April Mental Illness Poems

Everytime I hear your voice,
On the other side of the phone,
All the sweet words,
I wish it would have been for me,
Instead.
The wishings, the longings,all the...

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No Longer Legion

By Mark D. Stucky
Demons departed
via possessed pigs,
down the dusty slope,
drowning under waves,
descending into the Abyss
from which they came.

Purged of evil spirits, 
my new...

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Fools'day 
When you mistakenly
                         take 
                         Medicines
                         Made 
                            for 
                             a 
                           Mad
                           Man 
                              or
                           Woman 
     
You will seem As 
  ...

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What he’s capable of, I do admit, frightens me the most
My dread began in 2006, on TV his face did appear
The Burger King with the...

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The constant voice
that tells me 
I’m not good enough and
life isn’t worth living 
finally made me realize—
it’s my own voice I’m hearing. 


*I wrote this...

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Addiction takes on many disguises
You feel left alone with your own vices
Yet, you don’t think there is a problem
Which is the problem you can’t see
Once...

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A cobwebbed threshold 
of her festering wound.
The foul rush of shadow and abandonment
spoiled just beyond recognition. 

Embers of a chaotic ritual 
and venom searing vehemently
through...

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I’m HOWLING inside
clawing the dark walls unseen
alone…feeble…scared
do you sometimes sense my fear?
would you save me if you could?


*I wrote this poem on April 5, 2021,...

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Unconscious minds, perpetrators of pain,
oblivious to karma they accrue,
continue their feral sadism insane,
until grazed by the magnetic bliss dew;
then love enabled ~ destiny soul drew.
We...

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Happiness burns

Visions of eternity, crash and burn in her mind,
Her delusional imposters supplant our reality.
Lightning strikes to the brain, burn our happiness to the ground.
On...

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"Midnight cast its cloudy beams   
From the gloom the shadows went 
Smudging all the tarnished dreams" 

Lying deep inside my mind, it seems,...

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I want everyone to understand clearly
that I don't want anyone to touch me.
I hate seeing clocks or watches in proximity..
They very rarely tell the time...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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A grey, bleak sky surrounds,
Leaves fall silently from branches.
A young boy sits on a park bench,
With nobody else around.

A cold breeze blows past,
The last straw...

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Bedlam

Jumbled chaos

Mayhem


Insight

Savvy wisdom

Moonlight


Close call

Mixed emotion

Mind brawl


04th April 2020

Poetry form Musette

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