Childhood Trauma Poems
These Childhood Trauma poems are examples of Trauma poems about Childhood. These are the best examples of Trauma Childhood poems written by international poets.
Born to Rage
I woke with blood in my mouth
and no memory
of the scab that sealed the rasure.
I’m cat-spitting
dog-growling
peregrine-divebombing
rooster-flogging
badger-flipping
hornet-stinging
wolverine-ripping mad.
I fired the sun for showing up late
cursed the
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Categories:
trauma, anger, animal, childhood, grief,
Stage 4 silence
Diagnosis:stage 4 silence
Treatment:a kinder world (one where racism doesn't exist)
Cure:unknown
Lifespan:1-5 years, if that
Symptoms:
? a silenced voice
? being black
? loss of control over body autonomy
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Categories:
trauma, death, discrimination, health, prejudice,
Colonizing Mars
Your car fishtailed in the slush
that was already
beginning to freeze,
as if you couldn’t wait
to get away after
dropping me off at
the library
on Christmas
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Categories:
trauma, childhood, christmas, dad, family,
Chiaroscuro
It was a ghostly orb
obscured by smog—
glowing faintly yellow
at the center and fading
to amber,
then ochre,
raw sienna,
and finally umber—
as if the light itself
were
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Categories:
trauma, childhood, dark, light, memory,
Childhood Trauma That Creates a Serial Killer
A bedroom door that never locked,
Footsteps heavy like thunderclocks,
Mother's wine glass, cracked and red,
Words that bruised more than fists ever did.
A closet full of whispered
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trauma, 12th grade,
A Note to No One In Particular
I always feel a twinge of anger,
a truck load of guilt,
and a dash of sorrow
whenever I think of her
But mostly nothing at all
My guess
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Categories:
trauma, childhood, depression, emotions, hope,
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
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trauma, 12th grade, childhood, dark,
A chain ended
At daggers drawn with no discharge in animosity
Berated and mocked regardless of my actions or intentions
Cant take much more, hell I'm 27
"Dont take
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trauma, childhood, family, farewell, leaving,
Trauma and Addiction go hand in hand
Addiction is the compensation for something lost in childhood. You are not addicted to the substance or the thing, but it's a release from the
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trauma, addiction,
Pedophiles
they walk among us,
slipping through cracks in the drywall of laws,
hidden in neighborhoods where swings creak empty.
their eyes,
like needles,
threading innocence with ruin.
you see them in
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trauma, 12th grade,
I Was Friends With A Tree Once
It was a sugar maple.
Fairly average in size, a good
Number of branches, some
Low enough to climb for a
Child like myself.
I was never very athletic,
Hated
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trauma, childhood, health, youth,
A Childhood Interrupted
Needles on the dresser, pipes in your hands,
Chaos as the soundtrack to a childhood undone.
Screams that hurt my ears, objects thrown and broken,
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Categories:
trauma, addiction, angst, childhood, conflict,
In Color
Sometimes I hate seeing pictures of myself when I was younger. Baby pictures, homecoming photos, the embarrassing high school Facebook selfies. The nostalgia is there,
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Categories:
trauma, absence, abuse, childhood, daughter,
The Train Station
Life with you has always felt like waiting at a train station. I’d curl up on the cold benches and wait on you forever, I
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Categories:
trauma, absence, addiction, childhood, deep,
Love on the Dark Side
You senselessly hurt me,
Then, demand I do not cry.
You frustrate me,
Then, unsympathetically, punish my display
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Categories:
trauma, child abuse, childhood, innocence,