Broken Marriage Poems

They call it a win
when a wealthy man pushing thirty
wants a pretty girl who's barely eighteen.
A girl still learning the shade of her own skin
still...

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‘You’ve had one too many’
Declared old Paddy’s wife
She always spoiled his evenings 
With her ‘trouble’ and her ‘strife’

‘I’m absolutely sober’ 
He replied with much aplomb
‘I’ve...

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If the relationship ends here let it end 
No matter how beautiful the watch if it has lost battery 
It's worth zero, there is beauty...

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babe
I stumbled home—
drenched in Guinness, soaked in guilt
the apartment crumbles, a shattered ruin
but you—your copper mane ablaze—
my wild Morrigan
a feral Celtic Faerie Queene
waging war against...

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I see you there, leaving me
With your quiet blue
Eyes, so gentle and true
Wilder than the night, with a shadow
Reaching beyond my heart,
To the very edges...

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We’re all broken. That’s how the light gets in… author unknown

When I couldn’t stop seeing him,
beyond the shadows, the trees, the wind
blowing away the silence,...

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You said it was my fault
And I said you were to blame
You said this love, you’d halt
I said, this is such a shame

You said I...

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A broken marriage 
scattered pieces lost within 
cracks in the sidewalk...

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In a marriage, what is “for life?” or, until death do you part?
Or is it until one cheats, gets sick, loses their job, go to...

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In the heart of a storm, a child stands tall
Caught between the fierce winds of a divorce
Her parents' love shattered, their bond broken
Yet amidst the...

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A lonely life  it’s not easy being a fisher’s wife 
but loneliness can be a compassionate companion

unbridled spite of bucking boss-mare-waves followed you ashore
her...

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I cannot go backwards.
I can’t believe in the deception 
You impersonate so well
Smell of flowers
Plucked in hell
Hugs and kisses when lights are on
Yells and broken...

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Confusion, don't know how to feel.  
What are we doing here? 
My love for you has never been so real, 
One moment dread, the...

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I spoke to the universe and calmly said 
That I wanted a marriage. I wanted to wed
So I was sent to Johannesburg and into a...

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