Birthday in a psych ward
...You spent your birthday in a psych ward
For trying to get out
Now twice, on your record
What is it you’re without?...
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Categories:
psych ward, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
Left at Rockbottom
...I walk into my mom’s room, filled with fear,
As nausea is bubbling in my core.
I say nothing, it’s already clear;
I took a b’ttle of pills just like before.
Tears fall from my eyes and drip fro...
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Categories:
psych ward, 11th grade, anger, depression,
Form: Sonnet
Hey, Doc
...The Doctor asks me how I feel and I reply
“Better than ever, better than ever!”
My brain says, “Insanity has lost its appeal
And I don’t want to be CRAZY forever.”
Moonlight peeking through th...
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Categories:
psych ward, abuse, anger, betrayal, courage,
Form: Rhyme
It's Ugly When I Cry
...
"When I was a kid my dad left me in a bad way .... he was
in the lives of my sisters and brothers but he wasn't in mine."
Quote ...
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Categories:
psych ward, blue, music,
Form: Bio
The Trauma Prevention Department
...Don't want to be stuck
in the Trauma Prevention Department.
Don't want to work that hard
on dogmatic compartments
for politically correct CAPITAL INVESTMENT
governments
over-investing in caut...
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Categories:
psych ward, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Airborne
...I dug my toes into the tile floors
through the custom issued socks
and ahead I looked at the psychs counter
and with energy and lift I would rock
I began to run while the guard looked on
he w...
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Categories:
psych ward, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Do You Still Want To Go To the Psych Ward
...In the psych ward,
There are people who don't have homes, or parents, or friends.
In the psych ward,
There are patients who have no hope and feel they are worthless.
In the psych ward,
There are...
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Categories:
psych ward, anxiety, deep, depression, people,
Form: Free verse
Discussing Aunt Lulu With My Sister
...Aunt Lulu is brilliant, a genius.
Are you daft? She is insane.
Her ideas are innovative and selfless.
Her notions are nuttier than a walnut tree.
She is an enigma, elusive and enthusiastic.
Di...
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Categories:
psych ward, perspective,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Mind Or the Soul
...The Wall Street Journal recently reviewed Allan Horwitz's book, "DSM: A History of Psychiatry's Bible", which claims that 'DSM', the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, is a 'socia...
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Categories:
psych ward, depression, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Prose
Christian Patriots Yearning To Breath Free Part Three
...“Not even with a mask or 6 feet.
OK, 6 feet is military protocol.
You’re trying to get the people to train them
so when the cameras,
the 5G come out,
when they’re going to scan everybody.
...
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Categories:
psych ward, death, god,
Form: Free verse
Secondary Day 7
...Day 7
Teacher
She thought she heard lightening outside with the sun out.Notice Bruce's Mama was making some sort of noise .The look in her eye was terrifying . Oh my goodness Teacher's thinking ...
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Categories:
psych ward, betrayal, child, courage, hero,
Form: I do not know?
I Am Not My Past
...The psych ward,
The place everybody assumes is all padded rooms and restraints,
People think that being in the hospital defines you.
So tell me,
Does having been in hospital define me?
Does it...
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Categories:
psych ward, 8th grade, deep, depression,
Form: I do not know?
If the Church
...If the church is a hospital,
does it have an emergency room?
Can the person with a spiritual heart attack,
get a lifesaving response?
If the church is a hospital,
is there a psych ward for the...
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Categories:
psych ward, religious,
Form: I do not know?
A Haunting Wooded Tale
...,It's like some long lost fairy tale
That's handed down through time
But couldn't be, as you will see
For this strange tale is mine.
I chose to take a country road
I do from time to time
To...
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Categories:
psych ward, adventure, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Karma
...How does it feel to be confined to a bed
Alone in a psych ward with the voices in your head
Your actions done and now you're here
How does it feel to be laying here
The lives you've destroyed b...
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Categories:
psych ward, anger, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Sonnet
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