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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


Premium Member Whispers Shared
Your 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



Premium Member When I Am Nothing
When 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trauma, angst, perspective, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Forget Our Hearts Visions
Now 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trauma, emotions, heartbroken, lost love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When 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
Premium Member Silent Inflictions
Childhood 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trauma, analogy, childhood, emotions, innocence,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trauma, heartbroken, pain, sorry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Palette of Picturesque Pigment
Her 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
Premium Member Death of Poetry
I 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
Premium Member Love Burial
The 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
Premium Member Path To Peace
I 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member Overlap
The 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
Premium Member Golden Streets of Friendship
At 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
Premium Member This Klutz For Hire
I’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
Premium Member 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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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: trauma, analogy, angst, perspective,
Form: Free verse

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