Poems About Domestic Violence Seeking Honest Critique
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Poems about domestic violence seeking honest critique. Honest feedback has been requested for these poems.
ImperfectedStone
The Gardener
The Gardener
Poem Published
21st Jan 2024 7:44am
21st Jan 2024 7:44am
Womanhood
We don't speak about it,
us females,
us one in four,
us, who worry we might trigger someone,
we don't,
we share spoken word about nature, about comedy,
about the way we circumnavigated the seas,
we talk about death and politics,
the human experience over tea.
But I want you to know I'd hold you
if you want to talk about DV,
or addiction or abuse or whatever chaos
occured that lingers behind the teeth.
I would hold space for the discomfort,
quietly bow to the silenced once before.
We are the one in three howling, ...
us females,
us one in four,
us, who worry we might trigger someone,
we don't,
we share spoken word about nature, about comedy,
about the way we circumnavigated the seas,
we talk about death and politics,
the human experience over tea.
But I want you to know I'd hold you
if you want to talk about DV,
or addiction or abuse or whatever chaos
occured that lingers behind the teeth.
I would hold space for the discomfort,
quietly bow to the silenced once before.
We are the one in three howling, ...
#women
#abuse
#DomesticViolence
305 reads
3 Comments
Carpe_Noctem
Poem Published
9th Dec 2023 10:54pm
9th Dec 2023 10:54pm
Your dead lover just walked out the door
Killed him with a kettle bell
And steaming hot coffee mug
Left him bleeding out
Charcoal amongst burning bridges
Smouldering embers blowing in the breeze
Exiting like the gust of a ghost
Baby blue those final chapters
They well and done
And steaming hot coffee mug
Left him bleeding out
Charcoal amongst burning bridges
Smouldering embers blowing in the breeze
Exiting like the gust of a ghost
Baby blue those final chapters
They well and done
#TimeHeals
#MovingOn
#DomesticViolence #PopCulture
#DomesticViolence #PopCulture
192 reads
1 Comment
Rory
Poem Published
24th Nov 2023 11:31am
24th Nov 2023 11:31am
The pain of love
#heartbroken
#erotic
#BDSM
#sacrifice
#DomesticViolence
341 reads
5 Comments
Diva623
Poem Published
3rd Oct 2023 1:22am
3rd Oct 2023 1:22am
Love Gone
My worst dream never realized
happened before my eyes
Hide, fight, or flight
was suddenly understood
The meaning of these words
Tightly wound fists, set me afoot
Thought you never woulda,
sincerely if you ever coulda
Forced to expose you
suppressed emerging behavior restricting every breath, my heart snapped in two.
How did Normal everyday shit — morphed into
Catatonic shit — excised into
Armageddon shit?! SHI-IT!!—
Normality became my anxiety
Anxious for what would be or not be
Because, at...
happened before my eyes
Hide, fight, or flight
was suddenly understood
The meaning of these words
Tightly wound fists, set me afoot
Thought you never woulda,
sincerely if you ever coulda
Forced to expose you
suppressed emerging behavior restricting every breath, my heart snapped in two.
How did Normal everyday shit — morphed into
Catatonic shit — excised into
Armageddon shit?! SHI-IT!!—
Normality became my anxiety
Anxious for what would be or not be
Because, at...
#rejection
#breakup
#betrayal
#DomesticViolence
#deception
475 reads
2 Comments
Lo_bedda
Lo Lo
Lo Lo
Poem Published
25th Sep 2023 5:02pm
25th Sep 2023 5:02pm
Trauma's Scar
Some days, it feels like I can't breathe,
And I find myself asking that same question,
"Why did you leave?"
I think I always knew but never wanted to believe
That one day our love, I would grieve.
Most of the time, I feel alright,
But when the day surrenders to the night,
I also surrender to the fight.
Our demons don't need an invite,
They lurk in the places untouched by light,
Never far nor out of sight,
An unspoken vow to always reunite,
Even now as I write, I'm filled with dread,
Knowing we'll meet again...
And I find myself asking that same question,
"Why did you leave?"
I think I always knew but never wanted to believe
That one day our love, I would grieve.
Most of the time, I feel alright,
But when the day surrenders to the night,
I also surrender to the fight.
Our demons don't need an invite,
They lurk in the places untouched by light,
Never far nor out of sight,
An unspoken vow to always reunite,
Even now as I write, I'm filled with dread,
Knowing we'll meet again...
#sadness
#memories
#FeelingLost
#emptiness
#DomesticViolence
434 reads
2 Comments
Casted_Runes
Mr Karswell
Mr Karswell
Poem Published
19th Sep 2023 8:46am
19th Sep 2023 8:46am
the woman who read romance novels with happy endings
there’s an old episode
of Murder, She Wrote
about a woman
who by her own admission
reads only romance novels
with happy endings
but is beaten to death
by the bookseller
because she won’t leave
her violent husband
for him.
and I think how the show
is called “cosy”
with its light mystery
about which we know
that Lansbury
knows all,
or will.
sometimes I think of that lonely woman
who read kissing books to feel safe and as if
love lived somewhere beyond
the rotary and plastic...
of Murder, She Wrote
about a woman
who by her own admission
reads only romance novels
with happy endings
but is beaten to death
by the bookseller
because she won’t leave
her violent husband
for him.
and I think how the show
is called “cosy”
with its light mystery
about which we know
that Lansbury
knows all,
or will.
sometimes I think of that lonely woman
who read kissing books to feel safe and as if
love lived somewhere beyond
the rotary and plastic...
#love
#abuse
#death #DomesticViolence
#death #DomesticViolence
218 reads
3 Comments
Ogbonna
Poem Published
15th Sep 2023 10:52pm
15th Sep 2023 10:52pm
Nekky's Story
I am his punching bag,
he punches me at will,
he punches me to vent his anger,
he does so to douse his frustrations.
He tries to regulate my emotions,
he entrenches himself fastidiously
in my life's branches.
My constant battery is his love's
justification.
To him, none else could care better,
not even my own sacrificial mum.
In my secular and public life,
his raging jealousy is hardly concealed.
I am his only mood swing's spectator,
I am enslaved by regular and
suicidal threats.
I must to his own will...
he punches me at will,
he punches me to vent his anger,
he does so to douse his frustrations.
He tries to regulate my emotions,
he entrenches himself fastidiously
in my life's branches.
My constant battery is his love's
justification.
To him, none else could care better,
not even my own sacrificial mum.
In my secular and public life,
his raging jealousy is hardly concealed.
I am his only mood swing's spectator,
I am enslaved by regular and
suicidal threats.
I must to his own will...
#rejection
#heartbroken
#DomesticViolence
247 reads
0 Comments
84tabby
Sky99
Sky99
Poem Published
21st Aug 2023 2:56pm
21st Aug 2023 2:56pm
Ouch.
#anger
#DomesticViolence
158 reads
0 Comments
Green_Arrow
Poem Published
21st Jul 2023 3:59am
21st Jul 2023 3:59am
Like The Shower Scene From "Psycho"
While she was washing
the dirt off, Pamela heard
a crash and opened the door.
But before she reached
for that gun, someone grabbed her
arm and stabbed Pam seven times.
the dirt off, Pamela heard
a crash and opened the door.
But before she reached
for that gun, someone grabbed her
arm and stabbed Pam seven times.
#murder
#home
#fiction
#tragedy
#DomesticViolence
211 reads
2 Comments
Wordvomit2001
Poem Published
12th Jun 2023 3:33am
12th Jun 2023 3:33am
invislbe
hopefully this is as good as the others You stole my entire senior year from me prom, graduation , but i can scream about how bad you two fucked me up till my throat is raw and bloodied, but it will never be enough . , ((you wanted control and didn't give a shit if you had to take it from me by force )). But thank you for hell for iam no longer afraid . i will never get those fucking years back but for you j it was fucking tuesday , and for you m you were threatend because i might just might of graduated , become something bigger . but you couldn't let that happen could you you couldn't stand...
#anger
#MovingOn
#escape #DomesticViolence
#escape #DomesticViolence
221 reads
1 Comment
Ahavati
Tams
Tams
Poem Published
11th Jun 2023 1:37am
11th Jun 2023 1:37am
Women
I
Women are allowed to break oaths
professions sewn from hope
burn bridges to the ground
to make room for what counts
II
The problem with violence
is that it captures attention—
making it effective
When our bodies vibrate into action
we reach for reason
to hypnotize us
into balanced numbness
III
In my domestic violence exhibit
at the local library
one victim had written: ...
Women are allowed to break oaths
professions sewn from hope
burn bridges to the ground
to make room for what counts
II
The problem with violence
is that it captures attention—
making it effective
When our bodies vibrate into action
we reach for reason
to hypnotize us
into balanced numbness
III
In my domestic violence exhibit
at the local library
one victim had written: ...
#women
#relationships
#feminism #DomesticViolence
#feminism #DomesticViolence
532 reads
11 Comments
M_Joy
Poem Published
6th May 2023 7:42pm
6th May 2023 7:42pm
it's a memory now
they would yell
they would scream
they were fighting it out
she would hope
she would pray
she was waiting it out
sharp words
like knives
they were cutting her down
shattered glass
like the past
its a memory now
they would scream
they were fighting it out
she would hope
she would pray
she was waiting it out
sharp words
like knives
they were cutting her down
shattered glass
like the past
its a memory now
#abuse
#DomesticViolence
234 reads
0 Comments
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