Depression Poems - Examples of all types of depression poetry to share and read. This list of depression poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Depression is a medical illness which causes ones to feel hopeless, helpless, and worthless. For those who suffer from discouragement and chronic sadness, writing poems about their severe disorder has helped them to cope and find comfort. Additionally, reading poetry about depression can help ones see that there is optimism for ones with this disease and that they are not alone. Read
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Hell and back
Hell and back again
Lyrics sung with a sullen note
With lingering anxiety building in my throat
I feel that I cannot speak and must go
Unable to keep pushing this down
My Sunday laughter now...
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Categories:
depression, anxiety, boyfriend, break up,
Form: Rhyme
TURN BLUE MONDAY INTO 'BREW MONDAY'
The third Monday of January is often referred to as 'Blue Monday'.
Christmas is over
decorations packed away ~
all rooms lack sparkle
I step on the scales
new year resolution failed ~
I must have candy
huge bills now arrived
Christmas overspend...
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Categories:
depression, january,
Form: Senryu
Tactical
He’s seen himself
twice
in four days.
Moving mineral from mythic,
I present to you one invisible goddamned man.
A wheel-spinning spirit, efforts of the dervish are occasionally futile. Over the maelstrom’s edge, he gets but occasional...
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Categories:
depression, allegory, anger, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
I Rest HereWithout a fear,
I rest here
Without shedding a tear,
I joyfully sing in cheer
Please be here
To set me free from fear
I tried not to cry, but to fly
My unspoken, broken pride
Said otherwise, can’t deny
There’s no where left...
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Categories:
angst, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Lyric
Can't Cope No MoreCan't take no more
I just can't cope anymore,
The pain is debilitating,
The addiction consuming,
Both exhausting.
The dark corners of my mind are closing in, there all I can see clearly,
The demonic whispers fill my ears loudly,
I feel...
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Categories:
addiction, body, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Tears without a meaningI held my pain in for so long I'm now crying tears without a meaning
As a man I'm not supposed to let people know when I'm in pain and bleeding
They will just tell me to...
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Categories:
cry, deep, depression, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Watered Down JuiceMy favorite painting-a special theme
A small bright colored truck that sells ice cream
How flavorless and pale its nature now seems
Its palette has faded for many a year
It speaks fatigued like an old man’s dream
Its vision...
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Categories:
depression, emotions, how i
Form: Rhyme
In my headThe thoughts in my head
You shouldn't have woken up this morning
You should be dead
I catch a glimpse in the mirror
Come a little closer
so I can see you clearer
I can see...
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Categories:
anxiety, deep, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
idlenesstrapped under my own weight
like a horseshoe crab with a broken tail
that’s been flipped upside down;
clenching helplessly,
unable to right itself.
i’m nailed to the ground,
paining and burning
under the very sun
that makes this world
a beautiful...
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Categories:
angst, beach, depression, hurt,
Form: Free verse
I hope I learn soonYou chase rainbows only to find storms.
You forget that life is about journeys and not destinations.
That life is about freedom to explore.
I hope I learn soon.
Loneliness creates illusions.
Illusions create doubts.
Doubts create unstable...
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Categories:
depression, anger, angst, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Still With MeI try not to crumble--
you do not see my
break
downs —
I simply
will not let you—
till somehow,
some way,
in the cracks—
unblinking insect
eyes peep through.
They are my own eyes
and they are stunned.
The eyes speak—
shakily do they
speak:
"You are still...
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Categories:
anxiety, conflict, courage, depression,
Form: Free verse
Carpets Cant FlyCarpets Can't Fly
i gave you what i didn't have, so i guess that's a negative
i loved you with love i didn't acquire, so i guess that's why you hate me
NO! YOU! i laid...
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Categories:
depression, anger, betrayal, break up,
Form: Free verse
Must've Fallen Asleep In Class That DayI thought I
wanted
to be
Broken
So I could
feel,
so Life
...
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Categories:
angst, bereavement, depression, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The hornetA daughter to a mother who could hardly meet the ends
A sister to siblings who had climates as friends
A wife to the man who would always keep her burning like in a...
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Categories:
depression, anti bullying, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
HungryBatting away
the hold on me to
rebuke all kindness
to expel in blindness
the vomit that is dread.
I fear too many things
on an empty stomach, so
I inhale the final drops
of my woeful sustenance—
where...
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Categories:
depression, anxiety, change, conflict, dark,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Depression Poems
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