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Hurt Poems | Examples of Hurt Poetry

Charming Thinker

Come to terms with loss,
for the reality that awaits you is
unforgiving as it may without yield.
Withholder from the bleak truth.

Doubt listening sat weighted,
claiming with measurable vigor.

Not one person awaits behind
the a gatefold in porcelain white.

If, Oh!
Only a branch held upon it a universal threshold.
A seismic energy wavelength maintained,
transmuted from a bubbling something
to a nothing absolute.

Room
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Categories: hurt, absence, betrayal, fate, grief,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member What Is Friendship POTD

friendship can be great
looking when will I find you
will that be today
are you now looking for me
will our search go on and on


there you stood looking
oh you came out of no where
what a big surprise
our friendship is a flower
fun and laughs are everywhere


our fun and laughs turn
it all goes so very wrong
hurt and pain from
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Categories: hurt, flower, friend, fun, life,
Form: Tanka



So, You Study?

Tired, nervous—went for viva,
He thought I was calm and wiser.
The observer smirked, then eyed,
"So, You Study?"—I just sighed.
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Categories: change, class, hurt, imagery,
Form: Chastushka

Premium MemberToday, my head doesn’t hurt -- Thank you, Lord

Today, my head doesn’t hurt.
Thank you, Lord.
Today, my shoulder doesn’t hurt.
Thank you, Lord.
Today, my back doesn’t hurt.
Thank you, Lord.
Today, my knee doesn’t hurt
Thank you, Lord.
Today, my toe doesn’t hurt.
Thank you, Lord.
But oh, the pain in my soul, my Lord!
The pain in my soul!
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Categories: hurt, angst, depression, religion, sorrow,
Form: Free verse

The Balance I Miss

As long as they’re happy,
I’m good.
The world feels lighter when their smiles are real,
when their days unfold easy and bright.
I can settle into that,
let it be enough,
let it be all I need.

As long as they’re happy,
I’m good.
The quiet peace of knowing
they’ve found their way,
that I haven’t missed some small thing
that might tip their balance.
It’s all
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Categories: happiness, hurt, identity, loneliness,
Form: Free verse



It Will Always Rain on Me

It will always rain on me in all seasons. 
Seasons jacketing me with dust, 
Dust mostly from the dry season to absorb my hope.

Hope fractured in different ways in time, 
Time unendingly discoloring my soul. 
Soul trying to resist by pleading for light.

Light that kills darkness but dies in startling grief. 
Grief that mostly engraves
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Categories: bereavement, endurance, hurt, life,
Form: Free verse

My Wife's Affair - poem 10

Empty Guinness bottles
reminders of what 
I am trying to forget.
Litter my family room table
like cockroaches 
that are not afraid of the light.
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Categories: hurt, betrayal, birth, divorce, goodbye,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHurting

My body is full of a terrible pain 
But it is not of the physical kind
It’s a darkness that is haunting me 
And it tortures my soul and mind

It has turned my life into turmoil 
Becoming something that I hate 
I would do anything to change it 
But I feel that it has become too
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Categories: hurt, betrayal, conflict, confusion, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTrue Friends



I always knew you’d be there with your caring and concern.
I always knew you’d have my back when I had nowhere to turn.
I always knew I could count on your support no matter what.
All these things I always knew, but somehow you forgot.
Each day I’ve waited patiently for just one little word,
but the days go
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Categories: hurt, anger, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme

Normalcy

A return to Normalcy
As night comes, all are at ease 
We return to slumber 
In the electric comfort 
Of artificiality that is our lives 
We revel in the false sense of our own 
Modern conveniences
We forget the thin veil between 
Our electric life, truth of nature’s brutality
Of our existence, we believe we are
Immune to the
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Categories: hurt, allusion, art, change, confidence,
Form: Free verse

Fibromyalgia

First pains
It’s all in your head 
Be active they said 
Remain positive instead
Overlooked by many
Medication, plenty
Your body aching 
Assistance dog training 
Life’s changing 
Goals become smaller 
Inside I am screaming 
Another disorder
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Categories: body, hurt, pain,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFlipFlop



You make me happy/
You make me sad.
You treat me like a queen/
You hurt me bad.
You want me to stay/
You tell me to leave.
You say you trust me/
You don't believe me.
You're caring and sweet/
You're cruel and degrading.
See,I'm on my feet/
Now feel my love fading.
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Categories: betrayal, heartbreak, hurt, relationship,
Form: Rhyme

Spirals

r = f(?)
Spirals
Archimedian
Logarithmic
Fractal
Mirabilis
Uncontrolled
One point to the next
Ever widening, no end
So with arguments

~kcm 
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Categories: deep, hurt, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

My best friend

I don't even like this wine that I'm drinking,
But it's here,
It might stop me from thinking.

Tonight he grabbed me and threw me,
Onto the ground.
Then his foot landed in my ribs,
I still hear the sound; 
The hollow thump,
A gasp leave my lungs;
Him shouting at me 
"you had enough?".

Yeah, I have. 
I'm sick of all of this
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Categories: hurt, abuse, best friend, break
Form: Rhyme

More

More fool me
For hoping you would change,
You promised me the world
Yet everything’s the same.
I’ve told you that I’m broken
And I can barely cope,
You said you’d make more effort
Filling me with hope.
Actions speak louder 
Than your words can ever say,
I’ve already waited forever 
So I won’t wait another day.
I’m not sorry that we’re over
I’m sorry that
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Categories: hurt, break up, divorce, family,
Form: Rhyme

Specific Types of Hurt Poems

Definition | What is Hurt in Poetry?


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