The Serpent's TaleThey call us snakes. Evil. Cold blooded. Cruel. Why would you say that when learning someone was diagnosed with a mental disorder that was out of their control? Oh, but right, you hear about it on crime shows and boisterous podcasts, so that makes you a licensed-to-judge therapist. You hear about it in shootings, thievery,...
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Categories:
health, allegory, analogy, angst, conflict,
Form: Free verse
B S P 'Bulgaria...Well done.' Sweden scored a hole in one.'
Papua New Guinea.' You got me stunned.!! Three great
Examples.!! As I see.!) Eschewing the con-vid intent of
A rabid W H O decree..No pop up tent events.!! No guilt schemes
Playing on t v..? No radio dj's holy moly-ing it seems.?
Just the general tide of life.' More or less.? In...
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Categories:
health, confidence, courage, drug, education,
Form: Rhyme
25 Years Of Health And FriendshipYou’ve been my doctor for the past 25 years.
You’ve been there for all the small things like a sneeze or cough.
We’ve had times of laughter, but also shed a few tears.
The times that I didn’t feel well, you wouldn’t back off.
Even while on your vacation, you would call me,
Just to see how I was doing...
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Categories:
health, poems,
Form: Rhyme
Shadow WorkingYou learn to embrace your very own darkening
When trapped in a prison of your own making.
When it is the lights that were always looming,
Yet never letting the light in for any healing....
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Categories:
mental health, mental illness,
Form: Quatrain
When Even the Pen Can't HealI place my pen so painfully on the page
Ink stains so sinister
Too dark for the heart to feel over again
And over again
And again
I feel my heart launch inside my throat
Choking me
Breath which used to come to easily
Thoughts once produced so placidly
So readily
Fade suddenly
Fog...
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Categories:
anxiety, depression, mental health,
Form: Free verse
MindMy mind is a wasteland, a place only poison and death thrive.
My mind is a wasteland, where not even hope is alive.
I’m not safe from my thoughts, these venomous snakes that haunt my memories.
My skin crawls from pollution, from anxiety and doubt.
All I want is to get out. ...
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Categories:
mental health,
Form: Free verse
Angel of DeathWhat is calling me
As I gasp for air
Trying to breathe
As the epitome of darkness
Is haunting me
I have been shackled
From my Liberty
As I can no longer grapple
The darkness in front of me
Alone I fall
To my prophesy
As the Angel of Death
Is what’s calling me
...
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Categories:
death, deep, mental health,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
beauty, health, sea,
Form: Than-Bauk
Existence of SurvivalWake.
Commute.
Work.
Repeat.
They call this living?
I call it the hamster wheel—
spinning faster each year
while the cage only shrinks.
Three jobs to afford one roof.
Two hours of daylight between shifts.
One life slipping through fingers
calloused from climbing ladders
that only lead to more ladders.
We've normalized exhaustion,
wear our burnout like medals of honor.
"Busy" is our battle cry.
Our worth measured in productivity units,
our...
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Categories:
environment, meaningful, mental health,
Form: Free verse
You'd Never KnowYou'd never know
Surely no one could tell
I almost took my life ten months ago
From the flames inside that burned a living hell
Where demons dwell and angels ache to break free from below
It mustn't show, the absent soul hidden with a counterfeit shell...
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Categories:
health, anxiety, depression, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
MushNeuroscience
takes a world class meal
grinds it into bits
and tries to convince us
— its taste has improved
(Villanova University: April, 2025)
...
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Categories:
mental health, science,
Form: Free verse
HurricaneIf all I know is the hurricane,
where is it's eye?
As if it likes to play hide and seek -
make a guess -
who is the seeker?
Isn't life a game, after all?
It thinks I'm eager to play.
I'm not...
Are you?...
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Categories:
health, anxiety, depression, how i
Form: Free verse
I Want to WantI want to want -
I want to look into your eyes and feel
the weight of damnation lifted from my shoulders.
I want to see endless days without the foresight to end it.
I want to envision visions of eternity in eternal bliss.
I want to hold your hand and feel the embrace of light itself.
I want to...
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Categories:
health, depression, emotions, hope, how
Form: Lyric
Petals You Never SawLook at Me
I don't feel sick,
Yet something inside is twisted
Not in body, but in the sap that shivers within.
Are these petals not what you envisioned?
Look at me.
What did I do wrong?
I sing the songs you taught me,
My voice trembling a whisper against the wind
Does its fragile tune echo your hidden sorrow?
I grew as you...
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Categories:
health, depression, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Self-ImprisonedIt is just another little solitary prison,
Containing everything of which I am as a person.
Seems I am meant to be alone without any visitation....
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Categories:
health, depression, loneliness, lonely, mental
Form: Sijo
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