Best Mental Illness Poems
Below are the all-time best Mental Illness poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mental illness poems written by PoetrySoup members
Sarah's Story - Mental IllnessSarah’s Story - Mental Illness
Sarah, the “Crazy Lady,” was a familiar sight,
roaming the streets any time of day or night.
Her foul body odor announced her...
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Categories:
mental illness, crazy, depression, hurt, mental
Form:
Rhyme
Counting Seconds-The Rewrite
i sit lonely.
the crowded restaurant is thick with sound
i pick away at it
moving back into the stagnant silence
of my own comfort
the...
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Categories:
mental illness,
Form:
Prose
Silence FelledSilence Felled
Lurking in dark corners
The swamp stirs in the night
As the deceiver rises
Begging to share his illusions might
Only behind the veil
Does he let his murky...
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Categories:
mental illness, art, dark, evil, integrity,
Form:
Free verse
Insanity MusicLast year, her imagination went double
So she ignored her previous schedule.
She put all her dreams inside of clear jars,
Decorated with different, assorted stars.
She believed if...
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Categories:
mental illness, change, character, conflict, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
You Cry Alone"laugh and the world laughs with you,
cry and you cry alone"
how true and sad these words once penned
for this I've learned, yet learn again
that when...
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Categories:
mental illness, sympathy,
Form:
Rhyme
AUTISMI rise at the center of...
Is it a room? This is a face.
There is motion, too fast, too clamorous.
Cryptic and opaque. Shapes shift
into my field...
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Categories:
me, mental illness, self,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Maniac President's Song(A parody of the Modern Major-General's Song from "The Pirates of Penzance" by Gilbert and Sullivan.)
I am the very model of a very stable genius.
Compared...
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Categories:
mental illness, funny, humor, humorous, mental
Form:
Rhyme
Third PersonHe speaks metaphorically to avoid dealing direct,
shows the unknown hand he’s against too much respect,
writes about his bravery though it’s no where to...
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Categories:
mental illness, anxiety, depression, introspection, lost,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
fear, mental illness, science,
Form:
Senryu
Winter Walking Blues
Glazed, deep snow, virgin crunched under my aimless walk
as I idle rambled onward through a vacant, bare-treed park.
Sun was so high that its brightness flashed...
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Categories:
mental illness, brother, childhood, dad, death,
Form:
Free verse
Not The BirdI can see myself
Outside my window
I'm not the bird on the wire
But the pole on which the wire is strung
With a hundred other cables cut...
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Categories:
bird, mental illness, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
The WallWinnie, wild-eyed, went insane
and sang “Happy Birthday” in the rain,
while she washed away her bloody pain.
Now all day long she sings that song,
she sings...
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Categories:
mental illness, birthday, character, child, child
Form:
Rhyme
A Sweeter Scenta rose is a rose
though bent by the spiteful wind
some petals are lost
its fragrance has not lessened
beauty changes but remains
its essence the same
yet overlooked, you...
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Categories:
mental illness,
Form:
Sedoka
How Can I Care About Poetry
How can I care about poetry ...
When my dad doesn't care about life?
How can I care about poetry...
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Categories:
mental illness, father, grief, loss, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
me, mental illness, poetry,
Form:
Senryu
RippingI rip and chew at my edges
Trying to eradicate
Placate
Eleviate
My pain
The anxiety
The part of me that threatens to freeze
My mental disease
The part I...
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Categories:
angst, judgement, mental illness,
Form:
I do not know?
CorneredThey're all here, the disjointed pointers,
to peer, to leer, to jeer. They'll dig her out.
Oh yes she hears: voices with vices, snake-slimy
accusations hissing in her...
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Categories:
abuse, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
Never SurrenderI'm a grit teeth beginner breaking out the cage,
growing strong and fitter with wit coming of age,
squeezing letters out of lemons got me in a...
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Categories:
mental illness, anxiety, character, confidence, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
Cardboard BoxesDiscarded in yesterdays trash
Cardboard boxes never last
New things arrive in them
Old things stored in them
Rotting boxes on a voyage
Leftovers to those with out any coinage
Tom...
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Categories:
mental illness, art, christian, humanity, life,
Form:
Free verse
A Talking Door - Mental Hospital 1I sit with the wall against my back. The wall refuses to move despite endless requests.
The door opens and closes its mouth, it wishes to...
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Categories:
allusion, anxiety, mental illness,
Form:
Narrative
Fever DreamNight rain on the window pane is the night sweat of my fevered life dream. Time bloats like the reflection I try to avoid. Tears...
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Categories:
mental illness,
Form:
Haibun
You don't even look backYou don’t even look back, as I stand here in the rain,
I can see your shoulders shake as you walk towards the train,
In-my-mind I...
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Categories:
mental illness, anxiety, change, emotions, farewell,
Form:
Ballad
Seed of destructionFather of all bombs when dropped
five times greater than the mother
Where a fallen angel's dance begins
fornicating with matter darkening subjects
through and...
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Categories:
mental illness, abortion, anti bullying, bereavement,
Form:
Political Verse
I SIT SOBBINGI’m staring at the reflection in the mirror -
who is the lady with the grey hair?
Today a strange man came to visit me
I do not...
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Categories:
memory, mental illness, mother
Form:
Verse
Turned OffIn the deepest of sad emotions
My mind as been turned off
Exiting off the highway of life
The turn off of all time
As I rot in ...
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Categories:
mental illness, crazy, cry, imagery, introspection,
Form:
Free verse