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The poetry corner - post your poems in here

Chris_B
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

Hi everyone,

This is a thread for sharing your creative works. 

Please bear in mind our community rules before submitting your work.  

This thread is located in the BB Social Zone, so the primary purpose here is entertainment.

We will not publish poems containing dark or disturbing content, including themes of suicide, self-harm, death, dying, abuse or other forms of trauma.

Thanks for your understanding. 

 

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Guest_2350
Community Member

Now

I can feel the breeze

I can hear the water fall

I can see the blue sky

I can taste the sweetness

And when I relax

I can feel the sadness

I can feel the loss

I can feel again

Darkness

Lead me to the darkness 

And hold me by your hand

Show me the memories 

And make me understand

Wash away my tears

And brush away my fears

Help me to feel

It is time to heal

Have another cuppa

And start to plan your day

A scotch finger to go with it

and procrastinate away

 

Pantheress
Community Member
bled sincerely upon your cold unanswered doorstep. 
A soft reminder of the knife you kept so clean. 
Revoking memories that your soul destroyed with silence. 
The words long gone now, but the tears can still be seen. 
A touch and a glance. 
A thought and a kiss.
You sold me your lifetime.
For a moment of bliss.
I rode your wild horses,
Too broken to run.
As you hiked up your clouds,
And tasted my sun.
The moment grew dirty. 
And you picked up your knife. 
As you dusted your porcelain.
And fled for your life.
Yet you still choke on fragments.
Of those feelings you hated 
Now you're drowning,
In the puddle that your own tears created

I feel the grief in your poem Tony.  It is powerful. Thanks for contributing.  

Lou_Lou_Bell
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

I have been encouraged to post some of my poetry which I have been writing in the past year.  I also do alot of art work too. I find it easier to express in written or art form what is so hard to articulate by speaking.

I wrote this in July 2015 not long after coming out of hospital for depression.

"TEARS"

 Such heartfelt pain
This emotional strain
Which I can't hide
Welling up inside
Pulsing through veins
Flowing like rain
Releasing a stream
Glistening with saline
Rolling down cheeks
Sadness and grief
Slumped in form
Feeling so worn
So internally torn
Time to mourn

 

 

 

Lou_Lou_Bell
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

I wrote this one about depression in April 2015 whilst in Hospital.

"DEPRESSION"

Depression comes like darkness falling.

Taking willing souls like rivers flowing.

Slowly consuming like big fires burning.

When hope is lost our mind is faltering.

Turning minds into raging Kaos; a warning.

Somewhere deep, dim light's still glowing.

Take one more step, just keep on going.

The mind revives with desire and longing.

With hope filled promises and future showing.

Just dont give up without ever knowing!

Lou_Lou_Bell
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

I wrote this one about Stigma, also in hospital in April/May 2015.  I wrote it especially for a lady who was also a patient with depression but she just could not tell her family that she was in hospital.  She was ashamed of the Stigma associated with having depression.  I am the opposite = I am not ashamed about having depression, its just one if life's battles. She was pretty emotional when I gave it to her.  I feel very strongly about wanting to talk more "publically" about depression and anxiety and to normalise it as part of life's journey.

 "STIGMA"

Someone else's view of you
Is not a true reflection of who
You are YOU; so don't feel blue
There are many here just like you

Please do not feel ashamed
For you are not to blame
Depression is not a stain
On your good human frame

Stigma is just a NAME!
It's an ignorant fools game.

Their opinions are askew
They are not facts nor are true
So take time out to renew
Because you are valued too!



Scotchfinger
Community Member

Don't ask me about my financial wealth

Or the state of my mental health

I'm doin fine, just fine

I'm doin fine, just fine

I might be viewed

As a little skewed

I'm a dead-set loner

A constant moaner

But

I'm doin fine just fine

I'm doin fine, just fine

 

 

 


INK SPOT


To focus on an ink spot

So damn irrelevant

Missing the value of what

Passes me by

I straighten myself

As if I’ve won

Against the fool

Move my eyes from that ink spot

I no longer focus on….