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Depression Free Verse Poems

These Depression Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Depression. These are the best examples of Free Verse Depression poems written by international poets.


THE TOMB OF MIRRORS
There’s this voice that echoes inside of me,in the pit of my soul
He has long sharp nails, with which he tears down the walls of...

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Categories: anxiety, bereavement, child abuse,



IN THE LAND OF PEACE
Once upon a time
in a faraway land
There was an old man, who had forgotten how to speak
His eyes would stare into the sky, void of...

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Categories: abuse, corruption, death, dedication,

Justice ,denied
With bloody hands, rusty hair and a dammed soul
I walked out ,stepping on the rotten meat 
As my lungs struggled to breathe down the fragrance...

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Categories: abuse, bereavement, betrayal, dark,

Premium Member Choices I make
There are arches and doorknobs
I feel with my hands but,
instead of pushing through,
around and round
i meander clueless,
my head in a cloud
caught up in the darkness
I...

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Categories: dark, depression, loneliness,

Broken Girl
Alcohol to numb the pains.  
Cigarettes to taste something other than hate.  
Sex to escape the constant loud voices in my head. ...

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Categories: anxiety, childhood, depression, emotions,



Divorce
Do you remember how it felt? 
Do you know what it feels like to feel worthless, not enough, to question love? 
Do you remember not...

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Categories: anxiety, childhood, depression, divorce,

Cancer
Cancer, a six-letter word that doesn’t mean much to most people. 
Then the word suddenly has more power than a shot to the chest. 
You...

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Categories: anxiety, cancer, care, deep,

My Eye, the Grave of Words
To keep my words from falling apart,
I need the blood that leaves my heart.

I chose to stay and face the pain,
so it won’t feel so...

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Categories: dark, depression, introspection, mental

Unshackle Me
The shackles that hold me
Visible to my eye alone.

The collar around my neck
Only cause I allow it.

The chains around my feet
Have bound me to this...

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Categories: africa, dark, depression, how

Premium Member Kensington Avenue

The wheels of the chaotic times churn for them
the sands of crushed dreams in the desert of desiccated life,
settling frenzied on the unstratified fragile structure...

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Categories: addiction, depression, mental illness,

Blank Stares
Blank stares. 
Nothing. 
Growling. 
Blank stares which seem endless. 
Just comfortable enough. 
Then prodding feelings. 
It’s not good.
This town. 
Is just a blank note. 
There...

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Categories: depression,

Destruction
Depression. 
Wet floor signs everywhere. 
So are puddles. 
Falling. 

Despair. 
That feeling where you are covered in leaves. 
And some leaves blow away. 
But some...

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Categories: angst, depression,

Gone Are the Days
I look back to the halcyon days
When Mrs Johnson,
A comely widow, ran fruitful
Errands for the new railway, and for
Our undeveloped district.
A frail, little maid in...

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Categories: death, depression, mother, mother

Crime of Sex
They called it short gratification—
but I lost my soul in the trade.
A moment’s pleasure,
for a lifetime of emptiness,
a spark that consumed
the temple I once was.

O...

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Categories: depression, divorce, drug, funny

Depression
Horrible things. 
Toothaches and no one does anything about it. 
On my skin, there are pores where anything possible could grow. 
No one knows much...

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Categories: depression,


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