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Wounds Poems - Poems about Wounds

Premium Member Old wounds surfacing
under the shade of a cyprus my lover whispers sweet and tender nothings revealing glimpses of a splintered heart where wounds are still fresh ~ a healing process underway AP: Honorable Mention 2025 ...

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Categories: wounds, encouraging, grief, hurt, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sisterhood of Scars: now with audio
Each wound I have suffered in my life so far Has taken so long to form a battle scar But what doesn't kill me, they say, will make me stronger still And every wound I suffer will eventually heal Pre-chorus: This is the silent language of scars You can read my soul like Braille And for each sad story, for every sad...

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Categories: wounds, friendship love, hurt, inspiration,
Form: Ballad



Wounds
A vicious rehearsal has forked out. It is a flame that bothers but borders on the essence of life—the survival of a community searching for answers after the quake and the flood. I gather these rhymes like firewood as I piece together the lines only legible...

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Categories: wounds, change, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Wings and Wounds
Like birds flying high over the world, Words of love never unheard. Loud voices echo through different phases, No mistakes.., Just choices in these mazes. Walking threads, edge tight like a judge, Told me, “Be strong. Don’t budge.” They speak of light at tunnel's end, But what about the road we defend? The morals we bend, The lives we...

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Categories: wounds, confusion, courage, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Probably,Forever
This poem speaks for voices smothered by silence and those who returned home to find safety was another room for disbelief. They were climbing stairs—she and her brother, bags rustling with homework and hunger. A man on first floor leaned on the rail, with stinky eyes and a grin too stale. He said something foreign—they did not reply, just quickened their...

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Categories: wounds, anger, time,
Form: Rhyme



Bitterness now worshipped as religion
In Ankara and Moscow, the ground is crimson red ~ a carpet spread on fields once green. Life’s fluid, like red gold, flows as scarlet runoffs into Ottoman rivers – lifestreams of Rossiyane and Turks spilled from their inner oceans. Their bones ~ lifeless as strings of dead fish, litter seas once full of life. The tears of fatherless children fill the Black Sea, their futures...

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Categories: wounds, grief, horror, sad, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
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
Do I fear you, thank you, or hate you for hanging round. I fear I'd been somebody else who stood 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 for staying here this...

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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
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

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