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Best Dysphoria Poems

Below are the all-time best Dysphoria poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of dysphoria poems written by PoetrySoup members


Dismantling Dysphoria -New Blood Synthesis
Dismantling Dysphoria -New blood synthesis


All colours evaporated, vitality ceased
Deep agony! Topsy-turvy my life turned 
An inferno of grief engulfed my heart
Surged to the top, pain...

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© Anu Nayak  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dysphoria, angel, art, bereavement, life,
Form: Free verse



Gender Dysphoria
Faulty biology adds a perfect suffering
Tears in my throat leave me weakly stuttering
Fear, pain, and angst leaves my body cold and shuddering
Dark thoughts make me...

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Categories: dysphoria, depression, lonely, teen, teenage,
Form: Rhyme
Dysphoria - Mourning
Passions from expression prohibited
Floods an entire being
As arms ache from longing
To nurture, to shelter, to embrace
What on this bed cannot lie
And what in this house...

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© Robert Uy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dysphoria, depression, lost love, sad,
Form: Free verse
Dysphoria
Have you ever woken up asking "whats the point" 
Tired of daily life
Desperate for a change
Music doesn't seem to please anymore
Nights when sleep seems tiresome...

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Categories: dysphoria, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse
Dysphoria
Where did I run off to? 

The skin crawls. 
The eyes see but do not observe. 
The ears hear but tune out, as I try...

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Categories: dysphoria, bereavement, conflict, how i
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Chew Broken Glass
I can't make you understand how I feel,
And I've spent a lifetime trying to explain it.
Chances are YOU'LL never experience it,
As you are in the...

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Categories: dysphoria, conflict, depression, family, health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When Doubt and Existential Angst Meet Faith
"Why must we suffer hardships and disease?"
     we ask. Pain? Hunger? War? Adversity? 
     Death? Misery!?...Our best...

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Categories: dysphoria, depression, faith, god, hope,
Form: Sonnet
Diabolus In Suburbia
We are drawn here for the festivity, to glorify His name.
In our crimson best, presents wrapped gaily, to glorify His name.

Joyous revelers and their dutiful...

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Categories: dysphoria, america, birthday, childhood, culture,
Form: Ghazal
An Empty Bassinet
Anguish paints the mask.
Choking on dysphoria
begrimes a collapsed heart.
Hypothermia sets in
when squeezing the color blue....

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dysphoria, angst, loss, on writing
Form: Tanka
Schizophrenic Assumptions
Drowning the inner temperament babble, 
Every drop desperately taken to escape,
Attempt to suppress delusions from acts of travel,
The cure, a simply complex psychotherapy mandate.

In an...

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Categories: dysphoria, angst, family, recovery from...,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Wave of Fantasy
		I ride this wave of fantasy
		that sends my desires astir.
		What dreams may come
		from the spiraling are yet
		to vaporize in the stars.

The ebb and flow become
the...

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Categories: dysphoria, confusion, dream, environment, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Morning Ritual
Fade-in to darkness
   Blink slow, quicker ... eyes open
      Still dark, but I can't go back to sleep...

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Categories: dysphoria, anxiety, dream, health, morning,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Our Sunshine High

Bright sunshine magnifies our happiness
    with rays that spread a glow on all we see.
       ...

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Categories: dysphoria, sunshine,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member US Health Warning New Virus Alert
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL NAME: Donkey Pox

ORIGIN: First detected in insane asylums and faculty lounges across America.           ...

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Categories: dysphoria, sick, society,
Form: Free verse
Razorblade
with a razor I crop and cut away 
all signifiers of my birth name 
so i can finally let my hips sway

prickly pits and nasty days
of dreading...

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Categories: dysphoria, body, depression, discrimination, gender,
Form: Villanelle

Book: Shattered Sighs