Mental Illness Poems. Below are examples of poems about mental illness. This list of mental illness poems is composed of the works of modern international poet members of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, famous, and modern examples of mental illness poetry. This list of works about mental illness is an excellent resource for examples on how to write mental illness poems.
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Shadow Dwellers
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Tektite Tears
| Free verse |
mental illness, caregiving, community, depression, humanity,
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Fading Away
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Tektite Tears
| Free verse |
mental illness, color, dark, encouraging, flower,
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Take My Hand
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Tektite Tears
| Free verse |
mental illness, encouraging, inspirational love, love,
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Story Lessons
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
mental illness, anti bullying, caregiving, health,
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Past pain
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Bethany Harnwell
| I do not know? |
mental illness,
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Would you still love me
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Chassidy Guevara
| Free verse |
mental illness,
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Untangled
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Maia Mengel
| I do not know? |
mental illness, anxiety, emotions, how i
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A Bird With Pinioned Wings
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Edward Ibeh
| Verse |
mental illness, analogy, depression, freedom, happiness,
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YOPD
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Alison Nel
| Free verse |
mental illness, courage, encouraging, health, mental
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BIPOLAR
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nette onclaud
| Verse |
conflict, mental illness,
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Forsaken Voices
by Lu Loo
I hear the utter in my mind with comfort and ease,
but will my insanity find that these voices could cease?
There’s the noise and confusion, unrested...
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Categories:
mental illness, metaphor,
Understanding
by Ahmad Abu-Gdairi
Solace at last.
My eyes see the truth,
And you? Blinded by yours.
My phears have granted me wisdom.
You still phear me, but I am no threat to...
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Categories:
crazy, hurt, mental illness,
Threatening Whispers
by Gary Smith
I try so hard not to listen,
Yet still I hear their voices, mocking.
A constant stream of threatening whispers,
My sanity was surely rocking.
They told me folk...
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Categories:
mental illness, voice,
What Is Wrong With Him
by Caren Krutsinger
She’s not right.
She has something wrong with her.
She has a screw loose.
She’s got problems.
What is wrong with him?
How do we fix that?
I am no doctor...
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Categories:
mental illness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Inferiority Complex
by matthew harris
Although yours truly modest,
the only personal issue
I will lightly boast about
constitutes lingering
self worthlessness bred
if not...
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Categories:
mental illness, age, conflict, destiny, fate,
nothing so lonely
by deb radke
nothing so lonely
as a mind swirling with noise
amidst reality
11/30/2018...
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Categories:
mental illness,
Meditation Guru Me
by matthew harris
Meditation Guru Me...
Spiritual tranquility (uber visionary)
welcoming yuletide zen,
sans relinquishing down
lyft ting thoughts
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Categories:
mental illness, growth, health, longing, mental
Untitled
by Kevin Crossed
I want to smash a window and swallow its remains
Atleast internal bleeding would get rid of all this pain
Sometimes I feel like killing all inside...
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Categories:
mental illness, anxiety, body, death, depression,
Emotional Slave
by Elena Welsh
I'm a slave to my emotions
they control my thoughts, my actions
my mind
I'm a ticking time-bomb of emotional reactions
unable to function like the rest of humankind
My...
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Categories:
mental illness,
MENTAL COLLAPSE
by Poet Self
she knelt down sobbing
could not face her tragedy
sedatives don’t work
she quickly collapsed
taken instantly to hospital
in the rubber room
now she sits quietly
talking to herself in belief
straight...
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Categories:
mental illness,
LIVING WITH MENTAL ILLNESS
by Cindi Rockwell
No one understands you, not even you yourself.
Trapped in a cage that only you can see
The combination lock rusted shut since
You gambled away the secret...
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Categories:
mental illness, caregiving, depression, family, mental
Do you Know my name
by Emily Schmittling
You know my name but do you know me,
I live in the mind of many you see,
Hidden behind a series of masks,
I make everything difficult...
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Categories:
mental illness, depression, life, meaningful, mental
The I of the storm
by Chris Green
The I of the storm
I search for the storm, the source of the spinning
those pillaging hurricanes blurring the eye
That cyclone of fear, the tempest beginning,
with...
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Categories:
mental illness,
THE I OF THE STORM
by Ann Gilmour
I wake feeling groggy
from the tablets at night
Dulling my mind so I can escape
the thoughts going round in my head
Feeling safe as I hide in...
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Categories:
angst, mental illness, prison,
The Edge of February
by Robin Regan
Kiss me.
Kiss my lips on in the no man's land between warring trenches.
Roll me in rhe barbed wire killing fields among the mud...
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Blank verse |
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Categories:
love, mental illness,
Perpetual Queasy Student Days recess 2
by matthew harris
mysterious as Lemuel
unlike hundreds of
other rowdy seniors
constituting the nineteen
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Categories:
mental illness, boy, discrimination, education, mental
Stuck Inside the Eye of the Storm
by Lu Loo
I was stuck inside the eye of the storm.
No shelter nor blanket could keep me warm.
I knew not how to rescue myself from distress,...
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Categories:
depression, life, mental illness,
Inside The Mad Throes
by Jo Daniel
Shackled by the fetters of deep desperation,
Can't break it free, can't break it free,
My mind voice rises to the top of consternation,
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Categories:
deep, mental illness,
Machinating the Manger Scene
by Sheri Fresonke Harper
I dreamed once a future
with Mary and her long claws
suspended from a dragon body
captive and held by force field
hidden beneath a big cowled robe
saddened by...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
mental illness, angel, christmas, dream, mental
My Oubliette
by Gary Smith
My companion is confusion
There are demons to be fought.
They reside inside my mind,
Messing with my thoughts.
I try not to listen
But they whisper in my ear,
They...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
anxiety, fear, mental illness,