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Best Traumatised Poems

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


Premium Member Shadow
It was a glorious summer day and I woke up with the lark
Got my wheelchair ready and then headed to the park
I noticed a girl...

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Categories: traumatised, dog, memory, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Ukrainian Senyru
SCARRED FOR LIFE

children are screaming
they have the thousand mile stare ~
traumatised for life

TEARFUL GOODBYES

at the rail station
dad's hug their wives and children ~
say goodbye with...

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Categories: traumatised, 7th grade, abuse, children,
Form: Senryu
Premium Member The Lowest of the Low
You may see me out on the streets
Lying curled up in a foetal position my sleeping bag in a shop doorway
Trying to get a few...

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Categories: traumatised, career, drug, identity, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tears For the Children of Ukraine
On a square in Ukraine in that war torn country
Over a  hundred strollers are parked, but they're all empty
The children no longer need them...

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Categories: traumatised, children, conflict, death, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Why - Genocide Contest
I lay in my hospital bed after giving birth, Could hear the murdering, raping 
Hutus approaching my bed
My baby was no more. They ravaged me....

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Categories: traumatised, life, murder, , memorial,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member If I Have Time
If I have the time I’ll clean the kitchen
then tidy round the rest of the house,
I’m due to see the vet with my pet mouse...

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Categories: traumatised, health, pets,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Tomorrow Is Ours
Tomorrow is Ours.


Suffocating beneath the weight of historical fear,
asphyxiated by the legacy of traumatised yesteryear,

the festering wounds of enslavement still remain,
juggling euphemisms in a crisp...

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Categories: traumatised, angst, black african american,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Hermit Kingdom
They sit on their own
in their Hermit Kingdom
other side of the wall
singing their song 
entitled 
nothing to envy

peeling the skin 
away in generations 
it's worse...

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Categories: traumatised, freedom, muse,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Young Life Taken
~In Honour of……

~Stella Berry a 16year old girl who passed away from a shark attack on ~Saturday 4th of February 2023 in the Swan River...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traumatised, death, farewell, fear, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Stiletto
Breathe easy to the heart that pumps out its rhythm!
Ease the easiest way that penetrates its veins!
Breathe easy to the brightest heartbeat that gives birth...

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Categories: traumatised, 12th grade, angel, appreciation,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Unreasonable Reasons for Fighting Dragons: Off Planet, Exiled

"Unreasonable Reasons for Fighting Dragons: Off Planet, Exiled"

I could write something beautiful for you,
like outside the windows
the raindrops slide off tips of green leaves
there are...

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Categories: traumatised, muse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Another Better World



"Another Better World"


These little sins 
you smoothly skip across the waters of fairweather lives 
like darkness hidden underneath deadly white lies,
like throwing pebbles casually across...

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Categories: traumatised, dark, light, muse,
Form: Free verse
Penny - Beloved Pet Contest
She was pretty,
So adorable.
This little bit of fluff
Suddenly arrived on my doorstep.
Thin and scruffy,
So hungry,
Beautiful copper coloured,
I called her "Penny".

This traumatised cat
Used to run up...

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Categories: traumatised, beautiful, cat,
Form: Verse
Rise Up Black and White Children
Rise up  child, 
Rise high.
It is time to ignore the existence of racism  discrimination , antagonism,  tribalism and  xenophobia on earth. 
As It is hard...

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Categories: traumatised, 12th grade, death of
Form: Prose
Most Challenging Course In the World
Most challenging course in the World,  
What come in my mind is to open the  university which will teach more about understanding  women,
But I...

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Categories: traumatised, anger, depression, humanity, life,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs