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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
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:
pain, child abuse, conflict, corruption,
Form: Rhyme
Calendrical CasinoTen.
Ten years, I've been scared,
fearing the phone's ring.
Twenty.
Twenty years, I was,
learning how goodbye really felt.
Thirty.
Thirty years, I reached,
forty-four days ago.
Forty.
Forty, my brother was,
for fifty-seven days.
That's all he got...
and that feels like all for me.
I'm terrified,...
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Categories:
pain, death, grief, loss, memorial
Form: Free verse
PainPain, an agony
Drill, ache and break my nausea
My patience shamble....
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Categories:
engagement, health, pain, sorrow,
Form: Haiku
StitchesStitches
A wound, deep and wide.
Gaping, Ragged, Bleeding...
Cover with the cloth of
False Smiles.
Cover with the cobweb gauze of
Empty Sympathy.
Clamp it shut with fingers of
Chemical Laughter.
Hold it together with shaky hands of
Liquid pain relief.
...
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Categories:
pain, addiction, depression, grief, health,
Form: Free verse
A Last Wish For PeaceWhen will peace finally come
to reign in righteous hearts,
will skies be without smoke?
Hear a mother's lingering cry,
rocking her dear child to sleep;
all she asks for is words of mercy!
Many invoke a last wish for peace,
lives...
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Categories:
pain, anxiety, child, desire, hope,
Form: Terza Rima
Gentle~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
be always
gentle
every heart
hides
wounds
that
never bleed...
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Categories:
pain,
Form: Monoku
A heart asks
A heart asks, why he is in pain, why he is bloody
He doesn’t understand it, this life is cruel to him
His situation is incomprehensible; bad nothing
He feels like a despised beaten man; suffering
He is grieving,...
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Categories:
life, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Tracing PaperHunted.
By the humanity of her movement.
Still.
Then slow…Calculated.
Tracing each step of damage,
left in her wake.
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Categories:
pain, allegory, dark, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Into The Unknowni’d rather dive
into the unknown, than face
the pain of today....
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Categories:
deep, depression, longing, pain,
Form: Haiku
Sculpted
Life, are you a blessing or a punishment?
I'm trying to understand how I'm
a slave to the sculpted version of me.
A prisoner without chains,
upon a path forged with my own hands,
feeling lifeless, drained from
premeditated...
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Categories:
angst, pain,
Form: Free verse
Pearl“All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.” - Federico Fellini
Scars, reminders
What was once painful,
Has changed to a special flaw,
Sometimes only a hint,
Subtly secreted, the blame
Beneath a thought, a whisper
Singing to the spirit,
Colored...
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, pain,
Form: Free verse
Rams' Horns and Squids
Rams have two horns
on top of their head
the better to butt you
and leave you for dead
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Categories:
adventure, anger, animal, pain,
Form: Couplet
Hearts Like FlowersOut of the crack, a life did rise,
A fragile bloom beneath the skies.
No gentle rain, no nurturing hand,
Just broken stones, a barren land.
But still, it fought, it clawed its way,
Toward the...
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Categories:
pain, care, child, childhood, hope,
Form: Free verse
TransparentFor what it's worth,
You had me,
For what it's worth,
I can see.
My love was not enough.
Not quite the right stuff.
Marooned at sea, a soul afloat,
Drifting out with dwindling hope.
Shimmers past of...
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Categories:
love, love hurts, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Pain Poems
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