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Best Trauma Poems


Childhood Trauma
Those pillars supposed to hold us
fell and crippled us instead
those hands that were made to hold us
strangled our tender necks
the years meant to be our happiest 
every day filled with dread
if to be young is very heaven
then truly we were robbed...

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© Chris Alex  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trauma, abuse, anger, anxiety, child
Form: Ode
Trauma Bleeds Through My Pen
Shall I allow my heart to break its fences
and profusely bare its senses
as my mind feels no fighting chances
the soul divulges the pain’s incenses
trauma bleeds through my pen with no pretences.
*****
Shall I allow my heart to shed its shield 
and had its very pulses peeled
with...

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Categories: trauma, heart, heartbreak, how i
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trauma
TRAUMA

Twist the knife,
Riddled with her innocence,
Against her sweet nectar.
Untimely budding,
Mastered by machination, unimaginable
Aberration of rose’s robbery ~ thorns remain intact.

9/13/2021...

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Categories: trauma, abuse,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Trauma In My Mother's House
"Trauma In my Mother's House"

Some mornings came whispering in my mother's ears the torment of being a lady;
It explained to her how by the kitchen knife 
she was meant to breathe only from a man’s pocket 

She was told that her tears undermine society 
&...

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Categories: trauma, mother,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member War and Peace In the Time of Love's Retribution
"War and Peace in the Days of Love’s Retribution"



All is fair 
in Love and War
they say 

Lost are the
gambling angels
who walk tight ropes

from the point 
where time departed
the jewel stolen from her crown 

sacrificed for 
something better
a child’s happiness

another fallen 
goddess 
tripping between 

the cracks...

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Categories: trauma, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Things I Forget To Ask
What does it feel like to wake up into your skin?
Your day?
What do you feel first most days?
Is it in any way influenced by gratitude,
or totally given over to worry,
anxious
or, worse, anticipating 
shortness of healthy mind time
and insufficiency of safe body space?
 
Is this life...

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Categories: trauma, dream, earth, health, identity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum



Dissociation
I’m on autopilot.
Surrounded by an unfamiliar climate.
I’m on the outside looking in.
Looking down at blurry skin.
It’s possible I could be dead.
I'm Just a small person in my head....

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Categories: trauma, anxiety, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
The Careless Man
I have Dreams
		I have Goals
		I have a Life
		I have a Cause
		I am Here for a Reason

		I fear my life will be taken away
		By a careless man
		I fear I'll become part of the 97% too soon
		I fear I might die with my legs open and a...

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Categories: trauma, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Knock At the Door
,A Knock at the Door,

,*This is a dark poem, but it is a true story about how I was raped by a former friend on my birthday.,

As dusk sweeps away the afternoon sun
The skies will grow gradually dark
Perhaps some glittery stars strewn about
And the moonlight’s...

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Categories: trauma, abuse, body, conflict, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member River of Tears
A Vulcan's volcanic rage erupts from deep within – 
No matter where or when it roars and it spits. 
A shattered mirror reflecting my every flawful flaw – 
Bleeding shards of grotesque glass...
that slice through my skin.

The past sears me like a branding iron, 
Desert...

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Categories: trauma, hope, loneliness, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member NEW - Where is The Love Mamma - The Video

Synopsis:
A powerful video, lyrics and music that sheds light on the devastating impact of poverty, illustrating how it fuels crime, gang violence, and psychological trauma in communities around the world. Innocent people, caught in the crossfire, are left to endure a cycle of despair that...

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Categories: trauma, anger, angst, conflict, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Past, Present, Future
Past 
deserves a hushed funeral for the memories scarred 
from hands, unforgotten words, screams echoed
the times no one wants to relive 
somehow you manage to give those life
everytime something isnt the way you dreamed of it to be 
back then you managed to keep a...

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© Fall Woods  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trauma, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Descent To Ascent
……Somewhere a lone survivor of a plane crash

A man of sound and reason 
   standing tall and proud. 
But a voice of lies and madness 
   whispering words of doubt. 
His mind a fortress sturdy 
   no shadows in...

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Categories: trauma, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger
Life screams and tempos tosses
that you walk through hell gates and bosses.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,
while the hell in your life last longer.
It is not until when you ran through the rain
and know the strife of the pain,
that you can look back and...

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Categories: trauma, depression, night,
Form: Rhyme
Upward Path
In the dark wastelands
of my traumas, I see ahead
a path that leads to my
healing—

and in the far distance 
of this upward path, I see
mountains of growth
awaiting my daring climb. 


11.12.22...

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Categories: trauma, character, encouraging, fear, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things