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Wounding Poems - Poems about Wounding


Premium Member Wounding World
I've seen Earth's epitaph: S/He did more than Her share to heal a broken world Which sometimes seems to invoke anger because I can touch what's broken and other times provoke merely sad because I can only feel inside who is also wounded Earth's living magic, watered fertile soil, red-blooded organic green clean soul is not broken like a worn-out clock or formerly animated toy or obsolescent urban block now...

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Categories: wounding, anger, anxiety, earth, earth
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member Lessons Beyond Anger
This piece was inspired greatly by the horrors of the tornadoes that leveled miles of life in this Kentucky and neighboring states, killing over 100 people. The grief I and so many feel, I dare say, was akin to 9/11, but we cannot move an army against Mother Nature or God, leaving us with...

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Categories: wounding, analogy, christian, emotions, imagery,
Form: Prose Poetry



The Wounding of Innocence
Keep forever magenta memories, chased in fields of old mud, barefooted, allow disgrace and stigma to reveal, fading amber secrets, of indelicate curiosity, scarlet laughter invited burgeoning confidence, callow and covetous intrigue dissatisfied, Mother Mary's flower bud sinned against, when carnal instincts overwhelmed, aching wounds of then still burnish, but clemency is forever void of her embrace, ...

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Categories: wounding, age, dark, desire, first
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Recounting Wounding Costs
I know what it costs to parent a tyrant 24/7 52 weeks/year and yet avoid judging, feeling guilty, self-blaming shame for all I am not sufficient, yet. I remember learning curious distinctions between genuine remorse given, when LeftBrain verbally requested, yet without RightBrain capacity to feel even the least caring difference between natural brown girl and spiritual white light shame Self blame for why that dinnerplate smashed so frighteningly against my dining wall as...

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Categories: wounding, caregiving, discrimination, emotions, feelings,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Wounding Words
Your words sting me like a bee Barbed, cutting, cruel and callous You really don’t understand me Go back and live in your ivory palace 18th March 2015 Inspired having read the recent poems of Jade Celeste...

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Categories: wounding, pain, poetry,
Form: Couplet



Wounding Words
words that pierce like a sharpened edge the pen has no regret old pain incessant we must dredge if not forgive, forget? but the power of a simple verse overlooked by the creator has made the past in present worse and lesser pain now greater...

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Categories: wounding, angst, introspection, on writing
Form: Quatrain
Loves Wounding Blade
What, but in this dismal life should appear My hopes, my dreams, true love All seem to fade Into the distance I reach My eyes begin to tear My heart pierced through with loves wounding blade! I sought the shelter of loves sweet embraces In a woman who's heart was filled with vengeful maces Evil all around! My body, heart and soul abused Pain and...

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Categories: wounding, love, heart, woman, heart,
Form: Prose Poetry

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