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Wounds Poems - Poems about Wounds

Premium Member Wounds like windows
Wounds, like windows, when opened, let in light and the breath of something new. But it takes courage to unlatch what pain has sealed shut. We board them up, plaster the cracks, pretend the draft isn't there— but silence has a smell, and you can only hold your breath for so long. Sometimes, healing sounds like wind whistling through what broke— a quiet reminder that damage doesn’t mean...

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Categories: wounds, courage, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Elegy for the wounds that raised me
I do not know if I fear you, thank you, or hate you for hanging round. I fear I'd been somebody else who stands on solid ground. I thank you, cause you made me this, but I hate the reasons why. I fear it might just free my soul when you finally say goodbye. I hate you...

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Categories: wounds, anger,
Form: Rhyme



Some Wounds Want Witness
My darkest needs never beg forgiveness— they crave a mirror. One that fogs with your touch, not your abandon. ...

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Categories: wounds, anxiety, courage, dark, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member You Are More Than Your Wounds - A Whisper of Strength
Pain refines, but grace restores. This is the whisper of strength. There are days when the world feels heavy, when the echoes of yesterday press against the walls of today. You walk forward, yet the past lingers like a shadow . . . a silent presence reminding you where you’ve been. But hear this: You are not bound by...

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Categories: wounds, blessing, endurance, faith, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Cobblestone
Wounds once buried beneath soft steps, now echo through me, stone by stone undone. Contest: Crystalline Poetry Contest Sponsor: Nette Onclaud Date: June 14, 2025...

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Categories: wounds, silence,
Form: Crystalline



MUSEUM OF WOUNDS
I sort the silence and the sighs, The dreams lost in old goodbyes, They fill the drawers of my days, And leave wind blowing through my haze. I keep the pain I never voiced, The hopes that died without a choice, Pages linger in my spellbound book, But it’s all the same, since you never looked. Just a museum of wounds, Of loves that...

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Categories: wounds, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The World's Wounds
I have moved on all the continents Continents, heaven and hell to experience Experience of happiness and sadness Sadness of all colors because of leaders’ carelessness Carelessness breeds evils because of lies Lies breaking peace to prompt armed conflicts Armed conflicts causing wounds to people People are wounded in hearts as women endure rape Rape sending children, men and women into...

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Categories: wounds, abuse, anger, world,
Form: Free verse
Invisible Wounds
A tremor, deep inside, when the unexpected word strikes home. Not a fist, not a shout, but a whisper, a casual dismissal, or a glance held too long, or not long enough. It doesn't bleed, not red. It splintered inward, from battles long past, from arguments left open like wounds to the air. Each tiny shard, a glint of remembered pain, lodged beneath the skin of composure. You walk, you talk, you...

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Categories: wounds, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wounds
Doubt is like duct tape so rip it off, never mind paper cuts and red welts. You toppled off your bike as a kid, always stood up again and rode on. Never mind paper cuts and red welts, wounds heal slowly as time passes by. Always stood up again and rode on. Why would you quit? You are...

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Categories: wounds, emotions, feelings, humanity,
Form: Pantoum
Bare as the bone I wear
Naked are the bones so hallow crowned around my soul Give heed unto the wounds Ive sewn I'll mend me back to whole Though broken I'll remain to pave the path that is my sound My roots undone thine will be one hallowed by thy ground Victory unspoken I'm forever bound to never Bones bare and shown yet never known My chaos is forever...

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Categories: wounds, anxiety, body, change, dark,
Form: Free verse
Still Embedded
I didn’t see the blast-- just felt it after, in the hush of your retreat. No scars to stitch, just words lodged in soft tissue. They ache when it rains. You said, "It's not like I hit you,” but silence detonates too. It tears in quiet, spreads slow as bruising thoughts. Now I walk crooked, smile with hesitation, and check every room for the pieces I’ve left behind....

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Categories: wounds, grief, heartbreak, loss, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Happy Birthday To Me
Fifty years burned into the marrow of my bones, A life stitched together with fire and fate. Mi Vida Loca, a symphony of scars and rebellion, I have walked through storms that swallowed souls, Witnessed horrors I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy, Yet here I stand, whole—unbroken, unbeaten, ...

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Categories: wounds, age, birthday, character, courage,
Form: Free verse
Infatuation or love
Wednesday, 2024.05.01 By May, 3 months passed, We enjoyed three day trips to the nature. We respected and polite towards each other. Somehow I started developing feelings for you. I knew from the beginning, Our relationship could not be further than this. I came up with an idea, By not going to your 2nd home. I stayed away to create some spaces, Like "Out of...

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Categories: wounds, autumn, for him, love,
Form: Free verse
Dear Music
Dear Music You search for me And stretch my soul To explore mountain summits never imagined You touch my wounds And navigate the pain To discover a sacred space of peace and healing You kiss my fears And nudge my secrets To chase formidable currents down a noble river You collect my bliss And scatter my joy To soar exposed without a need for concealment Dear Music You search...

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Categories: wounds, allegory, art, care, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Nocturne of Wounds
A pallid night, a void's umbral reign, Emptiness, a phantom, claimed the lane. A dirge of noir, a melancholic strain, Echoes, sepulchral, whispered in the rain. The phantasmal memory, a haunting pain, The keloid scars, where shadows still remain. A thunderous hush, a silence stark and deep, The vise of anguish, where dark tendrils creep. A preternatural dread, secrets to keep, The cerulean sky,...

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Categories: wounds, anxiety, dark, forgiveness, gothic,
Form: Rhyme

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