Depression Good Morning Poems

Goodbye is a feast finished
The last morsel down the hatch
Improper to ask for seconds
No aperitif to this lonely hunger

For every goodbye must be a hello
Even...

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It's been an odd dream, hasn't it?

I can taste my breath behind this mask
The sweet bitterness of cold brew and hazelnuts
As I run out to...

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Faith (in the garden)

The bright yellow faces
of the sunflowers look right into the sky. 
They peer up and know they are smiled upon. 
We should...

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I have no right, 
Or good reason,
For the sadness, 
That flares from within.
Maybe I long for a place,
I can't remember, 
Or a love, 
That's smothered...

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I Rise
I open the windows of my humble adobe
I breathe in the mountain air
I make a pot of coffee
Then read the News...

Recession, inflation 
Homeless, addiction...

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Let go -  and fly
Every morning Rising Like Displaced ether 
Merging into the miracle of life
Such grandeur I cannot guess 
Why We are blessed...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Depression 

I wrote a poem that made me depressed
it took out me my natural sense of optimism
left me with the reality of the truth.
I never...

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Depression overrules my mental during the most blindsided times
Smile on social media but I’m crying inside
Work hard everyday but I really miss Crime
When I was...

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Washing Instructions

Put the clothes in the washer. 
not quickly, but slowly. 
There was a day, 
this would all be done, 
by hand. 

Four or five...

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If ocean was coffee, I was a duck,

I'd swim to the bottom, never come up,

But ocean's not coffee, I'm not a duck,

So bring me coffee...

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THE MEDITATOR

 Oh what joy it seems to me
Drinking an early morning tea.

While watching the sun rise across the Bay
Changing night into day.

My Maltese, lies...

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Sleepy set of eyes
Awoke to write 
A little blurry they still type 
Through a sleepy set of eyes
Blinking once blinking twice
These eyes adjust
Helping to read...

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Waking up to despair,
sadness,
bone-tired at war with a beeping alarm clock,
an alarming list of immediately urgent responsibilities
without an opportunity in sight,
or at least not this...

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"A SILVER DOLLAR IN A PENNY POND"


they say life can be exquisite. 
they say life can be a sensation. 
they say life can be otherworldly.
when...

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