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Depression Free Verse Poems

These Depression Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Depression. These are the best examples of Free Verse Depression poems written by international poets.

Appearances

The distress... fatigue, combined with restlessness, tossing, and turning. Assuming I possess more energy than I truly do because what is worse, exhausting oneself or...

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Categories: city, cry, dark, death,

Grief

Grief holds me in bed
Beats me down
Destroys my mind
I can't bring myself to face it....

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Categories: bereavement, cry, dark, death,

Apathy

I wrap my fingers around the pen
which has lain dormant collecting dust
for months on end feeling as if
I'm lifting a fifty pound weight
straining not just...

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Categories: angst, depression, image, loneliness,

a barron coast

looking into the horizon
I see things as they once were
all drawn in sharp colors and defined lines
now fading as time travels
from one point to the...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, angst, creation,

Blooming

Light finds its way to come through,
after a nightmare at night
heart beats fast.
My dog is lying next to me,
I open the blinds
another morning to see.

Sadness...

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Categories: allegory, allusion, best friend,

I Yearn

For once this is not fiction

Can you change the past?
I yearn to,
But on condition I carry with me
All that I have learned.
But you cannot change...

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Categories: me,

Rumination

People with heavy minds
 They are of all kinds 
Yet all are entrapped with the same binds
They think and think more, Than they blink 
in...

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Categories: conflict, depression, feelings, mental

suicide in slow motion

I see the slope im sliding down
slowly losing a grip on the rails
because down there lay delusions
unrest temptations to just give in,
pandoras showing her hand
but...

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Categories: anxiety, dark, drug, fear,

Overflow

A bleached blonde sunset that arrogates my depression.
I've outgrown the inability to smile at the joke with no punchline.
Listening to the noise on the radio...

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Categories: depression, mental health,

The Wren

Lonely lies to myself 
A string of hope 
Clung to, hung to 
Like the rope I'll use 
When the time it comes 
A soaring, sweet...

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Categories: bird, death, depression, grief,

Maybe I miss

The locked poem of my heart
When unbound by its chains
Will reveal it's frozen secrets
Thaw them out again

All that can be mustered
Of this broken and abused...

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Categories: abuse, depression, lonely, sad,

I loved you

I loved you

Forget
Not exists

My love
Tale

Dream
Tale

Oh
Yeah

Mist
Gone.

Gone.

Gone.

Pain
Big

Heart
Dry

Heart
A fate

Take
Take

Fate
Fate

Yours
Mine

Be
Be

Live
Live

Stop
Stop

Me
You

Lost life
But love

Still
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Emma
Emma

Be my life
Be my life

I lost
Myself

You are a tale
A diamond

I am nothing
Be my brain

Be my brain
Oh

My life
My soul

Love
Love

Nothing
Exit

Bye

Love

With
...

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Categories: life, love,

Until Death Do Us Apart

I want to run away
But have got no way out of here
I want to just sit ‘n’ cry
But have got all my tears frozen
I want...

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Categories: bereavement, cancer, death, depression,

Assault

I felt that it was all my fault
But i am the victim of sexual assault.
Nobody seems to see it that way
I wish I could just...

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Categories: abuse, bullying, dark, depression,

You

You


You
You

I
I

Love
Love

I need you
Be mine
Get mine
Love

Find love

First love

Last love

First love

I need you
Get back
I find you
Forget me
Forget me

Go
Go

I needed you
...

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Categories: life, love,