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Cortisol Poems - Poems about Cortisol

Premium MemberThat Which Makes Me Smile

...From a reddish horrifying gloomy cloud which brings upon a frowning
beast~  I shall overcome and finally a smile shall bring me peace—poet :)

                 Smiles are weapons against pain
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Categories: cortisol, simple, smile,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Seas Took What Couldn't Be Saved

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Disconsolate obsidian waves crash over crumbling dunes,
Sweeping afflicted grains of sand back into the depths,
Dragging my paralysed soul with them.
Engulfed in despondent riptides,
I gasp...
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Categories: cortisol, angst, dark, deep, gothic,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberThe Bird and The Worm

...Crawling upon desecrated ashes,
whispers haunt ~
“You will never make it.”

Vermilion skies rumble over the brutal horizon,
splitting open as a deafening rain pours forth,
drenching an already ...
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Categories: cortisol, dark, death, gothic, imagery,
Form: Free verse

Nature's Healing Power

...Life near water
Boost mental health
Feels you calmer.

Sitting in sun
Gives vitamin
Helps cope sadness.

Taking deep breaths
Your outside boost 
Immune system.

Going for hike
Rise endor...
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Categories: cortisol, life, mental health, nature,
Form: Than-Bauk

Let The Pills Kill You Instead Of The Humans’

...{"This heavy humanness she burdened inside, 
Sent electrical shocks through her body, 
she would weep silently with a fist pressed up against her maw with her eyes evidently glistening nobody would...
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Categories: cortisol, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberAokigahara

...'I'm thinking positive thoughts,'
says the voice from an orange tent
in Suicide Forest.

Since he hanged his alter ego in effigy,
Mr T. Hashimoto has canceled
all his psychiatric appointments.
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Categories: cortisol, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFight or Flight Mode Switched On

...Fight or flight mode always on
Can't explain to anyone
what is going on in life
Internal/External strife

"Take a breath; you'll be alright"
Set a match to dynamite
World without is going mad
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Categories: cortisol, depression, loneliness, mental health,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberCool Fever

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Live music leaves me enthralled 
as thuds of a drum, the intricate fondling from saxophone notes blast these veins 
until intoxicated head convulses

when euphoric tunes pump in unabated--
jaz...
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Categories: cortisol, how i feel, music,
Form: Light Verse

All Natural

...Lavender is my favorite herb
I find it to be superb
it's given to us so we can heal
the things that the doctors can't feel

A precious mint for to inhale
if you pay attention to detail
massage...
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Categories: cortisol, nature,
Form: Rhyme

A Simple Smile

...It brings peace to the whole world, 
Stopping both anger and hate; 
It wipes out the insults hurled, 
Giving love is not too late.

It makes human heart healthy, 
Keeping it away from harm; 
C...
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Categories: cortisol, poems,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberThe Casualness of Casualties

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In the intimate interlace of free will and fate, in the ultimate interplay of time and place, and with the consummate checkmate of my human dignity, all that is.. is over in the stormy, swarming sp...
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Categories: cortisol, death, evil, family, fate,
Form: Haibun

Premium MemberIntellectual Snobbery

...When I was in grade school
I was, already, 
on my leftbrain dominant path
toward acting the intellectual snob.

This, in large part
my best offense,
my trump card, sadly,
against marginalizin...
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Categories: cortisol, appreciation, emotions, farm, gender,
Form: Political Verse

Why We Complain

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Does complaining helps, I don't know; but they say
yes it helps, keeps one away from taking action;
It gives excuses to procrastinate, stay
away from achieving goals as reaction;
Com...
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Categories: cortisol, conflict,
Form: Verse

After the Credits Rolled

...Three years deep into freedom
And yet perhaps as tied down now as I was then
Scars are scars because they do not vanish
Fade as they might, that skin is numb forever

As a being made of scar tis...
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Categories: cortisol, abuse, mental illness, recovery
Form: Free verse

Momma

...There's so much left unsaid
questions unanswered
and reasons to stay
But you were taken away
I keep thinking we'll all wake up
shake off this nightmare of a trip
and for a split second, a momen...
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Categories: cortisol, angel, death, i love
Form: Free verse

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