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Water Mental Illness Poems

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

Dissociation

Hands hovering above the sink.
The sound of blinds shuttering doesn’t make me blink.
The mirror catches all.
A shining chasm on the wall.
Across the threshold, into the...

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Categories: mental illness,

Tick Tick

What is it 
That girl who rides that rollercoaster,
The one that brings others fear—
They call her Brave
The truth is she lives for thrill 
Is it...

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Categories: mental illness, 11th grade, anxiety, childhood,

Changed: imploded broken vanished summonedreturned

New new new
Clean clear powerful activity, unleashed wings upstairs
Protective instinct bonded to stability
Monitor on, guarding, titrating all sensory and physical input
Past seeking, obsessing on relief...

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Categories: mental illness, beautiful, birth, change, happiness,

Serenity

Rich and unrelenting are you
You who has captured me so
Always changing never ending
The water to my kindling.

Tall and blue are you
You who has enraptured me...

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Categories: mental illness, blue, death, depression, 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,

Shadows in the Mirror

Have I really been working on myself or did I just change from my work clothes to something more comfortable
Is this depression or is it...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, black african american,

Killing me inside Trigger warning

Depression feels like it's eating me inside,
Feels like the world is ending and all I want to do is cry,
Bills piling up so high,
And my...

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Categories: mental illness, anxiety, change, death, depression,

The Art of Being Blind

She never got spoon-fed and started licking off the knives
But knives cut her tongue
Her home is in the white spaces but not the words
You claim...

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Categories: mental illness, 11th grade, abuse, anxiety,

Thank You To the Ones Who Carried Me Here

thank you to the ones who carried me here
the ones that became my parents when my parents couldn’t hear me
the ones who took in that...

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Categories: mental illness, appreciation, introspection, life, mental

Sip Or Die

I need to keep sipping.

Water, and it needs to touch my tongue first.

So that I can feel the water flowing inside me.

Which brings life to...

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Categories: mental illness,

Hospital

I walk through the hell ridden hallways
The silence so loud it almost engulfed me, dragging me underneath the freshly polished tiled floor
Each room is a...

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Categories: hope, imagery, mental illness,

The Crawl

If I had to choose
would I brave that dark sea
waves crashing relentlessly upon me
knocking aside the armor I've spent so long
meticulously piecing together

My heart is...

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Categories: mental illness, confusion, depression, loneliness, mental

Shore With Red House - Edvard Munch

Do you see the frame or the cage?
Step beyond and into this: a rare and colourful bliss,
island of calm in an ocean of rage...
Yesterday, the...

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Categories: art, mental illness,

Hope's Bitter Mirage

Loneliness is a cruel mirage
It leaves you yearning to be quenched
Yet as you get closer and closer
The possibility vanishes, but hope never dissipates

That hope keeps...

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Categories: mental illness, 11th grade, anxiety, loneliness,

A Bridge Home

Pain reveals us
	unbound to “normal” life
		tw-
			i-
           sted 
	upon shelves
		filled with feature-
	less portraits of lies	
		told
	at the...

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Categories: anxiety, baptism, mental illness,