Short Trauma Poems

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


Premium Member Munchmunch a Trauma

Prolific,persistent
intense and obtuse:
Hallucinatory voices
filled this recluse.
Ed had painted a dream
picturing nature's scream
Form: Ekphrasis


Resilience

Bad things happen,
trauma occurs,
resilience is what gets you through.

So bounce back,
as you have survived 100% of your worse days.

Incomprehensible Trauma

The pain stopped.
Why am I standing still?
I can't go forward nor backwards.
Like a stone, I am.
Struck and stuck,
Filled with despair.
© Prite King  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Maturity?

I've always been described as mature,
yet not many know I grew up too fast,
for trauma broke an innocent girl,
her innocence,
her happiness.

Its Hdst Not Ptsd

while the heart may come off pure
secret desires inherently do not
synchronized standards = compatibility
yet unhealed trauma = an utter mess
© Poet Lazey  Create an image from this poem.


Fear

Frequency of heart beat high
Extreme unexpectation apparent without a sigh
Affliction by an unseen trauma
Recurring in the mind is this non-existing failure tumor.
Form: Acrostic

Doomed Association Game

I look into your eyes 
And I’m safe 
And I’m six years old 
And you tell me there is no God 
And I’m twelve
And my parents are driving home in opposite directions

Premium Member A Trauma

Slowly through the curtains
Night turns to day;
Illusive shadowed pictures
Evaporate and die;
Within inner images array
Captured--locked forever
In imagination,stay.

Babble

This

Psycho
matic
Babble

Drama
fueling
Trauma

Is

Loosening
mind
Screwy

By

Mending
amist
Rending 

Right
 
Into The
Tightness 

Of An
Ending

Premium Member 1y

fifty soldiers at a political war 
in the field
suffering  head trauma
Trump says 
they ‘re only headaches
if only his doctors would have said 
they ‘re only bone spurs

Premium Member Bad Luck of the Irish

Mr. O'Toole in trauma sat in front
Seeking mercy from tax assessor stunt.
His Irish luck grace
Full Blown-in his face.
With distaste pay money in full upfront.

3/26/2025
© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Llama In Trauma

There once was a Peruvian llama
Whose owner shipped him to Alabama
  Horns blaring, lights flashing
  Folks screaming, cars crashing
All points lookout ~ one llama in trauma
Form: Limerick

Flash Flood Warning

aka
Terry's Rush Hour Tube Trauma

A voice rose from a burning bush,
"O feel the contours of my tush!
Ounce for ounce
Cheeks will bounce
With just an itty-bitty push!"
Form: Limerick

Trauma

Sits on the floor and he looks into space
Or rocks back and forward his hands on his face
There’s no one to want him there’s no one to care
He’s the guy with a thousand yard stare
© John Fenn  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Defeat Distress

Have a blessed birthday, Aira, 
A smile stops emotional stress; 
Bad experience causes trauma, 
Laughter lets life defeat distress. 

Topic: Birthday of Aira Gucilatar (March 20)
Form: Quatrain

Dissociation

I’m on autopilot.
Surrounded by an unfamiliar climate.
I’m on the outside looking in.
Looking down at blurry skin.
It’s possible I could be dead.
I'm Just a small person in my head.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Help a Thief

“Help a thief” heard someone scream This is quite normal strange as it may seem Needs a wee comma Or it'll cause trauma So next time, yell, “Help... comma... a thief”
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Help a Thief

“Help a thief” heard someone scream This is quite normal though strange it may seem Needs a wee comma Or it'll cause a trauma So next time, yell, “Help comma a thief”
fun
Form: Limerick

Shama's Dilemma Limerick

There once was a girl named Shama
Who wondered about her karma
As a poet her rhymes
Were always out of time
To most her terza rima was trauma








Deborah's
limerick contest
Form: Limerick

Premium Member The trauma of immigrating to the US as a kid

That 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 this old man now is.
© Rio Jansen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Trauma Solved By Obama

Trauma Solved By Obama

Terrorists had created terrible trauma;
Then in to save the day came Obama,
And with his magic;
Removed things tragic;
Produced peace by removing Osama.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Medusa

And so I turned away from the world 

I faced myself 

My shadows writhing set in stone 

I saw myself alone 

I stared myself unknown 

In silence to insane 

I retired in self blame
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Iguanas

Funny thing happened on my way to the sauna Met a strange-looking man carrying an iguana Perhaps a family pet Not many friends I'll bet Iguanas have the ability to cause a trauma
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Thought of the Day

Resistant to the light, we crouch in fright ~
Bemused by lower mind, we feel contrite

How long with fear, will we thus trauma bond ~
Ignite bliss within, by love’s magic wand

14-November-2022
Form: Couplet

Trauma

All broken 
and patched
but not healed.

The past
keep itself
at my heels.

I want to believe
I have grown
out of this,
I have recovered
from this,
but...
why does 
it keep haunting me?

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