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Broken screen
Ended April 24, 2021 • 10 Entries • Created by Adin
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Moonsinger128
• 33 reads

trauma

it rests by the doorway,

covered in flakes of

lead-laced paint.

facing down,

flip it over.

lines

that blur

time itself.

past

present

future

the scream

it made

when it crashed

to the ground,

muffled.

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Broken screen
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AlisonAudrey
• 20 reads

the millennial’s dilemma

the broken screen

of the modern age

the cracks we fall into

on the internet -

has technology defined

a generation

that used to

play in the backyard

when will this madness

cease to define us?

-the millennial's dilemma

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The Struggle In Us All
Chapter 403 of 500
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WhiteWolfe32

Sneaking Out

knife in the screen

that covers your window

slicing it open

so you can crawl out

a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis

to find your place in the world.

sneaking out

in the middle of the night

craving adventure

in your boring suburban life

so you sneak out

not to meet a boyfriend

or girlfriend, no.

you sneak out

so you can wander

your best friend's woods

and wash your hands in the muddy stream

and cut your arms on branches and rocks

and walk barefoot until your feet itch

you slit your screen door

so you can have an adventure

one that doesn't involve anyone

but yourself

and a broken screen.

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Broken screen
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Finder
• 35 reads

Dented

The screen broken

dented

dejected

dislodged

from where he kicked it

this time

instead of me.

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Broken screen
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Jenevieve
• 29 reads

Broken Screen

Broken Screens

We look through

Broken screens

As if it can give something to make us whole

Broken screens

Falling down to what we want

Broken screens

Shattered but lighting up our faces

Broken screens

Taking us away from this world

Broken screens

Taking over me

Broken screens

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Broken screen
FlowerAngelCh
• 24 reads

Broken Screen

It happened in an instant, the black android falling to the floor,

the screen shattering into a thousand tiny pieces that could never be put back together.

I rush to the black phone, hoping that I was just imagining the shattering,

my phone was the roughest, toughest phone in the south.

That old phone had survived being run over by a car by some miracle

the only damage in that case being a scratch.

Was falling off the couch really going to be what did it in?

Apparently, it was, as the screen looked as if someone had tap danced over it,

jabbing the edge of their heels into the screen with every turn made.

When I tried to turn the phone on, it seemed to work alright for a second,

before lines of every color went over the screen, blurring the image to the point

where I couldn't tell if it was the unicorn on my background or a warning sign flashing.

I tried to repair my phone the best I could, but to no avail,

it truly was broken.

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jtwannabewriter
• 30 reads

Untethered

Phone laying prone

on the stone

Fear drawing near

reaching that is dear

Broken screen has spoken

tech is only a token

Dare to fly bare

Without a care

Free from thee

#poetry

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PolarBears
• 43 reads

Coming of age...

When i was 8,

my mother told me,

not to play with broken things

or else i'd get hurt.

When i turned 15 and broke my phone screen

she scolded me on not wanting to get it fixed

and even more so when i cut my finger on the glass,

as she carefully bandaged it up.

But when i left with you

and came home alone the same day;

my tear stained face,

smelling heavily of alcohol and coercion.

all she could do is hold me close

and gently bandage the wound

as i realized that her words

didn't only apply to inanimate objects.

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HWilson
• 15 reads

Broken Screen

Screens made of glass, fragile and delicate.

If yours isn't shattered then you're rather fortunate.

Every slight crack intertwined with another.

Shards of glass, but your scared to tell your mother.

For the fear that you'll be in trouble, or she won't understand.

No one around to hold your hand.

In a way, aren't we all a broken screen?

Just hiding our cracks so they won't be seen.

We try to hide the shattered glass.

We do our best just to pass.

In the end, life is mean.

And we're all just a broken screen.

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Ulyssesa
• 9 reads

All The Pretty Things

She collected apricot, plum, and cherry blossoms and arranged them on her laptop. She plucked and placed and stared, loving, smiling. They covered her screen so she could not see the manuscript eating her heart. They covered the errors, the potential, and the pooling time pond. They obliterated that which she could not face. So she went out and carefully she checked limbs and blooms, for the most lovely of things. And held them careful, in keyboard bruised fingertips. She smiled and couldn’t see, she was killing the trees.

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