Poems About Hurt by Top Critiquers
#hurt
Poems about hurt by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
DamianDeadLove
Poem Published
24th Aug 2024 5:49am
24th Aug 2024 5:49am
Pain Was Built
Picking up the pieces again
Fragmented dreams cut deep
Concealing hurt behind a grin
Dirty secrets crowding sleep
Insanity is located next door
Studying every last tendency
Time’s always keeping score
Strung out in it’s dependency
Idle threats missing the mark
Covered with a clinical desire
Calloused eyes spinning dark
Overt intentions must conspire
Sticky lies that complicate life
Buried beneath this heavy guilt
Reality wields a vengeful knife
Along it’s blade pain was built
Fragmented dreams cut deep
Concealing hurt behind a grin
Dirty secrets crowding sleep
Insanity is located next door
Studying every last tendency
Time’s always keeping score
Strung out in it’s dependency
Idle threats missing the mark
Covered with a clinical desire
Calloused eyes spinning dark
Overt intentions must conspire
Sticky lies that complicate life
Buried beneath this heavy guilt
Reality wields a vengeful knife
Along it’s blade pain was built
#hurt
214 reads
12 Comments
Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
29th Mar 2025 10:02pm
29th Mar 2025 10:02pm
A genuine smile?
My smile hides me
I can mislead all of you
Hurt, a distant tear
I can mislead all of you
Hurt, a distant tear
#hurt
#sadness
#senryu
81 reads
6 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
25th Sep 2024 3:46am
25th Sep 2024 3:46am
dead flowers
sister pain my beloved
roses pricked with clowns that aren't funny
pickled laughter sours my tummy
legal ease whispers and I love you and hate you
confusion is its own master
creed of the lost
keep walking step by step
and if someone pushes you into the mud
get back up and keep walking
dreaded surprise your love came and went
it seems to appear and disappear with the wind
meager left overs I'm offered
my tears started falling and they wouldn't relent
love for me doesn't just iminate from deep...
roses pricked with clowns that aren't funny
pickled laughter sours my tummy
legal ease whispers and I love you and hate you
confusion is its own master
creed of the lost
keep walking step by step
and if someone pushes you into the mud
get back up and keep walking
dreaded surprise your love came and went
it seems to appear and disappear with the wind
meager left overs I'm offered
my tears started falling and they wouldn't relent
love for me doesn't just iminate from deep...
#flowers
#hurt
#love #metaphor
#love #metaphor
154 reads
2 Comments
Betty
Poem Published
3rd Apr 2025 2:29am
3rd Apr 2025 2:29am
Amnesia and the taste of pleather
My love notes on your shirt
grew as sticky
as the air
in my wasted lungs
and the feel of your
forehead against mine
scared the shit out of me. again.
angered me. again.
fucked me up in what I
can only brand as the
flavor of
us;
and our version of love
is poison in a diet-coke can
served ice-fucking cold
again.
your warm mouth traced
hope on my...
grew as sticky
as the air
in my wasted lungs
and the feel of your
forehead against mine
scared the shit out of me. again.
angered me. again.
fucked me up in what I
can only brand as the
flavor of
us;
and our version of love
is poison in a diet-coke can
served ice-fucking cold
again.
your warm mouth traced
hope on my...
#forgiveness
#hope
#hurt
#lust
#obsession
208 reads
10 Comments
Stoney223
WOLF BAY33
WOLF BAY33
Poem Published
18th Apr 2025 5:39pm
18th Apr 2025 5:39pm
Take a chance
Let's take a moment to analyze what has been happening, in our lives that it seems that there is something, that we need to be honest with each other and come, to a understanding and about what we use to hold so true. For it's true that I thought in you that, I found a blessing in disguise, but yet it's far from the deepness of the truth. For sure I decided to take a chance, with a leap of faith and believing, that you were for me as I was for you. 🤨 But you didn't know what love really means to me, but yet you ignore that I love you with all my heart and soul. Now you stand there...
#despair
#grief
#hurt
#LifeStruggles
#suffering
90 reads
2 Comments
summultima
uma
uma
Poem Published
16th Jan 2025 7:02pm
16th Jan 2025 7:02pm
~sleep mode
sleep mode
..
but where is it
when pain had seeped in
..in the continuous mumblings
of immobilised desperations
those indistinct murmurs
pitch a sudden high
as unbelievably
peaking lucidities
glowering as angered
red sparking embers
in their many pointed shout outs
of a deadening pace.. wrapped
up shockingly.. with low
alternating troughs.. of
as if an enacted thorough
begging.. with some
quick silvered dark twist
of frightening frustrations, in
a busted...
..
but where is it
when pain had seeped in
..in the continuous mumblings
of immobilised desperations
those indistinct murmurs
pitch a sudden high
as unbelievably
peaking lucidities
glowering as angered
red sparking embers
in their many pointed shout outs
of a deadening pace.. wrapped
up shockingly.. with low
alternating troughs.. of
as if an enacted thorough
begging.. with some
quick silvered dark twist
of frightening frustrations, in
a busted...
#death
#hurt
#night
#sadness
#sleep
254 reads
3 Comments
InDreamz
Poem Published
1st Sep 2021 5:52pm
1st Sep 2021 5:52pm
Talisman
You once asked
How much I loved you
I never answered
...anyway
How much I loved you
I never answered
...anyway
#love
#hurt
753 reads
32 Comments
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
21st Aug 2024 11:54pm
21st Aug 2024 11:54pm
Dirty Ace of Hearts
Channeling you
Looking everywhere
Then suddenly
You appeared
A dirty version
Former self
Turned out
Struggling to survive
Your immaculate conception
Poisoned on the avenue
Splintered and struck
I had choices
Take you home
Bathe you in sanctity
Or leave you wounded
For the next John
To worship you
Make you into his likeness
Only to fail desperately
As he won't know
What I...
Looking everywhere
Then suddenly
You appeared
A dirty version
Former self
Turned out
Struggling to survive
Your immaculate conception
Poisoned on the avenue
Splintered and struck
I had choices
Take you home
Bathe you in sanctity
Or leave you wounded
For the next John
To worship you
Make you into his likeness
Only to fail desperately
As he won't know
What I...
#dark
#despair
#hurt
#LifeStruggles
#temptation
320 reads
40 Comments
fianaturie8
Fia Naturie
Fia Naturie
Poem Published
21st Jul 2024 3:43pm
21st Jul 2024 3:43pm
Leaving You
I tried to tell you so many times
I tried to put it so you would understand in rhyme
The best I can do is to say it straight
I hate to put more on your plate
My heart is not in what we have
Please don't cry, this is going bad
I tried to tell you so many times
I said and did things, but you were blind
You would have left me if it was the other way around
please do not crumble to the ground
My bags are packed no need for me to stay
I cannot bare to see you this way
You can hate me, curse me, do what...
I tried to put it so you would understand in rhyme
The best I can do is to say it straight
I hate to put more on your plate
My heart is not in what we have
Please don't cry, this is going bad
I tried to tell you so many times
I said and did things, but you were blind
You would have left me if it was the other way around
please do not crumble to the ground
My bags are packed no need for me to stay
I cannot bare to see you this way
You can hate me, curse me, do what...
#emotional
#hurt
#rejection
77 reads
11 Comments
wallyroo92
Poem Published
26th Mar 2021 2:49am
26th Mar 2021 2:49am
Good Enough
Almost every day the question comes to mind
Was I ever good enough to him?
Dealing with the struggle of a shared custody
As the years passed by, the situation got grim
Little by little I gave up more of my time
It seemed like the thing to do rationally
She’d be a better parent than I could be
All the while I had started another family
I could always see the hurt in his eyes
Even as he smiled and laughed happily
But as he got older I got all the blame
As the shame weighed so substantially
And for many years I carried...
Was I ever good enough to him?
Dealing with the struggle of a shared custody
As the years passed by, the situation got grim
Little by little I gave up more of my time
It seemed like the thing to do rationally
She’d be a better parent than I could be
All the while I had started another family
I could always see the hurt in his eyes
Even as he smiled and laughed happily
But as he got older I got all the blame
As the shame weighed so substantially
And for many years I carried...
#relationships
#forgiveness
#acceptance
#hurt
#fatherhood
658 reads
12 Comments
Duende
Poem Published
14th Jun 2017 5:25pm
14th Jun 2017 5:25pm
Marooned
the words don’t flow
as freely as they used to
my muse has left me
i tried to write
about my sorrow
i can’t...
it’s too painful
besides that...
no one knows
what it feels like
to lose everything
to have nothing
he knows...
four years of...
as freely as they used to
my muse has left me
i tried to write
about my sorrow
i can’t...
it’s too painful
besides that...
no one knows
what it feels like
to lose everything
to have nothing
he knows...
four years of...
#grief
#hurt
1195 reads
Nevermindthegaps
Poem Published
1st Jul 2022 1:45pm
1st Jul 2022 1:45pm
Things I’ve Injured This Year
punched my signature
into 6mm plate-steel
broke my right hand in three places
shattered the knuckle
needs surgery
told to have 6 weeks off
walked back into work
6 hours later
swelling won’t go down
my pain doesn’t matter
never has
tore the facia in my left heel
partially off the bone ...
into 6mm plate-steel
broke my right hand in three places
shattered the knuckle
needs surgery
told to have 6 weeks off
walked back into work
6 hours later
swelling won’t go down
my pain doesn’t matter
never has
tore the facia in my left heel
partially off the bone ...
#hurt
176 reads
1 Comment
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