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Sanitarium Poems - Poems about Sanitarium

Concrete Boxed Graves

...Concrete Boxed Graves 
Concrete boxed graves. 
Compressed ceilings. 
Surrounded by emptiness. 
Long hall-ways of loneliness. 
Caged in fear, penitentiary dreary. 
Isolated decayed society. 
Mi...
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Categories: sanitarium, horror,
Form: Rhyme

Chasing Dragons of Thoth

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   In the Abaddoned depths of Faith's cosmos, 
a delusion of grandeur 
and of wonder blunders in awe, 
puts its hook securely in blasphemers jaw.
Curiousity opens Hell's salivat...
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Categories: sanitarium, art,
Form: Rhyme



Temper Temper

...Temper temper
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire

Temper temper tantrum
Chaos and the clutter
Pulling hair and
Snarling bantum
Screaming mad shrew
Like in a stadium boo boo
Bloody Mary
Yelling red vol...
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Categories: sanitarium, anger, anxiety, bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse

Con-Cern-Ed Anonymous

...Anonmymous fingers reach to strangle. 
     AUTONOMOUS.
 A residual print of 4D shadow.
To nestle a cozy 3D-RESIDENCE.
                   The abode abides abating abort.
 ABSOLUTE LY.
 Expressi...
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Categories: sanitarium, angel, bible, birth,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNutty

...There once was a man nicknamed  " Nutty "
It was down to the way he played Footie,
Each match he'd score ten
Again and again
Then he'd pop off for a pint and a butty.

Each family tree has its ...
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Categories: sanitarium, funny, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium MemberDark Halls

...Once
these corridors 
echoed with life
a citadel for restoration
of body and mind
a bastion of promise
for the tormented
to the outside world
it had many names
Forest Lawn Sanitarium...
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Categories: sanitarium, betrayal, death, horror, mental
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCaptive

...The memory of your warm kisses embraces my fear
As I lay in this huge bed, in the middle of nowhere
Crashing surf calms me as I try to close my eyes to sleep
But anxiety grips me, I cannot settle,...
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Categories: sanitarium, fear, grief, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme

Roaming Homing

...trimmed all my long hair
the hair i always dreamed about and wasn't there
somethings are never measured by the means of the brain
shoulders at ease while you're becoming insanely sane
everything ...
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Categories: sanitarium, beautiful, deep, dream, earth
Form: ABC

Premium MemberDoctor Strange Master of Mystic Arts

...DOCTOR STRANGE     MASTER OF MYSTIC ARTS
               BY JAMES EDWARD LEE

In the dead of night
Even in the day time
Their needs be a doctor for this doctor
A prime prize physician brilliant ...
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Categories: sanitarium, adventure, caregiving, hero,
Form: Heroic Couplet

Darkness Elementary 226

...If out of darkness comes light, then my life must be one ginormous ray of sunshine right about now. Coming out of a 14-year classroom coma, I am now awake, yet I continue to slumber afraid to take th...
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Categories: sanitarium, abuse, children, corruption, dark,
Form: Prose Poetry

So Bright Stayed the Sun Horn Haiku

...So Bright Stayed the Sun Horn Haiku

See some sanitarium
Where there has been her or him
When times became dim.

Was a sad state of affairs
For all of them no one cares
Each one sits and star...
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Categories: sanitarium, encouraging, hope,
Form: Haiku

Sanitarium

...Falling through the cold air, sliding through mud down a cliff side. Skins paler than pale and I can't breath or see straight. As the air caress' the skin and the dirt stains me as I drop further dow...
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Categories: sanitarium, dark, depression, loneliness, psychological,
Form: I do not know?

The Child That Stood One Starry Night

...A child was born, suffering “excess de zele” behavior
Depression and schizophrenia were his all time plague.
First actions of adult life expressed his love for the Savior.
His passion for humanity an...
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Categories: sanitarium, art, death, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCircle

...My father painted
western landscapes and bluebonnets
in a manner that can be described as “primitive.” 
He painted with his heart to stay sane 
in the never-sane world 
of the mens’ tubercular sanita...
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Categories: sanitarium, father, night, grandmother, me,
Form: Prose Poetry

Sanitarium

...Sanitarium

  S-  sanction
  A-  apprehension
  N-  negitivism
  I-  insainity
  T-  tentitive
  A-  accenssion
  R-  redirective
  I-  immobilization
  U-  under seat
  M-  man handle...
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Categories: sanitarium, adventure, life, loss, mystery,
Form: Name

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