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Best Mentally Ill Poems

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I Am Mentally Ill
Some say I am bewitched
Others believe that I am cursed
Many think I have gone mad
But what they don't know is that I am mentally ill.

I...

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Categories: mentally ill, bereavement, caregiving, character, community,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Anonymous
Birds sing freely from fallen trees
Demolished, as a symbol of
Their power over firmly rooted
Expressions of universal rights
Inherent to all mankind

Yet, the birds sing freely
Able to...

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Categories: mentally ill, strength,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Mental Illness
MENTAL ILLNESS

Mental Illness is a sickness of the mind.
It’s the sickness that rarely crosses our minds,
yet, it covers a wide range of conditions of the...

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Categories: mentally ill, mental illness, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Crazy Folk
It's never explained
why she and her son were spared
in the raid on their homestead
It drove her insane
and her boy became a mute
She sent him off...

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Categories: mentally ill, adventure, crazy, native american,
Form: Choka
11:02 Pm
My life hasn’t always been easy...
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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mentally ill, death, memory, mental illness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Internet Trolls
We all surf the internet to do shopping online
Chat with our friends and to have a good time
But there's  bullies' who surf it causing...

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Categories: mentally ill, abuse, bereavement, bullying, internet,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Market For Mental Health
I design cards for eighteenth parties,
And every other birthday.
And I design cards for condolences,
For folks who’ve passed away.

My designs can be happy, sad or plain,
Whatever...

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Categories: mentally ill, mental illness,
Form: Quatrain
An Ear That Will Listen
They walk through the doors
Of a city so barren
With a walkway so cracked
And the wind it's so cold

You're due in the office
Your lost in the...

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Categories: mentally ill, angel, society, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Unbalanced Hypocrisy

Sell the kinetic death metal,
see the swivel profits 
zooming to the stratosphere
Bloody schoolyard body count
is the cost of doing armed ant-farm business
Collateral damage is the...

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Categories: mentally ill, corruption, death, grief, political,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Faces of Loneliness
Just some scribbles of thoughts - the mentally ill, the elderly, children, homeless pets, and even we can be - sometimes even in a crowd...

He...

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Categories: mentally ill, loneliness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Domestic Abuse and Abuse of Power
After witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls...

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Categories: mentally ill, abuse, anxiety, beautiful, love
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mr President
Hey Mr president don't take 
us to war
Don't load up your guns to settle a score 
Your soldiers will gladly give you their lives 
Please...

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Categories: mentally ill, earth, leadership, planet, political,
Form: Free verse
Poverty Solution
Sometimes it seems hard to believe,
But nobody can challenge a truth.

When I was a child and studying,
In a primary school, my elder brother,
Had died, mum...

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Categories: mentally ill, caregiving, devotion, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Name
Did and Me - Us
My doctor says I'm mentally ill
I say I have superpowers
My family says I'm going insane
That I've not been myself the last couple of hours

"Stop acting...

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Categories: mentally ill, 9th grade, health, psychological,
Form: I do not know?
Dominican Traffic
Copyright © 2015
11.12.2015
9:18pm


This crazy rush hour traffic, traffic
like swimming the Caribbean Sea,
in these streets you don't wanna be.
Headlights brighter than spaceships,
spaceships, these drivers make you
wanna...

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© Les Pruitt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mentally ill, adventure, corruption, culture, humor,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs