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Mental illness Poetry
rueteas
Joined 31st Aug 2024
Forum Posts: 4
Strange Creature

Forum Posts: 4
Poetry Contest Description
Write a poem based off a mental illness. BPD, bipolar disorder, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, etc etc. Don't use any of the actual mental illness names in the poem, use detailed descriptions of how it makes someone, or you, feel dealing with it.

gothicsurrealism
Daniel Long
11
Joined 26th Nov 2018
Forum Posts: 227
Daniel Long
Thought Provoker


Forum Posts: 227
Traumatically Windblown
Psychosis carried in the gales,
for I am surely windblown,
windward from my own psyche,
where boundaries of reality have eroded.
With concealed hands,
a nonvisual hallucination caresses
the encasement of my soul,
provoking verbal responses.
Nothingness which wreathes around me,
a curve in a state of nonexistence
meandering around my body.
The compass of my soul spins.
Following the scent of nothing,
I steer into my own deception -
into an opaque fog,
distorting my perception.
Blind to this lightless entity -
blind itself to me.
I can now see the unknown,
camouflaged into what I hallucinate.
for I am surely windblown,
windward from my own psyche,
where boundaries of reality have eroded.
With concealed hands,
a nonvisual hallucination caresses
the encasement of my soul,
provoking verbal responses.
Nothingness which wreathes around me,
a curve in a state of nonexistence
meandering around my body.
The compass of my soul spins.
Following the scent of nothing,
I steer into my own deception -
into an opaque fog,
distorting my perception.
Blind to this lightless entity -
blind itself to me.
I can now see the unknown,
camouflaged into what I hallucinate.
Written by gothicsurrealism
(Daniel Long)
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Melancholy_Marie
Joined 31st Aug 2024
Forum Posts: 1
Strange Creature
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Wow this is great. Pulls you in, felt as though I was seeing through your eyes a feeling that has no name or face. I’ve been here before. Thanks for sharing
PAR
PAULO ACACIO RAMOS
26
Joined 26th May 2022
Forum Posts: 371
PAULO ACACIO RAMOS
Dangerous Mind


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menthol-disease
Everavalon
7
Joined 19th Dec 2022
Forum Posts: 89
Fire of Insight


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Griming the sane
Ample desire
perusing the fire
With psychosis griming the sane
Images spent
Will never relent
We’re the tempest devoid of the rain
Nonsensical drive
In what keeps me alive
My pain, simply masked with a grin
Yesterday’s fraught
With the things I have bought
Mania: a fantastical sin
We’re up; we are down
We are longing to drown
Ideation has sampled thy visions
Plagued with ill-thought
Alive while we rot
No sutures to close my incisions
perusing the fire
With psychosis griming the sane
Images spent
Will never relent
We’re the tempest devoid of the rain
Nonsensical drive
In what keeps me alive
My pain, simply masked with a grin
Yesterday’s fraught
With the things I have bought
Mania: a fantastical sin
We’re up; we are down
We are longing to drown
Ideation has sampled thy visions
Plagued with ill-thought
Alive while we rot
No sutures to close my incisions
Written by Everavalon
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ThePalestRider
12
Joined 14th Sep 2018
Forum Posts: 53
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"Ghosts of The Mind"
In chambers dim, where shadows writhe and cling
A mind doth falter on a fragile string
With thoughts like ravens, dark and clawing near
They scratch at reason, stoke the fires of fear
The mirrors mock with cruel and shifting face
Reflections warped, devoid of saving grace
A hunger burns, yet quenched it shall not be
For demons feast on all they cannot see
The tempest stirs within the hollow breast
A storm of sorrow, ne’er to find its rest
The heart doth plunge ‘twixt joy and darkest night
A pendulum that swings ‘twixt wrong and right
In gilded halls of melancholy's keep
Where ancient phantoms lie and never sleep
The mind doth wrestle with a specter’s dance
Of fleeting bliss and suff’ring’s grim expanse
The whispers rise like serpents in the air
They wind and coil ‘round hope, a choking snare
They speak of doom, of worthlessness and woe
And drag the soul to depths no light doth know
In silvered moonlight, pale upon the bed
A figure trembles, plagued by things unsaid
The velvet night, a shroud of heavy dread
The stars bear witness to the tears unshed
The world is distant, shrouded in a mist
Of unseen horrors, ever to persist
And every breath, a battle lost or won
A war that rages till the day is done
So here in silence, ‘neath the ashen sky
The haunted heart doth yearn yet knows not why
For solace sweet, or death’s own tender call
To end the torment of this spectral thrall
Thus wear the chains of sorrow’s cruel design
The endless ache, the torment serpentine
For in this gothic woe the spirit cries
In silent hymns beneath the weeping skies
In chambers dim, where shadows writhe and cling
A mind doth falter on a fragile string
With thoughts like ravens, dark and clawing near
They scratch at reason, stoke the fires of fear
The mirrors mock with cruel and shifting face
Reflections warped, devoid of saving grace
A hunger burns, yet quenched it shall not be
For demons feast on all they cannot see
The tempest stirs within the hollow breast
A storm of sorrow, ne’er to find its rest
The heart doth plunge ‘twixt joy and darkest night
A pendulum that swings ‘twixt wrong and right
In gilded halls of melancholy's keep
Where ancient phantoms lie and never sleep
The mind doth wrestle with a specter’s dance
Of fleeting bliss and suff’ring’s grim expanse
The whispers rise like serpents in the air
They wind and coil ‘round hope, a choking snare
They speak of doom, of worthlessness and woe
And drag the soul to depths no light doth know
In silvered moonlight, pale upon the bed
A figure trembles, plagued by things unsaid
The velvet night, a shroud of heavy dread
The stars bear witness to the tears unshed
The world is distant, shrouded in a mist
Of unseen horrors, ever to persist
And every breath, a battle lost or won
A war that rages till the day is done
So here in silence, ‘neath the ashen sky
The haunted heart doth yearn yet knows not why
For solace sweet, or death’s own tender call
To end the torment of this spectral thrall
Thus wear the chains of sorrow’s cruel design
The endless ache, the torment serpentine
For in this gothic woe the spirit cries
In silent hymns beneath the weeping skies
Nodrax_tepes
nodrax
Joined 30th Sep 2019
Forum Posts: 3
nodrax
Lost Thinker

Forum Posts: 3
Dark hall ways
Dark is the hall way that Afrodites cursed
Cursed to romantisize melancholy
Melancholic was he that walked blue in the dark hall ways dressed in tombstones of broken felts
The ghost of Caesar spooks the ways whispering watch out of that Brutus
That kiss from that purple lipstick that stains forever that art from Judas its painted with nails and a crown of thorns arrayed with pain
It rains in the dark hall ways its cold any ways life is vindictive to unknown sins anyways
Only coins are equal opposites you could never jump 6 feet high but its easy to go 6 feet deep, the universe poets jokes of me as i lay down in the smallest room ever to thee
The best mirror is the reflection as you lie in a casket bought by contributions of those that struck thee, those whom i put closest to heart they broke at luxury, as the eulogy progresses the thoughts of God with a full stop to the story without the element of a happy ending a Cinderella reversal dresssed with melancholy that you bathed with agony of those depressing memories of wars you won but didn't come out a victor, the suit you wear in the casket you never chose
Stuck at the cross roads with a soul the devil denies a bargain with
Doomed to forever walk the dark ways with immortal pain
Demons in my head they playground like its hell there is no heavenly host
Cursed to romantisize melancholy
Melancholic was he that walked blue in the dark hall ways dressed in tombstones of broken felts
The ghost of Caesar spooks the ways whispering watch out of that Brutus
That kiss from that purple lipstick that stains forever that art from Judas its painted with nails and a crown of thorns arrayed with pain
It rains in the dark hall ways its cold any ways life is vindictive to unknown sins anyways
Only coins are equal opposites you could never jump 6 feet high but its easy to go 6 feet deep, the universe poets jokes of me as i lay down in the smallest room ever to thee
The best mirror is the reflection as you lie in a casket bought by contributions of those that struck thee, those whom i put closest to heart they broke at luxury, as the eulogy progresses the thoughts of God with a full stop to the story without the element of a happy ending a Cinderella reversal dresssed with melancholy that you bathed with agony of those depressing memories of wars you won but didn't come out a victor, the suit you wear in the casket you never chose
Stuck at the cross roads with a soul the devil denies a bargain with
Doomed to forever walk the dark ways with immortal pain
Demons in my head they playground like its hell there is no heavenly host
Written by Nodrax_tepes
(nodrax)
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personanongrata
Astral Gift
5
Joined 8th June 2015
Forum Posts: 276
Astral Gift
Thought Provoker


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mood roller coaster
Disorder in occupation
Lovers of no expactation
Missiles with feather appearance
are ending my convenience
Get the fuck out of your comfort zone
You came alone, you'll die alone
But don't say to Death that he won't last
he's going to eat the last of us
It's strange, it's like tears are almost missed
My black and white picture list
sit speechless in the drawer's dust
and represent my holy ash
for I was burned millions of times
I wrote my blaze in fucking rhymes
I think I 've let it to be known
everything's waiting in a row
to find their place and be a part
of my deep underground kind of art
When sadness says welcome back
when my option's waiting for some luck
In sorrow like life's dead everywhere
Me and my pain hide their affair
Why is it hard to exist but don't feel
I woke up in hell and thought that was the deal
Tomorrow never meets my hopes
A wedding dress that fits my corpse
this will be my last invalid will
don't ask of why, that's how I feel
Death always whispers in my ear
I always sense that he is near
and I'm afraid that all 'll be gone
things I've been trying for so long
But I don't care let him arrive
Inside his mind I'll stay alive
and laugh with irony at his archive
declaring I will never die
for I'm not written in any book
I put myself in my own hook
Creating gods and demons way
life is the prize I have to pay
Despite all, all thoughts walk
towards my weird conscious fog
I wish it could be crystal and clear
what is it that I'm trying to heal
Lovers of no expactation
Missiles with feather appearance
are ending my convenience
Get the fuck out of your comfort zone
You came alone, you'll die alone
But don't say to Death that he won't last
he's going to eat the last of us
It's strange, it's like tears are almost missed
My black and white picture list
sit speechless in the drawer's dust
and represent my holy ash
for I was burned millions of times
I wrote my blaze in fucking rhymes
I think I 've let it to be known
everything's waiting in a row
to find their place and be a part
of my deep underground kind of art
When sadness says welcome back
when my option's waiting for some luck
In sorrow like life's dead everywhere
Me and my pain hide their affair
Why is it hard to exist but don't feel
I woke up in hell and thought that was the deal
Tomorrow never meets my hopes
A wedding dress that fits my corpse
this will be my last invalid will
don't ask of why, that's how I feel
Death always whispers in my ear
I always sense that he is near
and I'm afraid that all 'll be gone
things I've been trying for so long
But I don't care let him arrive
Inside his mind I'll stay alive
and laugh with irony at his archive
declaring I will never die
for I'm not written in any book
I put myself in my own hook
Creating gods and demons way
life is the prize I have to pay
Despite all, all thoughts walk
towards my weird conscious fog
I wish it could be crystal and clear
what is it that I'm trying to heal
Written by personanongrata
(Astral Gift)
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CasketSharpe
16
Joined 12th June 2013
Forum Posts: 168
Tyrant of Words


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The Wasted Sacrifice of Love
“His eyes seemed to bleed as he shook against a piss-stained wall
As he whimpered while going through an agonizing withdrawal,
“His flesh felt like it was peeling as he savagely start itching
Causing bleeding wounds in which he begin licking,
“Rain dripped continuously on his dirty uncombed hair
As his sweaty ass cheeks vice-gripped his week worn underwear,
“His mind in panic mode wondered what was taking his girl so long
But the answer could be heard when he begin hearing her moan,
“Just inside she was doggystyle on a soiled bed
Catching a deep gut check while giving drooling head,
“She willingly sacrificed her pussy for his uncontrollable drug habit
Out of twisted love, because he had to have it,
“Like a picnic basket the dealers constantly stuffed her real good
While every week she was passed around in the hood,
“In the beginning it was the first and fifteenth of every month
Now on a regular they was devastating her twenty-one year old cunt,
“Sometimes after a fuck she could not even walk
Unknown on how many STD’s she may have caught,
“Always wondering deep down ‘baby why’
The thought alone usually made her emotionally cry,
“Or whenever she looked at her man in his condition
Disregarding her emotions she would always focus on her sexual mission,
“But on this particular day he was having a serious fit
Yelling and banging on the door-he wouldn’t quit,
“One of the dealers fresh from jail snatched his ass in
And forced him to watch as he power-fucked his girl again,
“Afterwards he told him if he wanted to get his shit
He would have to suck his girl’s pussy juice off his herpy-infested dick,
“Pleading and looking at her man as the room filled with laughter
She begged ‘no-I’ll let you fuck me in my virgin ass you sick bastard’,
“But his drugged mind was gone while wiping snot on his sleeve
And in disgust she watched her man walk over and fall to his knees”.
As he whimpered while going through an agonizing withdrawal,
“His flesh felt like it was peeling as he savagely start itching
Causing bleeding wounds in which he begin licking,
“Rain dripped continuously on his dirty uncombed hair
As his sweaty ass cheeks vice-gripped his week worn underwear,
“His mind in panic mode wondered what was taking his girl so long
But the answer could be heard when he begin hearing her moan,
“Just inside she was doggystyle on a soiled bed
Catching a deep gut check while giving drooling head,
“She willingly sacrificed her pussy for his uncontrollable drug habit
Out of twisted love, because he had to have it,
“Like a picnic basket the dealers constantly stuffed her real good
While every week she was passed around in the hood,
“In the beginning it was the first and fifteenth of every month
Now on a regular they was devastating her twenty-one year old cunt,
“Sometimes after a fuck she could not even walk
Unknown on how many STD’s she may have caught,
“Always wondering deep down ‘baby why’
The thought alone usually made her emotionally cry,
“Or whenever she looked at her man in his condition
Disregarding her emotions she would always focus on her sexual mission,
“But on this particular day he was having a serious fit
Yelling and banging on the door-he wouldn’t quit,
“One of the dealers fresh from jail snatched his ass in
And forced him to watch as he power-fucked his girl again,
“Afterwards he told him if he wanted to get his shit
He would have to suck his girl’s pussy juice off his herpy-infested dick,
“Pleading and looking at her man as the room filled with laughter
She begged ‘no-I’ll let you fuck me in my virgin ass you sick bastard’,
“But his drugged mind was gone while wiping snot on his sleeve
And in disgust she watched her man walk over and fall to his knees”.
Written by CasketSharpe
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olliec
Oliver Cocks
Joined 15th Oct 2023
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Oliver Cocks
Lost Thinker
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You and Your Pooch
A dog
A park
Much foliage
You pitch the ball
She zips after it
Skips back
to slobber and tail-wag
Many years since
the days
The days when
it seemed like
you couldn’t be
The days when
you pondered an end
each nanosecond
Now, you have
your pooch
Now, to find
the pooch’s
perfect partner guardian
A park
Much foliage
You pitch the ball
She zips after it
Skips back
to slobber and tail-wag
Many years since
the days
The days when
it seemed like
you couldn’t be
The days when
you pondered an end
each nanosecond
Now, you have
your pooch
Now, to find
the pooch’s
perfect partner guardian
Written by olliec
(Oliver Cocks)
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UbiquitousVoid
11
Joined 11th Sep 2016
Forum Posts: 273
Fire of Insight


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VISIONS OF APOCALYPSE
All is written, all is scried
All is hated that is pried
All is rotten, all is vile
All is hidden 'neath a smile
All is beckoned, all is towed
All is brought to my abode
All is loathing, all is dread
All is leaking from my head
All is murder, all is death
All is mine with every breath
All is burning, all is gore
All is fragments on the floor
All is dusty, all is drenched
All is rocks and weeds and stench
All is vacant, all is void
All is waste of the enjoyed
All is blackened, all is grey
All is one phone call away
Written by UbiquitousVoid
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WillowsWhimsies
20
Joined 8th Mar 2016
Forum Posts: 333
Dangerous Mind


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& it still is...
this is my story
...not a human experience absolute
but it was never about food
or appetite...or lack thereof
it's imperative you understand
no...
it was much more than that
a desperate need for the one damn thing
sorely lacking in my life
something stolen before I knew it was needed
...or that it even existed
an elusive slippery kind of concept
information...without proof
& I could not comprehend...
...something I'd never had
so I created my own version
refusing to eat what I was fed
on my terms only...you see
{& never in front of others}
as pounds dropped off my fragile frame
that sense of having...achieved...more dominant
my delicate bones becoming more prominent
I felt empowered
experiencing a facsimile
of what I imagined...
had always been denied to me
& when I became responsible for a life other than my own
I took it very seriously
feeding her...through me
putting her needs before mine
until he took over...removing all choice
deciding what I was allowed to eat
...not a nibble more
removing the frail belief...I possessed any such thing
& when I felt endangered
needing shelter...armor around my pain
I swung that focus in the other direction
building a wall with what I ingested
never about hunger...remember
have you figured it out yet
it was always...
...about control
Written by WillowsWhimsies
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NANCY_RDZ_STORIES
WRITER LYRICIST ARTIST
6
Joined 9th Jan 2020
Forum Posts: 225
WRITER LYRICIST ARTIST
Fire of Insight


Forum Posts: 225
"OH PENNYWISE"
"Oh Pennywise"
You're evilly nice
You took care of the problem I so much despise
Love your size
Love your look
Especially your glowing eyes
That scares like in the book.
imagining how far your laughter lies
Love your voice
Love how you can sense me
Doesn't leave me much of a choice
Yet it turns me on sooooo attentively
Seems it turns you on lasting you to belong...
"Oooohhhhh".... I could never from you runnnn....
The tunnels are so long.....
I could never never never....
That IT, IM IT I CANT FORGET
That you'll always come....
"Oh Pennywise"
You're full of lies
I no care just shadow me with your creepy disguise
Love how you change
Love how you're strange
You're a clown yet a spider
at the same time
Warning all how you get stronger....
Love your voice
Love how you can sense me
Doesn't leave me much of a choice
Yet it turns me on sooooo attentively
Seems it turns you on lasting you to belong....
"Oooohhhhh".... I could never from you runnnn....
The tunnels are so long...
I could never never never
That IT, IM IT I CANT FORGET
That you'll always come....
"Oh Pennywise"
In the sewers I hear Georgie's cries
Paper boat that can't escape but it tries...
Love your red balloon
Love for you to hand me one soon
You wait for that red moon
To trap me in your evil doom
I'll make it boom and become your abettor toon...
Love your voice
Love how you can sense me
Doesn't leave me much of a choice
Yet it turns me on sooooo attentively
Seems it turns you on lasting you to belong...
"Oooohhhhh".... I could never from you runnnn....
The tunnels are so long....
I could never never never.....
That IT, IM IT I CANT FORGET
That you'll always always come....
You're evilly nice
You took care of the problem I so much despise
Love your size
Love your look
Especially your glowing eyes
That scares like in the book.
imagining how far your laughter lies
Love your voice
Love how you can sense me
Doesn't leave me much of a choice
Yet it turns me on sooooo attentively
Seems it turns you on lasting you to belong...
"Oooohhhhh".... I could never from you runnnn....
The tunnels are so long.....
I could never never never....
That IT, IM IT I CANT FORGET
That you'll always come....
"Oh Pennywise"
You're full of lies
I no care just shadow me with your creepy disguise
Love how you change
Love how you're strange
You're a clown yet a spider
at the same time
Warning all how you get stronger....
Love your voice
Love how you can sense me
Doesn't leave me much of a choice
Yet it turns me on sooooo attentively
Seems it turns you on lasting you to belong....
"Oooohhhhh".... I could never from you runnnn....
The tunnels are so long...
I could never never never
That IT, IM IT I CANT FORGET
That you'll always come....
"Oh Pennywise"
In the sewers I hear Georgie's cries
Paper boat that can't escape but it tries...
Love your red balloon
Love for you to hand me one soon
You wait for that red moon
To trap me in your evil doom
I'll make it boom and become your abettor toon...
Love your voice
Love how you can sense me
Doesn't leave me much of a choice
Yet it turns me on sooooo attentively
Seems it turns you on lasting you to belong...
"Oooohhhhh".... I could never from you runnnn....
The tunnels are so long....
I could never never never.....
That IT, IM IT I CANT FORGET
That you'll always always come....
Written by NANCY_RDZ_STORIES
(WRITER LYRICIST ARTIST)
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The winner of this competition and any runners up were decided by public vote.
Thank you to the following members for voting:
MadameLavender, Rew, fianaturie8, eroseternal, Marks, Shilohverse, dimpy, Stoney223, Her, SonderNinja, SweetKittyCat5, Everavalon, Billy_Snagg, Sappho, Tallen, Phantom2426, Morganpoet, u53l355
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MadameLavender, Rew, fianaturie8, eroseternal, Marks, Shilohverse, dimpy, Stoney223, Her, SonderNinja, SweetKittyCat5, Everavalon, Billy_Snagg, Sappho, Tallen, Phantom2426, Morganpoet, u53l355