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Childhood Abuse Poems - Poems about Childhood Abuse

Foot In Hand

...As we’ve aged (tried retirement), sleep-patterns have changed. I am staying up later! Sleep gravitates, ebbs less from forces that rule in a drive to work job (where one must leave home’s relative......

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Categories: childhood abuse, age, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme

Woman In Chains

...She lately hears lyric nightingale at the sole window, And through its bars witnesses a melancholy moon, And her heart longs for the freedom of velvety flight, But lessons she now knows weren't le......

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Categories: childhood abuse, abuse, angst, hope, innocence,
Form: Free verse

On Days When Emotions Erupt

... calamine lotion phisohex soaks, itchy ooze poison ivy hell ~ ~ ~ Johnson's Paste Wax (floors) wooden spoon on knuckles: smack! wash dishes. repeat. ~ ~ ~ round dent in ha......

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Categories: childhood abuse, childhood,
Form: Haiku

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Desert Daughter

...Desert Daughter She had a daughter in the desert: A daughter who lived near the mountains and palms She loved to take beautiful photos of flowers and birds Hike the cliffs, see the sun rise a......

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Categories: childhood abuse, death, mother, sad, sister,
Form: Free verse

Convalescence

...Convalescence is possible with the renewal of faith. Each resuscitation may be found in the power of healing. I have found rehabilitation from a disease of the mind, a malady that only existed......

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Categories: childhood abuse, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse

Out of the Darkness

...The edge of the darkness lay right before him, the next step along his path. Light waiting to consume him, waiting to immediately reveal the secrets of his past. Hesitation follows, the darkness had ......

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Categories: childhood abuse, betrayal, child abuse, depression,
Form: Free verse

Victimized

...I sit with heart breaking, Why is my son forsaking? I look back at my past tomorrows, Thinking, the next day, no sorrows. I did my best, with what was given, With my childhood abuse-unforgiv......

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Categories: childhood abuse, abuse, family, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse

Run Away, Away From Childhood Abuse

...Turn around, face me You yelled as my walk became a run Don't know what I'm running from, Run from something worth chasing, I go My heart beat, it just won't slow Why the hell are you standing t......

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Categories: childhood abuse, angst, childhood, confusion, father,
Form: I do not know?

Love Me Past the Pain

...Lord I come to you in prayer at this moment You already know what I need but you need me to ask anyway So I come to you, I come to you as your willing and humble servant I'm here to ask you God. P......

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Categories: childhood abuse, devotion, inspirational, life, uplifting,
Form: Lyric