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Depression Life Poems

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

Are You Planning to Kill Yourself by Caren Krutsinger

Are you planning to kill yourself?
Yes.
When?
As soon as I get home from school.
How?
My dad has a gun, and I know how to load it.
Deep breath...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: depression, life,

Around It Goes by eric ploscik

When your world is crumbling 
With so many different layers
Yearning for simplicity and serenity
Not this awful complexity
You can't even think straight
Let alone function
I know there's...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: depression, god, life,

Patch Doll by Ohseannah Hannaesho

Rain chasing rain,
My mother’s heritage
The ability of being used;
Make me smile,	
Touch my hand,
And I am there, slave to a glimpse of acceptance.
Patch doll,
Patches of unfulfilled...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, blue, deep, depression, sad,

Symposia by Trey Hamner

I invite you all to a symposia, a series,
A bunch of events on uplifting the dreary
I encourage everyone to please convene
On how we might unravel...

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Details | Enclosed Rhyme |

Categories: life, anger, angst, anxiety, depression,

Live-Love-Life by eric ploscik

Hypnotic state
Open to suggestion
Gonna find a way
Out of this crushing depression
Don't want to be led around
On a leash
A puppet on a string
Don't need a pill
To...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, philosophy,

Triggermortis by Rico Leffanta

Do you cheat on your spouse in your dreams?
Does your heart ache so much that it screams?
When reality sucks
Go to work for the bucks
Life is...

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Details | Limerick |

Categories: life, betrayal, culture, depression, dream,

Family Dogg by Brianna Hobson

Take me for a walk, 
I'll bite the neighbors as they talk
Nothing rhymes with family
Favoritism breeds insanity

I try to sit at the table, 
but my...

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Details | Personification |

Categories: life, absence, abuse, animal, depression,

Cowslip by Brianna Hobson

Milk gums
Milk teeth
For all the years I didn't speak
Milk for all the children that don't exist

In desperation,
I drained it all into a bottle
Let it dribble...

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, abortion, animal, baby, flower,

SURVIVAL AMIDST THE STRUGGLE by Finney Ojong

THIS WORLD CORNERS MY HEART WITH FEAR
AGAINST SOME MANLY STRIFES SO HARD TO BEAR
WHEN LOVE ONES ARE SO DISTANT THAN NEAR
JOY AND SURVIVAL ARE SUSPENDED...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: life, adventure, africa, depression, fate,

A Life Without You by Tera Brown

A life without you,
Is like an empty soul,
A whole in the heart,
A feeling of not wanting to bleed anymore,
A life without you,
Can make you feel...

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Details | ABC |

Categories: life, confusion, crazy, depression,

The Writer by Patrick Doran

He thought that maybe
he was a writer.
That it would make
all their futures
a little bit brighter.
But that’s not going to
put food on the table.
Unless he writes...

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Details | I do not know? |

Categories: anxiety, depression, journey, life,

Life On The Rocks by M.P. Shaudd

I'm one quarter whiskey
I'm a quarter heartache
One half a man
With a splash of mistakes

My lifes on the rocks
As I drown in the rye
There's a mountain...

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Details | Lyric |

Categories: life, abuse, addiction, angst, anxiety,

The Fall by Patrick Doran

What you see
on the outside
is not what I am
on the inside.
Crippled by
my own fears.
Starting to dread
the oncoming years.
People look and think
that I have it all.
They...

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Details | I do not know? |

Categories: anxiety, confusion, depression, life,

BECOMING EIGHTEEN by Emmanuel Adedayo Ojelade

BECOMING EIGHTEEN

Now I can go to jail
Have for myself, a bad name
If I take the wrong steps
And follow evil men

One that I would carry with...

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Details | Imagism |

Categories: life, birthday, childhood, confusion, depression,

The counsellors prayer by Kale Brereton

Take my fear away
Let me speak 
With clarity
Let my lips move
While my heart proves
The truth
About depression
Addiction
And anxiety.


Kale Brereton
August 22, 2018

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, addiction, anxiety, depression, inspirational,

Speeds of Time by Lee McKenzie McKinnon

Enjoy the time we had together as time runs out at different speeds, 
For each of us the path is drawn yet neither knows where...

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Details | ABC |

Categories: deep, depression, life,

past lives by Kale Brereton


I looked back
At my footprints
Then took a picture
To remember 
The last time
I ever looked back

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Details | Free verse |

Categories: life, addiction, anxiety, depression, inspirational,

Sunshine Caught by Micheal Dallmann

I wake to nightmares, taking me down into the dark. You are nowhere to be seen, I scream, almost to no avail. You run when...

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Details | I do not know? |

Categories: life, beautiful, blessing, dedication, depression,

There Are Days When by Subimal Sinha-Roy


THERE ARE DAYS WHEN

The unsure path is steep and rough, I’m so tired 
My legs refuse to walk any farther without prop
On a futile journey...

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Details | Rhyme |

Categories: depression, hope, journey, life,

Slow recovery by Ryan Hughes

Exhausted in my borrowed used up skin
Writing letters with blood upon the window
of those who wont listen cause i threw away my crayon 
Imprisoned in...

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Details | I do not know? |

Categories: depression, life,