Broken and Other Poems

By Andrew Scott Broken I feel you slithering around me as I lay here, shaking, broken. You only come around during these times when it is believed I am at the weakest. You and your other demons have been hoping for this moment. I should have expected you when the snap occurred and my bones …

Poems by Umar Yogiza Jr

the silent bird in us with broken wings this is the silent hum of a bird in us with broken wings   remember all the sacrifice that has gone into this healing—   elope if it's the only chance of your survival   call out to ahmadu bello of more than fifty years ago if …

Poems by Robert Beveridge

COMPEL   Let your voice wrap me in the cool compress of wonderment. It damps my brow, washes fever into runoff traps.   It is what you ask, and what, for you, I do.   HOW MANY HEARTS HAVE YOU BROKEN?   Leather on the tongue, luggage strap whose taste masks the herbs beneath. Roasted, …

Poem by Lynn Long

By Lynn Long Dear broken heart Guiding with each beat Thank you for your strength In loving endlessly Dear broken heart Bleeding in vain I admire your courage In loving through pain Dear broken heart Brave and free So beautiful are you In loving me Dear broken heart The time has come to mend For …

“Broken Glass Under a Shattered Sky”

By Ryan Quinn Flanagan She tells me she woke up out of a dead sleep, that she feared it would be like last night, but she reached over and felt my side of the bed still warm so she knew it was nothing like last night. * The snooker boys call their shots which would …

Broken

By Alessandra Salisbury   I never knew the reason or even if you ever had one I remember the last time when you were tormented affected by something bigger than us But ‘What could ever be bigger than us’ We had it all The world was small for us The streets were narrow when we …