Short Breadcrumb Poems

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Left behind and rightfully replaced.
Engulfed in down tempo while falling up.
Breadcrumb trails lead to sought out place.
Care for self and ignore the schlup.


Seagulls Talking

Seagulls talking
what's the matter?
fussy squawking
seagulls talking...
Waddle walking
pavement patter-
Seagulls talking
what's the matter?

Birds discussing
“Took my breadcrumb!”
Angry fussing
birds discussing
seagull cussing
“Hey, I want some!”
birds discussing
“Took my breadcrumb!”
Form: Triolet

Him Again

When the biting slap of recognition impacts, unbridled eternity springs forth, as Emily Dickinson's "Wild nights" rides the wave in front of me. 
He's back again, this time with whiskey breath and redneck vehemence, revved up to conquer. 
Maybe this lifetime, a breadcrumb in the Sahara of the souls incessant trial,
just once the twins will meet as one.

I never leave, I outgrow

What they do, they all know.  
They breadcrumb, sugarcoat,  
they love-bomb, gaslight,  
or sometimes just hoover or go with the flow.  
But I cry and try till the end,
losing self-reliance, going insane; 
because later I don't wanna feel sorry.  
I can't live with a heavy chest full of thoughts of hurting others,  
I don't wanna live with a repenting memory.  
I can't let my head to bow  
in guilt, in fear, in sin...  
thus, I never leave, I outgrow.
Form: Rhyme

Breadcrumbs

Retracing all my steps 
Still looking for the last breadcrumb
Trying to find my way back 
From who I have become
Look up at the daylight 
Thinking it will leave a clue
Shine a light on all my mistakes,
On what I thought I knew
I think i wanna go home 
But I cant remember why
All the rooms there are haunted 
All my plans go awry 
So I'll walk until my feet bleed,
"Leave your shoes at the door".
Red-clay colored head to bone
Always leave me looking for more
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Little Birdie

Perched on a limb
High above the ground
Sat a little birdie
Looking all around

Peering down among the people
He cried with glee
I see a tiny breadcrumb
Just waiting for me!

Soon the little birdie
Flew to the ground
Pecked at the breadcrumb
But failed to look around.

Then one of the people
With a gleam in his eye
Stomped the little birdie
And watched him die.

The moral to this story
Is always look around
And never eat your dinner
Sitting on the ground.
© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quatrain

The salt of theirs

The salt of their skin has its flayed
geometry, sharp crevices beneath
the classroom where my dark teeth
tried the savoury chalk and failed.

I have been a teacher for the sum
of my disjointed life; never knew
otherwise, never learnt, as I grew,
how to study the breadcrumb

where the heights have gathered.
My students, ants in my breath,
state they are builders of words

in silence and thrive, feathered
like fangless tigers, within death,
my blandest subterranean birds.
Form: Rhyme

Molly

Molly was a ghastly child, with spiders, slugs and snails, her room was always messy, with
jam sandwich breadcrumb trails,

Her hair was always knotty, and her dress was never clean, she was quite the little
horror, with her super sonic screams,

Yet Molly had a smile that could melt the hardest heart, at least until her temper came
and tantrums then would start,

In every little girl there's a Molly somewhere hiding, and behind her back with angelic
grin, a slimy snail is sliding.
Form: Rhyme

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