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Depression Free Verse Poems

These Depression Free Verse poems are examples of Free Verse poems about Depression. These are the best examples of Free Verse Depression poems written by international poets.

The Wren

Lonely lies to myself 
A string of hope 
Clung to, hung to 
Like the rope I'll use 
When the time it comes 
A soaring, sweet...

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Categories: bird, death, depression, grief,

Maybe I miss

The locked poem of my heart
When unbound by its chains
Will reveal it's frozen secrets
Thaw them out again

All that can be mustered
Of this broken and abused...

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Categories: abuse, depression, lonely, sad,

I loved you

I loved you

Forget
Not exists

My love
Tale

Dream
Tale

Oh
Yeah

Mist
Gone.

Gone.

Gone.

Pain
Big

Heart
Dry

Heart
A fate

Take
Take

Fate
Fate

Yours
Mine

Be
Be

Live
Live

Stop
Stop

Me
You

Lost life
But love

Still
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Emma
Emma

Be my life
Be my life

I lost
Myself

You are a tale
A diamond

I am nothing
Be my brain

Be my brain
Oh

My life
My soul

Love
Love

Nothing
Exit

Bye

Love

With
...

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Categories: life, love,

Until Death Do Us Apart

I want to run away
But have got no way out of here
I want to just sit ‘n’ cry
But have got all my tears frozen
I want...

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Categories: bereavement, cancer, death, depression,

Assault

I felt that it was all my fault
But i am the victim of sexual assault.
Nobody seems to see it that way
I wish I could just...

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Categories: abuse, bullying, dark, depression,

You

You


You
You

I
I

Love
Love

I need you
Be mine
Get mine
Love

Find love

First love

Last love

First love

I need you
Get back
I find you
Forget me
Forget me

Go
Go

I needed you
...

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Categories: life, love,

Emotion

Emotion

Emotion, what is that? What?
Emotion
Emotion
Emotion
Hmmm

Feeling, what is that? What?
Feeling
Feeling
Feeling
Hmmm

I want to feel
I want to feel
I want to feel like
I want to get life

I want life
I...

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Categories: life, love,

Anxiety

Tears fill my eyes
Sadness fills my lungs
No one else can see
The things I am running from

Shadows start to move
Voices start to yell
It’s like a grand...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, mental health,

With just a stone

Goliath was a big threat to Israel
A giant with intimidating records 
Of military prowess which turned Israelite soldiers 
To a bunch of faithless cowards
And to...

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Categories: anxiety, christian, courage, depression,

The Official Comedy

Maybe I walk in your shoes,
Perhaps you sleep like my loops,
Probably, this is an unimaginable satire,
Inside your head, I can never born again and be...

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Categories: anxiety, depression, feelings, irony,

Level of Brokenness

Author  Dana Redricks 
April 30, 2024

The level of Brokenness runs so deep even if I tried to explain I feel no one could understand....

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Categories: anxiety, christian, conflict, deep,

The last high

Bruising my vein
Can’t stay in my lane
Don’t even feel any pain
Acting like my arms are a pincushion 
A dirty needle about to push in
Need that...

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Categories: addiction, anger, dark, depression,

Another poem about loneliness

I’m so lonesome I could cry
Cry for the pup lost from the pack
He’s gotta find comfort in winter

I’m so lonesome feeling disconnected
Cold comfort, but bees...

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Categories: depression, loneliness, lonely, longing,

Too Late

Far from this place,
Where peace escapes,
He ran, lost in the race,
No one cared for his fate.

Death's beckoning touch,
Drew him near,
His grave, a sanctuary,
Where mercy did...

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Categories: depression, goodbye, grave, heartbroken,

Hurt Again

She was like the softest clouds,
On a warm, sunlit day.
Standing out in any crowd, 
In a celestial way.

Unsure how to cope,
With a loss so profound.
Yet...

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Categories: anger, blue, depression, goodbye,