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Trauma Poems - Poems about Trauma

Trauma Poems - Examples of all types of poems about trauma to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for trauma.
Women’s rights
...My childhood was meant for innocent adventures, Climbing trees and chasing dreams, not living traumatic ventures. But you stole that blissful promise with your heinous deeds, Planting seeds of......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, abuse, anxiety, beauty, celebration,
Form: Rhyme



A dogs unconditional love
...My childhood was meant for innocent adventures, Climbing trees and chasing dreams, not living traumatic ventures. But you stole that blissful promise with your heinous deeds, Planting seeds of......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
An ode to a wounded child
...O tender soul, o innocence defiled, What cruelties did your youth upend? Tormented by she who should cherish her child, Instead her addictions made her your fiend. Those eyes that should have b......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, abuse, addiction, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Neural Pathways
...Sometimes my brain deludes me into believing that I am utterly unlovable. Like a dog who has been in the shelter for far too long, being prepared for his final meal. My throat closes up, My lung......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, depression, emo, feelings, how
Form: Free verse
Whole Again
...You broke my love, my loyalty, my confidence and mind, You left invisible wounds, broken, trauma and anxiety, You told me I was imagining all the things you did, that it was my fault, I was to blam......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, abuse, anxiety, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse



In A New Season of Favor
...In a new season of favor, we stand With open doors to our destined land It is time to bridge the mind-body gap Letting go to embrace the new field map. Transitioning into the unknown Where tab......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, anxiety, celebration, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Beautiful Girls
...I see the way your body dances through the halls of our home, how dirty you are. dirty little girl. My teacher said this is not what we do. Mom tells me this is bad. They’re wrong. Beautiful girls ......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, abuse, angst, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
My trauma
...Trauma Trauma. My lifemate. The hell of fate Trauma. I got it from the English psychology Trauma. I live with that, burden and pain Trauma. I live with that, my mind is damaged Trauma. Pain,......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Backwards Spells of FEAR Part I
... so easy to fall, and so hard to break free somehow as a child I knew it was as if they knew my name before I had a clue at 10 reading books about orphans free from the church the dignity of......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, abuse, addiction, child, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member They Gathered Outside My House
...Gathered outside my house Are aliens I've known all my life. The breeze connects us all. Ones I've known forever. The ones I've never known. And the ones I've known forever That I've never kn......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member That Place
... "That Place" In that place where you were abandoned, that place, they never thought, you’d come back from, in that place where it is believed nothing grows in the lo......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
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 cl......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, abuse, anger, angst, child
Form: Free verse
Why?
...Why? Why? Why kill psychologists in my life? Why? They don’t see my sufferings and my life. They are just killing me. A long time ago I haven’t own a life. I haven’t lived. They just foll......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, life, love, solitude, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Never Again
...The cacophony of headlines spills into homes. Living rooms swell with images of death. Horror hails against insulated windows... A fusillade of destruction and trauma Resonating in a global co......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, war,
Form: Free verse
Trauma's mirror
...Trauma met Trauma when I looked in the mirror. A pale reflection of me Of years of tragic, mournful moments That is the reflection I would see Trauma came face to face with true horror All I......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, deep,
Form: Free verse

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