Get Your Premium Membership

Best Scarring Poems

Below are the all-time best Scarring poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of scarring poems written by PoetrySoup members


Love Is Pain
Makes me furious seeing a woman with a bruise over her eye.
The smeared mascara from the tears she's cried.
    Pain he's caused,...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, introspection, life, recovery from...,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member In Memory of Milt - By Jenna Logan
Jenna no longer has access to her account, and she has asked if I would post this for her.  
These would be her last...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, friend, memory, tribute,
Form: Verse
Eve of Eternity
She couldn't contain her rhapsody demeanor much more
hugging her husband and gushing with excitement as he closed the door
the third class cabin was modest but...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, boat, death, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Odyssey of a Soul
What are you thinking of 
germinal seed of dynamic animation 
do you still understand all without explanation..?

the colors you dream in are the nuances of...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, journey, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Frozen
Life is frozen, an endless winter night
My heart, deep inside, pumps slower now
My bones are brittle, as the cold encroaches
Locked in a sheath of frigid...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, analogy, depression, sad, winter,
Form: Free verse



Dance, Was My Release
Pain had I ignited bright
Through my silence, had my hurt worsened
Denied conversations with all for superficial reasons, I had
Forgetting that love was my life
And people...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, change, dance, forgiveness, heart,
Form: Sestina
Premium Member Swimming Upstream
SWIMMING UPSTREAM

It seems I always 
swim upstream 
against the current.
re-creating struggles 
of conflicting contradictions
and unsweetened scripts
at odds with others
in deeds and words
a emotional dissonance 
played...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, conflict, confusion, life, psychological,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Sun Stays Away These Days
Ah Frontiera, here we are at your last, you've thrown a rod, your life lies black
on oily ground - all this snow and you're a...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, journey,
Form: Epic
Farside Otherworldly Lovers - - Dedicated To Rick Keeble, You Asked For It
He was howling at the moon,
it was mid June's heyday, she
was naive beyond reproach
her innocently lit chiaroscuro 
made him hunger all the more,
til one day...

Read more of this work...
© Paloma P   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: scarring, desire, dream, emotions, longing,
Form: Romanticism
Prison of Pain
Locked in a cell...bound in shackles and chains
Scarring my soul and bleeding my brain
It feels like 4ever but it's just another day
How I long to...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, angel,
Form: Blank verse
De-Fabl
DE-FABL
Darkness Eternaly Forced Away By Love
By:Jessica Trotte AKA RECK


He slips away silently, to escape mothers screams
and crawls so softly, into bed, into dreams
his thoughts became...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, lovefather, heart, father, heart,
Form: Free verse
Enough Is Enough
There are some people in life those who use words to hurt others
The pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal
The scars show pain and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, anti bullying, betrayal, conflict,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Lacrimosa
He goes by the name of Lacrimosa
He is the plain picture of a man
Those who don’t know him see him as a monster
But you and...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, dark, depression, grief, metaphor,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member The Consolation of Danger
Too slow is the speed of life, 
so we try to outrun avalanches and race sounds, 
flee into roaring tubes of hungry water, 
brave invisible...

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, adventure, emotions, fear, journey,
Form: Free verse
The Wind In the Pines 1
("Noh" is an ancient Japanese style of 
drama, broadly similar to Elizabethan
tragedy.  "The Wind in the Pines" is
my version of a well-known Noh play.)

1....

Read more of this work...
Categories: scarring, myth, , memorial,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs