Depression Sunshine Poems

Sunrise and Storms

Satan appeared in a disguise
While waiting for the sun to rise
He whispered words of my demise
What wicked plan will he devise?

The demons laughter...

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Think I'll design an anti-depression website
Where people can visit when they're down
When their lives aren't zinging along at top speed
And they're continually wearing a frown

Most...

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Like rain drops but not ??
06/08/2023



A collaborative poem by:

°Chelsea Marie StufLeben
& my 9 year old daughter,
• Claire Christine Maki


•A dark stormy day, 
With the city...

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I held on to my past 
That should never have last
Flashes of life's horror 
Running through my head 
As I stood in front of a...

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Cast your eyes to the glorious skies

                  ...

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Faith (in the garden)

The bright yellow faces
of the sunflowers look right into the sky. 
They peer up and know they are smiled upon. 
We should...

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Just say no to sunshine
Trying to penetrate your dark doom
Wrap your black cloud around its fire 
Smoother it in your tears, in your grief
In your...

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As long shadows flew out before me
Like raven swings, fluttering
Stiff, gentle winds carry 
Winters chill not far behind

Sun-lit cars are all in sharp relief 
Setting...

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I thought today I could make it work

it wasn’t so much the sadness

as lightness

as bottled crocodiles and persimmon fungi

as broken arrows across the ascended 

the...

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I see how it once was 
Days of crystal line Blue skies 
& emerald green seas 
of sweet grass, gently
Swaying …
from Horizon to horizons edge...

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There was a day, 
A very good day,
So long ago now, 
I hardly remember,
Before I was here,
At this low point in life,
Before pining for love,
Consuming...

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Suburban waste stretches beyond and far away
Languishes under the hot hazy sun
Seasons reap
Memories run
Remembering things better left unseen
Memories reel in the theater on the mind
Things...

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There is no roof on my house,
The water pours in when it storms,
The sun shines when its beautiful,
Still I live in my roofless house,
Always awaiting...

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Twenty-twenty, why didn't you abide
by centuries-old rules required to exist?
Why was it prudent to run and then hide;
protocol, you felt, was there to resist

Painfully we...

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Old bones of my last feast 
lost and sold to the dust of ages 
collect in cryptic skulls 
of entities that sit and pray 
worship...

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