Traumatic Poems | Examples


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Premium Member Was it traumatic, or just a bad cartoon?

I am not Jessica Rabbit,
nor as erasable as a cartoon

We all wash out, eventually
My heroes loving villains

We all wash out
eventually 

my intoxicating
blurred fantasy

Premium Member She Trusted the Stars

She placed her dreams in starshine's bright design 
where she believed the galaxy would guard them
from incidents and accidents that might shard them. 
She trusted stars to lifelong harmonize love's song.

Wearing confident styles, she traversed fickle miles
before finding a grand love that would surely thrive. 

Now, she barely manages life or pajamas without strife.
Gone is her strong and else she wished meant to belong.
Her frantic emotions fast crashed in gray-bashed static
and just her sofa holds her in tear splotchy folds.

Wishing to be free of depressions dark torture spree,
she lives with heart bruises and painful mind debris.
Numbness blurs her pathetic in swirls of decrepit
that pick at her feel-fabric already shredded traumatic.

She cannot define when their end started its doomed sway
but recalls when he left with her 'besty' on a final, total away.

Premium Member AH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY HEADACHE RELIEF

MY NEUROLOGIST SAVED MY LIFE TODAY SORRY I WILL NOT STRESS OVER IMMATURE PERSONS SENDING TERRORIST THREATS ON LICENSE PLATES TO A TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURED DISABLED  WOMAN TODAY AH TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY RELIEF GOD BLESS AMERICA


Premium Member The Lantern at USF Neurology traumatic brain injury and me

Divided under the cities 
streams mapping decisive 
endings while toiling about 
the beginning boldness 
reaching for braising 
characters galloping 
amidst a certain angst 
we’ve devoured nothingness 
and opened the sky 
with truth thrashing 
tempers meaningful tools 
craving an emptiness 
above the continuous 
Bayshore a quiet offering 
pelicans landings sinking 
yet surrounding the 
jaded light house that 
withered to soon exposing 
only the dim lantern leaning 
to one side still brightening 
the rippling waves 

Written by Yolanda Nicholsen 
April 7th 2014 

getting injections 
for traumatic brain injury

Premium Member Haunted by War

                     Many never come home from battle.
                     Most come back for war, but not all
                     come back without being traumatized
                     by the reality of death and dying.
                     This fact reminds us of those who are
                     suffering from post-traumatic syndrome.

He lived the pathos and pain of war
He’s still haunted by blood-flowing
Upon the battlefield
The sounds of gunfire and shells
Bombard his tortured mind

   He was just a boy when sent to war
   Came back traumatized from being
   Upon the battlefield
   Still hearing gunfire and shells
   Target his tortured mind

      He will always bear the pangs of war
      Can’t forget his buddies dying
      Upon the battlefield
      Cut down by gunfire and shells
      Left him with tortured mind

         He stares at the wall. sees naught but war
         And its horror amidst fighting
         Upon  the battlefield
         And facing gunfire and shells
         Inside his tortured mind

            His life few will ever understand
            This hero with a tortured mind

Premium Member Traumatic Memory

I was fixed in front of my parent's grave.
They were quiet as the tomb was interned.
There were only two people that were brave.
I was fixed in front of my parent's grave.
We have no soothing words or blooms to save
They shared their emotions, and I feel burned.
I was fixed in front of my parent's grave.
They were quiet as the tomb was interned.

Written: May 10, 2023


Premium Member Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

the awakening again night sweats wet sheet 
a cold damp room filled with gloom screams 
wails sighs distant cries the war on the mind 
has began all over again passing through 

enemy territory life exploding like bombs 
quieting thought mere panic send familiar 
waves throughout your body gun shots loudly
rang out the soft beating drum of your own 

infant heart beat takes over wires surround 
your womb deep inside hostage situations 
the calmness gathered beneath drenched 
covers from the trenches of a mental break 

beating down your self consciousness while 
fight flight abruptly arrive to rescue you the 
sinking helpless feeling of darkness overwhelms 
you while you recite i matter an yet the enemy
 
is invisible taunting teasing tampering with your 
inner most peace ripping brain matter tasting 
blood of traumatic events severe violent hardship 
your body trembles your mind captured you quietly
 
lay there helpless asking where is chaplin where is
red cross you are alone within your own rapture
heart pounding pill box fall to the floor mental 
health treatment on the other side of the door

Premium Member Post Traumatic Equine Disorder

You should be 
Strolling fields of wildflowers.
Munching heavenly grasses.
Sun polishing your satin flanks.
Sipping from a lily-kissed pond.
Running the hills-full throttle.
Necking with a favorite mare friend...
Tails twitching merrily in the wind.

Instead, 
you're prodded into a war zone.
Bricks and rocks smacking ribs.
Ears rattling from bullhorns-sirens-egos.
Shattering glass -
Shaking tear gas. 
Half-blinding your wild brown eyes.

You try reasoning out the scene
of these crazy-crazy human beings.
After the carnage- it's back to the stalls.
For all your blood sacrifice and burning eyes
you're given half-rotted, bloody New York apples.

Premium Member Brainy Brevity

I do not let it stop my daily affairs.
Frustration and aggravation and moments
of discouragement my concentration fails to flourish.
I've tried hard to take a breath of courage.

The damage done to the brain just idles in silence.
Hopes that it doesn't remain.
A tidal wave of resentments for this infliction are my fate.
The artist within me sometimes ceases to create.

I will not let this infliction reign.  

12/28/2018


 Poetry Contest: Brainy Brevity
Sponsored by: Maureen McGreavy

Traumatic Experience

Here we hid when we heard
A knock strongly---a sudden clattered upon the ground
Everyone indoor shrieked, trembled
Out...     out.....      we heard
They separated males from females
Sans bother how small we were
They guided us to the boot camp field
Gave us lives and death train. Rubbed ours and
Their faces with slurry that as dark as ackee seed
Handed each with weapons. To mamas males were living dead
1939th of september to1945th of september
The days were long gone, but still remember
Told us show mercy to whom fall by your way you are dead
Victory it our goal. Words of venom and
Drug infused made our heart to strong as harden wood
Mansions become ash by fingers tamped
Animate breathless by stabbed
Stick. Raise countries devoured by swallowing lips
May the old and youth of this and coming generations
Not experience such; the heroes and
Heroines that go to rest nurture as cradle in right hand.



An interview with a veteran who happens to a victim.

Traumatic By Pamela Espinal 8th Grade

Tries to kill himself.
Rather die young than
Achieve goals.
Unsure about
Making a bright future.
Acts like a follower but can be a leader.
Tries to get out of trouble but
Instead, continues until something bad happens, then
Cries when not heard.

Traumatic

Teenagers not taking
Responsibility
And causing
Utter
Madness, sadness
And 
Trauma while
Intoxicated.
CRASH!

Premium Member Traumatic Brain Injury

as I lay beneath the twillight 
of my perpetrual youth 
why under a knights cloak 
I'd withered very quickly 

saddled beyond self an unconscious 
metaphor idealistically reaching for 
melancholy congressional desires 
morbid meetings of the mind

I could only invision
through dark windows
in my head I'd drifted
calmly into madness into a sheer

sleep state of awareness 
a rapture of small panting's
kept me ajar amidst the emptiness 
of bruised brain matter so well crafted 
while dreaming in pieces

Ptsd (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)

Possibly the most difficult battle I've ever fought.
Timeless struggles of my mind.
Scenes of human depravity lurk behind my closed eyes.
Disturbs my daily routines and demands attention.

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