Depression Blank Verse Poems

In the webbed corners of my brain 
There blooms a sinister flower 
Its petals dripping with venom 
 And thick roots entwined with despair 

Begins...

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Time and distance—speed and time—allow us to see the good in most people. I strive to recognize the goodness in others, even when hope seems...

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Depression made me so blue
Ocean blue I'm free falling in the depth of despair
Royal paint inherited from the King of Kings but I always forget...

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Truly those days were fun,
Little children playing each,
With a fine decorated toy gun,
Life was serious yet catchy;
And we were easily convinced
‘ Sit back, I will...

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and here i am .
still struggling with our memories .
telling myself you dont need me anymore,
but with a part of me fighting back against that.
i...

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Vain imaginations, like clouds in the sky
Darkening my vision, and causing me to lie
Down, oh pride, and vain conceits, I say
Clear the way for truth,...

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Have I really been working on myself or did I just change from my work clothes to something more comfortable
Is this depression or is it...

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The slump
My doctor, like many medics, knows little concerning 
diabetes, but she does her share of guessing and gives advice according to her assumption
Cheer up,...

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Joy mixed with bitterness
Hope laced with scoops of mud
This journey unseen
On the way to the holy matrimony
Love is blind
So they said without holding back
Till reality...

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A remarkable suicide

Johan Borgen 
had an elegant pen and a charming story near his typewriter, but he was also a serious writer who deeply plowed...

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I heard you from the other side of town with your words they were cold, bitter, dry and heartless.

They had a sour taste that was...

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Sensual betrayal,
Mind jumbled in a fight with itself,
Heart on it's own,
Emotions fighting to survive depression, 
Depression,
A shameless foe,
Who drains,
From both heart and Mind,
Mind on it's...

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Wistful falls the shadow of a fading moon
’neath its flowing robe of melancholy
Lurk skeletons of love’s affairs undone
Salted carcasses of long withered souls

Grim sands ever...

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The loss of the known

A sudden flash occurred, a moment of a forgotten past
walking down a wide road that only had a few cars trundling...

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The Sin of a Priest

At a school outing, the pupils stayed overnight
Sleeping on a barn hayloft
the leader was a cherubic-looking priest
Blond and chubbily fat.
In the...

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