‘Neath Cold night stars
that come undone
they glow afar
new life begun.
Breathe, you’re alive!
Ignore the scars
Rain washes sighs
making time ours
new life begun
‘neath cold night stars.
reneged engagement March 11, 2013
He lies broken
pain unspoken
Splintered into pieces
Splattered into feces
Love rejected
Hope ejected
He lies broken
Pointless token
A golden dream
Not ring but phleame
His blood is let
His face is wet
The diamond cuts
into his guts
From sleep awoken
He is broken
.
.
(What does it feel like to be the guy proposing on the big screen, when the girl says no? Ouch.)
This poem is mostly written in trochaic dimeter- STRESS-unstress X 2. The exceptions are the second couplet, which is trochaic trimeter, and the penultimate line which adds an unstressed beat at the beginning).
Shawn L. Bird 