Dark Child Poems
These Dark Child poems are examples of Child poems about Dark. These are the best examples of Child Dark poems written by international poets.
The Sea in my roomAs a child,
with my Nanna,
making the bed -
waves of sheet
crash,
underneath is cool -
dark,
need to breathe,
roll on the carpet-beach,
watch the white-surge
flapping, snapping, falling
up and down
up...
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Categories:
child, grandmother,
Seeds of SorrowHer eyes swelled and swelled
With bitter tears
That lingered near...
She stood there and not here
Since she thought
It was better to cry, than to try to fly
Into...
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Categories:
abortion, birth, care, child,
Forgiving the Unforgivable(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)
Can forgiveness mend, a childhood,
fractured in the dark?...
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Categories:
child abuse, father son,
Ghost Stories: COMPLETED[Fiction Out West]
A mining town, among others, had been shut down the longest. Long before the mines closed, and all the towns followed. As the...
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Categories:
child, death, horror, mother
To Know without KnowingCan you know without knowing?
What is in your hands that’s not showing?
Is it the brilliant light of a child’s wonder?
We gaze into her blue eyes...
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Categories:
beauty, child, faith, light,
DID nightmareDID NIGHTMARE
having Did is not all that’s cracked up to be.
Having to try to remember what you did, day to day
Having people say “ I...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, child abuse,
SoldSold
To be sold by the people
Who were supposed to love you
To be sold at
Just 9 years old
For alcohol and laughs
To be sold
Day...
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Categories:
abuse, angst, betrayal, child
I do not forgive youI am skin, I am bone
My vessel all alone
My heart, it is broken as it stays inside it’s tomb
Breaking Through, breaking out
Well, it’s all I...
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abuse, anger, child abuse,
That Was Then, This Is Now
I love hearing stories,
stories from my grandparents.
They love to tell stories,
stories from many years ago.
Grandma tells about bread,
when black showed up they would cut if off.
Then...
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Categories:
blue, child, food, grandparents,
Tortured soul
Dear God
What more do
you want from me
the Brain You
gave me wants
me dead
Dear God
I dont Know
What more to do
I'm tired
I don’t have...
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Categories:
child abuse, dark, depression,
CursedCursed
I was cursed from the moment. The sperm hit the egg
that laid inside my mother’s womb
I was cursed with the DNA from both...
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Categories:
betrayal, child abuse, dark,
Blame
Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. By John Burroughs
Life has many ups...
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Categories:
child, hurt, life, people,
In the Belly of the Whaledarkness, like Jonah
held in the belly of the whale,
the end of a world;
closed-in time in dark spaces -
gives one, a hell of a time...
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Categories:
birth, child, dark, light,
Night Labor, for Rachel CorrieNight Labor
by Michael R. Burch
for Rachel Corrie
Tonight we keep the flame alive;
we keep the candle lit.
We burn bright incense in your name
and swear we’ll not...
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Categories:
children, courage, hate, innocence,
Pixie Pixela's Purgatory RebellionA young girl’s voice, lost in the data, cries out,
"Why are we here?"
Pixie Pixela, her words soft and low, murmurs,
"This world is yours, dear, a...
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Categories:
child, freedom, internet, satire,