Poems About Domestic Violence by Top Critiquers
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Poems about domestic violence by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
Crocodile Tears
I can’t buy all the lies she tries to rise and amplifies
As she cries with dry eyes in some kind of disguise
Ms. Heard twists words and turds then just justifies
But on the inside you can see she feels cold as ice
We’ve all seen some bad acting but this is distracting
A lot the things she says simply don’t make sense
But an abuser will turn around and be the accuser
Gathering everyone to come to their defense
What she doesn’t understand as she takes the stand
Is that her body language tells a different story
While trying to act...
As she cries with dry eyes in some kind of disguise
Ms. Heard twists words and turds then just justifies
But on the inside you can see she feels cold as ice
We’ve all seen some bad acting but this is distracting
A lot the things she says simply don’t make sense
But an abuser will turn around and be the accuser
Gathering everyone to come to their defense
What she doesn’t understand as she takes the stand
Is that her body language tells a different story
While trying to act...
#abuse
#bullying
#DomesticViolence
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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
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Ode to my Mother
My mother in the depths of her pain and sorrow
had a strength and tenacity that all should borrow
selfless sacrifices should be an example to follow
she was stoic to the end faithful to her vow
she endured her husband cruel blows
shielding her children from his punches
waking up with black eyes and bleeding nose
enduring the pain as she went about her chores
she was a lynch pin, holding everyone together
loving my wayward brothers even as they wandered
working in the paddy field to feed them
thatching the roofs to keep us all...
had a strength and tenacity that all should borrow
selfless sacrifices should be an example to follow
she was stoic to the end faithful to her vow
she endured her husband cruel blows
shielding her children from his punches
waking up with black eyes and bleeding nose
enduring the pain as she went about her chores
she was a lynch pin, holding everyone together
loving my wayward brothers even as they wandered
working in the paddy field to feed them
thatching the roofs to keep us all...
#mother
#abuse
#DomesticViolence
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The MAGA Way
Bro culture married a cult of death
In the team sport ghetto locker room
Where they took their next recreative breath
And forged it into more doom and gloom.
Then they traded some racist vows of hate
To make white Jesus votaries cross
And have his worst Caucasian trait
Endear him to his ancient Wall Street boss...
Who knows HIS bros are the critical race
And not no slickster Hollywood Jew
Assisting folks who try to replace
Crackers and their grotty mouths of chew!
But who doesn't love a trigger happy dude,
With a cooler...
In the team sport ghetto locker room
Where they took their next recreative breath
And forged it into more doom and gloom.
Then they traded some racist vows of hate
To make white Jesus votaries cross
And have his worst Caucasian trait
Endear him to his ancient Wall Street boss...
Who knows HIS bros are the critical race
And not no slickster Hollywood Jew
Assisting folks who try to replace
Crackers and their grotty mouths of chew!
But who doesn't love a trigger happy dude,
With a cooler...
#violence
#racism
#ignorance
#DomesticViolence
#deception
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Belle's Beast
She was beaten into a crumpled pile, he never feared as he approached
There was the smell of torturous pain all around, the walls of his realm broached
Lost in the wilderness of her mind, where her abuser left her for dead
Some how her finder could her the words of abuse in her head
He could hear the words echoing, "slut" and "whore" all around
He could feel the giant fist continually pounding her down
Treated as a dog, made to crawl on all four
Yes, hold on Lil Momma, let me open the door
He could had kicked it in, but why...
There was the smell of torturous pain all around, the walls of his realm broached
Lost in the wilderness of her mind, where her abuser left her for dead
Some how her finder could her the words of abuse in her head
He could hear the words echoing, "slut" and "whore" all around
He could feel the giant fist continually pounding her down
Treated as a dog, made to crawl on all four
Yes, hold on Lil Momma, let me open the door
He could had kicked it in, but why...
#abuse
#DomesticViolence
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Still Life
If we broke it down
into palatable pieces
I’d of said something
about Jackson Pollock
and the colour of blood
how I’d never seen red
roll down glass outside
of movies.
Perhaps there’d be
the part where your spit
hit a cheek. How it burned
with the fury of lava—
this skin, a village
waiting for destruction
all terror,
all terror in the flood.
Some days, I float above fists
thinking of them as canvasses
on crooked easels. Blots
on fingers, feet &...
into palatable pieces
I’d of said something
about Jackson Pollock
and the colour of blood
how I’d never seen red
roll down glass outside
of movies.
Perhaps there’d be
the part where your spit
hit a cheek. How it burned
with the fury of lava—
this skin, a village
waiting for destruction
all terror,
all terror in the flood.
Some days, I float above fists
thinking of them as canvasses
on crooked easels. Blots
on fingers, feet &...
#art
#metaphor
#StreamOfConsciousness #DomesticViolence
#StreamOfConsciousness #DomesticViolence
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the voice of reason
if you have to
keep asking
yourself if
someone is
good for you,
then you have
already answered
the question.
keep asking
yourself if
someone is
good for you,
then you have
already answered
the question.
#dark
#honesty
#obsession #DomesticViolence
#obsession #DomesticViolence
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12 Comments
His Prisoner
I am trapped in his prison
And I’m almost passing out
Because I haven’t been sleeping
I’ve been living on stimulants
And I haven’t been eating
Meals replaced with cigarettes
Muscles cramping from straining
To continue their daily tasks
While I hide in the dark
And face my own nightmares
I choose to lose sleep and to starve
If it means I can work through this
Fucked up scenario in my head
That speaks in double standards
Confusion questioning my sanity
He manipulates with profanity
...
And I’m almost passing out
Because I haven’t been sleeping
I’ve been living on stimulants
And I haven’t been eating
Meals replaced with cigarettes
Muscles cramping from straining
To continue their daily tasks
While I hide in the dark
And face my own nightmares
I choose to lose sleep and to starve
If it means I can work through this
Fucked up scenario in my head
That speaks in double standards
Confusion questioning my sanity
He manipulates with profanity
...
#abuse
#despair
#suffering
#DomesticViolence
#fear
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From the Depths of Hell
Wow Its been a while
You're the last person I thought Id see
But then, you never admitted what you are
A punk ass coward scum mother fucker, right?
Maybe my demons will win tonight...
How I loved you, oh my Lord
you tossed it all back at me
Literally and hard too
whats a fool in love to do?
Took some non gut sutures for a while
an I.V. as well that held poison
lots of pain meds, oh the pain
they all warned me you were insane
You have no fucking clue what you've done to me
even the...
You're the last person I thought Id see
But then, you never admitted what you are
A punk ass coward scum mother fucker, right?
Maybe my demons will win tonight...
How I loved you, oh my Lord
you tossed it all back at me
Literally and hard too
whats a fool in love to do?
Took some non gut sutures for a while
an I.V. as well that held poison
lots of pain meds, oh the pain
they all warned me you were insane
You have no fucking clue what you've done to me
even the...
#anger
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
#PTSD
#DomesticViolence
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origins of humility and understanding never saying never.
shades of bluish grey,
to almost black
traces of green and yellow
perhaps purple around the edges
colors morph
twisting into themselves
s p r e a d i n g o u t
spiderweb-like
a reminder of an inkblot
to be colored
like a Rorschach test
Ohh those questions....
What
can
you
make
of
this?
to almost black
traces of green and yellow
perhaps purple around the edges
colors morph
twisting into themselves
s p r e a d i n g o u t
spiderweb-like
a reminder of an inkblot
to be colored
like a Rorschach test
Ohh those questions....
What
can
you
make
of
this?
#abuse
#learning
#SelfDiscovery
#healing
#DomesticViolence
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Not A Rap
This is not a rap
It's not a rap
Yeah, you wanna rap
I know you wanna rap
Rap me on the head
With something you got
Lying in your toolshed
You treat me like
I'm some old hag
Then you try to use me
For a punching bag
You're the worse man
That I ever had
You wanna rap
You dirty rat
This is not a rap
We, no we don't rap
you wanna hit me
With a baseball bat
but you can't
I'm tired...
It's not a rap
Yeah, you wanna rap
I know you wanna rap
Rap me on the head
With something you got
Lying in your toolshed
You treat me like
I'm some old hag
Then you try to use me
For a punching bag
You're the worse man
That I ever had
You wanna rap
You dirty rat
This is not a rap
We, no we don't rap
you wanna hit me
With a baseball bat
but you can't
I'm tired...
#anger
#violence
#abuse
#disappointment
#DomesticViolence
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the power of NO
destroy the silence
cycles of violence ~ are
broken with one word
cycles of violence ~ are
broken with one word
#abuse
#PowerOfWords
#DomesticViolence
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DU Poetry : Poems About Domestic Violence by Top Critiquers