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Your honesty was a mallet

While my heart to you was glass

Now we're dealing with the shards

Of betrayals in the past.

 

We still love one another

That at least is true

But how do we piece together

Shards without some glue?

 

We eye each other warily

And use care when we embrace

Scintillantly shards of pain

Are difficult to face.

 

And so we circle endlessly

At times it looks quite bleak

We tread lightly in this dance

Shivered shards are no gleek.

 

'Tis time to look directly

Perhaps sight's been too peripheral

We need to see more deepily

Not develop defenses pharisaical.

 

I sit here gathering slivered shards

Hands bleed but they'll suffice

To forge once more a working heart

To be love's sacrifice.

Posted

Good grief, have you ever written a BAD poem?

 

I'm running out of compliments, brilliant as always, Peredhil.

Cioden Darkeye

 

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Posted

A... Very, very good articulation, my friend, of observations.

 

I must say that your use of metaphbor is most impressive.

 

If I may say; the shards of a broken heart simile is often over done, but this idea is fresh (I especially like the glue comment, as superficial as that sounds. I like the implied metaphor for grounds to re-base the relationship on), and your use of a flowing rhythm makes the poem all the more enjoyable.

 

Also, as long as I'm bringing up rhythm, may I say that it is not often that I can read through a poem completely on my first try without stopping to examine a beat or change of metre on part of the poet. This was one of those times. your poem flowed with mercury-like smoothness.

 

This is one that would easily commit to memory.

 

My thanks.

 

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