Shattering Poems

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

Premium MemberShattering 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

Premium MemberThe 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


Premium MemberEarth 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

Premium MemberO' 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

Premium MemberShattering 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

Premium MemberA 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

Premium MemberShattering 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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