***Poetry for adult children of divorce***

***Poetry for adult children of divorce***

 

The following poems have been written by adult children of divorce in regard to some aspect of healing from their parents’ divorce or separation and generously shared with us.

If you’d like to share a submission, then please contact us here as we greatly value the creative arts and their importance for healing! We’d love to have many more poems. We’ll try to review your submission in a timely manner.

We pray the following poems are helpful for your healing. Enjoy!

  • A poem written about the pain of parental divorce as compared to an airplane ride and then the surprising landing. Written also in dialogue with Robert Frost’s poem “The Master Speed.” Click here for the poem.

  • A beautiful short poem about lost childhood and the recovery of it. Click here for the poem.

  • This is a poem about the difficulties with one’s father and even calling upon our heavenly Father. Click here for the poem.

  • Three connected poems about one adult child of divorce’s journey to healing. Click here for the poem.

  • A poem about the heart’s desire and struggle for wholeness in a home and family as well as God’s response. Click here for the poem.

  • It expresses in evocative imagery how the poorly managed conflict and ultimate breakdown in my parents’ marriage left me avoidant of relationships with others, particularly romantic ones, as well as struggles with pornography addiction. Click here for the poem.

  • This is a poignant poem about the difficulties in vulnerability in romantic relationships for adult children of divorce. Click here for the poem.

  • This is a short poem is about an attempt to begin the process of forgiveness. Click here to read the poem.

  • This is a poem about the many voices that try to compete for our attention and about the choice of whose voice we will listen to. Click here to read the poem.

  • In this poem, the author reflects on Luke 8:22-25 and describes how it sometimes feels like she is in a boat filling with water and needs Jesus to save her. Click here to read the poem.

  • A poem about the loss of a parent walking away and starting a new family, the internal pain that results from that loss, and then someone who loves her comes bringing healing to that pain, that wound. Find the poem here.

  • A beautiful poem about family relationships, the hurts families experience, and the impact divorced played in the author’s psychological impressions of childhood. Read the poem here.

  • A poem that migrates from the author finding it hard to be in silence—if not fearing it—to hearing God in the silence speaking to her, loving her, and allowing her to rest in Him. Find the poem here.