Mental health poems help us understand different emotions, like happiness, sadness, or confusion.
Mental health is all about how you feel inside your head and how well your mind helps you handle things.
Your mental health affects how you connect with others. It helps you concentrate, learn new things, and do well in school.
Mental health poems use comforting and gentle language. They promote self-love and the understanding that it’s okay to be who you are.
Some poems share ideas on how to cope with challenges and stress. They suggest activities or thoughts that can help you feel better.
Let’s read some mental health poems, as reading them can be a valuable and enjoyable part of your self-care routine.
If You Listen Closely
Nothing is as important as being present
In your own life.
But for some,
Life sometimes becomes submerged
Beneath the dark waters of a secret place,
No longer able to remember the past,
Incapable of holding on to the present.
And sometimes,
On a quiet night,
If you listen closely,
You might hear those old imprisoned souls
Screaming in silence
That life is a hell of a thing
To happen to a person.
”Neurasthenia”
“I watch the happier people of the house
Come in and out, and talk, and go their ways;
I sit and gaze at them; I cannot rouse
My heavy mind to share their busy days
“It Was Not Death, For I Stood Up”
By Emily Dickinson
“When everything that ticked – has stopped –
And space stares – all around –
Or Grisly frosts – first Autumn morns,
Repeal the Beating Ground –
But most, like Chaos – Stopless – cool –
Without a Chance, or spar –
Or even a Report of Land –
To justify – Despair.”
Aubade
By Philip Larkin
“I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what’s that’s always there”
Thinking”
By Walter D. Wintle
Life’s battles don’t always go
To the stronger or faster man;
But sooner or later the person who wins
Is the one who thinks he can!
Wild Geese”
By Mary Oliver
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.”
The human Mind
The human mind
a huge wonder
so cruel to itself
yet, really loving towards others
it longs for the passion of others
but none is found for itself
puts others above
but not itself
Shadow Man
A shadow falls across
the path he’s yet to walk;
like the one that follows;
torments, bedevils, then
all the lightness swallows.
A shadow falls across
his thoughts each day he wakes;
ebbed by evening’s booze
which blow by blow spawns an
ever darkening bruise.
A shadow falls across
the doorway where he sleeps
on cardboard featherbed;
in dreamless slumber where
there is no road ahead.
A shadow falls across
the folk that see him lie;
walk past without a thought
towards this fallen soul
who’s life has come to naught.
Love Is Patient
By Haileigh B. Johnston
You tell me every day
How much I mean to you.
Now it’s time for me to say
What I know is absolutely true.
I know how much you love me
And just how much you care.
You don’t always have to say it
Because you do just by being there.
I know you really worry
Every time my mood seems to change.
I want you and only you,
No matter how often I act strange.
I may not have life figured out,
But trust me, that’s okay.
Because with you, no matter what,
I have the strength to make it through each day.
You love me on my bad days
More than you do the good ones.
You love me more when you’ve had enough
And think that you should run.
You always know when to hold me down
But never hold me back.
I know I fail at tasks a lot,
But you always pick up the slack.
Don’t ever doubt yourself
On if what you’re doing is right.
Just know that I am so thankful
To have a man like you in my life.
I know I’m not always the best
When it comes to getting things done,
But that is why I have you
And how I know you are the one.
Sonnet
By William Shakespeare
“When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s,
I all alone beweep my outcast state,
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,
Desiring this man’s and that man’s,
With what I most enjoy contented least”
Poem About Anxiety Disorder
With her head hung low
and nowhere to go,
she can’t explain
this mysterious pain.
It comes on so fast.
How long will it last?
Her heart is just pounding; her head starts to spin.
Please go away; she does not want you in.
She’s uncontrollably crying.
It feels like she’s dying.
Her body is trembling; her hands start to shake.
She feels so helpless with this horrible ache.
Someone, please help her; make this go away.
She can’t stand to feel this way one more day.
Someone, please help her; she’s down on her knees.
She’s scared and helpless and hopes no one sees.
With her head hung low,
not knowing where to go,
she tries to explain
this mysterious pain.
Better Days Will Come
When everything’s darkness
And you feel so alone,
When the rain doesn’t stop
And you can’t make it home,
When it feels all is lost
And you just want to run,
It can’t rain forever.
Just wait for the sun.
When family is pain,
When friends can’t be found,
When you just want to scream
But you can’t find the sound,
When it’s all your fault,
And you feel like you’re done,
Just wait for the sun.
The sunshine will come.
The storm always passes.
It won’t last forever.
The rain always stops and gives way to good weather.
The brightest and warmest of days still to come.
Please wait for the sun.
The sunshine will come.
People who need you,
People who still love you
Can warm up your soul like the sunshine above you.
You’re never alone,
No matter what’s done.
Wait for the sun.
Just wait for the sun.
Dark clouds always pass.
I promise you, hun.
We’re all waiting with you.
Just wait for the sun.
This is all about mental health poems.