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Childhood Child Abuse Poems

These Childhood Child Abuse poems are examples of Child Abuse poems about Childhood. These are the best examples of Child Abuse Childhood poems written by international poets.


playground scars
Little Girl swings in the air,
legs pumping, wind in hair
the closest to flight she’ll ever be.
freedom and fairytales whisper in her ears,
telling her with each...

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Categories: child abuse, abuse, anger, angst, child



baby elephants - a letter to my mother
baby elephants stay with their mothers their whole lives
they follow them for miles, 
hiding in the maternal shade 
of large, floppy ears,
perfect for listening to...

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Categories: child, child abuse, childhood,

I must say
I'm afraid of you
I must say
I'm afraid of your eyes
I'm afraid of your face
I'm afraid of your mouth
I'm afraid of your gaze
I'm afraid of you
I...

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Categories: child abuse, childhood,

Premium Member 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,

Premium Member Trama
Angry voices
Bellow my full name
Crystol Lynn!
Do you hear me?
Enter the mother and
Father. 
Go away to another place
High above the trouble and terror
Isolate my childhood self
Justice...

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Categories: abuse, child abuse, family,



A poem I should not have to write
It is a poem nobody wants to write,
About what will never be right,
About those who think they have the right,
To take from a child all...

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Categories: child abuse, abuse, age, allusion, analogy,

What About Me?
I sit and look at my Father,
His silent cries when he looks at his daughter,
In the darkness of the night,
Battling the tribulations so that we...

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Categories: child abuse, betrayal, birth, child, child

The parallel life of a woman


              To be a woman:
       ...

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Categories: analogy, child abuse, father,

EARLY LIFE
Shut behind the door,believing in kinship
Forenoon the scars on mother paraylzed me
Every knife calling out as a saviour
The smiles seem a distant dream
Goblins dreams turned...

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Categories: abuse, birth, child abuse,

Let the Children Be
Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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Categories: child, child abuse, childhood,

Let the Children Be
Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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Categories: child, child abuse, childhood,

Let the Children Be
Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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Categories: child, child abuse, childhood,

Let the Children Be
Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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Categories: child, child abuse, childhood,

Let the Children Be
Let the children be

The carefree laughter of a child, sweeps across the sky 
The joy of playing and happiness can be seen 
Eyes sparkle and...

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Categories: child, child abuse, childhood,

Premium Member Old Woman Nursery Rhyme for Contest
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
With so many children and not enough food
And cats and rats plus she was cuckoo
She lost...

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Categories: child, child abuse, childhood,


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