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Child Abuse Poems | Examples of Child Abuse Poetry

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Premium Member BOAT CHILDREN
Each day more arrivals in small inflatables escaping from troubles their homeland far away they cannot bear to stay so travel to UK a risky trip from home ...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse,
Form: Rhyme



BYE ERN
BYE ERN There once was a man from Bavaria Whose actions could not be scarier In the woods where he lurked And at night where he worked It was designated as a no-go area But at heart he was a secretive...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse,
Form: Limerick
playground scars
Little Girl swings in the air, legs pumping, wind in hair the closest to flight she’ll ever be. freedom and fairytales whisper in her ears, telling her with each swing, she’ll be closer to the clouds. Little Girl and Little...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, abuse, anger, angst, child
Form: Free verse
baby elephants - a letter to my mother
baby elephants stay with their mothers their whole lives they follow them for miles, hiding in the maternal shade of large, floppy ears, perfect for listening to their cries. so why, mom, did you leave your baby, even after...Read the rest...
Categories: child, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Free verse
I must say
I'm afraid of you I must say I'm afraid of your eyes I'm afraid of your face I'm afraid of your mouth I'm afraid of your gaze I'm afraid of you I must say. Jessica...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, childhood,
Form: Rhyme



LILY
In a somber house on Maple Street, where shadows creep, Lived Lily, a child, in silence she'd weep. With every creak of the floorboards at night, She'd hold her breath, gripped by fright. Mr. Johnson, her father, a looming...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, child, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgiving the Unforgivable
(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity) Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, fractured in the dark? Where the scars are a map, etched, not just in...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, father son,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Trama
Angry voices Bellow my full name Crystol Lynn! Do you hear me? Enter the mother and Father. Go away to another place High above the trouble and terror Isolate my childhood self Justice is only a dream, a Kind of folk story told Late at...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, child abuse, family,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member America Never Learns
The powerful have bombs the students have voices enough is enough they say University campuses unite A map in the year of 1947 tells a story no one in the west really wants to hear thieves on stolen lands America, professional bombers Iraq, Libya,...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, evil, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Semper Alumnus
Thank you God That I’m always a student I abhor The slaughters of the babies Toddlers were killed dead Young boys and girls were shot dead Pregnant women were stabbed dead That’s terror Young men were executed Young women were raped and killed That’s horror Women...Read the rest...
Categories: bullying, cancer, child abuse,
Form: Haiku
A poem I should not have to write
It is a poem nobody wants to write, About what will never be right, About those who think they have the right, To take from a child all that is bright, And make the sun disappear out of sight. When...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, abuse, age, allusion, analogy,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Gaza Lottery
Look up to the sky will you live or will you die? is a lottery you see we the west dropping aid pretty and adorable exploding bombs the grandest casino of war will we save you? even so not for long you will...Read the rest...
Categories: allah, bible, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
The black duck
If only she knew what it was or where it lay , The stain in her being, body, and soul. A mark that all seem to notice or even point out, She walked burdened with the...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
DID nightmare
DID NIGHTMARE having Did is not all that’s cracked up to be. Having to try to remember what you did, day to day Having people say “ I wish I had DID” because when I don’t want to...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, anger, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Sold
Sold To be sold by the people Who were supposed to love you To be sold at Just 9 years old For alcohol and laughs To be sold Day after day Why fight? To be sold by people Who were supposed to...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, abuse, angst, betrayal, child
Form: Free verse

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