Short Mental Illness Poems

Short Mental Illness Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Mental Illness by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Mental Illness by length and keyword.


Premium Member Dementia

Parts missing; untangling ethereal strands. - - - - - - - (C) John C Michaels, 27 August 2017
Form: Lanterne


Abusing Madam

Gandi gashti run,
Gutter de pedawar,
Lun chupan wali Machine,
Kutti kamini kanjri orat..
Note.zafar teri kuss maaray.

Premium Member Pothead

Weed's looking little 
Bit like Little Italy
In a petri dish 
In shack lab belonging to
Hermit who lives underground.
Form: Tanka

Inner child

I walk
Hand in hand
With myself
Hoping one day
I can let the
Pain from the past
Disappear
And let myself
Be whole

Premium Member Unwell

Feeling so unwell,
Almost as if in a Hell.
Almost like I am
Under some sort of a spell.
Hoping soon I will be well.
Form: Tanka


Premium Member I Put the Fun In Funeral

Whenever I die
I much rather they not cry.
Rather just goodbyes.
No pity, nor wonder why,
Just God opening their eyes.
Form: Tanka

A Sad Snippet

I have a sickness
in my soul,
a pain so deep
it boils,
it smeared my life
to and fro,
to the point I want to let go.

Reflection

I look in the mirror-
Face is numb,
Not knowing what I’ve become.
And to relive that horror,
Leaves me as a nightmare.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Morbid

I could die right now and I wouldn't mind.
Sooner or later you would find, for so long,
I've had this death wish of mine.

Grand Pianos

In that
place
which is North of normality
where
insanity's just a formality
I'm sat
listening to
Dmitri Shostakovich.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Well Equipped

If I had a gift
Well would I be
Well equipped
To make you see
I am nothing
But a broken being
Stuck on what
I’m seeing
© Cs Parker  Create an image from this poem.

Morning 4

Crestfallen morning
Terror shoot in Florida
Whole mankind benumbed
______________________________
June 13, ,2016, Kolkata
Form: Senryu

Premium Member I Get It, But

Please don’t be sad,
It’s making me feel bad,
Because we should at least be glad
There’s really nothing to make us go mad.
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member The Depression Chamber

A room full of need.
Fragments of humanity.
Damaged, seeking, souls,
Looking into the abyss, 
Needing help to conquer this.
Form: Tanka

Twilight of Misery

Distant volcano vents bedim 
the ever-changing azure welkin 
Drunk off demons carousing amuck 
in my metaphysical crepuscule
© Ellie Anne  Create an image from this poem.

Bhai Log

Zafar Bhai Fire kab marwao gay?
Nashai Wehmi bool kar Drug inj
Kab Lagwao Gay??????????????
Note.You are a two faced penny..
Form: Bio

Big Game

Jis ko chaha chemical pila diya,
Jis ko chaha nafsiati bana diya,
Jis ko chaha teka Laga diya.....
Note.Big Boss Big Game...
Form: Other

Premium Member Self-Improvement

I forgive them now,
I realize I'm the one
Who has to sort out
The mess they had made themselves
And could never figure out.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member She Wishes She Could Die

She wanted to die,
But they knew it was a lie.
She would always cry
After all of what she'd try
To end all the reasons why.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Alone For a Reason

Lived a life of sin,
That which I remained within,
Letting no one in:
For fear I may never win
These wars against my demons.
Form: Tanka

Premium Member At the Very Least

Nothing was ever okay,
But at least it's okay now.

I was never okay,
But at least I can even still say, 
"I will be okay."

Premium Member Estranged Brew

I sometimes think
   The only way out is suicide
   But as you drink yourself to death
   I only have time to bide



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The Comfort of Anorexia

Food. 
Supposedly so good.
Calories add. 
 I'm mad, you're sad. 
The hunger comforts me.
It shows my success and victory.
Form: Rhyme

Army Of One

he followed my lead
obedient fool
an army of one

agreed
he is made up of many
made up of few

all within me
a need
Form: Narrative

Premium Member In Rue

Though they were so few,
For rest of life I shall rue.
Remembering just
How I matter less each day,
Life sweeps memories away.
Form: Tanka

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