Category: Mental Health Poems
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ADHD Poem About the Modern World Being Too Busy and Loud
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How do you find room for silence in a noisy world? A raw poem that captures how people that are neurodivergent or have ADHD struggle to find silence in our busy, modern world.
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Poem About Imperfection, Accepting Flaws, and Not Being Perfect
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A poem about imperfection and that you can still spread light in the world despite not being perfect
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A Collection of Hopeful Poems about Mental Health, Healing, and Spring
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Blossoms of Hope A Mental Health Poetry Book About Healing and Nature Poems About Spring I’m excited to announce that my fifth poetry collection, Blossoms of Hope by Justin Farley, is now available on Amazon. The book is the second in my series of mental health and nature poems revolving around the seasons. Each book…
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Mental Health Poem About Depression and Spring
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I’m grateful that spring does usually take away the seasonal depression that I get in the winter. But I was thinking about how people whose depression remains all year long must feel in spring and was inspired to write this poem. Maybe SpringMaybe spring will forgive meif I don’t rush to welcome her arrival,if I…
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Poem About Panic Attacks Agoraphobia and Anxiety Disorder
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A poem about panic attacks and living with anxiety disorder
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A Sad Poetry Collection About Mental Illness and Winter
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Frozen Rivers: A Poetry Book of Sad Poems About Mental Health and Nature During Winter I’ve been away from social media for awhile but am excited to announce I’ve released my latest collection of poetry, Frozen Rivers. As someone who has struggled with mental illness most of his life, I wanted to give voice to…
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Feathers A Christian Poem About Letting Go of Fear and Worry
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Feathers The weight of the world is a feather in the hand of its maker. It does not burden, break, or bury the one who reigns outside of Time and Space’s domain. Our behemoths are merely single barbs attached to that weightless shaft that flutters like the forest’s souvenirs given to a child, fallen from…
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Metamorphosis A Poem About Butterflies and God’s Grace
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Metamorphosis A Poem About Butterflies and God’s GraceInching along the earthcrunching, munching on misfortuneuntil pain wrapped itself like a cocoon -a castle outside the rooms of a hardened heart.Drowning, surely dying in the dark.Only to emerge from the wombreborn from a tomb of self-inflicted woundstransformed by the Divine spark.With wings of vibrant colorcarrying the evidence…
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Monsters – Poem About Anxiety Disorder and Fear
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Monsters Poem about Anxiety Disorder and Fear Fear waits for me under the bed – a faceless monster made of shadow that slithers towards me in the darkness the moment my head hits the pillow. Devouring my dreams. Splitting the seams of sleep. Replacing yawns with racing thoughts. Justin Farley
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Pocket Pleasure Poem
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Pocket Pleasure Poem About Being Addicted to Your Phone and Technology Every time I turn you on and wake you from your technological slumber, I feel your curses swimming through my mind – electrical impulses gripping me without consent. And then I hate my neediness. Hate my discontent, unable to sit alone in the silence…
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Poem About Life Journey and Inner Peace – Adventure
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AdventurePoem About Life Journey and Inner PeaceAdventures never have destinations.It’s experience that gives us what we need to find.Leave the need for answers and your expectationsbehind you, unpacked from your mind.Modern life has lost its sense of mystery.The need to know shatters our sense of awe.To live out your true purpose and destinyrecognize that, at…
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Transformation A Poem About Change and Growth
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Transformation A Poem About Change and Growth To suffer is to live; to live is to suffer. Born in the belly of hunger for the need to discover who we are where we came from where we’re going. The wheels of change have no brakes, no way to prevent the aches from the collusion caused…
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Seasons of Winter Poem About Spring
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Seasons of WinterPoem About SpringThe ice is melting,thawing away from the land,flowing back into the handsof its maker.Nature’s enchantment shatterswith a single kiss from springclinging to the warmthof renewal, rebirth, reawakening.And in each pile of snowthat dissolves my heart beatswith a disposition towards hopesledding down slopes of solacetaking comfort in the possibility to copewith my…
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Running Poem About Changing and Working on Yourself
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RunningCan I get a cup of wineto drown the time,to float away fromthis heavy heart of mine?Or perhaps a speedy carthat’ll take me fast so faraway from these expired dreamsnow void of stars?Maybe a boat to sail these seasthat swallow me with easeeach time the tide of my moodshelplessly carries me out with no reprieve?But…
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Living in Love Poem About Loving Yourself and Others
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Living in Love To live in Love we must first accept the imperfection within ourselves before we can accept the imperfection in others. To live in Love we must first bandage our own wounds before we treat the wounds of the world. I grant grace to you in your weakness to the extent that I…
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Sweet Utopia – Poem About Social Media and Technology Addiction
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Sweet Utopia The sounds of motorcars are noxious to the ears. Fingers convulsing on the steering wheel precede the piercing screams of honks – an abundance of impatience. Where are you going in such a hurry? Is it worth sacrificing peace of mind for seconds of time? Oh, yes I forgot… You’ve got poisonous news…
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A Poem About Recovery Hope and Change
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No Matter No matter how hard it is to keep the fire burning, no matter how many disappointments have visited you without warning, no matter how many different trials you’ve sat through today, though the verdict may be hard to swallow, tomorrow, tomorrow’s another day. And it may seem impossible in this moment, but in…
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Godly Christian Poem About Change Growth and New Beginnings
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Seasons of Change Changes of the heart take time. Casked, slow to perfection like aged wine. Wouldn’t it be easier if the Divine would just remake us overnight, beamed up into heavenly experience like a sublime, shinning light? Yet, true growth comes from the fight. For God always has his reasons, just unknown to us…
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