Poems About Depression by Top Critiquers
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Poems about depression by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
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Lives of Poets
What makes me wonder
Is not why writers and poets
So young and old
Succumb to emptiness.
It is the lives they had lived
Under the bright sky.
Things they must have seen
To mold those words of bitterness.
From Homer’s Olympus heights
To Byron’s mountain of light.
From the banks of a gushing Nile
to the flows of the Mississippi might.
Mountains, rivers, hills, and streams
Have molded words and wondrous dreams.
Dripping blood mixed with ink
Together they form a hidden...
Is not why writers and poets
So young and old
Succumb to emptiness.
It is the lives they had lived
Under the bright sky.
Things they must have seen
To mold those words of bitterness.
From Homer’s Olympus heights
To Byron’s mountain of light.
From the banks of a gushing Nile
to the flows of the Mississippi might.
Mountains, rivers, hills, and streams
Have molded words and wondrous dreams.
Dripping blood mixed with ink
Together they form a hidden...
#WritersBlock
#WritingPoetry
#anxiety
#depression
#SelfHarm
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A Mind Unraveling
At first it was
A lot like peeling back
The layers of an onion
Unspoken confessions revealed
Can it be an actual confession
If it isn't spoken out loud in words?
I lived and learned one
By one the many contradictions
Of my life's steadfast addictions
Medication to ease the pain
Of the likes of OCD and MDD
I've come so far
In my life's journey
On this road that I've been
T r a v e l l I n g
Still some days I swear
It seems my mind 's again
U n r a v e l I n g
A lot like peeling back
The layers of an onion
Unspoken confessions revealed
Can it be an actual confession
If it isn't spoken out loud in words?
I lived and learned one
By one the many contradictions
Of my life's steadfast addictions
Medication to ease the pain
Of the likes of OCD and MDD
I've come so far
In my life's journey
On this road that I've been
T r a v e l l I n g
Still some days I swear
It seems my mind 's again
U n r a v e l I n g
#anxiety
#depression
#LifeStruggles
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Go To Bed
sadness often prevails
with nothing to quench it
I wait as it rolls as waves over my wounds
acidic meant to burn the soul permanently
there is no noble lesson here
just overkill
If you don't love, leave me to my pretty prison
exiled here from the Royal Court
set aside like Anne Boleyn
taken in chains to the abyss
while they boo and hiss
and for the amusement of one I burned
I wonder now, do you?
how I still exist
my answer is simply put
it's to spite you
if evicted from the earth ...
with nothing to quench it
I wait as it rolls as waves over my wounds
acidic meant to burn the soul permanently
there is no noble lesson here
just overkill
If you don't love, leave me to my pretty prison
exiled here from the Royal Court
set aside like Anne Boleyn
taken in chains to the abyss
while they boo and hiss
and for the amusement of one I burned
I wonder now, do you?
how I still exist
my answer is simply put
it's to spite you
if evicted from the earth ...
#sadness
#love
#depression
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Self-Neglect
It’s one of those days
I lack the motivation
To even get off of the couch
We have company over
Yet I’m huddled under a blanket
With my hood up and antisocial
Granted it’s still early
But now they’re waking up too
My feet are poking out from the blanket
And this makes me insecure
But my wife tucks the blanket
Back over my feet
Because she knows
She’s trying to let me know
That I should get up
And be more presentable
But I can’t muster the will
To take care of myself today
...
I lack the motivation
To even get off of the couch
We have company over
Yet I’m huddled under a blanket
With my hood up and antisocial
Granted it’s still early
But now they’re waking up too
My feet are poking out from the blanket
And this makes me insecure
But my wife tucks the blanket
Back over my feet
Because she knows
She’s trying to let me know
That I should get up
And be more presentable
But I can’t muster the will
To take care of myself today
...
#depression
#MentalHealth
#NaPoWriMo2024
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Why do you hurt me?
Why does it hurt me so
With every whim
You come and go
It hurts deep inside
Knowing I’m doing everything.
To keep you by my side
I tried to make you laugh
To give you joy
To give you pleasure
Instead, I get nothing
And I am not sure
Why do you hurt me so
I feel it deep in my core
It hurts so much
I feel I will break
Tell me, please
How much more can I take
I’ll sit here and sob in my knees
And try to think
What is it about me
Don’t tell me its you
For if it was
Then I...
With every whim
You come and go
It hurts deep inside
Knowing I’m doing everything.
To keep you by my side
I tried to make you laugh
To give you joy
To give you pleasure
Instead, I get nothing
And I am not sure
Why do you hurt me so
I feel it deep in my core
It hurts so much
I feel I will break
Tell me, please
How much more can I take
I’ll sit here and sob in my knees
And try to think
What is it about me
Don’t tell me its you
For if it was
Then I...
#sadness
#depression
#confusion
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Ink Void
Guitar cries cut
through my heart
take me where
i need to be
deep inside
in the core
where the
pain resides
uncomfortably
God, i'm tired
can't even write
i close my eyes
surrender my body
into the abyss of night
https://youtu.be/vi7cuAjArRs
through my heart
take me where
i need to be
deep inside
in the core
where the
pain resides
uncomfortably
God, i'm tired
can't even write
i close my eyes
surrender my body
into the abyss of night
https://youtu.be/vi7cuAjArRs
#depression
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Dreary Day
Overcast
All day
I remember my Mom
Latter years
She'd get so depressed
I'd try to cheer her up
Parkinsons Disease though
There was no cheering
Not even a chance
She was so stoic
Sucked it up
No choice
Today reminds me of those days
Pit of the stomach blues
I'll suck it up too
Go pet my dog
Maybe she'll lick my face
She's good like that
All day
I remember my Mom
Latter years
She'd get so depressed
I'd try to cheer her up
Parkinsons Disease though
There was no cheering
Not even a chance
She was so stoic
Sucked it up
No choice
Today reminds me of those days
Pit of the stomach blues
I'll suck it up too
Go pet my dog
Maybe she'll lick my face
She's good like that
#depression
#dark
#mother
#dogs
#StreamOfConsciousness
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cooling embers
souls bared into unrelenting night
blue tides sweeping
unapologetic
across surface of unmarred white
on & on went the bleeding
unabated...unnoticed...unseen
into the keeping of sacred spiral
a purging
chrysalis emerging
untouched
and the world brightened
and grew
sparks shimmering
teasing newborn eyes
testing wings never before tried
and they flew
one among many
glimmers in the dark
brilliant in beauty & in light
but one by one the embers dimmed
as warmth failed... ...
blue tides sweeping
unapologetic
across surface of unmarred white
on & on went the bleeding
unabated...unnoticed...unseen
into the keeping of sacred spiral
a purging
chrysalis emerging
untouched
and the world brightened
and grew
sparks shimmering
teasing newborn eyes
testing wings never before tried
and they flew
one among many
glimmers in the dark
brilliant in beauty & in light
but one by one the embers dimmed
as warmth failed... ...
#depression
#loneliness
#LifeStruggles
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4 Comments
What time is it, Mr,Clock
there was no echo to the shout
no refrains to the song
no sounds in the applause
no shouts no songs no applause
it was a walk on furrowed fields
no mines, but slithery creatures
wedged in the deep rows
waiting to be planted with sorrows
the roots of all the sighs
the cries, the gobbling sobs
of grief on the threshold of insanity
was seeded with dragon teeth
as Cadmus did
to save his sister and his soul
as mine was planted
through indifference and ignorance
it was
just a
long walk.
no refrains to the song
no sounds in the applause
no shouts no songs no applause
it was a walk on furrowed fields
no mines, but slithery creatures
wedged in the deep rows
waiting to be planted with sorrows
the roots of all the sighs
the cries, the gobbling sobs
of grief on the threshold of insanity
was seeded with dragon teeth
as Cadmus did
to save his sister and his soul
as mine was planted
through indifference and ignorance
it was
just a
long walk.
#depression
#dreams
#memories
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COVID time
COVID 19 got me and gave me
three days breathing oxygen.
Who thought this up?
All I can do is sleep and
wait for you to call me
I need you to come and
visit me but you can’t.
no one is allowed to visit.
I am thankful for the
nurses and staff who
are risking their health
to care for me.
I try not to ask for anything
as they have too much to do
and I need only your call
and your love to keep
me sane.
I leave the hospital
with another three days
of pills to fight off
the last crap of this ...
three days breathing oxygen.
Who thought this up?
All I can do is sleep and
wait for you to call me
I need you to come and
visit me but you can’t.
no one is allowed to visit.
I am thankful for the
nurses and staff who
are risking their health
to care for me.
I try not to ask for anything
as they have too much to do
and I need only your call
and your love to keep
me sane.
I leave the hospital
with another three days
of pills to fight off
the last crap of this ...
#depression
#family
#illness
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6 Comments
Out of Control
I was young
I was angry
I was completely out of control
I had self-loathe and disgust for myself
I was miserable with the path I chose
Unhappiness lead me into depression
And depression into an even darker road
Where ending my life seemed like the only thing to do
But most of all I felt like any day I would simply implode
I lied
I cheated
I screamed
Then everything just went quiet
And when I woke up
I thought everything would be ok
So long as I was being compliant
Not once ...
I was angry
I was completely out of control
I had self-loathe and disgust for myself
I was miserable with the path I chose
Unhappiness lead me into depression
And depression into an even darker road
Where ending my life seemed like the only thing to do
But most of all I felt like any day I would simply implode
I lied
I cheated
I screamed
Then everything just went quiet
And when I woke up
I thought everything would be ok
So long as I was being compliant
Not once ...
#depression
#suicide
#MentalHealth
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Hang Time
Don't drink with me
Unless you need it
You feel defeated
When I'm drinking my drink
Like water I flow
Straight from a babbling brook
To a roar I go
Crashing into rocks
And then over the falls
I've got two more fifths so I can forget you all
So don't drink with me
Unless you need it
You feel defeated
My life goes with the stream
Or so it seems
From running with bass and trout
To piranhas on my team
One minute life is pure and all so clear
The next it's contaminated
And nothing can live in...
Unless you need it
You feel defeated
When I'm drinking my drink
Like water I flow
Straight from a babbling brook
To a roar I go
Crashing into rocks
And then over the falls
I've got two more fifths so I can forget you all
So don't drink with me
Unless you need it
You feel defeated
My life goes with the stream
Or so it seems
From running with bass and trout
To piranhas on my team
One minute life is pure and all so clear
The next it's contaminated
And nothing can live in...
#depression
#drugs
#SelfWorth
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4 Comments
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