Depression Morning Poems

Light finds its way to come through,
after a nightmare at night
heart beats fast.
My dog is lying next to me,
I open the blinds
another morning to see.

Sadness...

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I've had enough of songbirds
they don't speak for me
and the specialist keeps me waiting
in a monotone room for waiting
and the windows are too fish tank...

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Goodbye is a feast finished
The last morsel down the hatch
Improper to ask for seconds
No aperitif to this lonely hunger

For every goodbye must be a hello
Even...

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In this trying time
I try to find courage in living
To feel the essence of my breath
In the  ravaging moments of a conscious treachery
Chaos echoes...

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Wine wakes me in the morning
Dismisses the second cup of coffee
Half a bottle is all right at night 
But, in the morning it’s sinful

Twist open...

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It's been an odd dream, hasn't it?

I can taste my breath behind this mask
The sweet bitterness of cold brew and hazelnuts
As I run out to...

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I woke up this morning 
Enveloped by overwhelming feeling 
Of being  left  behind 
In a jungle of calamities
Which my father land has become...

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Contest:  Eight Words				Sponsor: Emile Pinet		6-16-23
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Eight Words

WISTFUL FEELINGS,
 An expression of MELANCHOLY DEPRESSION,
Wake in winsome gloom of a GLOOMY sheath
Cluttered with roving remnants 
 Of...

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Smoke in the morning 
Chilly anticipating
Brace to speak out there

Cats are meowing
Think felines are a burden
Ticked off still feed them

Endure the sunrise
Negotiating doomsday
Fumes call me...

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BREATHE

Can't move
I can't breathe
is it anxiety and depression that lays deep

Try to recover
I try to go to sleep
the next morning the sun rises up and...

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As easy as the air you breathe but can't see.
Blind to the airless suffocation.Speechless for your last breathe. Gasping to be cleansed choking to death.The...

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A bird sings early in the morning
sounds of a betrayed love echoes 
What could have made you so loud so soon
And I realised it's the...

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Faith (in the garden)

The bright yellow faces
of the sunflowers look right into the sky. 
They peer up and know they are smiled upon. 
We should...

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I have no right, 
Or good reason,
For the sadness, 
That flares from within.
Maybe I long for a place,
I can't remember, 
Or a love, 
That's smothered...

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-Sweet Melancholy-

Limbs shot with a breeze on the neck.

I digress. With the pigment of widow’s wail calling for atonement.

I hated my father, but not my...

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