Dance Mental Illness Poems

Within Me

Trapped within, a tempest roars,
Where demons dance and anguish pours,
In the haunted halls of my soul's estate,
Dwells a darkness deep, where love and hate...

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A heckler in the audience 
Makes his point out proud 
In an audience of shadows, 
The flesh and bone stand out 

I’m willing to hear...

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I emerged with a silver pen in hand,
…and a tempest raging within.
Words writhe, a serpent's coil,
…tightening their grip,
A soul adrift in a sea of 
…self-made...

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10/9/2023

i know i am capable of loving 
i can feel it when i’m in love
whether it’s with the warmth of a hand in mine, a...

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No man is an island they say
Still, amidst this crowd and noise I feel lonely
I badly want someone to talk to 
But words don’t come...

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Jack Ripton lived a quiet life,
west Kentucky, in rolling hills,
he’d been farming there for ten years,
all according to his own will.

He’d never been much for...

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In the depths of the mind's vast terrain,
Where shadows dance and thoughts abstain,
Lies a realm unseen, yet so profound,
Where mental illness's whispers resound.

Anxiety, a relentless...

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The Pianist's Weep
By FD Ravenskraft

The reflection of the E minor
Constantly he plays for the grasps
As she copes forever last
Lasting in the passionate glance
He plays her...

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I didn't know you ...
not many people did,
phantom of a wakeless world,
the bastard son of mental decay ...
not even a name until recently,
but you existed...

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Night brings thoughts
       of darkness.
Pain hurts in the cold
       loneliness of midnight.
Stay awake
...

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--Mortality's Dance--


I murmured that cyanide could joust the Jester’s incessant need for the prolonging.

His tortured soul could bite the bullet and find inner peace from...

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Here is another JOKER with head in sand and crystal ball in hand..
Do not want to tell the truth only interested in telling JOKES..
Pakistan needs...

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Excerpt by : Kahlil Gibran 
And in the summer heat the reapers say, "We have seen her dancing with the autumn leaves, and we saw...

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Turning 

Across this land 
Across this fractured waste
With each cycle of the earth, 
The Joker in repose 
The Tower in flame 
The Enchantress a blaze...

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Flames

Love is full of moments, 
that are truly intense. 
They have passion, 
and fervor
to be kept, 
for later... 
when the fires dim, 
or even go...

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