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Harm Self Poems

These Harm Self poems are examples of Self poems about Harm. These are the best examples of Self Harm poems written by international poets.


THE TOMB OF MIRRORS
There’s this voice that echoes inside of me,in the pit of my soul
He has long sharp nails, with which he tears down the walls of...

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Categories: self, abuse, dark, death, depression,



Hell Hot Water
The little beads rise to the surface of her skin.
The skin that seems to have
'gotten scratched by the cat'

One too many times.

But as she goes...

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© madi moore  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self, 8th grade, anxiety, hurt,

Silent Screams
I see the lines, I trace the skin,
I swear this time won’t start again.
The pain fades fast, but not for long,
The ache remains, the pull...

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© Eva Bosch  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self, depression, suicide,

If only
If only I knew 
What all this would do
I never meant
To be broke and bent 
I try and try
But its never enough
And just like that...

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© Eva Bosch  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self, addiction, depression, how i

Heartbound
A cold, silver knife
rests on my shaking fingers.
I graze the blade across my life;
the slicing of it lingers.
I push the metal through my skin,
right to...

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Categories: self, abuse, addiction, angst, devotion,



Premium Member Note to Self - Chill Out
I see you feel tired and discouraged, 
sometimes disappointed with yourself and others. 
I cannot remember where I read or heard it,
but one should cut...

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Categories: life, self,

Desparate for hope
Mind desparate for hope 

desperatley searches for something to cling onto 

something to quiet down the endless cycle of repeating thoughts

that haunt it every early...

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Categories: self, body, depression, how i

Of Love
Of Love
A feeling that seeps through you,
Searching—
For, as people claim, the heart.
But don’t you feel
It’s shackled, chained, and bound?
But—
People.
People.
These puppets of fate,
These endless masses of...

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Categories: deep, poems, self,

Premium Member Bad Genes
My third wife is angry now, she knows that I cheated.
But I like life on the edge, so I told her to pack up and...

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Categories: self, addiction, character, drug, fate,

Exit Stage Right
Someone slowly makes a move
Somewhere in the night
A light switch, a lighter
Some razor blade laughter 
Making someone alright

For an hour or maybe two
Any more, you’re...

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Categories: self, angst, betrayal, death, depression,

Unintentional Self Harm
I sought the balm of quiet streams,
The hush of leaves in twilight's seam.
A softer touch, a breathless sigh,
To soothe the ache, to still the cry.

Yet...

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Categories: self, 12th grade,

Void in Perspective
“She spoke to me; expressing desire to rid of her being soon. In her possession lay a bottle of ibuprofen and a dozen sharp razors...

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© Reya Suri  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self, absence, abuse, death of

Last Night
Last night i accidentally confessed to my friend

I didn’t even know i did it until he started to apologize and tell me i deserved better
“I...

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Categories: self, 10th grade, angst, boyfriend,

Clean
Clean? I whisper into the dark tracing the very skin I used to puncture.
456 days.
1 year, 3 months, and 3 day's spent, trying to heal...

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Categories: self, 9th grade, angst, anxiety,

The Making of a Teenage Tragedy
I live, letting life’s events blow along with the wind; inhaling the scented, crisp breeze. I seldom sit down and question my purpose, instead I...

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© Reya Suri  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: self, abuse, age, depression, for


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