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Mental Illness Poems | Examples of Mental Illness Poetry
Mental Illness Poems - Examples of all types of mental illness 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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Tidal Whirlpool
Into the darkness I drove the line. With sudden persistence I stuck their spirits. Questions arose about my faith. Under the shadows the powers of the air quake. Through blended fields I struck their souls. Yoking my aura deep into...
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Patrick ORourke
Categories:
mental illness,
blessing, celebration, courage, mental
Form:
Free verse
Fear
I always wish everything I fear Would all simply just disappear....
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Marissa Faries
Categories:
mental illness,
fear, mental health, mental
Form:
Crystalline
Escitalopram
Artificial means of controlling my own depression For all of these old feelings I've contained through suppression. Sadly never forgetting how others left such an impression....
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Marissa Faries
Categories:
mental illness,
depression, drug, mental health,
Form:
Sijo
Bridge Walking
walking the tightrope along the bridge, highbeams shine from passing cars, she shines brighter, giving the Earth a dim glow, one step follows another, never knowing if the other end will be reached, the city below slumbers, unawares of the show that...
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Nicholas Enloe
Categories:
mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Within Me
Within Me Trapped within, a tempest roars, Where demons dance and anguish pours, In the haunted halls of my soul's estate, Dwells a darkness deep, where love and hate await. Restless whispers haunt my nights, As looming shadows creep by candlelight. No...
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Edward Wraith
Categories:
mental illness,
angst, dark, depression, gothic,
Form:
Rhyme
Where Brenda Sleeps
[verse] My crazy sister had roamed homeless for so long. Once an intellectual, then her brain went wrong. For hospitals to keep her, she had to be a danger. A strange logic, but to reality they were a stranger....
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Mark Springer
Categories:
mental illness,
crazy, family, mental health,
Form:
Lyric
Beyond Sunset
I won't go out in this day's mess Until my hair in golden tress Is braided neatly, oh, so sweetly. Come to me at break of dawn, Or when the day is nearly drawn In my seclusion of delusion. Please make...
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Chetta Achara
Categories:
mental illness,
Form:
Rhyme
Tick Tick
What is it That girl who rides that rollercoaster, The one that brings others fear— They call her Brave The truth is she lives for thrill Is it Brave if it doesn’t shake her to the core ? That...
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Preslee Marcynuk
Categories:
mental illness,
11th grade, anxiety, childhood,
Form:
Free verse
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS
CRISIS SESSION FBI HUMAN RESOURCE DIVISION NON-REDACTED FBI: HELLO WHAT IS YOUR EMERGENCY AGENT BROWN: HELLO THIS IS AGANT BROWN AND THAT DARK PLACE IS RETURNING AGAIN I AM IN CRISIS AGAIN FBI: OKAY WE ARE HERE...
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
mental illness,
america, analogy, anxiety, mental
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
11:11
I've been feeling happy lately, But my happiness is dull. Maybe it's because I've not done things, That were supposed to be done. Lately I've been dodging bullets, Never meeting your eyes. Maybe it's because I'm scared That you'd see through me,my...
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Curie Stark
Categories:
anxiety, daughter, mental illness,
Form:
Rhyme
Women's Psych Ward
On that July day of confusion and discord, I entered the women's psychiatric ward. A place I'd been in before, receiving a calming shot in my buttocks on the floor. I was delirious with my panicked psyche, thinking I was in Purgatory. Wondering...
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Regina Elliott
Categories:
mental illness,
8th grade, 9th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Paradise Is Falling
the lawns are strewn in paradise roses stained, unsweetened beauty is bleeding can we lick these festering sores? my days are alchemy as I exhaust to turn a gold and paradise is falling ...
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Clive Culverhouse
Categories:
mental illness,
anxiety, depression, life, mental
Form:
Free verse
A Mask of Glass
I am injured. And I am alone. Your mask falls & hits the floor like shattering glass. But this is not the first time your beautiful reflection has deceived me, no. I've lost count of...
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Chelsea Stufleben
Categories:
mental illness,
abuse, addiction, betrayal, break
Form:
Free verse
Changed: imploded broken vanished summonedreturned
New new new Clean clear powerful activity, unleashed wings upstairs Protective instinct bonded to stability Monitor on, guarding, titrating all sensory and physical input Past seeking, obsessing on relief in dark lost forced absenting this plane Past pushing and stretching...
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Payge Terner
Categories:
mental illness,
beautiful, birth, change, happiness,
Form:
Free verse
Crisis team with agent Brown
Hello I'm agent Brown I am not in a good place Hi agent Brown it's okay I'm here for you it's the dark place again I can't breathe that's okay just breathe and talk...
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Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
mental illness,
anxiety, dark, health, hero,
Form:
Free verse
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