Recovery From Poems - Examples of all types of recovery from poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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O What A DayFor so very long
They played an insipid yet beguiling song
A sweet lullaby that wasn't so sweet
Deleterious lyrics and rhythms rocked you into a slumbering sleep
Closed eye in darkness, away from all light
Asleep now, inert and...
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Categories:
recovery from, 4th grade, america, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Mental TortureHardest thing to rest
Is the tiredness in the mind
A daily torture....
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Categories:
recovery from, life, mental health, recovery
Form: Haiku
The old fart alter cocker shuffleThe old fart (alter cocker) shuffle
as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous
courtesy residents here at
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the other
painstakingly, and agonizingly dragged
across the cement...
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Categories:
recovery from, age, courage, death, grave,
Form: Free verse
Blank Space CraftThe dark spill muddied my canvas:
Made its mess, dislocated light
And thoughtful lines to the edges
While it claimed the center for spite.
It seemed like all was wrecked.
The time I'd worked nightly
To...
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Categories:
divorce, perspective, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Thespians Tragedy :Love's Silent StageToday, upon this stage, an actress must
Perform a tale of love and woe.
Many roles in past, she played and executed well
But in the hushed embrace of theater's din light
The actress is tasked with...
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Categories:
recovery from, 12th grade, character, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Whole AgainYou broke my love, my loyalty, my confidence and mind,
You left invisible wounds, broken, trauma and anxiety,
You told me I was imagining all the things you did, that it was my fault, I was to...
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Categories:
recovery from, abuse, anxiety, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
AwakenedAwakened
"Silence fills all the spaces between
the soft flutter of fragile butterfly wings.
There one second and then gone, the faint breeze in a syncopated song.
As twilight gatherers...
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Categories:
recovery from, angst, crazy, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
8 years apartYou were believed.
8 years apart, just for a start.
I got a belt but you were our mothers heart.
You left a taste oh so sweet and me just oh so tart.
The black sheep,...
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Categories:
recovery from, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
The UnwantedHe came to live his life in peace
To put all his troubles at ease
But like a garbage, he was shunned
Almost short of being gunned
He didn't even know why
They even wanted...
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Categories:
lost, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Demon of AddictionMy voice is filled with broken tremors,
As I describe the layers of my pain.
Each breath blows out the bitter emptiness,
And I hear myself going insane.
I interact with demons I battle,
And I force...
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Categories:
recovery from, addiction, anger, dark, drug,
Form: Free verse
Humor Beats Sleep
Humor is a restorative
much better than sleep
Please tell me a joke
When you snore, I weep
...
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Categories:
humor, recovery from, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
FatigueJust another long afternoon
Of another long long day
Mind numbing weariness
That just won’t go away.
My eyelids are heavy
I just want to sleep
For once no need
To be counting sheep
The cat is staring at me
In almost hypnotic...
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Categories:
recovery from, anxiety, depression, hope, recovery
Form: Rhyme
Id's Just His SticksThey dubbed him Sticks at Epoch's tip
when hitherto matter none neither you
of matter grasped that awed amassed
was all he cared and none who'd dare
his love of sticks made jokes he exists
baton they'd be, had...
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Categories:
recovery from, character, conflict, confusion, mental
Form: Rhyme
Learning To Let GoLearning to let go of everything I have ever known.
In spite of all the love I have shown, I still felt alone.
It is only now I see, I must let go how I used to...
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Categories:
recovery from, depression, forgiveness, mental health,
Form: Sijo
Nowhere To HideA definite air permeates
When in the walls of my room
Projected productivity is it?
Or rather the reflection of what those expect of me
Identity found... lost, through my grasp
Hard to dicier or fully know
Craving change, something swift
Yet...
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Categories:
recovery from, change, childhood, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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