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Metaphor Mental Illness Poems

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


Cards
im playing cards with pandora
and she’s bleeding her hand
its so painfully obvious
i see her grand plan,
because calamities hit a set
and she’s feeling alright
but theres one...

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Categories: mental illness, addiction, anxiety, hope, mental



Premium Member Paradise Is Falling
the lawns are strewn in paradise
roses stained, unsweetened
beauty is bleeding
can we lick these festering sores?

my days are alchemy
as I exhaust to turn a gold
and paradise...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, depression, life, mental

Premium Member Many Faces Of A Nobody
yet his gait was limiting
to the harvest of shadows around him
breathing whatever air was there
at the time
and since his writing 
caught no-one's attention
and colourful birds...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, depression, mental health,

Premium Member O Bipolar, Harass Me Nevermore
O Bipolar, harass me nevermore!
     Depart from me! For Easter Sunday's here,
     a comfort which transforms this...

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Categories: mental illness, christian, depression, easter, extended

In the Webbed Silence
In the webbed corners of my brain 
There blooms a sinister flower 
Its petals dripping with venom 
 And thick roots entwined with despair 

Begins...

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Categories: mental illness, conflict, dark, emotions, how



Tempest of the Mind
Deep in my shrewd mind, a storm rages on 
Dark clouds gather as the wind howls till dawn
A tempest of thoughts, I cannot control
A battle...

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Categories: mental illness, conflict, how i feel,

Premium Member Sitting At A Table Not Eating
sitting at a table
not eating

sitting
at
a table

not

eating


...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, depression, life, mental

Grandfather Clock
Tick, Tock, Tick..
The pendulum swings back
And drains away
Another drop 
Of my sanity 
Tock, Tick, Tock..
The pendulum swings forth
And drains away
Another drop
Of my mind
Tick, Tock, Tick..
How...

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Categories: mental illness, 12th grade, depression, emotions,

My best friend
My best friend has a beautiful name
She’s magical and disturbing at the same time
You pray for death if you upset her
She stays with me every...

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Categories: mental illness, best friend, deep, depression,

Plastic Bag
My room was a mess
I left an empty plastic bag 
on the floor, by the bed
And when I walked around 
It stuck to my feet
And...

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Categories: mental illness, deep, depression, home, mental

Premium Member Annihilator
I am
all nine deaths
of
the anti cat
do not
curse me
...

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Categories: crazy, depression, mental illness,

The Rats
there are rats digging into my skin
you couldn't imagine the pain that im in
claws so sharp, it won't take long
moaning, marbled, mournful song
they're in my...

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Categories: mental illness, dark, extended metaphor, horror,

Premium Member Hand In Hand
I wasn't going to say anything
in that leafy Lincoln street
when you caught me pondering my life
and the many ways to die
but there was something about...

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Categories: deep, friendship, mental illness,

Premium Member Embracing Your Spirit of the Con
Just because you didn't finish that thought 
Doesn't mean we didn't know what you were thinking 

And you’d think the voice in my head had...

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Categories: mental illness, extended metaphor, fate, judgement,

Premium Member Dead Rat In the Road
dead rat in the road
flat rat in the road
as if placed without gore
more like a small fur rug
than a rodent
as it ran to its conclusion
not...

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Categories: mental illness, animal, death, deep, mental


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