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Best Traumatizing Poems

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A Demon's Death At Dawn
*this poem was written after a very traumatizing experience this weekend. I am still in shock of it all, although I have had many paranormal...

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Categories: traumatizing, anger, anxiety, beauty, dark,
Form: Free verse



Lens of Life
Can blackwater lilies 
sing forth sonnets 
of daylight and 
unsung those 
cacophonous notes 
of omen, which 
rhymed with 
sombre elixir 
of spruce rivulets and 
veiled...

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Categories: traumatizing, angst, betrayal, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Our Town
In my town
the spiritual warriors conjoined our nature conservancy advocates,
our homeless entertainers
mystics and muses 
incarnated all the green organic dreams 
of the food righteousness brigade,

Eternal...

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Categories: traumatizing, community, culture, environment, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Never Alone
A young girl who’s lost & wandering in the darkness cries out

“If there’s a God out there please save me!”

The darkness replied with silence

But she...

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Categories: traumatizing, anxiety, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form: Free verse
Said the Victim of Sexual Assault
SAID THE VICTIM OF SEXUAL ASSAULT

To me, 
my cries
deep and soul wrenching.
To you, 
shallow. and insignificant. 
My tongue forever
twisted with fear, 
slurs every word with...

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© Al Juman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traumatizing, 11th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Jesus Told Me
Jesus taught and lived
Those who follow the Way
Truth
Life, rather than punishing death,
would be known
by our love,
especially for our enemies.

He did not say, or live,
Those who...

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Categories: traumatizing, community, culture, health, history,
Form: Political Verse
A Kiss of Sunshine
The sun is in the sky above
Kissing me as if it wants my love 
And in my heart I feel this heat
And a sensation from...

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Categories: traumatizing, love, me, kiss, love,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member My Brother--Nelson Mandela, Umtata, South Africa--Tribute Poem
Nelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.

As a prevailer of great affliction, he...

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Categories: traumatizing, brother, confidence, dedication, discrimination,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Unrequited Unrequired 4
Good evening to all out there this is wabc radios late night slot call in show with your host Tom Morrow, the theme is on...

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Categories: traumatizing, abuse, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Faith In History Lessons
Patterns of phylogenic history
retell our creative creation story
as bicameral restoration
of Earth's nature-spirit ecology,
both Eastern karma
and Western co-redemptive grace.

Spiritual memory experience
of RNA
and later DNA developments
and traumatic...

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Categories: traumatizing, creation, culture, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
It Shouldn'T Hurt To Be a Child
We are petals of marigold
In our innermost soul
Whether young or old
If the petals still in fold
in the buds are singed
or shouted at violating
the integrity in...

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Categories: traumatizing, addiction, allusion, anxiety, arabic,
Form: Free verse
Said Man Lost To Hate
Said Thomas
I a hustling peddler, 
hungry mouths to feed.
Do you know what's it's like
to stare upon hunger!
especially that of a child!

Tackled and hurdled to the...

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© Al Juman  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traumatizing, abuse, america, anger, black
Form: Didactic
Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking is something very serious and very traumatizing. 
Girls all around the world are getting sold and bought for Trafficking. 
Its something you don't...

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© Ana Perez  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: traumatizing, people, sad, hope,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Preparing Love's Ways and Means
So, love is good for you?
Not too traumatic?

In a foreplay
Win-Win kind of way,
yes.

Now what?

Maybe some music and stretching?

How about another dance?

Sacred MotherEarth,
you wear me out.

I...

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Categories: traumatizing, caregiving, earth, education, health,
Form: Political Verse
Woebegone
Rumpled clothes and dirty shoes
looking like he's heard bad news
eyes averted, face downcast
or is he hiding from his past?

Searching for a subway token
spirit crushed and...

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Categories: traumatizing, imagery, poverty, society,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs