Short Scars Poems

Short Scars Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Scars by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Scars by length and keyword.


Scars Left Behind

Behind friendly smile and bright eyes are scars
left by raw pain and sorrow
Heart broken when love died





Seren Roberts
Form: Kimo


Premium Member the scars within

 
each of us have scars that we keep within with courage we can let go ... and with strength we can heal
Form: Kimo

Scars

I met you yesterday
And gave my time to you
And what you did in return
Is leave a scar on me
And the sad part
I am used to it.
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Premium Member My Scars

My Scars Haiku by Miracle Man 3/21/2023 My scars tell stories, stories I never enjoy, but I rehear them.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Haiku

Hermit

Silent flames,
scars speak through the night,
broken breath,
wild and torn—
rain and snake coil wounds unseen,
I bleed to heal me
Form: Shadorma


Premium Member Scars

You can't always inter a scar,
If the affair that induced its being;
Is a clock haunting from afar,
And from its memory you're fleeing.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lyric

SOUL

silent wounds turn stubborn into strength,
over broken earth, courage takes slow root,
under each scar, light relearns the language of living.
Form: Acrostic

The Angry Scars of War

we did our best 
to let these
 
angry scars of 
war confess but

death shall not 
let you rest

because we wear 
these clothes of death

Premium Member Paper Scars

I have tried to dance 
pulled upon a moving train
a cork for a flood
each paper cut a new scar
far too deep to free my heart.



11/30/19
Form: Tanka

Leaving Scars

Please, I beg
Leave, at once
His eyes froze me
As his words cut
Me deep
Leaving scars
On my skin
Save me
We can create miracles
He whispers

The Scars

The scars that tattoo my soul,
were etched by the promises I didn't keep,
      all the dreams I put to sleep,
  and the emotions I failed to control.
Form:

Scars

I loved you the best I could,
Your scars were so deep and so old,
I could not see them and you could remember,
I love you,
This time love was not enough.

Premium Member Survivor Mode

bruises scars and stretch marks
the sum total of diverse past experiences
~ I am strength and stamina


Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Form: Other

Sentimental Scars

Sentimental scars
Hurt so much more
Than these physical blemishes
I’d rather bleed briefly
And heal with a scratch
Than bleed forever
And never be repaired
Form:

Premium Member Scars On the Heart

no more hurting, no too many knives have hit home scars on the heart weep past now sleeps, tomorrow lives my future smiles, she sure does .
Form: Tanka

Scars

I fear light of dark
Fear a lonely night
Filled with emptiness 
Sleeps looms miles away
Ghosts of rejection lie next,
I feel it’s cold fingers;
Oh! cold ecstasy

After the Ghost

Form: Englyn Unodl Union

I touched a shadow and called it a flame,
It smiled — but was the same.
My scars whispered his name.
Love left, but I still came.
Form: Englyn

Premium Member Scars

Bridging gaps,
Covering cracks,
Keeping short accounts-
With Him your guide
Stand aside--let trust be tried;
Regardless of your view,
Our relationships can renew.
Form: Didactic

Scars

Scars
The pain
Traced in flesh
Permanent strife
An everlasting memory of hurt

They adorn my body like dead skin cells
Never fading
They stay there
Always
Scars
Form: Tetractys

Beautiful scars

Wonder like a fool,
 every turn pierced me hard.
 Move on with the old wound,
 with the beautiful new scars.
 See through life is beautiful,
but never love it before.
© ngai hoih  Create an image from this poem.

Soul

If you have not gotten to know my soul. 
Then you know nothing of my scars & my soul. 
So save the egotistical compliments to take my blindfolds off. 
They will not work.
© Rita Lopez  Create an image from this poem.

Sternum Scars and Secrets

Awakening burning scars
in my sternum begin 
invading secret strongholds 
buried inside my conscience
Struggling and fighting
restless consuming times 
to win resolutions
© Mia Pratt  Create an image from this poem.

Premium Member Scars

The scars of abuse run so deep,
most of my life they defined me.
I wore a shield, that folk couldn't see
held my pain close, was mine to keep.
Today I'm free; no longer weep.
© Alexis Y.  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Quintilla

Premium Member Book of Scars Rondelet

A book of scars 
tells the tale of a lively past;
A book of scars 
falling off of my handlebars 
opens leaving me an outcast; 
Still, I am who I am if asked;
A book of scars.
Form: Other

Scars

As I watched numbers on cars,
I couldn't count my scars.
Yet they remained as stars,
On my skin.
They are my witness marks,
That I've struggled and to,
Feel stronger once again.
Form: ABC

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