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Depression Symbolism Poems

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


Petals You Never Saw
Look at Me

I don't feel sick,
Yet something inside is twisted
Not in body, but in the sap that shivers within.
Are these petals not what you envisioned?

Look...

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Categories: symbolism, depression, how i feel,



Generational Curse
It will be there in the morning
It will be there at night
Don your boxing gloves
And swing with all your might

You hit hard
Though it’s never enough
Be...

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Categories: symbolism, abuse, addiction, anger, anxiety,

disordered
am i going crazy?
those words will consistently ring out in my head
like a bomb that has just struck land
sometimes it feels like you're walking on...

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© kayden bj  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: symbolism, abuse, child abuse, depression,

Clemency
There was a girl named Clemency
who walked with me to college every morning.
Neither shy nor outspoken.
Her face was always concealed by a mask.

I have never...

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Categories: symbolism, abuse, brother, depression, endurance,

Premium Member Reclaim Your Domain
I wish I could plug
A flash drive in your ear.
I would wipe clean the worries
Hidden deep inside there.

I know they've been hiding
In camouflaged space.
Your very...

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© Deb Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: symbolism, angst, depression, encouraging, life,



A Girl's Wings
And in the girl's head
The shoulders that used to hold wings
Now held the weight of the world.
...

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Categories: symbolism, growing up, life, mental

The Abyss Within
I retreat into myself,
Cursing my name like an idiom.
I realise my curse;
It is but this phase I have dived into. 

I just detach myself from...

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Categories: symbolism, depression, endurance, fear, loneliness,

Roses
It’s almost laughable how often I’m found rotting inside myself. 
Knees curled to my chest, lungs expanding and hesitating. 
Sobs racking my body in violent...

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Categories: symbolism, anger, depression, family, heart,

Purely psychosomatic
Where liveth preen for empathy 
Drew ragged, 
Poor sawbones perscribed
"where in pain warrants lithe deformities"
Swimming,
Loathed from the east
Collared, 
Hung dry,
Pruned by the sweat of a...

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Categories: symbolism, absence, deep, depression, feelings,

The Hound of Sleep
I see thee yet, mine eyes on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,
Thus to mine eyes, o'er th'one half world 'pon the sacred curtained...

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Categories: symbolism, blessing, deep, depression, farewell,

Premium Member Tangerine Sky
Lost and floundering in an unwholesome fog, 
time stood as if in freeze-framed mental log; 
roiling clouds swirled and hovered beneath the sun, 
Tangerine streaks...

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Categories: symbolism, angel, appreciation, beauty, depression,

Premium Member Stopping By
Where have you been Depression? 
gray, fuzzy robe, 
blanketed high, 
tucked under chin
where salty tears dried,
yesterday. 
Stuck to the corners 
of my eyes and 
down...

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Categories: symbolism, depression, feelings, grief, heartbreak,

The Pied Piper
I just want to live while I am alive,
I want you to get me out of this witless dive,
I want to drive through my memories,
You...

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Categories: symbolism, anxiety, depression, psychological, riddle,

The Eternal Labyrinth
Life is a dark labyrinth,
Every inch of it is a myth.
It is lighter outside,
Experiences say it is much heavier inside.

Welcome to the world of uncertainty,
Dilemma...

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Categories: symbolism, confusion, dark, depression, extended

En Prise
hanging
i am the piece that’s lost
caught in the little flanks
for the rooks and vultures
           ...

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Categories: symbolism, angst, anxiety, dark, death,


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