When I grow up by Stacey Callard
When I grow up
Every living being will feel safe,
Safe to roam and explore this home we call planet earth
Clean air, education and healthcare will...
October 1st, 2020 by Hannah E
Today I am 27.
I spent many years of my life in a very dark place. I spent many years suffering without truly understanding why....
When the Lunatics Arise by Bonnie Schell
âIt is the very error of the moon. She comes more near the earth than she was wont. And makes men mad.â - Shakespeare,...
The Killing of Susan Kelly by Dorothy Dundas
The dark-suited man slithered,
Shock box in hand,
To our bedsides, four girls, innocent, naked,
WaitingâŚ.waitingâŚ.waiting,
Sticky-headed,
One by one.
Dearest Doctor by Brighid Aime
Dearest Doctor #2, don't dollop me in shame (or throw me a death sentence for that matter).
Don't tell me I need to be happy...
An Ode Against âRecoveryâ by Rebecca Donaldson
An Ode Against âRecoveryâ: Flourishing After Childhood Trauma by Rebecca Donaldson
I remember when a therapist of mine once told me I could ârecover.â
The...
Losing You by Alshaad Kara
If destiny had a choice,
Sufferings would not be chosen
Yet the pain is a consistent
Dream that refuses to elope
With the night.
Strength comes from weakness
Blossoming as...
Your Chemical Embrace by Anonymous
Didn't know I was in trouble, When I fell into, Your chemical embrace, But now I can see, When is all said and done, Youâre a chemical disgrace
Virginal Autonomy by Nidhi Agrawal
After Sylvia Plath ~
âI have given my name and my day-clothes up to the nurses
And my history to the anaesthetist and my body...
Tragic Comedy by Navratra
Whenever I do something good,
my mother says,
I am just like her,
my father says,
I am just like him
They feel so proud on themselves
and start loving...
I WON by Atara Schimmel
i attended your funeral today
in fact i was
the
one
yes, won
that organized it
Mabon Down by Valerie Moran-Clark
It was about this crisp
And with skinning wind
That skies narrowed
Darker with quickening clouds
Vampires did all surround
Shadows ever inkier grew
And leapt off the page
Separating me...
On the verge of suicide by Rick Barooah
These are the last breaths you take; these are the last blood cells to rush through
your veins. The walls of the room are the...
A Love Poem for the Girls with âBorderlineâ by Rebecca Donaldson
I want to write a love poem for the girls who have been branded with, âBorderline.â
I want to write a love poem for the...
Word Salad, or Youâre a Fool, Doctor, and an Insult to My Intelligence by...
I found meaning
where it was all along
in the living of this moment
the breathing of this breath
the pictures in my mind
in my view of the world
Psychotic Akathisia by Marci Webber
This thing that stirs canât be overcome.
It starts like a steady, aching hum
King of the Hill by Virgo Phoenix
This gnawing burning squiggle of an emotion that streams through insipidness; speaks in the space where my gut meets the churning locket of despair.
Alone,...
A Therapeutic Environment by Ann Bracken
I bring a small basket of flowers for my friend in the psych unit, the nurse buzzes me in. She silently yanks the plastic card-holder, then chides me, It has a pointy end. My friend tells me later, âNo one gets flowers here.â
metamorphosis by Lazlo Taboli
development is hardly accurate for what has happened to me
no, it's more of a transformation
and there is still something in me that needs to...
Do Not Swallow the Pill by Anonymous
Do not swallow the pill, This condensed mass of powder That the world has convinced you Will âfixâ you, your âproblematicâ self My darling, you are not broken You are not lost, you are not crumpled You are merely a being living In a society, in a culture That you were never meant to be forced into
Wounded Healer by Samantha Irene
I look into the dark pool
I see colors spinning
Inklings
Of what has yet to become
With one prick of my finger
The ripples of change
Cast outwards
Water cannot...
Vacant House by Tara Rae Behr
I never knew what it was likeâ-to inhabit my body.
I was always
inhabiting
others bodies in my body
since the cave opened and my heart beheld the...
The Great Experiment by Barbara Summers
"Dear Mum,
Looks like the dizziness I was having and rainbow vision is something worse than "Silent Migraines", I may have to have an operation....
A Mad Poem about Mad Poetry (by a Mad Poet)
Verse! Wild!
Let it be wild and uncontrolled!
Consider not whether it passes muster
In the logic-schools,
Or marks time with the monotonous regularity
Of clopping hooves of horses...
The Greatest Pain of All by Sandy Lunøe
It hurts, the medicine,
which turns you into a robot,
taking away your power
to question,
bringing you to silence
But the greatest pain of all
is not to be...
