Original Poetry

How do you cope when your hope fades away? How do you try when each cry raids a way You could escape, Leaves each path agape, A hole you...

When you’re bored, When you’re glad, Thrilled or scared, You talk.  In a crowd; With your friends; All alone; You talk.  Surely you must...

We face each other , Talk and laugh, But in between us There is glass, Sorting us, distorting us.  Welcome to the people zoo, Separating...

Invisible fingers slip ‘round my throat, Their gentle pressure ‘gainst my skin Softly tightening, lightening With the pulse within.  A...

There lived a little spider Inside a little spout And when the spout would open The water flushed him out.  One day the spider thought Of...

There exists in my mind An alarm of some kind That will always persist.  Sometimes it’s sharp and shrill, My sanity to kill, And it’s...

I want to go home.  Home — where I lay in my firm fluffy bed With a pillow beneath my head And you within my arms.  Home — with blankets...

Buzzing lights and constant fights To keep my mind from barks and bites Of those who from the inside hound Drowning in the dull drab...

Black castle peaks above black clouds Scraggly and square The distressed damsel in the dungeon Cries echoing out there “Go save her,”...

Every day he thought to jump, And many days he tried. He told himself each day that jump Would heal the hurt inside. Every day he ought...

Two shadows move across the ground, Dark but hazy and unclear, Feet bound to the same starting spot, Each shadow ragged in its bound. ...

A poem about identity.

A poem about conformity.

A poem about stubbornness.

A poem about isolation.

A poem about dysphoria.

A poem about not belonging.

A poem about admiration and envy.

A poem about emptiness.

A poem about isolation.