Depression Memorial Poems

A Flock of Startled Birds

He had sat for an hour on a long, low, flat rock,
He had checked himself over from bald patch to sock.
His...

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From an abandoned sky comes images from on high
tossing away the things that make us sane 
Subliminally casting all away to an abandoned sky

from nothing...

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The table is old and worn
nicks and scratches 
its red plastic tablecloth left over from a forgotten Christmas
its holiday pattern worn and forlorn
many a Thanksgiving...

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Are there ghosts on Hessle Road
Do the bell bottomed boys
Slide quietly into Rayners
For the pint, the craic, the noise.
Do their pockets still jingle
Until, having spent...

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I'm getting sick of missing you
Forgive the wish to see this through
The way we lived has left you cold
Ashes last, but not to hold

Whisper secrets,...

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Take me to the ocean 
By Michelle Morris
21/11/2022

You stepped out onto the beach
Not seeing the beauty that lay before you
Thoughts and memories tumbling over
So rapidly...

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(Series: A prisoner needs love)


The train of time passed and left it furrows on foreheads.

I want to release myself from an imaginary prison to the...

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A trio of people 
stand arms embraced
all distant in space
Around a fourth 
all forgotten of face
The room is bare 
only a single bulbs 
hangs here...

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My cat is a rescue me,
The abandonment of loneliness
He had his Forever Home promise
My love and affection were his.

See, he turns out to be, 
Complete...

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Here & there, everywhere 
lie pieces & parts of me
I exist only in the moments between what is and will be…

Taking a ride to the...

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As long shadows flew out before me
Like raven swings, fluttering
Stiff, gentle winds carry 
Winters chill not far behind

Sun-lit cars are all in sharp relief 
Setting...

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Reflections are divergent 
images composite
negatives of dreams 
an alternate stream. 

Calculations of precise reality reflected.
diverge and coalesce? In memories 
Stacked as photographs fade…

Reflections are divergent...

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To Babylon, we came...
To watch the rise of Tower 
The Tower of Cain
A fortress of dark n eternal pain

Stretching to the vaults of heaven 
to...

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alone
in a crowded room 
people pass faces glance 
void they are… 
 
no thought to anyone's soul 
or ponderings of creation 
just shells walking in...

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A turning nation
Turn around we all fall

The tall are bound but small
Here comes the crown, swords drawn

A nation turns and the world 
burns spin with...

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