Trauma Childhood Poems
These Trauma Childhood poems are examples of Childhood poems about Trauma. These are the best examples of Childhood Trauma poems written by international poets.
The blurred lines between childhood and adulthoodWhen the lines are blurred
How can we tell who we are anymore
How do we know when innocence begins and when it ends
Or if it...
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Categories:
childhood, children, corruption, prejudice, race,
Colonizing MarsYour car fishtailed in the slush
that was already
beginning to freeze,
as if you couldn’t wait
to get away after
dropping me off at
the library
on Christmas...
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Categories:
childhood, christmas, dad, family,
ChiaroscuroIt was a ghostly orb
obscured by smog—
glowing faintly yellow
at the center and fading
to amber,
then ochre,
raw sienna,
and finally umber—
as if the light itself
were...
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Categories:
childhood, dark, light, memory,
Breath Again ReviewBreathe Again
Did I have years of experience
Or was it years of daily repeats
I must have had, my confidence had suffered,
Those pop-up painful memories
In my love...
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Categories:
childhood, allegory, anger, angst, anxiety,
Childhood Trauma That Creates a Serial Killer
A bedroom door that never locked,
Footsteps heavy like thunderclocks,
Mother's wine glass, cracked and red,
Words that bruised more than fists ever did.
A closet full of whispered...
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Categories:
childhood, 12th grade,
A Note to No One In ParticularI always feel a twinge of anger,
a truck load of guilt,
and a dash of sorrow
whenever I think of her
But mostly nothing at all
My guess...
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Categories:
childhood, depression, emotions, hope,
The trauma of immigrating to the US as a kidThat kid at eleven before his first kiss
is the kid that I really, really miss.
Every kid thereafter
was more tears than laughter,
molding the world-weary cynic that...
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Categories:
12th grade, childhood, dark,
A chain endedAt daggers drawn with no discharge in animosity
Berated and mocked regardless of my actions or intentions
Cant take much more, hell I'm 27
"Dont take...
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Categories:
childhood, family, farewell, leaving,
I Was Friends With A Tree OnceIt was a sugar maple.
Fairly average in size, a good
Number of branches, some
Low enough to climb for a
Child like myself.
I was never very athletic,
Hated...
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Categories:
childhood, health, youth,
A Childhood InterruptedNeedles on the dresser, pipes in your hands,
Chaos as the soundtrack to a childhood undone.
Screams that hurt my ears, objects thrown and broken,...
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Categories:
addiction, angst, childhood, conflict,
In ColorSometimes I hate seeing pictures of myself when I was younger. Baby pictures, homecoming photos, the embarrassing high school Facebook selfies. The nostalgia is there,...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, childhood, daughter,
The Train StationLife with you has always felt like waiting at a train station. I’d curl up on the cold benches and wait on you forever, I...
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Categories:
absence, addiction, childhood, deep,
SurvivorCreated to be different to bring about a generational change
Trauma invoked to keep most from creative conscious range
Learning being different can bring in a great...
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Categories:
childhood, emotions, for teens,
Growth and DevelopmentYoung self, you stumbled through on your journey to adulthood
you had to confront lack of love and abandonment
you're as tough as the sole of a...
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Categories:
childhood, appreciation, growth, recovery from,
Ode to Childhood
So, you had a childhood.
That doesn't make you special,
I had one too.
You consume the trauma,
regurgitate it
so others can say if we had known
we would...
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Categories:
childhood, angst,