Best Depression Poems
Below are the all-time best Depression poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of depression poems written by PoetrySoup members
Wind From the SeaInspired by Andrew Wyeth Watercolor Painting -- Wind From the Sea, 1947
Standing in the old house
A strange mixture of feelings erupt within me
My roommates Depression,...
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Categories:
conflict, depression, forgiveness, hope,
Form:
I do not know?
The RoseThis is not a poem about a rose
Nor a poem about diligence and beauty
Today, I sit and stare at the walls
Walls that...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, death, depression,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Alice Sweet Alice~Alice Sweet Alice~
*Like Sisters*
Everyday -- Holding Hands
Sunday Dress -- Pink Ribbons
...
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Categories:
depression, abuse, addiction, anger, art,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Starry Starry Night - POTWPOTW
When Wishes were made on a shooting star
The Heavens looked down and smiled
With sprinkles of stardust on a whisper of moonbeams
They created for us a...
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Categories:
depression, anti bullying, art, beauty,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
That Starry NightLike no one before, nor since
you painted that starry night in oils
superimposing your life story.
I feel I know this idyllic village
blanketed...
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Categories:
art, depression, night, passion,
Form:
Ekphrasis
Your Judas Like Tan""Child's Play""
You go down like rain,
A wishing star in disguise,
You scream bloody murder
-the perfect two-face disgrace
Your lips forever stain and reside with Benedict...
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Categories:
depression, betrayal, change, conflict, daughter,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Fallen Poet(The Fallen Poet)
Shadows, fall from the east
Winter show, white meadows,
Compelling words lost, in a silent world
Beautiful, Bloomingdale is how it goes
Apocalypto-- my very own limbo
Alone...
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Categories:
absence, confusion, depression, emo,
Form:
Free verse
Like Ice --- the Waltz"Black Ice"
Sorrow flows from the first sunrise
Eyes deeper than winter and rainfall
A painful combination never felt before
At core death awaits
-...
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Categories:
depression, absence, allusion, color, dance,
Form:
Alliteration
Her Masterpiece Is Her StoryHer paintbrush is a razor,
Her canvas, her wrists,
"I deserve the pain."
She shrugs and insists.
One day the brush will push down,
And it will cut so deep,
That...
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Categories:
depression, abuse, addiction, anger, body,
Form:
Rhyme
Quarantine of the Soul-Quarantine of the Soul-
Tranquil pills fall deep like the night
A sweet fangless course
Bites with no remorse
Your eyes struggle to read my ageless soul
Lost
Dark
You open...
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Categories:
depression, emo, future, metaphor,
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
death, depression, hate, hope,
Form:
I do not know?
Letting Go"Letting Go!"
Behind that garden rail
Where worms squirm and roam,
They dig into every bad part of my day
I feel them crawling, making my hide their home
They...
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Categories:
depression, emotions, hate, immigration,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
PneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosisONE WORD~
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my mind,
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis,
Running through my veins,
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Categories:
depression, abuse, analogy, art, corruption,
Form:
Epic
Thats When I Fall Down Upon My Knees, Song VersionUpdated lyrics May 19,2020 to flow better.
THAT’S WHEN I FALL DOWN UPON MY KNEES
There’s no way-
I’ll see another sunrise
My hope is gone-
as I'm contemplating...
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Categories:
depression, feelings, god, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Missing MotherBits of me are missing mother,
the bits of me which you placed.
Bits of me are missing Mother;
ah, ...
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Categories:
depression, devotion, me, missing,
Form:
Verse