Famous Trauma Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Trauma poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous trauma poems. These examples illustrate what a famous trauma poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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The Perch

by Galway Kinnell
There is a fork in a branch
of an ancient, enormous maple,
one of a grove of such trees,
where I climb sometimes and sit and look out
over miles of valleys and low hills.
Today on skis I took a friend
to show her the trees. We set out
down the road, turned in at
the lane which a few weeks ago,
when the trees were almost empty
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