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Abuse Poems | Examples of Abuse Poetry

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Premium Member Within these Walls
Faces of death stare against my raptured skin. Silently, they watch me in frigid judgment. I used to run from them in unholy matrimony, Peeling the sins from my teardrops Wishing they would Just go away. The brown-skinned disease normalized her...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, introspection, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Say my Name -- in my Way of Kings
Impermanence by O.J. $traight Inspired by Happy Hurts - Icon for Hire My blood, my life source I fear waking up An atheist. No atheists in foxholes. Well I’m in the hole, The pit, The depths of despair, the dead poets...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, addiction, age, allah,
Form: Free verse
arrogation
arrogation  August night, drowning in my sweat, an ugly word I will not use again A sudden gush of cooling air, the curtains  move like a ghost surprised in the armory of an English castle the gush is full of crematorium...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, april, art,
Form: Blank verse
This isn’t fair
Bro this isn’t fair How can they do this to me How can they dare How ruthless can they be? I know my civil rights They don’t even know That i’m about to really turn on the lights I’m about to expose...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, anger, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse
Rutt
You dont have time for conversation, You dont have time to explain a situation, I have to ask you how it was, or how did it go, because you never tell me you just expect me to...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, anxiety, break up,
Form: Rhyme



TEARS GOT NO PAIN
Tears Got No Pain For Daisy Kirui Can you hear the call far the yonder? The still and clear mystery that afternoon? When Daisy took her heart to see you her son? And...And you still ponder? "It's over, son,...Read the rest...
Categories: 12th grade, abuse, adventure,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Delayed Justice
Delayed justice is better than no justice. The world will always be round. Facts cannot be altered; prejudice Is a major impediment to reach sound Justice. Justice is all we want, Fairness is what we fight for, Justice is what we...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, america, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
holly day in May
A Holly Day in May the building is eerily empty today, everybody has gone to the beach, even those in wheelchairs I sit on the verandah in the hope of tanning my scalp looks so white in the bathroom mirror I...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, appreciation, baptism,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Prince's Adoptees
"I have been a stranger in a strange land." Bible, Exodus 2:22 [X]X[X] * X[X]X * [X]X[X] * X[X]X * [X]X[X] Hungry eyes seek substance, food matters naught-- sees...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, bullying, corruption, fate,
Form: Ballade
abortion
Abortion Morning broke pink rain and colors Born was the day incomprehensively how stupid thinking it had power when it is just a mirror of human activity The morning hoped to stay till the evening and silently drift away the fog of night a rescuer of...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, abuse, age,
Form: Free verse
Safety Pins and Glue
Dance with me through the sunshine, Dance with me through the terrors. To, forever, stay in love, We'll glue our hearts together. And if they rip or shatter, We'll pin it all together. If no old pieces can fit, If no piece...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, break up, dark,
Form: Free verse
stains
There’s so many stains on my floor From your cat’s To the bleach That spilled on the floor I wonder if the Scent of my room Had changed From the very presence Of you & not in a...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, abuse, betrayal, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Gone
It's been months, still can't put myself together. Stupid of me to believe I'd be yours forever. The things your uncle did to you, your best friends suicide. All the horrors you went through, for you I often...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, devotion, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whisperings of a Hostage
People from all nations running for Their Lives, Pursued by Hamas. That day 1,200 were slaughtered. International hostages died! Few live ones do remain. I do not even know what day this is! Nor month, or even, what year! For...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, bullying, cry, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hey Diddly Dee A Poet's Life For Me
As a young boy my dreams and voice were shattered, I was beaten with words like raging stones thrown in anger, Threatened with violence until my life no longer mattered, Spoken word became less as it placed my...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, anger, pain, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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