Tag: poem of the week

Head on a Stick by Jennifer Chapman

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I feel a push and pull inside of me, Deep in the pit of my soul. Roots stretch to the ends of my stomach, Tangled with bones— A...

Shame by Destiny Woodward

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There is a vastness of sorrow and emptiness within me that I can’t describe. The sting of shame, the flames of regret consume me....

Psychiatry Gave Me PTSD by Nicola Clare

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Psychiatry gave me PTSD. Psychiatry gave me PTSD A silhouette now Or a hologram Wedged between sheets of sound Proof, somehow Shatter proof glass Stuck For an eternity; cast, A mad ranting lunatic! Labels...

I Needed a Guide by Mad Preschool Teacher

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Still feels like yesterday 16 alone with this unrecognized gift I can touch God I can feel everything Way too much pain though too much beauty I needed a...

The World We Live In by Alex Klein

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Disruptive Changing the flow Yell too loud They’ll alert the popo Corrective action For voicing your needs No body listens When you’re a mental disease Get out please stop that We don’t know...

Ode to the Path of Least Resistance by Gunnar Burton

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A legacy of water Once Imprisoned in a geological Alcatraz inert, helpless, gravity it’s only friend Became an emphatic knife carving through hard Precambrian flesh always under cover of shadow a...

Numb by ElizaM

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Dissociation feels like my head is stuffed with cotton and I can't hear right. Like trying to have a conversation under water. Muffled. Blurry. Both heavy...

TRUE STORY by Jasmine Marshall

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i went to the gym the other day and got hit on by a man over twice my age he asked me about my...