Depression Free Verse Poems

Where had my smile gone?
I all this alot.
It was stolen from me;
I wish it were not.
My frown always saddens me;
But I can't seem to stop.
I...

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I choose to be alone, which makes insanity a must
Breathing to live, but dying to trust
My soul years to love, but my heart disagrees
My mind...

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The mirror is not my friend today,
just like it wasn't last week.
The reflection I see when my eyes peer in
makes me cringe with each sob,
showing...

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Feeling lost is the worst feeling in the world and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.
It feels like I'm walking around not being able to...

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I was feeling like I was beginning to forgive
I had started to make peace

So, I decided to reach out
Test the waters
Extend an olive twig

And within...

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If a nickel's worth a quarter and a quarter a fourth of a buck I have a dollar do I have any luck, did I...

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When the world gets too loud
I can’t see past the crowd 
Or decipher the voices
And choose what’s allowed

At the mercy of sinners
Not even the winners
Just...

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Wolfgang sits alone in a Berlin bar 
Plying drink to drink's still darker state,
Depressed, alone, and full of hate 
For what he has become.

Young backpack...

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"Black Diamonds and the Benefits of Ylang Ylang"



The prescription
was to write

black diamonds
against the pale 
antidote

cutting glass
precisely, words
gargled slowly

she bled

diagnosis
Jung
and the benefits 

of Ylang Ylang

Feeling all...

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We all have our dark side
Secretly aching for love 
Wanting to be needed
We all want to be rich
Shining like diamond in the thick dark night
But...

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Summer's Fog
Morning is not here yet
I cannot see
The sleeping town in front of me.
A refreshing air comes from the west
Palm trees stand in the fog
While...

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I love you so please don’t slip away 
I love you so please don’t let these things take you away 
I love you so please...

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"But love's a malady without a cure."
-"John Dryden"

Forbidden Song

The jury sits, pallid and grave,
well versed in the ways of "society" and "correctness",
he appears, drowned in...

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Clawing out of myself
Disregarding pieces of my face 
As she cracks into large crevices.
Losing the façade of retaining my youth
Fighting for nothing
Caring not
Giving up now
My...

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Yesterday's direction's have swiftly taken flight like a blue jay's flight.  Turning to the right to find my way out I became 
bewildered. ...

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