Best Trauma Poems
Below are the all-time best Trauma poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of trauma poems written by PoetrySoup members
Whispers SharedYour time worn hand rests on my shoulder
A gentle firm touch
Ancient fingers stretching awake
And for that moment in time, I receive you
My body marinates in...
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Categories:
trauma, appreciation, beauty, community, creation,
Form:
Free verse
When I Am NothingWhen I am nothing, a no one,
when nobody remembers my name -
will you give me a purpose to remain?
When I can no longer run,
will you...
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Categories:
trauma, angst, perspective, romance,
Form:
Free verse
Forget Our Hearts VisionsNow that only forgotten promises remain,
sounds of solitude are gifts I wish to obtain.
Sentiments are temporary in a world full of change,
affections are wasted in...
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Categories:
trauma, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form:
Lyric
Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent OneWhen we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...
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Categories:
trauma, abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Silent InflictionsChildhood is a ship,
preparing to set sail,
but not all harbors are kind
the ocean a mysterious enigma.
Not all inflictions are visible,
some bruises remain invisible.
Not all trauma...
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Categories:
trauma, analogy, childhood, emotions, innocence,
Form:
Free verse
Heartbroken“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
Khalil Gibran
In days of darkness,
sad stars shimmer like somber souls.
Upon...
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Categories:
trauma, heartbroken, pain, sorry,
Form:
Free verse
Palette of Picturesque PigmentHer persona is like
a portrait
of picturesque perfection,
embalmed in
bittersweet lavender,
unseen within depths
of tributaries of elixir.
If only...
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Categories:
trauma, dark, deep, devotion, i
Form:
Free verse
Death of PoetryI gaze beyond
the silver winged
heart of
twinkling twilight,
lost within metaphors
in warm cashmere
...
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Categories:
trauma, emotions,
Form:
Free verse
Love BurialThe burial ground, groomed to greet
the gatherers of their love apocalypse
with garlands grown and sown
from the rose fire of Athena's throne,
on this day they...
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Categories:
trauma, cute love, endurance, love,
Form:
Epic
Path To PeaceI have fought through incredible things
Trauma and all kinds of life experiences
One may think peace comes to one easy
But it doesn’t, as the years...
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Categories:
trauma, endurance, journey, love, peace,
Form:
Free verse
Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"
The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson
Life spent in The Hard Sell
Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia
mouth sucking a loaded gun
blue ribbonned...
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Categories:
trauma, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form:
Free verse
OverlapThe overlapping of me and us three
Of who I was and who I turned out to be
I never ever felt I was good enough
Or...
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Categories:
trauma, abuse, angst, appreciation, care,
Form:
Narrative
Golden Streets of FriendshipAt first, remember how we were
skeptical strangers?
Then, by mystical magic, we
melted into close friends!
I hope we meet in the golden streets
of heaven!
Where...
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Categories:
trauma, friendship love, heaven,
Form:
Couplet
This Klutz For HireI’ve picked it up a hundred times
yet dropped it just once more
So I give up, the blasted thing
can lay there on the floor
And stepping out...
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Categories:
trauma, hilarious, humorous,
Form:
Rhyme
Battles with silence“Let me be strong, for to be anything else is to languish in the abyss of compromise and to descend to places of impoverishment so...
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Categories:
trauma, analogy, angst, perspective,
Form:
Free verse