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Mental Health Poems | Examples of Mental Health Poetry

Mental Health Poems - Examples of all types of mental health poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for mental health.
The Doll
There once was a doll Bruised and battered Slanted on a wall Like it never mattered. The doll once mattered When the girl was small And her dreams weren't shattered As she was yet to fall. She fell along with her doll Embraced...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, childhood, death, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme



Risen, From my 2nd collection In sanity
Another sun has risen And those dreams forgiven Past miss takes were illuminated And in sleep they were illustrated Shown pictures of pleasures and pain Painted on my mind it all seemed so plain At the moment when hope had left...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Where my memory's go
I had a moment to see Flashbacks Rewind, Rewind my memory I need these thoughts to breath Fireworks to help me feel Light my mind Keep me spinning on this timeline Moments ago, we touched hands and it touched my soul Only my heartbeats...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, bereavement, friendship love, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member When I Am Up - For Mental Health Month
When I am up, every sky is a boundless, cloudless expanse of brilliantly blinding blue. When I am up, I am William the Conqueror and William Shakespeare and William Jennings Bryan all in one. When I am...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, how i feel, love,
Form: Free verse
Destroy your mental health!
Destroy your mental health and your dark brain! Kill your nervous system, mine is intact, and gene. I am a gene, stay away, you are a psychopath fate. A psychopath, a sociopath, a monster, and a fake. You are...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, psychological,
Form: Rhyme



Shadows of the Eternal Night
I inhabit a realm where contradiction and paradox intertwine, as intimately as vines warmed by Cleopatra's lips. By my very nature, I exist in a state of "woke" and in slumber, endowed with a divine...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, art, evil, extended metaphor,
Form: Other
When silence speaks
When you’re down and out but you got an image to uphold, but it feels so unnatural and you feel you never fit your mould. You give your best impression, but then people call you...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, dream, faith, hope, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Rumination
People with heavy minds, They are of all kinds, Yet all are entrapped with the same binds; They think and think more, Than they blink in few clinks, Of those binds. How heavy of chains they...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, conflict, depression, feelings, mental
Form: Free verse
Mothered
opposite the I, is where i reside. endure and bide, endlessly. You see My person, nod at this version, never question My identity, You're right in me, not entirely. Your gaze cant see, everything outside Me, ever watching you, unaware I am two. observe me please, ease my...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, childhood, depression, growing up,
Form: Rhyme
The body talks
Psst hey sub c, you feel that? Seems like she’s making changes, but do you think she really means it this time. As her sub c, I can feel the shift within her attitude. Specifically...Read the rest...
Categories: blessing, meaningful, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
To be well
Just want to be well, That all is swell, Where I don't have to dwell On the past Thinking how I've lasted To this moment of time That is is starting to feel like a crime But is not because...Read the rest...
Categories: happiness, health, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Overflow
A bleached blonde sunset that arrogates my depression. I've outgrown the inability to smile at the joke with no punchline. Listening to the noise on the radio is enough to bring anyone to an emotional crash. My phone...Read the rest...
Categories: depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse
A solitary figure
In the dimly lit corners of her existence, She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence. From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born, Destined to wander, forsaken and torn. In childhood's tender grasp, she stood...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, dark, loneliness, lost, mental
Form: Rhyme
Insanity and Reality
In the halls of my mind I walk as I ponder, Over things that trouble me, big and small, Over things that tear me asunder; As though I was made for this toll. And I burn and melt and...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, confusion, hope, introspection, me,
Form: Ballad
Until Death Do Us Apart
I want to run away But have got no way out of here I want to just sit ‘n’ cry But have got all my tears frozen I want to endlessly smile But…… just got no reason. I want to dance...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, bereavement, cancer, death, depression,
Form: Free verse

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