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Best Scarred Poems

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Born-Torn, Scorned and Scarred
Born-torn, scorned and scarred.
Baby's thrown like a bone, choked and charred.
Raised by a mother shackled to Meth,
Dismissed by a father, deserted and left.

Itching for a...

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Categories: scarred, angst, mother, drug,
Form: Lyric
Scarred Soul
Feigned love cut you deep,
left your heart bleeding profusely
Blood red, rose-colored stains,
drip, drip, dripping trail leading out the door ...
time to mop up this mess...

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Categories: scarred, betrayal, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scarred and Blackened
Scarred and Blackened

In Tasmania’s rugged but scenic South West
Lies an ancient land of pristine wilderness
Protected by a World Heritage Listing
An eco-system a thousand years nesting

A...

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Categories: scarred, earth, mountains, nature, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Scarred Soul Impressions
The window to my soul's barred ~
I had left it open once,
but you did not tread lightly,
you stepped all over my heart 
and crushed my...

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Categories: scarred, love hurts,
Form: Verse
Scarred For Life
There she was, sad and bereft,
  weeping hard with troubled signs,
    lone, desolate she was left,
walking midst overgrown vines,

Love memories she...

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Categories: scarred, death, grave, lonely, love
Form: Rhyme
Sun Scarred
Mirrored memories, glaring shards,
beam countless points of light, glass hard,
about my mind. I did not know,
you still could reach my soul. Love glow--
thought dead--moons, reflecting...

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Categories: scarred, betrayal, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Scarred
Condemned to fifty lashes.
Skin split...blood flowed
from the quivering flesh.
Helpless, she suffered the pain.
Time healed the deep wounds  
leavings ugly scars on her back
a stark...

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Categories: scarred, sad,
Form: Free verse
Tender, Bruised and Scarred.
Grief that constricts my heart,
Cages its screaming walls,
Grinding its bars roughly into its flesh…
Where they meet, blood oozes, 
Life does what it chooses,
Heart shies away...

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Categories: scarred, death, depression, family, loss
Form: Double Dactyl
A Scarred and Broken Man
Two tragedies made a man bitter and hard.
Life became intolerable after he was scarred.
On Christmas Day his granddaughter fell in his pool and drowned.
Because of...

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Categories: scarred, child, christmas, death, granddaughter,
Form: Rhyme
Scarred But Not Wounded
Hush child, wipe those tears
The demons are away
They're not after you, I promise
It's just the cold weather.

Hush child, I hear you sob
The monsters are gone
They're...

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Categories: scarred, child, grief, mother, parents,
Form: Free verse
Scarred Hands
One day a Mother saved her new born daughter from a raging flame.
Holding her to her bosom,calling out Jesus name.
A Mother love is something only...

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© Robert Ray  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scarred, day, mother, girl, teacher,
Form: Narrative
His Nail Scarred Hands
CH.    His nail scarred hands shows me the way.  His nail scarred hands holds my hand.  
When I'm lost when...

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© Cody Young  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scarred, me,
Form: Lyric
Scarred Hands
Beautiful Scars
At Nancy’s birthday party,
Before her friends came in,
She reminded her mom
Of the shape her hands were in.

“They’re so scarred and ugly
I don’t want my...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scarred, daughter, emotions, mother,
Form: Quatrain
Scarred Streets
the streets are scarred for good and we know it
after the hits of untamed hearts
after this abstract damage of cyclic returnings

there's a window in my...

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Categories: scarred, imagery, lost love, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Scarred Respite
(The Poem is about young love which ends after a one night stand. 
The villain Rain seduces and makes love to the Protagonist, Young Earth,...

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Categories: scarred, girlfriend-boyfriend, lost love, passion,
Form: Imagism

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry