Hettie Van Zyl
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Poem "Broken Wing":
- written February 2009
- published February 9, 2009
- viewed 238 times
Other poems by Hettie Van Zyl:
»A Falling Leaf«
»A Harsh Word«
»A Powerful tool«
»An Open Mind«
»Beginning of a new day«
»Child of the street«
»Flames«
»Hailstorm«
»Happiness«
»how?«
»In The Eyes Of A Child«
»Joyful Tear«
»Love of a real friend«
»Miracle«
»Noah's Ark«
»Price For Peace«
»Real Love«
»She cried«
»That special friend«
»That Special You«
»The Abused«
»The Gold Digger«
»The race«
»Time Limit«
»What Counts«
»When You Were Mine«
»Words«
»You«
Visit Hettie Van Zyl's profile page
Poem "Broken Wing":
- written February 2009
- published February 9, 2009
- viewed 238 times
Other poems by Hettie Van Zyl:
»A Falling Leaf«»A Harsh Word«»A Powerful tool«»An Open Mind«»Beginning of a new day«»Child of the street«»Flames«»Hailstorm«»Happiness«»how?«»In The Eyes Of A Child«
»Joyful Tear«»Love of a real friend«»Miracle«»Noah's Ark«»Price For Peace«»Real Love«»She cried«
»That special friend«»That Special You«»The Abused«»The Gold Digger«»The race«»Time Limit«»What Counts«»When You Were Mine«»Words«»You«»Broken Wing«
Like a broken wing of a Swallow,
with no one to cure the pain.
Is a heart that is brutally broken
with no hope of healing again.
And like the Swallow with the broken wing,
that is only been able to flutter around,
so is the one with the broken heart
disseling in his own world without sound.
But both the Swallow with the broken wing,
and the one with the broken heart,
very well know there is nothing they can do,
than to try and make a new start.
To find a way to keep on living.
Although it is not going to be an easy way.
But they know they have to face this painful struggle,
and handle it day by day.
with no one to cure the pain.
Is a heart that is brutally broken
with no hope of healing again.
And like the Swallow with the broken wing,
that is only been able to flutter around,
so is the one with the broken heart
disseling in his own world without sound.
But both the Swallow with the broken wing,
and the one with the broken heart,
very well know there is nothing they can do,
than to try and make a new start.
To find a way to keep on living.
Although it is not going to be an easy way.
But they know they have to face this painful struggle,
and handle it day by day.
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Mary Kettle: "I like how you depict the struggle of the bird to a person with a broken heart. How the struggle is simular"- Robert Matthews: "i just wanted to thankyou for the comment"
- Christina: "Dit is 'n baie mooi een."
- Hettie Van Zyl: "Dit was baie mooi."
- Zandile Mboneni: "I feel like you are speaking directly to me and so many women out there for we are all like the swallow with the broken wing and one with the broken heart. Great poem..."
- Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe: "This is a well thought out poem which carries a lot of poetic devices. The imagery you have used is very apt and very precise.I can pick out a sound device-rhyme-in the first few lines and a simile here and there.It is heart warming poem that seeks to compare the swaloow to people with broken hearts. (I hope that your heart was not broken like that). You have done well in this poem, but I would like to point out to you that you need to keep a reign on your punctuation so as to bring a smooth flow to the poem. For example there shouldn't be a full stop in the second line of the poem.Check other lines for punctuation erros. What is the meaning of the word disseling? I am lost as to its meaning. Otherwise this is good poem that deserves the publication."
- Michelle Clark: "I love your poem. I understand, there is always hope, no pain is ever in vain."
- Mthunzikazi: "Definately, they have to keep on leaving,tomorrow might be better that yesterday,the taste is the pudding.Great stuff!"
- Michael S. Hofer: "I like the image you're creating of the swallow and the heart"