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Unholy WatersOnce again
Religion
Is tearing us apart
Judaic tears
Islamic fear
Shared values in the dark
To kill
for an idea
Judgmental and profane
Begins the end
The baby drowned
—in bathwaters of pain
(The New Room: November, 2023)
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Categories:
hate, pain, religion, war,
Form: Rhyme
ChronicWaking moments feel like eternity,
When pain swallows the serenity,
Everyday life is no longer the same,
"You seem to have Chronic pain"
Doctors can't find the cause or solution,
I cry and scream,
Who is there to blame,
Not everything...
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Categories:
pain, anger, confusion, cry, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Let the heavens weep and mournLet the heavens weep and mourn,
As Life and Death, their fate is sworn,
In this war of souls, where rage shall keep,
Death's icy touch, at bay, and reap.
Rage, rage against Death, the poet cries,
With every word,...
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Categories:
pain, death, faith, fantasy, life,
Form: Free verse
Songs of Soul COS No 2: ABABYour will is what will now, let me be free ...
'Tis be darker times than before, more childless,
This is crazy! Topsy turvey they'd be,
matters of convenience act the mindless,
It is the right of every woman,...
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Categories:
pain, analogy, change, character, emotions,
Form: Sonnet
Songs of Soul COS No 1: AABBAs the blade searches for the life of me,
The torment glides the blade with certainty,
Deeper the journey as my body writhe,
The pain lingers as I'm denied relief,
Suspicion mingles with the bloodied juice,
The greediness of data...
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Categories:
pain, analogy, character, emotions, hurt,
Form: Sonnet
SWELL TOM HOME SWEET HOME
Hey Tom, you look well cared for and well fed,
Sure you longed to sleep in your own bed,
You must've had pain, hope they spoiled you,
More medication, preferred a whiskey or two,
Which nurse did you like...
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Categories:
pain,
Form: Limerick
Walking Away From KindnessWalking Away From Kindness
*
A man on a park bench sees
Another man sitting on a park bench.
He sees the man with folded arms
Across his heaving chest.
His body is rocking, ever so little,
Back and...
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Categories:
pain,
Form: Free verse
Knowing what pain needsPain craves any medicine or drug
Pain is a lonely condition
At my bedside, I’m my own doctor
On my bed and bedside, I’m alone
Alone doesn’t have to be loneliness
Sick of the separation from my motherland
Lost connections...
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Categories:
pain, addiction, divorce, drug, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Thumb In My EyeA stupid place to stick my thumb
Right in my eye that was so dumb
It hurt so bad it made me cry
The tears are streaming from...
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Categories:
pain, cry, drink, health, hurt,
Form: Limerick
Sophia's Lament in IsaiahIn the highest peak of my heavenly life
I wanted to flow down
Through the gates of my grave without any strife
The place where I now drown
I’ll never feel the warmth of the life-giving
Even the...
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Categories:
pain, bible, christian, hurt, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
A Taste For ImportanceA flavor on my tongue
A signal solid and delivered
A decision built on feeling alone
Torturous as a scratch in my throat
A ghost brought upon from my past
A whisper of a plan
It’s what I want
It’s...
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Categories:
pain, deep, emotions, how i
Form: Free verse
Look AwayLook at me, then look away.
Don't let your eyes linger, or stay.
If you look, please don't see,
the sadness that lives within me.
Don't see the pain, shadowed in my eyes.
The hurt that I've tried to disguise.
Don't...
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Categories:
betrayal, pain, sad,
Form: Couplet
Gender Based ViolenceDOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Go on and beat me
But atleast not infront of our kids
For they'll not understand
Why you doing this to their mother
"Mum why you crying
Has dad beaten you again
I saw him do it last...
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Categories:
pain, absence, abuse, family, life,
Form: Free verse
Faded MemoryA touch of faded memory
came alive
with a familiar scent
swept me off my feet
created havoc
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Categories:
pain, emotions, loss, metaphor, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Fighting herselfSometimes
They stand out
Across her arms.
Thin white lines along the skin.
Left by the broken version
Of the girl you see now.
On those days,
She worries they'll see
The truth behind her past.
How she broke
Beneath every crumble;
See...
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Categories:
pain, angst, anxiety, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Pain Poems
Read wonderful pain poetry on the following sub-topics:
chronic, cry, crying, emotion, emotional, him, hurt, hurting, life, love, my heart, physical, rhyme, sad, sadness, separation, sorrow, suffering, trust
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