Spring Mental Illness Poems

Symphony sounds
52 sings his solitude song
My eyes feast, salivate for a taste
My quilted heart begins to fray

I am troubled
Vibrant, yet strung out on hope and...

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Your ocean waves have, 

Beaten me down, 

Across the rocky shore,

As I lay facedown, 

Thinking about our lore, 



How nothing I did, 

Seemed to even...

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I can’t tell you how it all started,
That night when manic moon 
Probed and punctured the pall.
I awoke hurtling through space,
Somewhere between ideation and shellshock,
Somewhere...

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I am longing for the spring and panting like a thirsty deer 
too many days have past since I last felt the sun 
beneath anemic...

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My trust will shatter and the world will dissolve. 

And I will stop searching for my family, I give up on my resolve. 

Because normalcy...

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Jars
Jagged remains 
jars of jagged broken glass 
youth swims into the past 
the end of spring 
the start of wages 
earned in the meager life...

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Slow motion agonised gravel crunch

Picks and flicks sharp stones under tyres

Glinted handle clicked forward introduces

Arresting view of her beauty polished 

Soft and ready, yet bristled....

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Normalcy seemed to resound 
like a year-end brag letter,
for out of reach are those possibilities
when locked up in a ward.

Voices itched inside her body 
and...

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What hand of Fate joins us? Only God knows!
     Though you are young like spring, and I am old,
  ...

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Co-empathic passions
like hearts with flowers,
mothers with soft sunny spring shower days,

Develop interdependent webs
of both/and intimacy,
like bodies with loving minds
wrapped around loving partners
and cooperative vocational co-owners,

Regenerating...

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Would you still love me
If i was a tree
And instead of my leaves being yellow or orange
It was black and lifeless
With leaves that fail to...

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Ah we so crave the sanity
existence must be put in a box
thus we will  do all
for such happiness in a box
a creation in ways
of...

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I just woke up from the best
nap I have ever had in my whole life.
This kind of nap should be illegal, 
but it's not so...

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Energy of magic key
Unwinds ground caressing feet 
Princess drunken on delights from heart adored 
Happiness of all spring times of all ages combined 
On height...

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To look back now,?to the times when I was young,?there were so many unknowns?that the girl I was ?didn’t realize existed.?I did not know?if I...

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