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Mental Health Poems | Examples of Mental Health Poetry

Mental Health Poems - Examples of all types of mental health poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for mental health.
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If you have experienced a tough break-up like a divorce, please take care and be gentle with yourself. You need time to process your emotions and you definitely need time to grieve. Even if the end...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, break up, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme



Donald Trump Tyranny Testing The American Way
__________ Just as the relationship between the length of lines in a right triangle are always the same; weather drawn the size of a few inches on a piece of paper or applied to the galaxies...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, political, society,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Within these Walls
Faces of death stare against my raptured skin. Silently, they watch me in frigid judgment. I used to run from them in unholy matrimony, Peeling the sins from my teardrops Wishing they would Just go away. The brown-skinned disease normalized her...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, abuse, introspection, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rue Saint-Honore
It's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, fashion, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse
The Tortured Poet
She picked up her pen There were monsters in her head Tortured poet's life...Read the rest...
Categories: art, life, mental health,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member Child's Play
Let life trickle out, the hour, I want to play, the great pretender, one last time, before I have to hail Mary, to bring back the day, and say, how silly we've been. ...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, anxiety, child, childhood, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Phantom Alarm Clock
Awake, floods of razors flow to my heart Beep. My mind speeds in circles I'm a zombie lying...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, angst, anxiety, conflict, confusion,
Form: Kimo
Premium Member Tongue Tied
It must be terrible… to be tied up in knots, what if it clots... how could one complain? Such a terrible shame, I can't help you loosen it... not even a little bit, maybe, just cut the cord? and let that...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, extended metaphor, feelings, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Grieve
I grieve for all of what can never ever come to be. I grieve for all the moments and times in which others have left me. I grieve for all the ways I could have lived differently....Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, angst, death, depression, grief,
Form: Sijo
Premium Member unbared
Our needs are boundless - our wounds sensitive - better not to bare them - lest we invite opinion, debate and comparison, or worse yet, sympathy (euuww). . . Songs for this.. If You’re Too shy (Let me know) by The 1975 Musta Been A...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, angst, character, humor, irony,
Form: Free verse
Mental Torture
Hardest thing to rest Is the tiredness in the mind A daily torture....Read the rest...
Categories: life, mental health, recovery
Form: Haiku
We're Through
I treat you as friend But you play with my brain though Sorry, we're all through....Read the rest...
Categories: betrayal, conflict, mental health,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member SMS 189
My son My daughter Remember When the truth gets choked out by questions I have commanded you to be strong and courageous But for some reason I keep letting my flesh direct me, Thus I walk...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, anxiety, confidence, faith, fear,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member The Excavation
I profess that, my heart, entombed, as it might appear, knows not another way, other than to find warmth, in the sorrow of my breath, broken softly, by each word, I use, to attempt and explain, how I feel, on any...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, deep, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Loneliness
Loneliness can kill Suicide rate is in rising Help to cope yourself....Read the rest...
Categories: depression, life, mental health,
Form: Haiku

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