Poems About Vulnerability by Top Critiquers
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Poems about vulnerability by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
goodwolf1966
jimmy
jimmy
Poem Published
1st Jan 2025 5:07am
1st Jan 2025 5:07am
new year (same issues)
here
it is,
a brand
new year,
and
unfortunately
i carried
with me
now
the same
pain that
i had
hoped
to leave
behind
with the
old year.
it is,
a brand
new year,
and
unfortunately
i carried
with me
now
the same
pain that
i had
hoped
to leave
behind
with the
old year.
#disability
#hurt
#illness
#vulnerability
#weakness
110 reads
4 Comments
Adelphina
Poem Published
2nd Sep 2021 2:18am
2nd Sep 2021 2:18am
Deadline
I'm looking around.
Trying to leave this town.
This place isn't safe.
He should take my place.
He keeps checking his watch.
Got left behind
for a deadline.
Why am I left here?
This wasn't the deal.
Won't wait for me.
Won't wait for you.
I don't know what to do.
I can't get through.
This is a mess.
You tore up the test
and threw it in my face.
This place isn't safe.
At the dead line.
That's where I'll be
waiting at the dead line.
Won't wait for me.
Won't wait for you.
Keep checking...
Trying to leave this town.
This place isn't safe.
He should take my place.
He keeps checking his watch.
Got left behind
for a deadline.
Why am I left here?
This wasn't the deal.
Won't wait for me.
Won't wait for you.
I don't know what to do.
I can't get through.
This is a mess.
You tore up the test
and threw it in my face.
This place isn't safe.
At the dead line.
That's where I'll be
waiting at the dead line.
Won't wait for me.
Won't wait for you.
Keep checking...
#anger
#politics
#corruption
#power
#vulnerability
435 reads
7 Comments
poeticdelight
Hamid
Hamid
Poem Published
18th Dec 2024 12:59pm
18th Dec 2024 12:59pm
Blindness Of The Eyed Ones
It's so easy to write more words
vanity and levity, that say less
much the same when you talk too much
while your speech is meaningless
even at more lower level when you lie
in this mature age and awareness...............
when the child lies we blame the kid
scald him sometimes, hurt his feelings
don't we realize that they are our seed
Then, we reject the crops that we have sown
shameful when the child read our sickness,
see our vulnerability, watch how weak
we present our poetic selves....
vanity and levity, that say less
much the same when you talk too much
while your speech is meaningless
even at more lower level when you lie
in this mature age and awareness...............
when the child lies we blame the kid
scald him sometimes, hurt his feelings
don't we realize that they are our seed
Then, we reject the crops that we have sown
shameful when the child read our sickness,
see our vulnerability, watch how weak
we present our poetic selves....
#corruption
#deception
#inequality
#LifeStruggles
#vulnerability
80 reads
0 Comments
Sappho
Poem Published
Today 3:04pm
Today 3:04pm
Big Black Bird
Madness
Humming, an old woman rocks herself
A man repeats a word again and again
Two older women are fighting for a doll
Somewhere a. radio is blaring loud
Another ordinary day begins as usual
And I am part of this community of fate
My new home is a caring home
Defect entity
A thinking mind and a loving heart
Locked in a frail disabled body
One of God"s abandoned children
Superfluous and useless for society
Mercíless sorted out and deported
A deeply desperate fallen angel
With unsuitable disheveled wings ...
Humming, an old woman rocks herself
A man repeats a word again and again
Two older women are fighting for a doll
Somewhere a. radio is blaring loud
Another ordinary day begins as usual
And I am part of this community of fate
My new home is a caring home
Defect entity
A thinking mind and a loving heart
Locked in a frail disabled body
One of God"s abandoned children
Superfluous and useless for society
Mercíless sorted out and deported
A deeply desperate fallen angel
With unsuitable disheveled wings ...
#disability
#illness
#vulnerability
30 reads
3 Comments
brokentitanium
k.
k.
Poem Published
18th Apr 2024 2:01pm
18th Apr 2024 2:01pm
Bring it
bring me your enthusiasm
bring me your joy
bring me your unbridled laughter
share your indecency
share your too much
share your obscene dirty jokes
don’t hold it back
don’t give too much slack
don’t make any excuses
I want all your feelings
I want all your truth
I want all your sensitive spots
show me your passion
show me your delight
show me your secret nerd-dom
let me witness your pain
let me witness your rage
let me witness the wounds you’ve defeated
I don’t need...
bring me your joy
bring me your unbridled laughter
share your indecency
share your too much
share your obscene dirty jokes
don’t hold it back
don’t give too much slack
don’t make any excuses
I want all your feelings
I want all your truth
I want all your sensitive spots
show me your passion
show me your delight
show me your secret nerd-dom
let me witness your pain
let me witness your rage
let me witness the wounds you’ve defeated
I don’t need...
#crush
#love
#NaPoWriMo2024
#relationships
#vulnerability
270 reads
9 Comments
DetectiveOGasm
Poem Published
14th Sep 2024 4:15pm
14th Sep 2024 4:15pm
The Slow Fade Of Confidence
There was a time
he never thought about it,
it came
(and so did he)
automatically...
He reveled in the opportunity
-the unspoken attraction
and the subsequent reaction
provoked by a chance meeting
or finding common ground
among a former acquaintance
The excitement of discovery
was motivation enough
and he grew to appreciate
the contrasts of others
- the differing shapes and movements
that offered that seal of delight
He wasn't reckless, by any means
or even someone who played the game ...
he never thought about it,
it came
(and so did he)
automatically...
He reveled in the opportunity
-the unspoken attraction
and the subsequent reaction
provoked by a chance meeting
or finding common ground
among a former acquaintance
The excitement of discovery
was motivation enough
and he grew to appreciate
the contrasts of others
- the differing shapes and movements
that offered that seal of delight
He wasn't reckless, by any means
or even someone who played the game ...
#anxiety
#lover
#rejection
#sadness
#vulnerability
177 reads
5 Comments
Lilliputian
Poem Published
23rd Jan 2025 7:54pm
23rd Jan 2025 7:54pm
Ocean of Sorrow
When the air falls silent,
and you rest your head
on my heart,
I’m afraid all you’ll hear
is a resonance with a cadence
of an ocean of sorrow,
echoing waves of my blues,
ebbing and flowing in woe
within my soul’s conch.
and you rest your head
on my heart,
I’m afraid all you’ll hear
is a resonance with a cadence
of an ocean of sorrow,
echoing waves of my blues,
ebbing and flowing in woe
within my soul’s conch.
#sadness
#vulnerability
102 reads
Lozzamus
Poem Published
24th Nov 2021 9:23pm
24th Nov 2021 9:23pm
Another Power cut
It happened again this afternoon. I’d made a late lunch. I’d just finished a language lesson. I was trying to send an email but the wireless connection failed. Even more telling, I could hear a neighbour’s alarm, like before when a local power cut had occurred.
The same panic struck me. The fear of starving and of getting abandoned in the dark and the late autumn chill. Visions of hunger.
Plus, anger.
I hurried out, hoping to get a warm sandwich, but the electricity in the local bakery had failed – so I ordered vegan chocolate cake and coffee but then...
The same panic struck me. The fear of starving and of getting abandoned in the dark and the late autumn chill. Visions of hunger.
Plus, anger.
I hurried out, hoping to get a warm sandwich, but the electricity in the local bakery had failed – so I ordered vegan chocolate cake and coffee but then...
#anxiety
#fall
#vulnerability
609 reads
11 Comments
runningturtle87
Poem Published
4th Mar 2022 2:05pm
4th Mar 2022 2:05pm
Just Hold My Hand
Just Hold My Hand
What I
Meant
To say
In my
Wandering
Mind
Was that
Being
With you
Is a favor.
It's undeserved
That you
Share your time
And I know
That you
Only want
Safer.
Your life
Is your own;
You owe
Nothing
To me,
And
Your days
Are yours
To command.
If only
You'll spend
A few here
With me,
We'll talk
While you
Just
Hold my hand.
What I
Meant
To say
In my
Wandering
Mind
Was that
Being
With you
Is a favor.
It's undeserved
That you
Share your time
And I know
That you
Only want
Safer.
Your life
Is your own;
You owe
Nothing
To me,
And
Your days
Are yours
To command.
If only
You'll spend
A few here
With me,
We'll talk
While you
Just
Hold my hand.
#anxiety
#depression
#addiction #vulnerability
#addiction #vulnerability
446 reads
0 Comments
poetOftragedy
Poem Published
31st Jan 2025 9:03pm
31st Jan 2025 9:03pm
Sword from the stone
I gave my all
But I still could not pull the sword from the stone.
I know you put all your eggs on me
Made me your Moses and expected me to part the seas
Gave me the torch to carry your dream
In me you had hope
In me you gave your all
Despite all my faults.
And I tried and gave it my all.
But I still could not pull the sword from the stone.
Is it my lack of strength
Or the heaviness of my heart?
Is it my failures?
Or my lack of wisdom?
The sea stands before us,
and the wolves are...
But I still could not pull the sword from the stone.
I know you put all your eggs on me
Made me your Moses and expected me to part the seas
Gave me the torch to carry your dream
In me you had hope
In me you gave your all
Despite all my faults.
And I tried and gave it my all.
But I still could not pull the sword from the stone.
Is it my lack of strength
Or the heaviness of my heart?
Is it my failures?
Or my lack of wisdom?
The sea stands before us,
and the wolves are...
#disappointment
#LifeStruggles
#responsibility #vulnerability
#responsibility #vulnerability
59 reads
2 Comments
Northern_Soul
Poem Published
13th Aug 2024 1:02am
13th Aug 2024 1:02am
the poem my period brought me
it’s been 107 days since I bled
my womb thick with exit signs
a few little deaths
long strands
streak across white tissue
as I look at them momentarily
revelling in an explanation
for the tears that flooded
the whole damn house
because sure
I blamed the moon
and Mercury
and that wayward bomb
as a valid reason as to why
I’ve felt so atomically shitty,
but there’s no-one else here
in the bathroom
behind a closed door
demanding...
my womb thick with exit signs
a few little deaths
long strands
streak across white tissue
as I look at them momentarily
revelling in an explanation
for the tears that flooded
the whole damn house
because sure
I blamed the moon
and Mercury
and that wayward bomb
as a valid reason as to why
I’ve felt so atomically shitty,
but there’s no-one else here
in the bathroom
behind a closed door
demanding...
#menstruation
#myself
#women #vulnerability
#women #vulnerability
158 reads
7 Comments
gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
6th Jun 2024 1:38pm
6th Jun 2024 1:38pm
The Jaws of Psychosis
The phantom voices are
soundless unsoundness
to the normal world.
With my tongue,
psychosis cracks this lash,
scolding the empty air.
Give one hell,
give another heaven,
but where is my heaven?
Fracture this jawbone -
this jabbering embarrassment
wishing my vacant face!
Raked over hellish coals,
blistering with utterances,
my mind now scorched earth!
Within this jaw-like clench
of a tongueless entity,
I am surely reviled!
soundless unsoundness
to the normal world.
With my tongue,
psychosis cracks this lash,
scolding the empty air.
Give one hell,
give another heaven,
but where is my heaven?
Fracture this jawbone -
this jabbering embarrassment
wishing my vacant face!
Raked over hellish coals,
blistering with utterances,
my mind now scorched earth!
Within this jaw-like clench
of a tongueless entity,
I am surely reviled!
#anxiety
#depression
#MentalHealth
#SelfHarm
#vulnerability
212 reads
3 Comments
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