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Best Wounded Poems

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


Premium Member - Haiku X 62 - Deep Wounded -
deep wounds that leave scars
    one moment much more must flow -
    shadows from the soul

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Categories: wounded, cry, hurt,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Melancholic Tree
In the middle of winter
within misty moors,
lies a melancholic meadow.

Up above grey skies foretell
perturbed crows to seek shelter.
Down below, 
an isolated tree - naked and...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wounded, analogy, assonance, deep, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Soul Embrace
Sunlight rains upon my face
Cascading memories cloaked in mystery
Kissing my eyelids
Ancient teardrops glide down my cheeks
Warmth illuminating my hungry soul

A sense of calm
A pulsating ellipse...

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Categories: wounded, age, child, creation, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Open Arms
Come to me my child
Rest your head in my lap
My hand strokes your wild curls
Feeling the dampness on your neck
Lamplight caresses your flushed cheeks
Shadows waltzing...

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Categories: wounded, appreciation, emotions, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Poetry Collection
Hourglass

Sand falls
Through the glass
Love falls
Within the past
Memories dance
They never last
Head in my hands
As I stare overhead
At the hourglass


Falling Down Stairs

Stairs broken
Wheels unspoken
I fell
Grasping for air
Are...

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Categories: wounded, art, guitar, humanity, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Cuckoo
Far away in a
                land torn with war,
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Categories: wounded, bird, hope, love,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Mirrored Reflections
Receive
Listen
Be Still

Whispered words arriving on teardrops of the wind
They call to me
Embracing me so that I may exhale
For a moment in time

I look down to...

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Categories: wounded, appreciation, celebration, fantasy, image,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Petals and Poetry
In a world full of unwelcome nightmares,
I recite dreams of poetry to the one who cares.

I'm pondering a perfect metaphor,
trying to portray my mum's devotion.
Thinking...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wounded, appreciation, child, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: wounded, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
I Write
Tiptoeing towards the edge of the towering cliff

I flap my wounded wings and fly

over tall two hundred year old oak trees

up to the top of...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wounded, dream, imagination, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Poets Prepare Their Pens
They hide behind mountains of ignorance, 
judging within a valley of selfish love.
Among weeds where flowers refuse to grow,
to the mercy of hypocrites -

only we...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wounded, peace, perspective, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cradled In the Arms of Midnight
Aloft, the gem was mounted in black velvet skies
A refulgent pearl, surrounded by glistening stars
Cradled in the arms of midnight, it hung as a prize,
as...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: wounded, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Effervescence
I am here now
Presence my companion
Rising I put my two feet
On the ground
I give thanks as I open my eyes
To this new day
A divine delicious...

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Categories: wounded, animal, appreciation, beautiful, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nameless
“I cannot give a name to pain I’ve never known.” - by poet

What do I know of sadness
when it’s grief that is profound?
The misery of...

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Categories: wounded, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Last Poem
Become my air,
pursuing my scent 
  in sweet fragrant  fields,
where devouring tastes 
   of bohemian spirit,
delicately descend 
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Categories: wounded, devotion, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse

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