Hi Do U Know Any Poems On Trauma?

Hi do u know any poems on trauma?

hi, you could try looking through my tags #the great wound, #the body as a haunted house, or #la sonnambula which encompass trauma + trauma responses. you could also check out andrea gibson’s collection of poetry called the madness vase, mahtem shiferraw’s collection called your body is war, tara hardy’s my, my, my, my, my, ada limón’s bright dead things, tarfia faizullah’s seam, or alice notley’s in the pines. and finally a few poems below the cut:

“The violence we read about goes down. To trace some kinds I’ve known, I’d have to violate telling; because violence doesn’t always proceed directly from body to body. It flows from the heart to as far as the heart can’t see.”

alice notley, from in the pines; “the black trailer”

nikki giovanni, from “crutches”

tara hardy, “my, my, my, my, my”

h.d., from “envy”

marie howe, “magdalene: the addict”

mahtem shiferraw, your body is war; “your body is war (ii)”

ada limón, “before”

“What do I do with the loss I have? you ask. Now that I have survived, I have this.”

alice notley, from “in the pines”

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i think these go hand in hand <3

— “small kindnesses” by danusha laméris

— ross gay, from the book of delights

ross gay / antoine de saint-exupery / gilgamesh: a retelling by herbert mason

Hello!!! I just found your blog and I love it so much!!! I love that you have such a wonderful library of poetry and literature 💕 poetry is the best way to connect our heart into concrete terms and can help us through the worst of it all. I love the whole feel of your blog!! You are a gift 💕 I’ve seen a few people ask for some poems, and if I may, I’d like to request for a few from your vast collection on how love never really dies. I recently went through a really peaceful break up and I’ve been trying to cope with that fact that I’m not angry at him and that I’m never not going to love him. I need some poetry for my aching heart. Thank you if you are able to, love! I hope you have a lovely day 💕

— John Berger, Will it be a Likeness? from The Shape of a Pocket

— John Cage to Merce Cunningham, June 29 1943

— Adonis, Selected Poems; “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)

“But whatever, whenever, however this ends / I want you to know right now, / I love you forever.”

— Andrea Gibson, from The Madness Vase; “How It Ends”

— Mary Oliver, from “Mysteries, yes”

“someone I love is praying in another language / I don’t know all the words but I know / what it means—”

— Linnette Reeman, from “The New Jersey Devil Considers Parallels,” The New Jersey Devil Washes the Blood Off (and other vignettes) (L'Éphémère Review micro-chapbook, 2018)

— Nikki Giovanni, from an interview with Cynthia Adina Kirkwood for Los Angeles Times, Dec 4, 1985

— Aracelis Girmay, “I Am Not Ready To Die Yet”

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