This Heart

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This Broken heart

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this heart’s now yours
this damaged heart
this brittle fractured aching heart
broken by you, every part

I’ve no use for this ruined heart
plucked here from my chest
I seek a new and vital heart
one that’s far less stressed

a fresh heart that’s unbreakable
a heart able to forgive
unmarred unscarred yet tender
beating with the joy to live

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rob kistner © 2012

19 thoughts on “This Heart”

  1. I’ve read many of your poems Rob and I do not recall seeing rhyming verse before. I love rhyme, so I really enjoyed this one. I thought this was as expressive as all the others and very poignant. Thank you for sharing.

  2. a, b, b, b.
    b, c, b, d.
    e, f, g, f.
    loved it, Rob, and am enamored
    of the last hopeful line:
    /beating with the joy
    to live/ for your spirit is
    stronger than your flesh,
    and your heart is the size
    of Texas.

  3. Dear Rob: “this heart’s now yours” now that it is broken! Excellent feelings of how the prompt did look much like a heart, or apple, or red red wine (to me). And so near to Valentine’s too…mend well heart…I’ll take LOVE even if it means darning!

  4. This image continues to intrigue me but so far I haven’t made a poem of it. You’ve done very well by it. A heart exposed is so raw, and yet the magnificent thing about it is how strong it remains, that it will take so much and not give out.

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