Love For Broken Souls

[Dark Muse]

Love For Broken Souls

From dirt littered streets
among unlikely places
arises unexpected glimpses
of nobility, strangely admirable
in its touches of irony.

Beneath grit colored street lamps
a glimpse among societies
pollution, a curious kind
of selflessness from the
lips of sinners.

Where they say there is no honor
among thieves, perhaps at moments
pure hearts find themselves
on broken wings and through
the fire and chains bonds
are made.

Just as weeds grow
through cracks in the cement
love may take root from the
dredges of razor blades and
broken glass.

[dizzydoll]

You have no idea where your first two stanzas' imaginary took me. Jack the Ripper, :eek:. I mean he did come from nobility, or so some think.. but since he was never caught, anything is possible.

Very dark, bad me. I am sorry for contaminating your expressive [in more ways than one] poem. It did feel a bit scary for a while. Peace.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Remarkable authority throughout this and images that register vividly and painfully. Congratulations.

[Dark Muse]

You have no idea where your first two stanzas' imaginary took me. Jack the Ripper, :eek:. I mean he did come from nobility, or so some think.. but since he was never caught, anything is possible.

Very dark, bad me. I am sorry for contaminating your expressive [in more ways than one] poem. It did feel a bit scary for a while. Peace.

Haha it really was not meant to be dark. The line about noblilty was meant more to refelct the way even people who are considered criminals, even those that are looked down upon by the rest of scoeity can at times show themselves to have more honor than the people who are looked up to.

It is meant to be about a bound of love between two souls left in the gutter of soceity, and while they have done bad things, they at heart are not bad people.

There is a background story on where the idea of this poem came from.

[Dark Muse]

Remarkable authority throughout this and images that register vividly and painfully. Congratulations.

Thank you!

[Bandanna]

Wow, I really like this.
The image you give in the final stanza... It's great.
You say there is a back ground story, you should write a narrative poem about it as compliment to this one. I don't know, just a personal request of mine. lol

[MorpheusSandman]

What I really love about this is how it flows from an image to to the relevant theme you're attempting to express. This pattern is only altered in the third stanza which goes from the theme to the image but instead of weakening it I think it makes the return to the pattern in the final stanza even more potent. Really nice one, DM.

[Dark Muse]

Thank you!

[hillwalker]

Just catching up after a weekend away - another brilliant piece, and a simple message that good can be found in even the most wretched soul.
That final verse sums it up perfectly.

[Dark Muse]

Thank you!

[Buh4Bee]

DM, You are so gifted! Wonderful reading experience. Cheers!

[Bar22do]

Love For Broken Souls

From dirt littered streets
among unlikely places
arises unexpected glimpses
of nobility, strangely admirable
in its touches of irony.

Beneath grit colored street lamps
a glimpse among societies
pollution, a curious kind
of selflessness from the
lips of sinners.

Where they say there is no honor
among thieves, perhaps at moments
pure hearts find themselves
on broken wings and through
the fire and chains bonds
are made.

Just as weeds grow
through cracks in the cement
love may take root from the
dredges of razor blades and
broken glass.

I'm too catching up, and love your poem very much.

"perhaps at moments
pure hearts find themselves
on broken wing" - yes, and I personally knew thieves (good hearts on broken wings...) whose watchwords were honour and nobility!
Greetings from - Bar