Winter Mental Illness Poems

I was talking with her, and suddenly realized…

I swallow suddenly, and sputter.

The blurring of my eyes, I was eating, and moving, and talking for months.

I...

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				OLD MYSIE
	“As crazy as Old Mysie” my grandma used to say.

Land company made promises, too good to be true,
To fisherfolk from Isle of Skye, it...

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Seek Shelter.

I’m in a winter coat. In my home. And the doors are locked. And the lights are dim so that I can see their...

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Beneath full moonlight
In alley, neighbor's and mine.
Silhouettes of clouds
From those chimneys frighten me
As I rush through this deep freeze....

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The Great Fall (Mr. Dumpty) 


The man they call Dumpty sat up on his wall.
On one side, faith and the other, xylitol. 
Has the white...

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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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To my family, I am unembodied. 

Like a leaf in winter snow, I am hiding, but not rotting. 

I’d rather be slathered with a powerful...

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Sometimes Hope is hard to find,
When we have so much on our mind.
Troubling thoughts and unseen voices,
Seem to take away all of our choices.
Driving us...

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all small broken alone
where the shadows roam
a child hides in a dark home
tick tock murmured the clock.
while branches dance
and rattle like brittle bone.
toys scattered around...

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Here I sit...
Behind steering wheel.
My back is numb
My head reels.
Cars pass me left and right
Ribbons of crimson taillights 
Leave traces behind my eye
Deep in my...

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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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We dream of reason 
A dry season
a setting of the western sun
A dark wraith 
a bold hold of hands-on high
A reason for the gun
A black...

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Open your door to cold rays
the sun flickering infinite days 
rain down in relentless waves 
washing our alien skin in lands 
far from the eyes...

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The thoughts
Swirl inside
Like a
Hurricane,
You are
Thrown all
About and
Forget who
You are
Lost in the
Wind, lost
To yourself
Inside, your
Mind is tumbling
Because of
The thoughts
That threaten
To break you
Down and never
Let go, to...

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I suppose you've been wondering 
Why your eyes don't smile anymore.
Why your once radiant optimism
has drowned in concrete mud.
Why the future, even tomorrow,
suddenly tastes so...

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