fear, a toxic, endless night
Domestic walls conceal violence and despair
husbands, wives, and shattered vows
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Categories:
shattering, abuse, africa, bullying, child,
Form: Lyric
Just to tie me down
But you loved me for the girl i was
Not the girl i am nor the girl i was becoming
Not loving me with my flaws
But loving me for my flaws
So together you can tie me down
You wrapped me in your poisonous arms
And whispered sweet nothings in my ears
You suffocated me with your
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Categories:
shattering, abuse, addiction, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Shattering
Shattering
Parts of me are shattered
The skies are bartered
The grounds do not recognize me
The fire of love are distinguished
Call me
A glass which is now broken
The parts of me are not to be found
The mirrors are empty from you
Parts of me are shattered
Parts of me are shattered!
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Categories:
shattering, 10th grade, break up,
Form: Rhyme
Shattering Rose Coloured Glasses
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was colour blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting
of the ones I find
Yet my blindness
Is that of privilege
I'm just a visitor
in the Global village
From my narrow thin mind
there is too much spillage
Although so many
are forced from their homes
My life seems carefree
I am deaf to the groans
Brown
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Categories:
shattering, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Political Verse
The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves
"The Shattering Silence of Falling Leaves"
In Theta waves
tumbling to
The Land of Dark Dreams
Trees will capture and save
the falling Princess and Queen
An Bee Cailleach
invisibilia simulacra viro
An Bee Cailleach scries heroes
incarnate falling in
The Sea of Unfathomable Sorrow
Lifts her hands to the skies,
As Above So Below
For Princess and Queen
Protection,
to Light bathe in
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Categories:
shattering, dark, daughter, fantasy, journey,
Form: Free verse
Earth Shattering
Just had a fantastic thought, don't get too many
Gonna write it down, some days I don't get any
Wish I was real brilliant
But brain's still quite infant
Been years since my last earth shattering entry
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Categories:
shattering, fun,
Form: Limerick
Shattering
Without counting the pendulum swings
I fall from trees without leaves for I am simply the bird
Don’t you know what it feels like to kiss the horizon
I am at a crossroads so why not play tic tac toe?
I fall from trees without leaves for I am simply the bird
With you becoming the silver wrapped around my
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Categories:
shattering, lonely, lost love,
Form: Pantoum
Shattering Symbols
Shattering Symbols
Sometimes I feel shattered between symbols,
A musician crashes me side to side,
I plan quiet and peaceful meditation,
Then life takes me for an unscheduled ride.
The world comes down with its pressing problems,
The symbols clang and squeeze my aching head;
Musicians’ drums beating, so demanding;
Oh, for soft pianissimo instead.
The breeze and wind songs of flute and
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Categories:
shattering, anxiety, metaphor, peace,
Form: Sonnet
O' I Wept, Tears Shattering Broken Souls
O' I Wept, Tears Shattering Broken Souls
I wept hard from noon until late midnight,
feelings for her loss, no other has known,
for lost vision of her face in cool morns;
and sweet, gentle moments her love brought flight.
That day, sun fell into scathing abyss,
her dear soul touch my hand the last time,
she had been my steady rock,
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Categories:
shattering, absence, angel, bereavement, death,
Form: Sonnet
Shattering and Crashing
SHATTERING and CRASHING
An embattled moment gets frozen in time
As an angry storm destroys a glass wind chime
The last noise that it made was a shrill scream
As if its whole existence was worked up to it's own shattering
Being human we are designed to pick up the pieces
Even though we risk cuts in finger creases
A cut so
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Categories:
shattering, emotions, humanity, inspiration, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Shattering Rose Glasses
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was coloured blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting
of the ones I find
Yet my blindness
Is that of privilege
I'm just a visitor
in the Global village
From my narrow thin mind
there is too much spillage
Although so many
are forced from their homes
My life seems carefree
I am deaf to the groans
Brown
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Categories:
shattering, education, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
A Diamond Shattering Death
A Diamond Shattering Death
Diamonds shattering just behind her family's door
for the life of her dear father is no more!
Fate set it's seal too early upon her young life,
results of a great tragedy born of mental strife.
Death brought shadows blocking out healing light
no more beautiful sunrise, as all is darkest night.
Wickedly, it's
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Categories:
shattering, conflict, dark, death, depression,
Form: Narrative
Shattering the Shackles
SHATTERING THE SHACKLES…
(APROPOS RESURRECTION)…
I shall no longer be your tragedy
or divine comedy;
Nor the phantom pain of the fake penitence
you proclaim.
I will no longer wallow in despair
nor put down the me inside.
Today, I am a phoenix
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Categories:
shattering, america, black african american,
Form: Prose Poetry
Shattering Hopes
My wrapper loose day after day
My motion and emotion unstable
I forget to think
But I wasn’t drunk
I remember in a trance
Stable I was
My wrapper tight on my torso
Not divulging the firm breasts
I remember vividly when it began to loose
Days turned nights
The sun withheld its radiance
I mourned unending
Breasts tumor I had
Oh! The pain hurts
One more
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Categories:
shattering, depression, hope,
Form: Narrative
Shattering
My heart is shattering,
Shattering like falling glass,
Can't be healed,
Created by my best friend,
Can't heal this shattered torn heart,
Can't put it back together.
Why can't you see Caleb, I
need you to be here for me,
Please stop this shattering
In my heart?
Please heal these wounds,
Heal this heart,
Make it pump blood,
Again, make it perfect.
Shattered heart,
I'm gone forever,
Six feet under
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Categories:
shattering, forgiveness, friendship, hope, imagination,
Form: Haiku
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