Beauty of a Broken Woman by Rebecca Rojas

Gravel by Willow Moon

This is a poem I wrote that is about being sexually assaulted as a child and the shame that I felt. It’s a blend of emotions and past traumatic events. GravelByWillow Moon Forced down without a breath.Stunned.Frozen in time.Pain.Gravel imbedded in my knees, my mind left this world.Forced down.Forced down.Forced down.Replayed like a broken record […]

Healing My Life from Incest to Joy by Donna Jenson

About the Book Healing My Life: from Incest to Joy is a deeply personal story that explores the sexual violence Jenson endured at the hands of her father, the refusal of her family to acknowledge her pain, and a rocky escape as a teenager from the Midwest to start anew in sixties-era California. Jenson’s big-hearted […]

Playful Dalmatian Puppy by Vanessa Hicks

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She Hears by Terri Lanahan

I grew up in a home where there was Domestic Violence and I write this poem. She Hears She hears the same sounds every night.She’s afraid of the dark and prays for the light.She’s alone and really scared.She wishes that somebody cared.She watches mommy and daddy with tear-filled eyes.She wants them to hear her cries.She […]

Untitled by David Carey

My father died when I was 14. Shortly afterward I was seeing my family doctor for anxiety. He sexually abused me, although my recollections didn’t surface for about 30 years. He would hypnotize me to not remember what happened in each session. About the Creator David Carey I worked with computers for my career and […]

Recovering by Chris Kontopidis

Recovering is a short thriller about a young queer protagonist who shifts bodies, discovering loss and healing in the aftermath of long term traumatic events. The story is parable, in addition to being a literal thriller. There are three phases, the inner child, the physical present, and the soul, which all meet with a disappearance, where the protagonist attempts to […]

My Hummingbird Sings by Nancy V Brown

I hear the sweet sound of joy radiating from the shimmer that’s at the tip of my wingsMy hummingbird is a beautiful reflection of the joy that he bringsOn my times of panic, I pressed on the power that lies deep withinAllowing the tests of times and the trials, not to winBeautiful reflections of love […]

Survivor Voices 2020 by Beth Seigling

The above collage was created based on the 2020 Survivor Voices writing series with Donna Jenson of Time to Tell, an organization that helps survivors of incest and sexual abuse to write and share their stories in a healing way.

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