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Health Poems | Examples of Health Poetry

Health Poems - Examples of all types of health poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous poem examples for health.
Dermatillomania
Am I a freak? I pick my skin until I bleed It brings me peace and comfort Google says it’s my mental health or OCD It goes away for weeks, but when it comes back I...Read the rest...
Categories: health, addiction, anxiety, deep, feelings,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Reasons to Worry
I think of scary things, it seems, As dogs that jump like cats, in dreams. They say I spend too much time caring With no reasons for such scaring; That, I should learn to relax at...Read the rest...
Categories: health, animal, anxiety, cat, dog,
Form: Rhyme
The Pyramid
I told y-o-u about, What's outside the pyramid. but Y-o--u won't believe, everything to begin with. I called you out ,from your o-w-n little Pyramid b-u-t y-o-u won't come out! From that little pyramid Soo hide inside, of...Read the rest...
Categories: health, care, caregiving, change, friend,
Form: Rhyme
No Duh
I feel it, can't hold my cigarette because my hand is shaking My nerves are acting up but my feet are still and planting Yeah I'm tense, I might faint but I'm not going to be failing Yes,...Read the rest...
Categories: health, anxiety, body, conflict, endurance,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Delusion
All are lunatics, but he who analyses his delusion is called a philosopher.” Ambrose Bierce ...Read the rest...
Categories: depression, fantasy, mental health,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Skin of Terror
Skin of Terror - Daniel Henry Rodgers (Lights slowly rise on a lone figure, MICHAEL, hunched over a steering wheel. His knuckles are white against the worn leather. Pre-recorded sounds of a desolate highway hum faintly in...Read the rest...
Categories: horror, mental health, mental
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member What's good for the goose, on becoming a mother
Today we celebrate Mother's Day, for those still with us and those gone away, with hearts of gratitude we acknowledge and pray.. This current climate where state's see fit to oversee a woman's choices and pass laws to...Read the rest...
Categories: health, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member the good fight
* death is a process of many stages, and dementia can be one of the ugliest … Dad taught me many lessons in life, and he fought to the last to retain what sensibilities he...Read the rest...
Categories: health, age, analogy, father son,
Form: Rhyme
the day i woke up from my suicide
it was cold, yet hot, a fever. i am surprised, as though I didn't fill myself with poison just the night before. my arm is taped down, attached to an iv, four pouches of medication seep into my veins it burns, yet any...Read the rest...
Categories: mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Echoes Of Silence
In the quiet hush of the night's embrace, Where shadows dance and memories trace, I find myself lost in thoughts of you, Wondering if you feel it too. If your silence lingers, a subtle plea, A...Read the rest...
Categories: health, love, love hurts, mental
Form: ABC
Universal Remote
I wish I had a remote to control my thoughts It would be great to change the volume, mute or source If only I could change the negative thoughts channel to the sports channel. Or even change...Read the rest...
Categories: health, deep, devotion, feelings, mental
Form: Free verse
Premium Member as homily too
life the main blessing despite pain, grief or stressing seems worth professing what we haven't got drives many human's sub-plot until being caught unthinking chatter caustic words maim and batter reactions matter may not bring relief to become what we believe ethos can deceive immense sense of...Read the rest...
Categories: health, allegory, allusion, confusion, emotions,
Form: Haiku
Rose Blooms in Spring
She turns sixteen one cold December clime He strings dissembling lover’s thorns so girthed The sprouts of pristine virtue split by crime The core is sore, this shriveled Rose is birthed Though frigid Rose, she seeks to now resorb In...Read the rest...
Categories: health, 12th grade, innocence, journey,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member mind's eye
not grounding mentality in bounds of reality vows turn unverifiable truth becoming pliable judgments unreliable when the working of our brain leads toward being less sane few usually agree about structure of life's key existence is that which is beyond schemes in sales pitches theories...Read the rest...
Categories: judgement, life, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
The Doll
There once was a doll Bruised and battered Slanted on a wall Like it never mattered. The doll once mattered When the girl was small And her dreams weren't shattered As she was yet to fall. She fell along with her doll Embraced...Read the rest...
Categories: health, childhood, death, emotions, life,
Form: Rhyme

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