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Depression Sonnet Poems

These Depression Sonnet poems are examples of Sonnet poems about Depression. These are the best examples of Sonnet Depression poems written by international poets.


Premium Member The gate opens inward
Ghostly fear forms, a dark gossamer web,
caged my consciousness once cradled by bliss
but try as I might, my pain did not ebb,
hurtling me down a...

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Categories: depression, fear, god, grief,



Premium Member Dysmorphed
I, looking in the mirror yesterday,
witnessed distorted eyes replacing mine;
and, too, the lips and nose, as if a sign,
seemed bent crooked, misaligned in some way.

And,...

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Categories: sonnet, body, depression, gender, identity,

Premium Member Crayon Box Dreams
When days of dreary tropes could feel no duller,
and gray heavens escape my pencil’s reach,
—oh misery!, it can’t be set to speech,—
my crayon box dreams...

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Categories: art, creation, depression, inspiration,

Premium Member Lost and Ill-Replaced
Oh, what pale imitation now is this?

My train of empty carriages which held 
A score of lovers, harem of my flesh,
Now emptied of those who...

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Categories: anxiety, death of a

Premium Member A Mortal Toll
My soul’s confession knows no ordinary
penance—nor knows, nor feels, another mind
the nebulating sorrows therein maligned—.
I doubt my own can judge the cemetery

of bygone thoughts, dead...

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Categories: sonnet, anxiety, conflict, corruption, depression,



Premium Member How Could You Abandon
Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes around in another form.
Quote by Rumi     

How could you abandon me at that time
A small...

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Categories: depression,

Premium Member But Kindling
By furnace burnished, and by flames destroyed,
A sword is tested, and a mansion razed.
Endeavours, fight, and efforts – all are void, 
To quell a menacing,...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, mental health,

Premium Member The Goat That Goes Into the Wilderness
This rope that strangled me so mercilessly, 
Frayed ends unpicked now, twisted into twine, 
My Judas noose made into tapestry. 
Make fruit of these dreaded...

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Categories: anxiety, christian, depression, god,

Premium Member We Live in Denial
In blackest halls, a phosphorescent light
Shines forth from darkest depths, a honey glow.
Enraged, ignited, I now blinding bright,
A magma burning, pyroclastic flow,

Torching golden beams to...

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Categories: analogy, anxiety, depression, extended

Premium Member Another's of One's Own
Reflected grief spat back at me to bear 
Another load, the double of my own 
To take and carry, this unholy pair 
Then tripled, multiplied,...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, extended metaphor,

Shadows IV
The darkness settles in at 1400 and it is crying
It has deal with pain in a manner that is becoming burdensome
It is tired of all...

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Categories: absence, allusion, anxiety, depression,

The 23rd Song of David
David had two wives, and I have none
Was he truly never in need and not of wants
Oh, how is this not a comical pun
Just to...

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Categories: absence, depression, emotions,

Tears of Blood
As I am walking through the alley of despair, all I see is pain
Gently, eyeing the windows of the person’s soul and hiding my love...

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Categories: betrayal, depression, lost love,

THE BROKEN LOVE
STANZA 1
Love at first sight,
Was like the happiness of birches birds.
The lightening of the innermost light,
Desired to be protected with girds.
STANZA 2
Set the bow to...

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Categories: break up, depression, emotions,

Ghosted for My Intelligence
Being introduced to a new person is not easy as you do not know what to expect!
A friend spoke highly of her and her goals...

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Categories: depression, hurt, pain,


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