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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.


Premium Member Igor needs a bigger lab XIII
Why promote wrecking-ball malice
Behind the wall of a palace?
This callous man sick
Acts like a big dick
To cover up his small phallus...

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Categories: mental illness, bullying, depression, evil, extended



Premium Member Pop Can
Like a can of pop overflowing,
Pent up emotions in me overtaking,
Old feelings saturating the newest feeling,
Afraid of when the table will start turning.

Like the cola...

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Categories: mental illness, addiction, depression, drink, drug,

Was she meant to be broken?
As far as ethereal creatures are concerned, 
she fell somewhere in between 
a wood nymph—
	fragile and belligerent— 
and a centaur—
	untamable and resilient 

she is a...

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Categories: corruption, growth, mental illness,

Hurricane
If all I know is the hurricane, 
where is it's eye? 
As if it likes to play hide and seek - 
make a guess -
who...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, depression, how i

Hide and Seek
This is different

Eerie

The winds have changed.
The colors fade into
a lifeless, chalky form,
and all life disappears
in a uniform fashion,
as I stand at its edge,
too scared to...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, depression, emotions, hope,



red canvas
Trigger Warning: This poem deals with themes of self-harm. Please read with care.
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my skin felt like a blank canvas 
every time they faded.
i felt empty
my...

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

Premium Member Vanishing Ink
Memories flutter like Post-It notes,   
   with scribbles faint and worn.
Reminders fade in the winds they’ve made,
   my pages...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, imagery, memory, mental

Blue Marker Castles
I’ve always had the sneaking suspicion I’d never grow old.
I mean, when I was younger, I scribbled plans in a notebook.
Drew clumsy castles with blue...

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Categories: mental illness, depression, extended metaphor, imagery,

Sailing
There are days when the water exhales softly,
its glass surface holding the light like a promise,
and my boat -
once battered and splintered -
glides steady,
sails catching...

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Categories: mental illness, depression, extended metaphor, growth,

Loving an Enigma
???You are a riddle wrapped in stormy skies,
A puzzle box with ever-changing locks.
I am the scholar who forever tries
To understand your paradoxical talks.
One moment, you're...

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Categories: mental illness, abuse, devotion, extended metaphor,

A Monster From Nurture
They say monsters are created, not born
We’re products of our environment
Experiments with pieces of pain from generations before
I’m stitched and sewn with parts of my...

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Categories: mental illness, 8th grade, age, analogy,

November
For some reason not even the earth could change my mind
The wind banging against my ears
And the dark night couldn't disguise it.
The oak trees could...

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Categories: mental illness, angst, grave, grief, mental

Born a Sacrifice
The classic tale Centuries-old
through self-owned reliance
a hero rises from the cold
But Within these chapters carefully hidden
Upon the pages where this story is written
Between the lines...

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Categories: mental illness, caregiving, conflict, dark, desire,

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


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