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Brother Mental Illness Poems

These Brother Mental Illness poems are examples of Mental Illness poems about Brother. These are the best examples of Mental Illness Brother poems written by international poets.


Premium Member That's Bats
I didn't sleep again

It's boring me to tears

I think I'm getting better

I've felt this way for years

I don't need a doctor

Have you met my mother?

Oh,...

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Categories: mental illness,



Premium Member Shattered Mind
Oh Man, where am I?
What caused this pain and why?
I desperately cannot live this insane life.
For the pain of memories brings in strife.

I grab my...

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Categories: mental illness, conflict, depression, farewell, mental

Sacred Wounds
Oh brother, I’d say you’ve lost your way again
But the truth is, you’ve never been found 
You see things not as they are
If only you...

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Categories: mental illness, family, grief, mental health,

Premium Member Old Myzie
				OLD MYSIE
	“As crazy as Old Mysie” my grandma used to say.

Land company made promises, too good to be true,
To fisherfolk from Isle of Skye, it...

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Categories: mental illness, brother, death, depression, endurance,

Wake up
Wake up
My father says in the late afternoon 
And unfortunately, I do
I do the thing i’ve been hating for so long

Wake up
My mother says, late...

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Categories: mental illness, deep, depression, family, mental



Premium Member Sister brother mother dad
This is a point of view of a family member whose mental health was ignored and his voices made him do these unthinkable atrocities to...

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Categories: mental illness, abuse, anger, betrayal, crazy,

Pretending
I began faking a smile at 10
Although I never cried in front of others, I stopped showing all feelings
By age 12 my friend began self...

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Categories: mental illness, abuse, anxiety, fear, innocence,

Premium Member Vacancy
In the avalanche, I lost track of my guiding light.
I fled my fireside. I had to evacuate my homestead. 
Driven far astray by frenetic frozen...

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Categories: mental illness, brother, care, family, health,

Premium Member Micky Elliott Rip
It's so sad to hear the news today
Another brother has passed away
Mick elliott is his name
This is Trully a real shame

Ellydog as he was known
A...

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Categories: mental illness, death of a friend,

Midnight Monologue
"i will live"
even if it's for a jiffy at this moment,
let my breath be the testimony of what i feel 
& the sound of the...

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Categories: mental illness, depression, discrimination, emotions, encouraging,

Streets of Waste
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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Categories: mental illness, addiction, dad, dark, drug,

Why Him
Sometimes I trip out when I think about the crazy stuff we did as kids. It makes me sad to know we won't ever be...

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Categories: brother, emotions, mental illness,

Premium Member Healing With Ivy
Overly familiar with her defiance
patterns of fetal alcohol confusion,
neuro-systemic habits of resistance,

I, the consummate ecofeminist,
was sure my daughter felt
I was shutting wounded Ivy out
when she...

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Categories: mental illness, happiness, health, integrity, mental

Premium Member Future Dreams
Future Dreams

The hot water in the teapot
is boiling and the kettle whistling loudly. 
It seems to have gotten hot, very quickly, 
as if time was...

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Categories: mental illness, absence, abuse, america, journey,

Brother
I did not ask 
to need them,
the little white beetles to swallow
running up my veins and 
settling to chew
on wires you say should remain unchewed....

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, brother, depression, mental


Book: Shattered Sighs