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I wrote this in Feb 2009. One month after i was diagnosed with Depression.

BETTER
i have stood on the cliff
i have spread my arms
i have stood on the edge
looking at the end in the face
i saw the tiny tocks fall off the edge and fall through the air
i have seen the dark side of life and didn't care
i battled the demons of despair
why did i have to go through that, it isn't fair
 
i wanted to jump off that cliff
i wanted to be free and fly
giving... Read More

 I am a newbie to the site and i was encouraged to share some of my Poetry in the blog section. I was diagnosed with Depression back in January 2009. I wrote this back in January a week after i got on meds.

FROZEN
it's now winter time
and the ice clings to the branches
they are frozen
like emotions in my body

stillness in my mind
snow dances on a tree
the shade of white
reminding me of the nothingness that i feel
 
white shows no emotion
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Meriwether Lewis became an interesting character study for me when I learned that there is strong evidence that he not only had clinical depression but that he (allegedly) committed suicide. There are, of course, historians that still hold to the murder theory. These poems emerged as a kind of dialogue with this great American explorer and statesman. They were first published in Projected Letters, an on-line Poetry zine based in the UK (and it seems the publishers have closed... Read More

I am a published poet (not famous) and this series has not been taken by the many journals where I submitted it. It chronicles when I was first diagnosed with a personality disorder during a particular spring. WARNING: It is not a self-help poem. It's an artistic reaction to being diagnosed and I suppose the editors I submitted it to just didn't get that (no harm no foul--I'm not complaining). Plain blank verse (10 syllable lines). The messages are buried too deep perhaps, but they're... Read More

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