Recovery From Poems - Examples of all types of recovery from poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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Space SettingSwiftly, the dark spill that muddied up my canvas
Made its mess, dislocated light and thoughtful lines to the edges
While it claimed space in the middle.
It seemed like everything was ruined.
All the time and effort
Expended to...
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Categories:
recovery from, betrayal, divorce, farewell, future,
Form: Free verse
Thespians Tragedy :Love's Silent StageToday, upon this stage, an actress must
Perform a tale of love and woe.
Many roles in past, she played and executed well
But in the hushed embrace of theater's din light
The actress is tasked with...
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Categories:
recovery from, 12th grade, character, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Whole AgainYou broke my love, my loyalty, my confidence and mind,
You left invisible wounds, broken, trauma and anxiety,
You told me I was imagining all the things you did, that it was my fault, I was to...
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Categories:
recovery from, abuse, anxiety, feelings, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
AwakenedAwakened
"Silence fills all the spaces between
the soft flutter of fragile butterfly wings.
There one second and then gone, the faint breeze in a syncopated song.
As twilight gatherers...
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Categories:
recovery from, angst, crazy, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
8 years apartYou were believed.
8 years apart, just for a start.
I got a belt but you were our mothers heart.
You left a taste oh so sweet and me just oh so tart.
The black sheep,...
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Categories:
recovery from, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
The UnwantedHe came to live his life in peace
To put all his troubles at ease
But like a garbage, he was shunned
Almost short of being gunned
He didn't even know why
They even wanted...
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Categories:
lost, recovery from,
Form: Rhyme
Demon of AddictionMy voice is filled with broken tremors,
As I describe the layers of my pain.
Each breath blows out the bitter emptiness,
And I hear myself going insane.
I interact with demons I battle,
And I force...
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Categories:
recovery from, addiction, anger, dark, drug,
Form: Free verse
Humor Beats Sleep
Humor is a restorative
much better than sleep
Please tell me a joke
When you snore, I weep
...
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Categories:
humor, recovery from, sleep,
Form: Rhyme
FatigueJust another long afternoon
Of another long long day
Mind numbing weariness
That just won’t go away.
My eyelids are heavy
I just want to sleep
For once no need
To be counting sheep
The cat is staring at me
In almost hypnotic...
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Categories:
recovery from, anxiety, depression, hope, recovery
Form: Rhyme
Id's Just His SticksThey dubbed him Sticks at Epoch's tip
when hitherto matter none neither you
of matter grasped that awed amassed
was all he cared and none who'd dare
his love of sticks made jokes he exists
baton they'd be, had...
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Categories:
recovery from, character, conflict, confusion, mental
Form: Rhyme
Learning To Let GoLearning to let go of everything I have ever known.
In spite of all the love I have shown, I still felt alone.
It is only now I see, I must let go how I used to...
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Categories:
recovery from, depression, forgiveness, mental health,
Form: Sijo
Nowhere To HideA definite air permeates
When in the walls of my room
Projected productivity is it?
Or rather the reflection of what those expect of me
Identity found... lost, through my grasp
Hard to dicier or fully know
Craving change, something swift
Yet...
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Categories:
recovery from, change, childhood, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Life is But a DreamI have heard it said
That lives flash before our eyes
Seconds before we're dead
And then we're on the other side
But there's an interesting phenomenon
Where when we die in dreams, we wake
We know not how to go...
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Categories:
recovery from, atheist, death, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Through the FireYou may have to go it alone
Bear the heat and discomfort on your own
It can be devastating and suffocating
No fresh air to breathe, only heat and smoke that is debilitating
The burns and wounds...
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Categories:
recovery from, beautiful, courage, endurance, faith,
Form: Rhyme
LETS TANGOLETS TANGO
Nobody said, Let’s go to war
But an invasion, well I never
An Atlantic territory, remote
Who’d respond, they thought
Or perhaps get overwrought
Eight thousand miles by boat
Surely a link one could sever
As we’d not bothered before
For Argentina,...
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Categories:
ocean, recovery from, war,
Form: Rhyme
Specific Types of Recovery From Poems
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