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Denial Poems - Poems about Denial

We Live in Denial
In blackest halls, a phosphorescent light Shines forth from darkest depths, a honey glow. Enraged, ignited, I now blinding bright, A magma burning, pyroclastic flow, Torching golden beams to desolation. Enveloping destruction, ash I leave Until it’s done, my wounded heart’s cremation. Now hushed to ember, my healing reprieve. Returned to dormancy I hear it more, The walls that groan after each...

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Categories: denial, analogy, anxiety, depression, extended
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Sun up; moon down'
Are you searching for holiness? How is it viewed? Or To be? Is on some scales its worth.' Is it to be found with The beggars? Or a King? Or Emperor.' Is its essence in the Wind? Is it the servant of kings? Or perhaps its to favour Of countenace? Largesse? Are there many? Who on lifes Treadmill chase its...

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Categories: denial, appreciation, assonance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member alzheimers denial
His equilibrium was off Unbalanced, unsteady gait Forgetting words for truck and grass His wife refused to see it Ignoring his Alzheimer’s for four years Until her life was endangered by his erratic actions...

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Categories: denial, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
In Denial, On Fire
in denial but pacing while room is on fire motion capture fail to paint his emotions "I'm fine"- a product of his illusion litany of reasons but pain stuck under his skin too afraid to pen about, too afraid to scream it out demons are his rulers, will demons be the winners? help! he is drowning he can't put...

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Categories: denial, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Guess who
Two beginners here Speaking softly Relationship to steer Both thinking loftily Never lack of boundaries so ***** Denial of the highest sort Never excepting emotions Each barrier a impenetrable fort Yet still going through the motions Only success comes through the truth of court The answer does not take a sleuth They like each other you see Open questions are uncouth Answering to no fee Oh the strangeness of...

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Categories: denial, love, teenage,
Form: Lyric



Tainted flowers
Darkness surrounds me I can no longer move The flowers you once gave me Now entraps me in its roots How could kindness turn so rude Yet I will never stop loving you I watch as these flowers now black Suffocate me Wrapping around choking out my breath Keeping from me air needed to survive Voices whisper in my head This is...

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Categories: denial, betrayal, friend, friendship, mental
Form: Free verse
Too Young To Break
Beneath the swing set’s creak, joy whispered like a ghost, while clouds of heaviness settled like stones on my chest. My voice evaporated, with every swing and sway, as I reached for something solid, my truth slipping, fading with the wind. If healing could mend the cracks in time, my voice would rise, steadily growing, not dissolving, but evolving, finding strength with the shifting air. Yet silence wraps...

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Categories: denial, anger, anxiety, childhood, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grinning Truth
We went around in circles, yet the truth lingered right between us, smirking as if it had already triumphed. You labeled it complicated. I called it chaos. There’s nothing beautiful about pretending— about trying to bridge a gap so vast that you can taste the deception in your mouth. But we went ahead anyway. Sat there. Grinning, as if we didn’t already realize this was the...

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Categories: denial, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
Elusive Dream
In my mind, God was but an elusive dream Unperceived, invisible yet omnipresent A favourite tale with a feel-good theme Spread by religion through fear and prayer I gave little credence to the thought of his existence Till I found faith after years of denial In human beings do I seek him For serving man is serving God ...

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Categories: denial, dream, faith, fear, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Fear Envy Denial FED
Being fed when corrupt agents gather junk sick fentanyl addicts functioning only by giving false confusion in exchange for a cup of coffee at Denny’s bus tickets from Alabama to Nashville to Chicago where informants are being tossed in front of moving cars faceless unrecognisable finally the ultimate what’s in the box it’s a human...

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Categories: denial, allah,
Form: Masnavi
Premium Member Grieve
Thirty-nine and thirty-eight… Let me get this straight. Thirty-seven and thirty-six… How can I be in this fix? Thirty-five and thirty-four… Are you sure there is no more? Thirty-three and thirty-two… What can I do? Thirty-one and thirty… Now I'm getting shirty! Twenty-nine and twenty-eight… I don't accept this fate! Twenty-seven and twenty-six… I refuse to be in this fix! Twenty-five and twenty-four… I’ll settle this score. Twenty-three and twenty-two… What's my...

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Categories: denial, anger, death, depression, grief,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Stages
It cowers in the corner, newly born. I turn my spite-soaked back, riddled with resentment and pull the thin veil to sink beneath its cover. I will not watch it crawl, but it breathes, a shadow at the edge of my own threatening to merge. It waits, as I do for nothing while I ignore its cries and mine. And I turn to stone silently refusing the darkness at my feet. ~ It screams a...

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Categories: denial, anger, death, depression, sister,
Form: Personification
My Beautiful Life; the Story
The choices had I made the plans I had laid only I could truly understand the life I could see the person I would be a life‘s a fit for kings would be grand The wounds I felt the bruises I was dealt I came out alive but I’m broken It was at the cost my fantasy was...

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Categories: denial, abuse, child abuse, childhood,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Denial vs Healing
Entry for contrast poetry contest. Hilo Poet To keep the denial alive, meant not sitting still Filling days with work and fun, escapes of all kinds at will These days seemed fine, my face showed off smiles No-one could see inside, no-one could know anything is wrong I raced around all kinds of places, met people, socializing beyond limits Some memories...

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Categories: denial, change, growth, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member AnaLytTCaL DENIAL--
Obsessed missing engagement Containment process derailment Confused enlightenment Embodiment confession Google Maps guidance Translucent misguided Placed in a New Direction ~~Analytical Denial 6/17/24 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2024...

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Categories: denial, angst, anxiety, destiny, engagement,
Form: Dramatic Verse

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