Mentis Poems

Premium MemberNon Compos Mentis

...Pain that rips across my head
Like a bullet in the sky
Other problems are the cause
Answers to which belie

Clearly it’s not straightforward
As a multi-faceted mind plight
The road still being...
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Categories: mentis, depression, mental health,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSchizophrenia

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When did you start hearing voices,
when did they start making choices
to determine your world

and crack that first bottle
or did the first pipe full smash on the throttle
sending you racing
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Categories: mentis, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberBeloved Pets

...Cats and rats and rabbits and dogs are regarded as pets,
For us, in India, cows and buffalo are assets;
Seldom we witness, in villages, people dog-walking,
Or sleeping cats and young pigs in their...
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Categories: mentis, pets,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Mine Best Blessing of 2022-

...My best blessing of 2022
Blessing best of twenty-twenty two
I choose to declare a 56 year old sin
Who would have thought how strange it was
I deranged I was
Birth in this sin, yet this year I’ve...
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Categories: mentis, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Free verse

Animosity Vessel

...ANIMOSITY VESSEL :
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
VERSE 1:
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES... 
Here she sit at her thresholds corner;
Looks pity but craving to blow a vandal,
Crazely permittin...
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Categories: mentis, abuse, evil,
Form: Lyric


Premium MemberNon Compos Mentis

...How creeps the dark where life was brightly lit
  when he who once mighty is idly damned -
to watch destroyed an energy and wit
  makes concealed and sad a life long and grand.
Where the acqu...
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Categories: mentis, age, life,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberSplat

...Smashed up against the wall it 
Shat ter ed
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 tin
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 pi ec es.  
My m
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n d 
is splintered  broken, 
never to be put back together again 
S as in 
 P as in pratt
 L as in lo...
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Categories: mentis, memory,
Form: Free verse

Her

...she gave me courage constantly
supported me leaning on my side proudly
made me shine like the morning sun
I glow as a sunflower my heart filled with fun

Dum spiro, Spero to mean it all with pos...
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Categories: mentis, beautiful, beauty, bereavement, caregiving,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberOut of the Way

...*Image of Hikers Warning by Pixabay.

Out Of The Way

As a self-proclaimed ruler of my person, I am mindful of the internal convictions, external constitutions as Lord overseer of my ...
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Categories: mentis, death, perspective,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberAppreciation Day

...*Image of State Bar of Texas by Articles.
AUDIO: Tip; Right-click on volume then click on Loop of the drop-down menu for continuous play.

Appreciation Day

I have not y...
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Categories: mentis, appreciation, character, children, father,
Form: Rhyme

Slander Back Hander 9 of 11

...Anyone can make a man look namby-pamby
if they slander and obsess with non compos mentis,
take reputations down, you're as hard as Bambi,
even admitting you completely meant this

cus you were d...
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Categories: mentis, motivation, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Unbroken Reconciliation

...18-12-1922.                    22-12-2018
A date of birth.               A date of rebirth
A male child.                   A female child
Tenth in line.                   Third then first
    Dea...
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Categories: mentis, december, father daughter, how
Form: Free verse

The Tug

...There's no need for you to worry
No need for you to fret 
I've been to see the doctor 
And he says I'm not a threat 

He says that I'm not dangerous
And I will be okay
And that the voices in m...
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Categories: mentis, crazy, fun, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Poetic License Sic Stet Amor

...Alter-ego                                                                                                                                                                             ...
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Categories: mentis, allusion, art, language, love,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSalvation According To Faith

...SALVATION ACCORDING TO FAITH


“Help, help!”, I shout out loud, in fear.
‘HELP, HELP!’, echoes of my voice I hear.
Over and over, impinge in my mind
Closer and closer, it gets so near.
Louder ...
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Categories: mentis, blessing, christian, faith, visionary,
Form: I do not know?

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