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Month: July 2015
Old Woman’s Pond – my Poem Published on Wolf Publishing Blog
Please take a few minutes to go over to see my poem that was published today on the Wolf Publishing blog.
Poem was written for this week’s challenge. My poem is entitled Old Woman’s Pond
I have not entered any of these poetry challenges before so your support would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you 🙂
Annie<3
Memories Poem
Memories are images
Sights and sounds
Feelings and thoughts
Often distorted by perception
Pictures locked into place
by our wishes and fears
seconds, minutes and years
transcending and outlasting
relationships and lives
based on beliefs that we held at the time
intermixed with the way we see reality
Time
Time passes differently
for different people
Time passes differently
at different times
in your life
Time passes too slowly
when your mind is tormented
Time passes too quickly
when taken up by things
with no value
to the heart
Time passes in just the best way
when you allow it to just be
and love the ones
right in front of you
at the moment
and do what you are doing
with intention that resonates
with your soul
C’est la Vie
There’s nothing else you can say. Sometimes life sucks, circumstances suck, but that’s life. There is nothing you can do about it.
I (of all people) think I know that best. Sigh, when life gives you lemons make lemonade.
In 1997 here was this awful car accident with a Jeep Cherokee and another car driven by a young guy, speeding around a corner. The girl in the Jeep was driving a friend home after a cheerleading performance when getting into that car accident on the first Saturday morning after the new school year had started. The accident put the 16 year old in a comatose state, upon ‘waking up’ 2 1/2 months later, right before Thanksgiving. I’m the girl in the Jeep, the young traumatic brain injury survivor.
My car was turning left, past a lane of oncoming traffic when another car came around the corner and didn’t see me…
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Persuasive
Intention
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Continue to learn.
Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.” – Mary Anne Radmacher
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Poetry about Mental Illness – Anxiety and Depression
These are poems I wrote several months ago. I wanted to share it again because people are interested in poetry depicting mental illness. Creative arts about mental illness are a way for people to express, share and spread awareness about mental illness.
People with mental illness often feel alienated, and isolated. They are afraid to talk about their feelings with others due to the stigma about mental illness. There are many people that you we interact with every day that suffer from anxiety, PTSD, depression and other mental disorders.
Many people have these conditions from psychological abuse and damage that was inflicted upon them from emotional trauma. It is not that people with mental disorders are really any different from anyone else except that their brains are disregulated somehow, often due to abuse and traumatic experiences.
Lessening the stigma surrounding mental illness by creating awareness is beginning to allow people to not be as afraid to talk about it. People need to not suffer alone and there is healing that can be facilitated from being able to talk rather than keeping it a secret.
I will be posting some other poetry about mental illness. There are many artists and musicians that also create in order to express their feelings about mental illness, including depression, anxiety disorder and other mental disorders
Darkness
Lost in the dark
I can’t find my way
The daylight screams sharp
The light is all pain
Quiet in here
My mind can’t be still
Voices bring fear
I will hide
Yes I will
Until I crave contact
Whenever that may come
Until then
I’ll stay in darkness
Because it feels like
familiar home
Away
I just want to rest
Away from the stress
A corner that’s quiet
Please let me try it
Away from the mean ones
Just myself alone
To think my own thoughts
To cry and to moan
To feel what I feel
Without being told
Just who I should be
And what I should own
I just want to sit
In silence right here
No yelling or scolding
No judgement or pain
I want to be me
The way that I am
In my perfect world
Inside of my heart
Because all that I own
Is inside of my soul
They can’t take it from me
I won’t give them control
Safe
Cars make noises
as they drive by outside
I want to be inside
where it is safe
Sirens are loud
and invade my nervous system
I want to be inside
where it is safe
People passing by the house
making noises
that remind me
I do not want to go out there
I want to be inside
where it is safe
Safe inside the house
I am safe inside the house
But where do I go
if I want to be
Safe Inside My Mind?
Amazing Spoken Word Poetry by a Young YouTube Poet Allen Minor
I came across an excellent young poet, who has videos on YouTube about feelings and thoughts from the inside of mental illness. These poems are by Allen Minor. He has a YouTube Channel with his spoken word poetry.
Allen is reaching out to other people through his wonderful poetry. He desires to validate and comfort the ones suffering from depression and anxiety that may be reached by his words.
Young people like teenagers are more easily reached by someone their own age. I think that young creative people that reach out to their peers, are very important and will be helpful to our young people who are suffering depression and other mental disorders.
This one is about social anxiety and anxiety disorder in general. I could totally relate to the feelings in this and his reading of the poetry is great. His words about the poem are “A poem entitled…
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