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Sinking again
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Carly Davies
| ABC |
mental illness, anxiety, depression, fear, mental
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Insomnia Brain
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Todd Aguilar Jr.
| Lyric |
mental illness, anxiety, confusion, good night,
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There Are Days When
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Francesca Pappadogiannis
| Rhyme |
anxiety, mental illness,
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Fight or flight
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Gordon Alexander
| Free verse |
depression, fear, mental illness,
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Small-Town Herpe-s
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EL UU
| I do not know? |
mental illness, abuse, addiction, analogy, conflict,
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Insecure Projectors
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EL UU
| Dramatic Monologue |
mental illness, analogy, animal, anti bullying,
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very rare
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blank face
| Haiku |
mental illness, abuse, addiction, angst, anxiety,
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Give her back soon
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Roy Pett
| Free verse |
mental illness, anxiety, depression, devotion, mental
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PCS Accredited Mess
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Maureen McGreavy
| Senryu |
appreciation, me, mental illness,
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Peace Not War
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Alexander Ross
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fear, mental illness, military,
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Cyclic
by David Stearns
Disguising things on puppet strings
Let me go please, let me go
I’m pulled straight out of my mind
My twisted affliction a sadistic addiction
An unsolvable encryption as...
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Blank verse |
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Categories:
anger, depression, mental illness,
when you can not say fine when you don't mean it
by Maureen McGreavy
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Free verse |
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Categories:
hope, introspection, mental illness,
Dark Times
by Lucy Harley
Dark Times
Draining me, dragging me, down into your dungeon
The same black hole that you keep on plunging into
Falling, pulling me down there with you
I...
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mental illness, anger, dark, depression, mental
Think twice before using that knife
by Sheila Van Zant
You had better think twice before using that knife;
You won't be protected because that guy is well connected;
You are first on the list the...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
mental illness, addiction, anger, bullying, conflict,
Running
by Amar Qamar
I’m running to cleanse my soul.
“From what? To where?”
At this moment I do not care.
Rain drops beat against my face.
I run on faster, into...
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Imagism |
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mental illness, anxiety, change, depression, mental
Dying is the only answer
by Raj Ranjit
What's my fault I'm facing the problem like that
It's the fact
What was my mistake god I'm so sad
And you are bad
Unexpected day unexpected memories
Full...
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depression, feelings, mental illness,
DoubleBinding Riddles
by Gerald Dillenbeck
When is physical restraint equipment
also dirty laundry?
When your daughter vomits
all over her school bus transport harness,
When she could have more safely,
and less expensively, traveled
in a...
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mental illness, anxiety, bullying, conflict, health,
There Ought to be a Golden Rule
by Gerald Dillenbeck
There ought to be a law
If CEOs ignore firestorm conflagrations
expanding in strength
and endurance
And ignore wet windstorms
wiping out resident populations,
humane and Republican
and otherwise,
If CEOs meanwhile invest...
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fire, health, mental illness,
The Feel Good Against Revolution
by Gerald Dillenbeck
A difference between co-dependent feel-good rallies
and interdependent revolutions
is also the difference
between Negative LoseLose bipolarity
and Positive WinWin Energy,
dipolar co-arising.
CoDependency is a double-binding
tolerance of addictive mendacity
sharing common...
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mental illness, anti bullying, fear, health,
Mind PLAYIN TRICKS ON YOU
by James Edward Lee Sr.
The rose is such a tender flower
With thorns mini spikes that'll stick ya!
What's that
Mind playin tricks on you
Your head houses components electric
What's wrong short circuit
What's...
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mental illness, allegory, allusion, anxiety, depression,
I LOVE Meditation Mediating Mindful Poems
by Anil Deo
A mind can be renewed if a mind can be observed
What exaggerated stories, what web of lies do I tell myself,
When things go wrong? Do...
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Terza Rima |
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mental illness, abuse, change, christian, deep,
The Last Hour
by John Jeremy Semena
Cursed be the evening,
in which anger and despair
lead to mourning perpetually
under the night's chilly air
To rise when the eyes see,
the sun's gaze upon the earth
is...
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mental illness, absence, abuse, allegory, anger,
I hurt at night
by Lewis Raynes
I hurt at night, in the quiet and dark,
I hurt with the earth, stars and moon,
Alone and empty, torn apart from inside,
I pick...
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Quatrain |
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mental illness, anger, loneliness, lost love,
He Calls Himself Pierre
by Elena Welsh
Not all mentors are positive
I’ve come to realize
In fact, mine is quite causative
Of things from which I agonize
He calls himself Pierre
And...
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Free verse |
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mental illness,
Obsessed
by Samara Khasru
Obsession, Fears, Anxiety,
Waking the mind of the suffering,
Losing the comfort of Normalcy,
Gaining the feeling of Confusion about one's own mind.
My thoughts and fears haunt...
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mental illness, anxiety, confusion, depression, mental
Her flickering light
by Lewis Raynes
Cold and dark where once was warm,
Feelings of black ooze a straight,
Line of grime down to her floor,
In her hall of demoralized waste,
And...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
angst, dark, mental illness,
Hollow
by Regina Elliott
dark hunger arrives
fare untouched
her mind stops eating...
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Haiku |
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Categories:
mental illness, 6th grade, 7th grade,
OKAY WHAT FIEND STOLE THY BODY ELECTRIC
by matthew harris
Thine distorted reflection rippled
within rain maker's pool
upon a midnight clear
full moonlight sonata
flooded shallow abyss,
cleaved fractal...
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Free verse |
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mental illness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Self talk
by Lewis Raynes
Trapped like a fish in a simple fish bowl,
Unable to break out to be free,
Unable to escape the abuse of my world,
The abuse...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
abuse, mental illness, psychological,
Self-Destruction
by Elena Welsh
I seem to be in the mood for self-destruction
-just following the example my brain sets
as it slowly breaks itself apart-
Let me procrastinate:
on that application, on...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
mental illness,