PANIC DISORDER ANXIETY DISORDER PTSD NARCOLEPSY TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND ME
...MY DIAGNOSISS 1999 ON A GOVERMENT AIRFORCE BASE DEFENSE COMMISARY AGENCY DECA MY PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT IT WAS SO WEIRD I MEAN I WORKED AT BASE EXCHANGE 1997 I RELOCATED BACK TO GREATLAKES NAVY BASE 199...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, allah,
Form: Naat
A Confession
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To soften his adolescent growing pains
he was encouraged (can’t recall by whom)
to take up painting – to make a name
for himself, they said. When that failed,
and miserably, he took up drin...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, dark, humor,
Form: Didactic
Sculpted by silence
...My days were filled with limp lifts of your hands,
each a tear steeped in lost compassion.
You made me swim in a cold, clammy sea of sorrow~
and shaped me into a voiceless, motionless
s c u l p...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, addiction, betrayal, bullying, depression,
Form: Free verse
birds know our sentiments
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The birds understand us, it’s true,
They understand us better than men,
Observe the grey heron when it is afraid,
listen to the Robin
Who asks to play with you,
Go for the lint
She doesn’t ...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, analogy, bird,
Form: Free verse
and how are we feeling today?
...Can readers or authors foresee
Freed up manic moods and more glee?
Mixed-up word orphans
Induce endorphins
Without a psychiatrist’s fee
OR
What do poem authors desire?
Freed up manic mood...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, appreciation, creation, happiness, poems,
Form: Limerick
on the same boat
...We’re on the same boat
Nurses and teachers,
Doctors and farmers,
Mr. Moreno and his “maricon”
Enrico Macias and his dry guitar,
We are on the same boat,
The Sevillans and the Marseillais,
Th...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, 9th grade, boat, god,
Form: Free verse
Psyched Out
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brittle as a tiny twig
the girl seemed not to grow
strange, her appetite
drawn out, her nights
stumped the psychiatrists
out went the lights
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Categories:
psychiatrists, dark, girl, growth, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
I lacked emotions where others concerned
...Back approximately half my life ago
dissociative disorder
if qualified to self diagnose
mein kampf psychological state...
I lacked emotions where others concerned.
That refrain replayed it...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
How Many More Peace Keepers
...Time marches on but the story doesn't change.
Innocent lives being taken by a person whose deranged..
Last weekend in Pa. it was our state police, one is still
critical, and the other is now dece...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, mental illness,
Form: Narrative
Clinical Death
...You do not care and now I can't feel.
How unlike the situation between us,
we both have changed but we do not reveal.
Under social esteem, we both are dealing
with no emotions left perhaps and le...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, life,
Form: Free verse
Uma Carta De Amour
...Uma Carta de Amour
A letter of love I never wrote
“But I remember it well.”
as Maurice Chevalier sang
Once, I loved a dolphin
A swam along the ship
We sang a duet
People said the cook is m...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, best friend, blessing, first
Form: Ballade
Sin Is Sinister
...The Bible acknowledges it.
The psychologist rejects it.
The atheist dismisses it.
The criminal excuses it.
The opposite of perfection.
Humans fall from their high station.
The result of disob...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, allusion, christian, evil, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Deadly Consequences
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“Who, my husband, “she smiled, “he has no
alcohol problem.”
This is walking on the Razor’s Edge, but try
and tell a codependent that one!
They will laugh uproariously thinking this i...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, addiction, caregiving, death,
Form: Rhyme
EPIC HUNT
...This is Epic!
an epic adventure
a moment of truth
a wild ride
Oh My God!
sliding on ice
still moving, still moving
HAHAHAHAHA!
amazing!
every moment counts
right into the belly of the beast...
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Categories:
psychiatrists, adventure, humorous, nature, surreal,
Form: Free verse
To Stare Death In the Face
...Sometimes,
I think that The Storm brings calm.
Before it,
The clouds build and build in the sky
Until you can’t see the light anymore,
The clouds waiting and waiting to let go of the thousands
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Categories:
psychiatrists, death, depression, feelings, how
Form: Free verse
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