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Brutalised Poems - Poems about Brutalised

Premium MemberBlack Hole Love

...Your Rain was tears on my window pane -
the first poem of yours I had seen -
pain-drops spattered a snow-blank expanse,
grief-blue with regret and what should have been.
I thought me...
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Categories: brutalised, husband, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAt The Hands Of The Untoward

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How much my heart breaks for you
A victim straight out of the womb
Life dealt you a horrendous hand
One of abuse and doom

A little boy abused from two years old
Rejected …. given to anothe...
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Categories: brutalised, abuse, anger, friend, sad,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberDeprived Of Your Love -When My Life Changed

...Glib rhetoric concerned with  striking independence may seem frivolous,
nuanced rational quite often a typical traumatic casualty,
the once interminable interdependent passionate zeal disintegratin...
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Categories: brutalised, break up, courage, cry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWords We Cannot Escape

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“Words We Cannot Escape”

Words we can no longer speak

we tap dance over keys 
bruised blackly numb
Winter palette in hand 
Autumn now gone 

across white-washed n...
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Categories: brutalised, muse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberSomething Beautiful

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“Something Beautiful” 

Something beautiful befell my eyes
yet inside the silent child,
The Unheard, loudly cries 
ugly turn away, 

I hear it,

it cries in the m...
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Categories: brutalised, muse,
Form: Free verse



Good News Is Not News

...Good news 
is not news
am I a bad human
or am I just a human

safe and secure 
I comfortably sit 
with coffee to hand
I binge-watch a war

good news 
is not news
am I a bad human
or am I...
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Categories: brutalised, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRead My Mind

...If you could read my mind
Kindly give me a helping hand
For I have lost the power of speech 
But I beseech of you my friend 
Do not take advantage of my situation 
To unleash mental terror on a ...
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Categories: brutalised, abuse, anger, angst, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDarkness

...a child is snatched
life forms brutalised
earth is a dark realm
where all of us dwell
feeling fear overwhelm

within the dark abyss
when all hope seems lost
our eyes turn heavenward
but it m...
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Categories: brutalised, dark, evil, war,
Form: Rhyme

It My Birthday Today

...It my birthday today 
I give thanks to God 
For walking my ways with Me 
It has never been easier 
If I was ignorant of nature 
Am happy am in peace 
With life 
So I gave thanks to God 
To se...
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Categories: brutalised, africa, birthday, confidence, courage,
Form: Epic

Where Is the Conscience of the World

...Were is the conscience of the world
The world should rise 
And embrace peace 
We are tired of dying
We are tired of oppression
We are not giving up our land 
We are ready to defend our 
Our di...
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Categories: brutalised, africa, community, confusion, deep,
Form: Epic

The Voice of the Oppressed

...The grandeur of my life are elusive
Mine ain't melioration; it's oppression
My free life is cramped by chains of servitude
And shout out loud I mustn't 
Because even the power of my tongue is tie...
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Categories: brutalised, bullying, corruption, discrimination, political,
Form: Political Verse

No Important Man Than a Soldier

...Since my birth I was wondering
Who is the important man on earth
Yes, a mother is an important person on earth
But she is not a man.

Which role should I play on earth for me to labelled as an i...
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Categories: brutalised, caregiving, dedication, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Blank verse

Landscape Destruction

...Landscapes of brutalised wilderness where trees stood

No amount of greed should ever see such destruction of wood

We have to resolve to live a life of nurture not simply of destruction...
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Categories: brutalised, earth, tree,
Form: Sijo

Who Was the Witness

...who was the witness
another revolution is on again
let's go out there to fight for 
our right 
lets go out there to catch out 
freedom 
we can't just sit and speak 
in close doors any more 
i...
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Categories: brutalised, absence, africa, betrayal, cheer
Form: Epic

No One Cares

...no one cares
looking around the world
you will realise 
we are yet to live up Africans
for always we are suppressed
oppressed and brutalised
home and abroad we face 
same torture 
we have lon...
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Categories: brutalised, abuse, africa, corruption, dedication,
Form: Epic

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