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Illness Poems - Poems about Illness

Illness Poems - Examples of all types of poems about illness to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for illness.
Where my memory's go
I had a moment to see Flashbacks Rewind, Rewind my memory I need these thoughts to breath Fireworks to help me feel Light my mind Keep me spinning on this timeline Moments ago, we touched hands and it touched my soul Only my heartbeats...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, bereavement, friendship love, loss,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member When I Am Up - For Mental Health Month
When I am up, every sky is a boundless, cloudless expanse of brilliantly blinding blue. When I am up, I am William the Conqueror and William Shakespeare and William Jennings Bryan all in one. When I am...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, how i feel, love,
Form: Free verse
Cards with Pandora
im playing cards with pandora and she’s bleeding her hand its so painfully obvious i see her grand plan, because calamities hit a set and she’s feeling alright but theres one card left im holding hope tonight and its hope which keeps me...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, addiction, anxiety, hope, mental
Form: Rhyme
I cannot tell him
I cannot tell him that I still love him, That losing him breaks my heart in a thousand new ways each day. Because if I did, then he might try to come back to me. I cannot tell...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, heartbroken, loss, love, love
Form: Free verse
A solitary figure
In the dimly lit corners of her existence, She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence. From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born, Destined to wander, forsaken and torn. In childhood's tender grasp, she stood...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, dark, loneliness, lost, mental
Form: Rhyme



Comfort Zone
In shadows deep, she seeks her rest, Where pain's embrace feels like a test. Her heart, a fortress, cold and still, Where echoes of her anguish fill. The girl, once bright, now lost in night, In comfort found in endless...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, angst, confusion, dark, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Insanity and Reality
In the halls of my mind I walk as I ponder, Over things that trouble me, big and small, Over things that tear me asunder; As though I was made for this toll. And I burn and melt and...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, confusion, hope, introspection, me,
Form: Ballad
I will commit suicide
I will commit suicide I will commit suicide I can’t live Someone wants kill me I don’t need this life English psychology… English psychology… Destroyed my life Why? I don’t know Am I a human? Or an animal? Hmm. I am suffering. A lot, a lot of...Read the rest...
Categories: life, love, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress
"Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress" - Daniel Henry Rodgers The hourglass, a skeletal jester, mocks in the tomb's chill, Each falling grain an emaciated sigh, "Soon you'll cease to be." The mirror's cold reflection, a Gorgon's ghastly...Read the rest...
Categories: death, loneliness, mental illness,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Schizophrenia
When did you start hearing voices, when did they start making choices to determine your world and crack that first bottle or did the first pipe full smash on the throttle sending you racing downhill into the unescapable maze, driving deeper into...Read the rest...
Categories: mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Anxiety
Tears fill my eyes Sadness fills my lungs No one else can see The things I am running from Shadows start to move Voices start to yell It’s like a grand ole’ staircase To my own personal hell I shut myself off from...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Mental health
They say a lifetime is a year But I've lived through may seasons Winters so harsh and lonely That I can not breath. Pursued by shards of ice at every turn - Ominous autumn with their East winds I've...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Mirror's War
In the weeping crack of dawn, a battleground unfurls, Reflected in the mirror’s gaze, a storm behind two girls One, a wisp of tattered light, eyes shimmering with tears The other, a vicious shadow, barbed smile and pointed...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, confusion, dark, hurt, mental
Form: Rhyme
A Fractured Reflection
In the mirror's cold embrace, a war of words ignite, One soul fractured, battling self, beneath the pale moonlight. The darkness snarls, a serpent's tongue, with venom in its hiss, "You're weak, pathetic, broken thing, a failure you...Read the rest...
Categories: illness, anger, cry, depression, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nightmares Are Waiting
Writing metaphors with psychedelic ink, but they are living things; taking me to hell in a basket...Read the rest...
Categories: mental illness,
Form: Free verse

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