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Dad Mental Illness Poems

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


Premium Member the good fight
* death is a process of many stages, and dementia can be one of the ugliest … Dad taught me many lessons in life, and...

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Categories: mental illness, age, analogy, father son,



Beautiful Girls
I see the way your body dances through the halls of our home, how dirty you are. dirty little girl.
My teacher said this is not...

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© Oliver Chu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mental illness, abuse, angst, child abuse,

Premium Member Where Brenda Sleeps
[verse]
My crazy sister had roamed homeless for so long.
Once an intellectual, then her brain went wrong.
For hospitals to keep her, she had to be a...

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Categories: mental illness, crazy, family, mental health,

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,

Premium Member Eddie
Eddie/Dad

I try to see 
back before 
to who Eddie once was
just barely before when
the bending began
Eddie was after all
a cute child 
wide eyed
hugging kissing and...

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Categories: mental illness, angst, anxiety, child abuse,



I Think I Love You, Dad
A hero to a little boy,
Smartest man in the world, so full of joy.
Big HOUSE! Big beard. Big Family! Big belly!!
“I love you son.” “I...

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© Joe Martin  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mental illness, dad, death, divorce, father,

Soar Or Sink
Breaking the chains-
Required lots of pain, 
Starting from young age.

Mom died when I was 16
Dad passed when I was 23.
Their demons danced together,
over 25 years...

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Categories: mental illness, addiction, beautiful, death, deep,

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,

Premium Member The Stone Curse
the Stone curse is what my mother called it
we have much mental illness in the family
on dad’s side – the Stone side.
one of my uncles...

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Categories: mental illness,

A Rhyme Into My Active Prescription Medication Addiction, and the Start of My Recovery
TRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc 

I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a...

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© Sarah Cope  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mental illness, addiction, child, cry, emotions,

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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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mental illness, absence, abuse, america, journey,

Premium Member End Times
End Times

When good men 
see bad things happen, 
and do nothing 
but watch... 
The world is set... 
on the road, 
directly to destruction.

Hope is put...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: mental illness, anger, child abuse, christian,

My Dad
I said the same thing twice. 

As if that will help me remember.

I said the same thing three times. 

As if that will help you...

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Categories: mental illness,

Bomb-Song
They taught us what to do if there's a bomb.
A big bomb.
A bomb they removed in a biopsy on a God
A big God
Scooped it out...

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Categories: conflict, death, mental illness,

The Chaos of Moods
8 a.m.,
I lock myself in my bedroom, I start to pray for better days
I silently scream I’m sorry, to the mirror
I silently scream to my...

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Categories: depression, mental illness, poetry,


Book: Shattered Sighs