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Hurt Poems | Examples of Hurt Poetry

Beyond the Label
“A geek!” they cry, But I’m not a trend to pass by. The teacher glances A frown, a silent glance. Laughter scatters like falling rain, But I remain firm, unshaken. Eyes roll, fingers point, But in my heart, I won’t disappoint. What they miss, Is the fire within. Worlds I build, dreams I chase, I move forward with steady grace. Call me a geek, But what you speak Is...

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Categories: bullying, confidence, feelings, hurt,
Form: Free verse
The Scars On My Heart
Love is long gone, Happiness is nowhere in sight, The world knocked me down, And I gave up the fight. Hope has been lost, My life has fallen apart, All I’m left with, Are the scars on my heart. Things are not getting better, I lose faith with every passing day, The world used me, And then threw me away. My life turned upside down, And I’m barely...

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Categories: angst, depression, emotions, hurt,
Form: Rhyme



Google Search, What to do When I'm Always Blue?
My brain is flooded I feel so worn I’m always tired My mind is torn Too many options Not enough time I struggle But it’s in my mind I’m here and there I’m happy, I’m sad I’m never both But I’m always mad ...

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Categories: hurt, 8th grade, age, angst,
Form: Rhyme
With Spring Comes Fall
there is beauty in falling in love like soft spring the sun blazing in all its bright glory but not too harshly the clouds adrift - patchy enough to let the light seep through the trees create a wonderful view even the flowers bloom differently and when the fall comes the leaves leaving their branches almost flowing through the wind to end up on...

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Categories: hurt, feelings, loss, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Katie's Poem
I'm still here I stepped into the shadows I haven’t gone away I didn’t want others to see the face of sorrows I’m still here It was so much easier than I could convey I just didn’t have the words But I’m still here The pain was too much to bear I took time to sit and watch the birds I had to let my...

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Categories: hurt, anxiety, betrayal, courage, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



Tungsten Memories Break Hearts
Every time I try to get around you I end up strangled in lies of tungsten memories. You're like the seal I can't break, The song I can't take, The bonds I long to make. You stole the ground from underneath my feet, And the heart that kept them standing. What kind of a gift would a heart be if it's not...

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Categories: hurt, betrayal, emotions, heartbreak, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Twin Souls
Two hearts once beat as one in time.. Their voices sang a perfect rhyme. Each thought, each breath, a mirrored tune.. They danced beneath the silver moon. But she, in love’s unsteady hand.. Had strayed and broken what was planned. A choice she made, a wound so deep.. That left him standing, torn and steeped. ...

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Categories: hurt, betrayal, break up, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Some Where
Toppled by a bottle, collapsed upon her painful past, asleep—but well awake!—, unmoving, but for her mind stirred aquake, the girl is yawning before her black dawn. Alone, couched by a burning blanket drawn over a conscience guilty at the stake, slipping into the sly hands of the snake, she sees not clearly the sickening con which lures her slowly to her deathly...

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Categories: hurt, addiction, dark, death, drug,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Are the Republican Politicians Going to Hurt Us, Part Two
We are the quiet ones, lost in the hush, Where the world storms past in a thunderous rush. The lights are too bright, the voices too loud— But we dream in the softness behind the cloud. We did not ask for a battle or war, A war how foolish that we can't win, Yet they fashion laws like licence plates. The kind...

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Categories: hurt, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Are the Republican Politicians Going to Hurt Us, Part One
Will they come with cold, proud eyes, And laws like winter in their hands? Will silence fall where once were cries— The laughter none but we understand? I saw the stars through a hospital pane, And wondered if they’d burn for me, Or if their fire would die in vain, In halls without our poetry. They call us strange, too loud, too still, Too...

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Categories: hurt, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
No Hurt Feelings
No matter how many people Turn their back on you Don't throw stones Just go forward I don't know how What it will be next But for every day Give thanks to God....

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Categories: hurt, character, faith, thanksgiving,
Form: Other
You - Apr 10
I woke this morning, lying next to you; Contemplating your thighs, your breasts, your face, as you still slept at rest in a dream’s embrace, my eyes all over your fair features flew… I lingered here and there—a glance askew caught subtle movements in that furtive place beneath your eyelids, wondering what chase your soul pursued in the other blue… You then...

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Categories: hurt, body, break up, heartbreak,
Form: Italian Sonnet
PULL ME OUT
Lost Underneath this despair Lies darkness that loots Loots the humanity inside of me It is darkness I see,not humanity It is darkness that sees me,not humanity Dead Dead Is the light of hope Hope for the light that outshines the darkness Darkness that loots,the sanity inside me Gloom Gloom Fills the heart that loves,that loved In the time of emptiness Gloom is what fills me,gloom is...

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Categories: hurt, absence, anxiety, depression, grief,
Form: Free verse
The Healing
The hurt from the past, can only be healed by love... that has come at last!...

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Categories: hurt,
Form: Haiku
A Note to No One In Particular
I always feel a twinge of anger, a truck load of guilt, and a dash of sorrow whenever I think of her But mostly nothing at all My guess is all those year of cuts to the bone ingrown toenails and broken bones weren't quite stitched up, fixed up and set - right She used to hit a racquetball against those grungy, white walls until she felt like...

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Categories: hurt, childhood, depression, emotions, hope,
Form: Free verse

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