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Ink Drops Like Rain

Ink Drops Like Rain

The Devil tried to take a bite of me. 
I watched his ringlets twirl. 
I've finally reached the spot
where I knew I was going to be. 
It's a lose lose, to hell 
and back to tell all that I see. 

I asked for pens from the devil's guard. 
He thinks he knows

Categories: mental hospital, abuse, age, allegory, analogy,
Form: Rhyme

I wish I were put in a mental hospital

I wish I were put in a mental hospital.
I wish the doctor would say I need help.
I wish my teacher would tell others I won't be around.
I wish my clothes turned into a hospital gown.

Because, maybe then, people would know the truth.
They would know I wasn't joking.
They would know how hard my life is.
And mainly,

Categories: mental hospital, deep, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse

Mental Hospital

Take me to the place where my mind can embrace healing grace,
Give me your ear and let me spill out my pain to your face.
Give me your arms stretched out to a a hug oh so tight.
Dazzle my mind while making my fears run with freight.

Categories: mental hospital, depression,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Crowd That Is Me - Mental Hospital 4

It is a strange inner world, if you live there alone. In me eight boys hide, a couple of villains, some discarded toys, screeching birds, and overall a host of an undefined kind.
This is an astonishing accomplishment, largely because I live in a small frame, all the same they fit in there, a strange affair,

Categories: mental hospital, angst, anxiety, humorous, mental
Form: Prose Poetry

A Faithful Bed - Mental Hospital 3

The day has come, a smiling sun shines through bold bars, across the room to the door, ajar, projecting the bars on the door as if it is definitely and eternally closed to go out or come in.

The swirling, smiling haze of the past few days is slowly lifting. The rectangle of the open door

Categories: mental hospital, allegory, funny, humorous, mental
Form: Narrative

Bouncing Ball - Mental Hospital 2

A new day, a new exercise, a new function. Yesterday they said I resemble a bouncing ball, today I am, skimming and skipping. All round and affectionately kickable.

Somehow I have always known I am one. After all one doesn't become a ball overnight. It's a slow process. To start with, you pull your knees up,

Categories: mental hospital, allegory, analogy, satire, self,
Form: Narrative

A Talking Door - Mental Hospital 1

I sit with the wall against my back. The wall refuses to move despite endless requests.

The door opens and closes its mouth, it wishes to say something, but nothing comes of it, only its letterbox chatters ceaselessly and without any deep meaning to it, drops hints every now and then.

The wall is annoyed with the

Categories: mental hospital, allusion, anxiety, mental illness,
Form: Narrative

Hah, Mental Hospital Ftw

HAH!
This place
Allows me to mail
No social media

I negotiated this morning
Told them how unhappy I am
if I can't write
That I need to be able
to reach my blog for it
and PoetrySoup
HAH!

So they negotiated with me:
1) I speak in group sessions (oh yuck, I stutter)
2) They can see what poems I write (oh, yeah, why not!)
3) I do

Categories: mental hospital, absence, anxiety, cool, depression,
Form: Narrative

My First Day At the Mental Hospital

On a cold, dark, winter day at the end of November
I checked into a mental hospital, for what? I can't remember.

I must mention that the people there were crazier than I
So, at first, I could not help but be a little bit shy.

First, I met a depressed woman who was receiving ECT
I shouldn't have been

Categories: mental hospital, fun, funny, how i
Form: Rhyme

To Be Sent To the Mental Hospital

Hot Tent,
I almost purposely lost my mind,
to be confined to four walls
of intesifying white,
but if the pen was a threat
I'd hospitalize my life
by falling ill to death,
a little more 
and I'd sink into
my hands in one sweet sobbing drone
to drown in fumes-
so take me to the tent, because
I proper express my emotions in vent,
doctors purely

Categories: mental hospital, confusion, depression, fear, health,
Form: Free verse

Mental Hospital Bills

dadgum doctors, heads up their butts
poking, prodding, pricking skin
neurologist a psychopath
gets pleasure as electric volts pass through my body

family doctor showed little concern
made me paranoid about irregular heartbeat
EKG failed to determine cause
left me more in doubt than at ease

dentist like a character from Dustin Hoffman’s “Marathon Man”
the more pain inflicted
the more he rejoiced
deep root cleaning

Categories: mental hospital, education, sad, slam, me,
Form: Free verse