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Philosophy Mental Illness Poems

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


Tidal Whirlpool
Into the darkness I drove the line.
With sudden persistence I stuck their spirits.
Questions arose about my faith.
Under the shadows the powers of the air quake.
Through...

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Categories: mental illness, blessing, celebration, courage, mental



Premium Member Silver Solitude on Storm's Edge
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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Categories: mental health, mental illness,

Stuck In My Head
Been so wrapped up in my own world
I never seen until it was all over;
It wasn't just my world that was on my shoulders.
But now...

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Categories: mental health, mental illness,

Premium Member ''In Reply To Hamlet's Soliloquy'' Ii
“To be, or not?” asked Hamlet, tortured soul,
     a mind transfixed between looming limbo
and life's thin, airy hold; this loathsome role,
...

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Categories: mental illness, allusion, depression, introspection, life,

Premium Member A Horse and His Philosopher
He saw the noble beast collapse in blood and dirt, 
Lashed by the owner’s cruel and ruthless crop
He rushed to cradle its head upon his...

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Categories: mental illness, emotions, feelings, horse, mental



Memory Therapy, Part Iv
...“I suppose that this just makes you
like everyone else on this earth,
light and shadow both in your soul,
your choice as to which you deserve.

“Some might...

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Categories: mental illness, confusion, dark, memory, mental

Memory Therapy, Part Iii
...Jack couldn’t believe such nonsense,
said, “You’re not a shrink, you’re insane.
I’ve been a farmer all my life,
And no one has cut on my brain.”

Johns handed...

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Categories: mental illness, confusion, dark, memory, mental

Memory Therapy, Part Ii
...Jack watched her go, rather confused,
he looked to Johns and said, “That’s strange…”
Johns nodded, said, “It will made sense,
there’s much that I have to explain.”

He...

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Categories: mental illness, confusion, dark, memory, mental

Memory Therapy, Part I
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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Categories: mental illness, confusion, dark, memory, mental

Bearing My Burdens
Too impaired to even continue to care, if at all,
About how life can always seem so unfair for us all,
As long as I have inner...

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Categories: mental illness, addiction, life, mental health,

Becoming the Light In the Dark
Make sure to ignite the lantern candle and light it well,
For you will need this same lantern as you pave your way through hell.
Use your...

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Categories: mental illness, dark, inspirational, light, mental

Staring At the Stars
As higher than thou head looks upwards
At the many specks of lights we call stars,
All my high mind has to do is look forwards
Ahead to...

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Categories: addiction, drug, mental illness,

Sheer Fall
Top of the world, Ma —
See those little fingers down there?
Those tiny rivers runnin’ thru the valley —
You fall, you won’t be repaired 

Gimme pickaxe,...

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Categories: courage, future, mental illness,

Hidden Secrets
If there’s scars on your heart from the times it’s been broken 
Write it down to get it out
Nary a word need be spoken
Cheapest therapy...

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Categories: love hurts, mental illness,

Mandalas
Though I only focus on shades of aquas, greens, purples,
I am a witness of the wider spiraling spectrums
Of wheels of colours, karmic cycles, and ancient...

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Categories: allusion, humanity, mental illness,


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