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Sanity Poems - Poems about Sanity

Sanity Poems - Examples of all types of poems about sanity to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for sanity.
Premium Member Sanity at Last
Sanity is in fact the default setting When dust settles And dawn rises on a new day Sober minds and eyes Waking to see what needs being done The hard and often dirty work of life And not the wishful wistful...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, america, perspective, political, society,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Trails of Sanity
The Trails of Sanity Why do I care if the disturber carries on Why is it I cannot just wait it out, bide my time Be more mindful, try and bond Embrace what I don’t understand Welcome the scorching taste...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, change, character, endurance,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Disease of Sanity
The congregation of passportology Is an overwhelming majority Don’t know much of my geneology Even don’t belong to minority But anyone can attach me of course To the less equal nation in Orwellian sense For that mental trick...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, philosophy, sad love, world,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member I Hear
I hear you may be leaving. No question does it pose. My heart stirs not to grieving. I can pluck another rose. For if for friend or sanity, 'Tis the latter that I chose. Please check the front yard lawn. That's where...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, break up, goodbye,
Form: Rhyme
Sanity fair
Oh That's strange Shh quiet Internal system Do you all hear that Does it sound or seem like she Is at peace today Quick Someone do something Make her think Of anything To disturb and irritate Her serene state Quick hippocampus Flash a memory Of...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, self,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Sanity Loosely Defined
{Halloween the norm?) (Warning! -- not suitable for children to read nor for folks presently having mental issues. This short work is very graphic and emotionally disturbing) Sanity Loosely Defined Is that a pimple to be punctured or a...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, corruption, evil, humanity, perspective,
Form: Free verse
There's No Hell Like the One in My Head
There’s no hell like the one in my head It’s the one that I physically dread Some things are better left unsaid And forever trapped in my messed-up head Shadows whisper secrets that I fear Echoes of pain that no...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, anxiety, depression, fear, how
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Edge of Sanity
She skates along the edge of sanity. The line between disaster and divine. Heart now tasting the inhumanity, without the lonely sip of the sweet wine. Digging whilst drowning the depths of darkness, rummaging righteousness...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, flower, god, growth, health,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Marital Sanity
Rick knew sluttish blood flowed in mother’s vein. She told sex before marriage was a bane, had him, though maiden was she. He was...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, character, marriage,
Form: Limerick
Risen, From my 2nd collection In sanity
Another sun has risen And those dreams forgiven Past miss takes were illuminated And in sleep they were illustrated Shown pictures of pleasures and pain Painted on my mind it all seemed so plain At the moment when hope had left...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Insanity and Reality
In the halls of my mind I walk as I ponder, Over things that trouble me, big and small, Over things that tear me asunder; As though I was made for this toll. And I burn and melt and...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, confusion, hope, introspection, me,
Form: Ballad
My mast from my collection In sanity
My Mast It’s time to get my life together I have travelled through the stormy weather. I have eaten the bad fruit before Many times, I have hit the floor Now I want to rise. I was never one for...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, allegory, first love, for
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Place of Sanity Sought
When the mind stops, blank without thought, It goes to a place of sanity sought. For sanity is to chaos’ distain, That place where silence and calm are gain. It’s from this place of quiet and calm, That peace can...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, health, inspiration, introspection, meaningful,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Eclipse of Sanity
Howling winds flung me into the sea waves lashed kelp ropes around me my belligerence grew when I was seized anger brewed the tighter they squeezed With fists raised and teeth clenched I resisted the harder they wrenched voice rang out...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fate of the Scorner
I hopped the afternoon bus to town stopping at this, and every, corner. In front, I heard a balding crown spewing the words of a scorner. He rides this same bus every day as though he has some place to...Read the rest...
Categories: sanity, emotions, feelings, mental health,
Form: Rhyme

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