Candy Hearts Can Kill Poem by Mary Havran

Candy Hearts Can Kill

Rating: 4.2


CUTE ONE, BE MINE, LOVE ME
Valentine’s day brings them out
BE TRUE, KISS ME, HUG ME,
Sayings candy Sweethearts shout

Jumbled like a crazy quilt
Field of pastel blossoms
pink, orange, purple, green, yellow, white
and now soft brown chocolate too
Spill them out
And hear them shout
Those mocking slogans
at you

NEW LOVE, MY GUY
BABY GIRL, ONLY U
MY SWEET, ONE LOVE
That’s how candy can torture you

MISS YOU, CALL ME,
SWEET ONE, MARRY ME
How loud can candy shrieking be?

Tiny little pastel hearts
Each bit of sugared bliss
can be a bitter poison pill
when you have no one to kiss
HUG ME, BE GOOD, MY THRILL
a message that can kill

Candy Sweethearts
Can break your heart
If you are
LOVE LESS
still

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Jeannie Ann Clark 04 February 2008

Your writing is good....I never liked those candies anyway! thank you.

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Con Nie 04 February 2008

I have often thought of this many times. Very good. Ten! Sincerely, Connie Webb PS I think they may be better printing affirmations on the hearts like: You're beautiful, You're intelligent, You're Creative, You're Fantastic! Then the hearts wouldn't be as heartbreaking. Maybe we need to start a business? Take care.

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Res John Burman 05 February 2008

Hi Mary. This is beautiful but so sad and so true. Perhaps we should teach the basics of loving oneself in school long before the thought of being loved by others becomes an issue.10 Thank you.

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Q, T, 05 February 2008

Oh how they kill with kindness

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Roger Cornish 06 February 2008

Excellent Mary....... and topical! Rogerx.

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Manonton Dalan 28 January 2016

I like chocolate candy keeps me awake

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ari anna arena 04 March 2008

ciao, mary! this is bitter/sweet! very well done. how true! aaa

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Al Ramos 29 February 2008

Belongs in a valentine card at a doctor's office. Great job.

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Very clever and—at times—painfully true. This made me smile, because even though it took a painful twist on Valentines, I remember getting those silly candy's and digging through the box and trading them for the ones I wanted.

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Bob Genevro 13 February 2008

Hi Mary Great idea for a poem...a concrete sweet metaphor...the candy gram. I'm inspired to write one now.

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