Depression Boat Poems

You have to be silent amid the violence,
You have to be strong but with calmness.
Resilience is not an option for you.
You are the man of...

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Hopeful Sea

I have a friend
She seems withdrawn 
Our wistful chat before the dawn 

Reveals the truth
The news is grim
It isn't me she loves but him

The...

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Taken by the breath of thee
Find it hard to breath
Tears begin to flow
All around only hurt
Intensify the pain
Runs wild and free
No calming flow
Rocked to the...

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CRACKED


                     Life unkind, cracked in...

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Human history is difficult;
hard pressed,
discovering
and rediscovering,
connecting
and reconnecting feelings
about therapeutic needs
and sacred wants
for trauma-prevention peace
trust
joy

Through co-empathic singing passions
which may,
too often, 
feel stressful

Irritating
depressing
stormy
before unconditional win/win regard
for Self...

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An art or a sport
Some whisper a ‘crazy obsession’,
And like Golf where age won't cut short
At least our pastime won't lead to depression.

A hook and...

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Historic flood

There are a few unread books on me
bookshelf and they will stay that way
I needn’t everything in print.

My depression hangs in the landscape
streaks on...

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Forever am I adrift on the seas of solitude
where the misunderstood finds solace and peace. 
My soul may weep from time to time
But solitude enfolds...

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ONE FOOT OUT OF THE BOAT
The white hotel! “Clinic”, slips behind his dragging coat and shambled shirt
He surprises himself once more; swallowing prescribed prescription freedom,
From...

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blacken bones
ghostly galleons roam
sail endless seas dark 
deep the night washes 
over each soul 
that ride waves deep
drive the secret engines 
of the damned cross...

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Warm my heart touch the sky
Sail beneath these stars by and by
Winds carry my spirit see
Shaped clouded memory 

Sail unplanted sextant
Steer from journey’s door
Upon a...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Loose Pocket Change



A whistle blew
And out went candlelight 
It’s wax ,cascaded and crystallized
It’s  tears, warm and heavy, emptied into the deep
A bouquet of wilted...

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My anxiety won't let me breath.
She won't let me cross the street.
Without freezing out of panic 
Sometimes anxiety and depression come to visit me 
Then...

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You've lost your mate one decade gone,
a longshoreman who bode his time
upon the seas from dusk till dawn.

Knew every route, when he should climb
the towering...

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