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GoneIt's been months, still can't put myself together.
Stupid of me to believe I'd be yours forever.
The things your uncle did to you, your best friends suicide.
All the horrors you went through, for you I often...
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Categories:
child abuse, devotion, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Whisperings of a HostageIsraelis Run for Their Lives, Pursued by Hamas.
That day, 1,200 Israelies were slaughtered
International hostages died! Few live ones do remain.
I do not even know what day this is!
Nor month, or even, what year!
For I...
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Categories:
abuse, bullying, cry, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Why I Became A PoetAs a young boy my dreams and voice were shattered,
I was beaten with words like raging stones thrown in anger,
Threatened with violence until my life no longer mattered,
Spoken word became less as it placed my...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, pain, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Ketchup PacketMy worst nightmare sat down beside me
With the most angelic face
And whispered things too hard to swallow
His smile sweetening the taste
“All that’s wicked has the upper hand
“All that’s pure has gone...
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Categories:
angst, child abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
CowardsYou paint me as the bad guy
Colored in flaws from head to toe
A priestess of dark magic
Inciting men to wrecking havoc
Though I'm not sure how this could be so
For if I've authored...
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Categories:
child abuse, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
SheepPeople don't ever think for themselves
There's this book I read on cultural evolution
That says group think is an adaptation
If someone says snake
And you take the time to look for yourself
You're dead
Natural selection favors...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Nova wears Heaven's crownmorning meets a nurse of caring
for many years,
an aide who's burying
some unknown fears,
a neighbor's kitten
Nova left strewn
said--bury in--garden
where Pansy's grew-in.
life's roads all lives got
when life forgot and ought not
life's care for lives share
...
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Categories:
abuse, best friend, cat,
Form: Haibun
unfree newspaperWhat an unfree newspaper writes
According to a leading English newspaper
the alarm is the upcoming election
will labor be back in power
like that would be different from now
England (not Britain) is meddling in the war
in...
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Categories:
abuse, adventure, age,
Form: Free verse
GHOSTI am the ghost of your journey,
Failures of your past,
I am a shadow of you,
Made of cockroaches of the night ,
I am a video on silence,
Of the uglies in your closet.
Can one run...
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Categories:
abuse, africa, beautiful, change,
Form: Free verse
The fixNervous hesitation
The fix is close
But scared there chasing
Shaky hands that
Cant hold
Times touching
I'm being impatient
There vein awaits
Blood is craving
My high is in
Pushing in
Im free again
On my way
Too Never Land
I've...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, allusion, blue,
Form: I do not know?
Burning
So you find your light down there in the dark, down there the light burns for you so bright.
You feel the warmth of the cold street light where rain finds the tears you cry.
Sharp edged...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
Requiem for a Motherless ChildREQUIEM FOR A MOTHERLESS CHILD
Hallelujah….. Hallelujah…..Hallelujah
Leaning on the somewhat-padded kneelers
is a family lined horizontal to the father.
This is as close as they’ve been to each
other since the last show was put on. The
first act...
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Categories:
child abuse, childhood, family,
Form: Free verse
Beacons of hopeThere are people who are beacons of hope,
Who keep bitterness at bay,
Despite all that comes their way,
Each and every day.
Of course they feel anger,
Despair, sadness, and loneliness,
And want to scream out loud,
But bitterness they keep...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Romanticism
PART OF ME: A FALLEN CHILDPart of my soul severed by their ruthless oppression, demoralization and exploitation of a frightened and abandoned child.
Part of me drowning in detrimental sorrow as a 10 yr. old coerced by the evilness on the...
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Categories:
abuse, anti bullying, child
Form: Free verse
Make America Great Again - MAGA“Make America Great Again (MAGA)”
Make America Great Again (MAGA)
Where shall we begin
MAGA has a negative connotation
Greatness has never been in this nation
A segment of the population focused on gaslighting us
Expecting the minority races...
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Categories:
abuse, betrayal, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Abuse Poems
Definition | What is Abuse in Poetry?
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