Broken Hearts Make Beautiful Words: Poetry That Touches the Heart

By Danelle Simpson

Inside this book, there is poetry that will make you feel as though you are not alone in the struggles associated with life and love. They come from the heart of someone who did truly feel alone. Broken Hearts Make Beautiful Words is a book of poetry that is based off experiences with heartbreak, love, loss, and acceptance. Moving forward is hard to do when life crashes unexpectedly, when memories stay behind even when the people dont. You will find understanding in these words and know that even though you may feel isolated and alone, you are really among friends, even when that isnt easy to see. So open one of my books, read it, and join me; our destination may not be the same, but we all make a similar journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 29, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479739271

Danelle Simpson

Danelle Simpson was raised in Kennewick, WA. She graduated from Kennewick High. She spent a lot of her childhood with her grandparents, B.E. and Happy Pickrell. They taught her to be kind hearted and to help those who cannot help themselves. While both are great qualities to possess, they tend to leave the individual more inclined to suffer from heart break and disappointment far easier than someone who is hard hearted. However, possessing such compassion gives the author inspiration to write the poetry that she has. She wrote this book during the times in her life that she has felt the most alone, and until recently, kept most of it hidden. The poems within this book are not about one particular person or event, while reading them it is very hard to tell. As she states, it takes a lot of pain to make you feel broken.

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Copyright © 2012 by Danelle Simpson.

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4797-3926-4

Ebook 978-1-4797-3927-1

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Contents

Do You Know Me?

Bullies

Sometimes Things Break

I Am Not Here

Broken Hearted

Your Eyes

The Path You Choose

You Have The Keys

Blame

You Think You Know Me?

My Greatest Gift

I’m Sorry.

There Is More That I’m Sorry For . . .

Ends and Outs

Your Loss

Sinking Low

I Really Need A Friend

You Taught Me . . .

Caution

The Tears That I Have Cried

You Broke My Heart

Barely Breathe

I Give Up

Day to Day

Real Friends

If You

Will I Have You

Suffer In Silence

Keep It

Invisible Tears

Set Me Free

Outside Looking In

Keep Quiet

Toss & Turn

Always, Always

Broken & Damaged

Two Sides

One Day At A Time

You Broke Me

Take A Closer Look

Letting Go

All Alone

The Games

I Miss You . . .

Happy Dreams

Wish You Well

Stay Beside Me

Thank You

Stupid Phone

How Could You Leave?

Heart Breaking

Say Goodbye . . .

The End

Acknowledgements

To Vicky Jill—You are my Duct tape. You have helped hold me together, and I will always love you for that.

Thank you, for believing in me.

To SB – I’m sorry, thank you for your support through this process, and for continuing to be a friend.

To Kari—Thank you for being a kindred spirit who kicked me in

the rear when I needed it most, you saved me. Growing up, I

wish that I had had a mother like you to keep me in line.

Your family is lucky—even if they don’t know it.

And to the others, as there are many—Thank you for the inspiration, the support, the patience and to some of you, thank you for the

pain, because after all—it took a broken heart to make

these beautiful words.

And a special thanks to Geppetto & Jiminy—You have both helped

to make me into who I am now, each in your own way. Thank you

for being there and taking the time to talk it out when I needed it

most, and not allowing me close everyone out when I tried to.

You know who you are—and that is what matters to me.

Introduction

My name is Danelle Simpson. I have been writing poetry most of my life, however, until quite recently I haven’t really shown it to very many people. In fact, most of the people that know me currently didn’t even know that I wrote poetry. My daughter, Vicky Jill, encouraged me to submit this book of poetry because she loved them so much. Writing poetry is my way of handling different situations in my life, it is my outlet. I tend to hide my feelings to the point that most people thought my life was pretty much perfect. Welcome to my glass house. The poems included in this book were written on a very personal level, but they seem to mirror a lot of lives. I hope that you find these helpful