Category: Heartbreak
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“WHO ARE YOU?”
I am Kiddo, I am Sez, I am Bread and Water, I am my mother’s child and my father’s daughter, I am mum to Tally and Reecey-Breecey, I am wife to the only other man who sees me, I am exhaustion personified, anxiety made flesh, I am a girl who has more than once toed…
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Irreconcilable Differences
If you try and lift the edgeof the dregsof the unspoken,You’ll spy it there– just lying there –blebbed and broken,A token sliver,An oaken whisper,Perhaps hinted once but never said,Once clung like leadfrom a tightropewith every high hopegleaned and bledfrom that damned stone, That stone! That stonethat broke no bones(but that once wasdiamondand now is ash)was…
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Dog Fight
Territory marked, Dogs circle and bark, Backs arched and mouths part with that hallmark foam, And she can only watch them posture, sidelined imposter fostering the hope that they long disowned, But it’s all for show, And in the battle throes, As the guttural drum beats grow, When Chaos takes the throne (Erebus in tow),…
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Sailing
#NaPoWriMo Day Five Today’s prompt was to write a villanelle. It’s a poetic style that is completely new to me and involves repeating two lines in specific places in the poem. As you can see I am late with this one as I had to think on it for the entire day. I hope I…
grief, heartache, heartbreak, loneliness, love, love poem, love story, NaPoWriMo, nature, poem, poems, poetry, rhyme, sad, spring, villanelle -
Unravelled
#NaPoWrimo Day Three Today’s prompt was to write a poem that involves a story or action that unfolds over an appreciable length of time. I decided to take the prompt literally and write about an unfolding (unravelling) marriage. I love thinking about the fabric of time being a tangible thing, I have written several poems…
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While I Wait
I wait while dragons breathe white hot fire into the fields of endless bluebells, I wait for you whilst elves set to work knitting blades of grass, I wait for you to come while Gaia sings and chicks begin to harmonise, I wait for you to come back to me While wizards wave their wands,…
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Can’t you see my happy face?
Can’t you see my happy face? I’m smiling, can’t you see? These are tears of joy, you know, Your blessings gladden me. Can’t you see my happy face? It’s the best news the world, I can’t wait to meet your little one, Whether boy or whether girl. (Can’t you see my empty space? The hole…
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Games
Let’s play a different type of game: I’ll pretend that you’re not home late, If you pretend that you’re ashamed, I’ll ignore your pathetic state, If you wipe all that lipstick off your shirt and make your tie look straight, I will ignore the telling wafts of the perfume that’s on your skin and the…
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Invisible
You don’t see me as I move across your day, You don’t see the things I do, You don’t see me, So I shouldn’t be surprised that you step on me, Walk all over me, Without the faintest acknowledgement that I’m always by your side, You don’t see me and you don’t even care, You do…
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In Her Tears
Yesterday I wrote a poem called “Heartsickness“. During my search for a suitable photo, I found the one featured above. It caught my eye and even though it wasn’t quite right for yesterday’s piece I felt it deserved to be shown off. So I have written a poem which was inspired by, and is dedicated…
art, beauty, fears, heart, heartbreak, hurt, inspiration, letting go, lies, life, love, pain, past, photography, poetry, relationships, sadness -
Dark Chocolate
You once told me you were a box of chocolates, Said I’d never know quite what I’d get, And you said you weren’t any old chocolates; You were Green & Blacks – simply the best! And just like that aforesaid chocolate, You were dark, smooth, rich and so sweet, You tasted like some heavenly nectar…
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In Conversation
You said you didn’t love me, You said all hope was gone, You said you didn’t want me, I said that you were wrong. You said that it was complex, You said I wouldn’t understand, You said we’d grown apart, I said I didn’t give a damn. You said that I was stupid, You said…
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Letting Go
As we lay body to body in ecstasy I knew it was the last time you’d be next to me, The last time I’d hold your chest to me, Feel your breath on me, For your body cried out: “Remember Me” And mine called back, regrettably: “To the end of me… Til the death of…
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Spoils of War
I just can’t, I’m torn between two halves of my heart: The Me who is scarred and my future afar; Who I could be and who I was from the start. I am filled to the brim with the love that these two players are fighting to win, A love that is pure and as…
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Two Hundred Miles
It took two hundred miles for my heart to heal Two hundred miles to forget what I feel The first mile I held you and wouldn’t let go To mile forty I refused believe it was so By mile eighty I hated you and all we had been I cursed you with loathsome abhorrence extreme…
Serena Malcolm 