Short Breakdowns Poems

a year of breakdowns

faith in government, undone-

where are we heading

...

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On this merry-go-round

     Of breakups and breakdowns

Singing the blues

     In our ding-a-ling shoes

We take our heartache's milkshakes

     Spiked with itty-bitty pity

Before we tangle and wrangle

     In the rebound playground.

4/16/20

Poem of the Day
April 18, 2020...

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emotions , open our senses madly

to feel , EXTERNAL , all to gladly

only to discover breakdowns , sadly

conventional truths can mislead us badly

decisions are made , unlearn to relearn

to feel , INTERNAL , our soul yearns

hunger replenished , aptly affirms

ultimate truth , our ETERNAL flame burns ....

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Crippled by the gun
Reminders of life being done
In a team 
Movement to the scream
Inferno of insanity
Never ending results of vanity
Aluminum scraps all of the scene
Lighting glows in a sheen

Mental breakdowns
Internal empty rounds clattering upon the floor
Napalm dressed corpes
Drowned bodies twisted and warps
Sovling crime is what me do....

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a broken heart cannot be healed easily. it takes time and pain 
a lot of it 
it takes breakdowns and blank stares
crying for hours on end 
and sometimes not feeling anything 
another love won’t heal it 
it has to be your own 
for you to realise 
all along, you weren’t broken, 
you were healing 
when everything around you tried to kill you. 
-unKnownPerson...

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I don’t write deep 
Meaningful poetry 
For fun, leisure, or for anyone, but
MYSELF
I write to say what’s on my
Mind. Contol my 
Anxiety and nervous 
Breakdowns, because 
It’s easier to write it
Than to tell someone about it
I don’t care if 
People read my poems
And judge me
They are for me. 
Not for you.
It releases emotions 
I fail to express
It’s my escape
It’s my savior 
It’s my therapy...

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Nervous breakdowns and I seem shot
Process now cus then I did not 
Mental breakdowns my brain did stop
I’m seemingly lost but I’ve got my plot
So along ago everyone forgot 
they want me to forget, me not
tied and tangled with the pot 
now it clears untying knots 

Mental breakdowns 
My life stopped
You couldn’t break down
so I seem shot 
And you want me to forget the lot 
it’s my life I’ll forget me not...

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In the once-great City of Chicago
  all the public schools are shut down
Teachers threatened to strike
  Parents had nervous breakdowns

So there's on-line instruction 
  up to seven hours a day
Does that sound reasonable
  Psychologists say no way...

Meanwhile, Jewish schools are open
  All the kids attend, and they're stoked
to prove that public schoolteachers' bravado
  ~ is no more than a bona-fide hoax...

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No more
                showdowns
                gunned down
                man down
                let down
                lowdowns
                sundowns
                put downs
                mowed down
                ground down
                lock down
                blown down
                sounded down
                Pinned down.
                Breakdowns...
No more
                shot down in flames....

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there’s no face appearing in the window
as I stare through the whiskyfalls 
of the sun made of cucumbers
that ticks in my sternum like a deathwatch
so where’s my sagacity? – 
– lost somewhere in the pink furry mirrors
hearkening ill, weirdly and sinister
baffled from holding itself a hostage
running wild in the power sockets
the same inside out in the eye sockets
crying out loud from the acient books
of lamentations 
and corvus breakdowns...

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Of men and plants


The endless growing of new leaves
of my indoor plants, shedding the excess 
all over the floor, as disregarded dreams
getting in the way of the day.

Female hyenas are good mothers teaching
their litter is how to scare off lions.


Restless minds are not sound as leaders
who overthink everything and have nervous breakdowns?
Sit shaking in the corner on the bridge of warships
excellent, dancers in the ballroom of peace....

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I'm telling myself I am fine,
I say I am not going to give up,
I do,
My mask has hidden me long enough
Though it keeps the truth inside me,
I will keep it bottled up,
To seem I am all okay,
Nobody can see
Me cry, me wanting to die,
Throughout these months of nervous breakdowns,
The shock of my truth,
Only I feel,
Only I see,
Only I bare it alone,
Without this mask, you will see me as a mess,
I need to do better at hiding,
These feelings never subside,
For only it's a lie....

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