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Broken

May 8, 2012
By mystyksuniverse GOLD, Tuolumne, California
mystyksuniverse GOLD, Tuolumne, California
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Favorite Quote:
When I, the People, learn to remember, when I, the People, use the lessons of yesterday and no longer forget who robbed me last year, who played me for a fool--then there will be no speaker in all the world say the name: "The People," with any fleck of a sneer in his voice or any far-off smile of derision. The mob--the crowd--the mass--will arrive then. – Carl Sandburg


Lying, broken, beaten,
As the rain pours down
And the blood spills out.
Thunder, lightning, rain,
Washing away my memories
As a steady “chink-chink” fills my mind.
Rolling over, head pounding.
Shattered glass litters the sidewalk.

Shattered, broken, forgotten,
Each shard filling with rainy
Ponds swirling with oily surfaces.
Frozen, icy chunks
Floating on the deep black surface
Of some drunken rage forgotten.
Grasping a shard, heart racing,
Shattered light glinting off the sidewalk.

Shaking, crying, raging,
As liquor stings cuts endured by
The jagged shard, smooth as her skin.
Glinting, shining glass
Mesmerizes me as light plays
Off her sultry green-gold surface.
I sit ready, shard to my wrist,
Praying for my angel to stop me.



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on Sep. 30 2013 at 9:31 am
48Dragonwriter GOLD, Wildorado, Texas
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Favorite Quote:
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

I love this article and I hope you write many more

on Oct. 30 2012 at 7:48 am
Stella_Val_Illicia GOLD, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people angry and been widely regarded as a bad idea.&quot;<br /> --Douglas Adams

I love the descriptions, and the way you compared it to ice! Beautiful!

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on Sep. 21 2012 at 2:55 pm
3dancer SILVER, Windsor, Colorado
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Favorite Quote:
&quot;Imagination will often carry us to worlds that we never were. But without it we go nowhere!&quot;

The description and vocabulary of this poem is amazing! But I don't really understand what it's about. Maybe try to get your message across more clearly.