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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.
Premium Member Why did I become a poet
... I was born a poet not manufactured. It started with a heart feeling fractured. Childhood trauma led to built up suppression, but the soul yearned for creative expression. For years my poems hid......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme



Open door
... I still havnt found that door I should open, The door to a future and mends what is broken, A gateway to happiness, A land full of dreams, To walk through this door is everything it seems, A......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, bereavement, cancer, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Sting
...The sting in my throat when I swallow that pill You know the pill.... that they say is hard to swallow The knot in my stomach and my heart As my mind replays the hurt , the neglect ,that I just ......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, confusion, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse
Angel is a hidden devil
...Crying, screaming, blaming? It's never your fault Irk beneath is flaming And outpouring daunt Close your eyes, hey goddess And let it burn Open them again And behold them burn The a......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, anger, angst, blue, depression,
Form: Free verse
Just one more beer
... Time passes slowly when the mind is clear But when the mind gets muddled, like mint in a jar, There never seems enough liquor by far And you tell yourself just one more beer To fill an lo......Read the rest...
Categories: trauma, addiction, dark, drink, introspection,
Form: Rhyme



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

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