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Depression Word Play Poems

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

ESCAPE

Escape pods
Ferried fears
Gaping heart
Falling tears
Dishevelled mind
Emotional unrest
Watered ground
Familiar guest
Questioned answers
Unanswered questions
Glassy eyes
Increased tension
Dissipating hope
Chewed confidence
Broken spirit
Unwelcomed sentence
Failing health
Unstable mind
Choked fingers
Flying blind
Pathetic plea
Stretched thin
Battered insides
Uncomfortable skin
Eventual...

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Categories: word play, anxiety, depression, life, uplifting,

In the Good Old Days

I am yet to have the good old days 
It has just been just wishes of death 
To give me one big rest

When I have...

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Categories: word play, depression, emotions, lost, mental

More Is More

solemnly breathless in behemoth miasma
effect starts playing havoc with my asthma 
dropped in a world of despair, me as well
carrying dark in darkness - more...

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Categories: word play, crazy, dark, deep, depression,

Un-Holy and Disappointed

Tastes the same
this hole-less
"Happy Belly"
package of ten

But how can it
be called "Swiss"?!
Never buying this
un-holy cheese again!...

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Categories: word play, change, conflict, depression, desire,

A Slave To Solitary

A Slave To Solitary

From youth till the present solitary has kept me its slave
Protecting me from reality by hiding me in its dark cave
No one...

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Categories: word play, dark, depression, how i

The Prognosis Aes

The Prognosis (AES)

This is my declaration of desperation to inform the nations of my alienation.
Mentally I've drifted so far away from the general population.

I find...

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Categories: word play, angst, deep, depression, loneliness,

Lost My Mind

I can’t find any peace of mind.
It’s the one thing I can’t find.
I’ve wracked my mind, 
But I can’t find the piece 
Of peace I...

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Categories: word play, angst, anxiety, confusion, depression,

Daydream

As the rain pounds against the glass-stained windowpane,
all I can think inside my head is, what from life can I truly gain?
What is my purpose...

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Categories: word play, anxiety, depression, dream, fear,

When Suicide Smiles

If I had a gun I would have already pulled the trigger
No silencer because I've been silent my whole life
I wish suicide was as easy...

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Categories: word play, depression, metaphor, poems, poetry,

Revelation

Tell us of what is behind

For I know not what is coming

Without what is gone before

we know not, all it is only 
  ...

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Categories: word play, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,

Empireminds

In the empires of my mind...
            Searching for the Divine.
     ...

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Categories: word play, allegory, allusion, analogy, angst,

Alliteration Apr 8

dull
dark
December day-
devastation's depression
descends

NOTE:Poets call attention to certain words in a line of poetry by using alliteration to create a pleasant, rhythmic effect.,
adding to the mood...

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Categories: poetry, word play,

Cravings of a Venomous Toxin

The cunningness I feel is near:
It tries coming for a stay
Living within a beast, I once lived in
It's a bit dangerous wanting my play.

I have...

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Categories: word play, abuse, addiction, betrayal, conflict,

In Theory of Memory I

Days are sharp as memories pass 
As the idle thunder attest 
to storms of unsettled wrath. 

They gather together on the opaque horizons.

The engines of...

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Categories: word play, allegory, allusion, analogy, art,

Graveyard Visions

To your place, pass negative noon. 
As the moon drifts over the loss...
images of a different life swimming.
In the depths of the ones fevered past.
Catching...

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Categories: word play, allegory, allusion, analogy, angel,