The Malingerer Goes To the Movies by Scott Norman Rosenthal
âThe Malingerer Goes to the Movies,â
(a Dis-Ability Coming-Out poem,
for Colin Kempner, and Judith Wright)
1.
Youâre sitting there,
and it's getting harder to breathe.
It feels as if...
On the Birth of Pandemonium by David Penner
One, two, three walls three, omniscient was the
Fourth in darkness - unvanquished the barren
Causeway. Armies of howling seraphim, cascading
On a lake of fire; Mulciber...
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,...
I need to be loved by Shula Ben-Daat Alperovitch
I need to be loved, As a child, Who will never be left, I need to be loved as a woman, There's an empty hole, In my heart that needs to be filled
Record Keeping by Karen Adler
And if you come to me all innocent and forlorn
all regretful and torn
between the rightery and the wrongery
gathered in your multitudes
in that field of...
My Mood as Room by Calvin May
I suffocate in the heat of my pitch black room.
I cannot find the door.
And cut my feet on the broken glass strewn
All over the...
Vultures’ Wake by Karen Marker
1
Theyâd seen it all, their wings tips touching
like piano keys played together â
so many suicides born from the house
where Nanaâs china dolls sat on...
The degree of love: Six semesters and the Convocation Day by Navratra
What if couples celebrate pose day instead of rose day? Teaching each other how to stand in
front of the camera could be the best...
Unknown Restlessness by Aisha Momin
So there is an energy surge
Which is an emerge
Maybe it is from the submerge ?
Getting cleansed by purge
That's why I had an urge
But I...
TRUE STORY by Jasmine Marshall
i went to the gym the other day and got hit on by a man over twice my age he asked me about my...
Transform by Ashleigh
Fear is running our lives. Fear of being different. Fear of being inadequate. Fear of being not good enough.
The Parasite Within by Rhiannon Chianese
I claw and climb into your head,
Controlling your thoughts until I am fed.
With a drink or a drug, I will be seized.
With a drink...
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...
Poems Needed by Daniel Hanrahan
we have poems
about madness
and poems written
in states of madness
no poems yet about
the guitar amp buzzing
dark electric fuzz
of the madness sparked
coming off psychmeds
we lack poems...
Are You Ok? by Alex K.
Are you taking your meds?
Are you right in the head?
Are you doing ok?
Am I behind on pills today?
You seem manic
More like you canât stand...
tents in the park by Dan Lenart
tents in the park
In the city without a soul
When misfits and outcasts were kicked out,
Banished to exile, even the ancients historically
Understood this sentence, this...
ptsd as a failure to punctuate by Timothy Hamilton
a fresh blister peeled on
an ant across the street
stomping off in anger
with no where to go
looks to long familiar signs
with names written the same
to...
Propylene Glycol by JayJay Conrad
. . .And again: how it feels to be afterthought, embodied scribble in the Margin, and again the void of logistics. It just is.
When I Was Indifferent by Timothy Hamilton
When I was indifferent, Life was easier.
Day followed day.
Beans from a can,
Fresh Asian noodles I once loved,
Sunny delicate spring days,
Grey clouds and tedious half-hearted...
A Different Path In The Same Woods by Moth Gorman
it was a different year and i woke up in the same woods i was in before
it was the quietest calm
like i had cried...
Threshold by Julie Bradley
At a threshold in consciousness
an opening unknown, yet sensed as vaguely familiar
and here now
intense fear arising â cold chill, sweating palms, pounding heartâ
ego in...
Instead of a Label by Sharon Mogelberg Bull
Instead of calling me "mentally ill"
Call me beautiful
Instead of mentally ill call me capable, meaningful and real
Call me mentally ill if you must but call me responsible
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...
Breaking News by JayJay Conrad
Do you remember the first time you were told you were Broken, by a man with a clipboard and argyle tie?
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,...
