Tag: Poetry
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Wordsmith Poem – Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Words have power, sharing our experiences and perspectives on mental health is a great way of building understanding and community. In wordsmith guest blogs we have some amazing writers that share their thoughts and experinces with mental health. Another super talented guest author today Thank you Leanne Evans. You can check out Leannes work following…
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Poem – The release
Poem – Sweet Release I have been so grateful for discovering writing during this lockdown. It has connected me to others and set me free.
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Poem – I can’t breath
I lie awake in bed, schooling myself to breath. Coaching each inhalation, desperate for reprieve. A constant state of panic, aware of every twitch. Focused on my body, always measuring it’s pitch. I repeat my self made mantra, everything is fine. But it is far from honest, I am plummeting through time. Before I had…
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Poem – Screw you World
Screw you world get a grip, I am feed up of your tantrums and treating me like shit. Screw you world walk on by, I don’t care for all the drama you bring into my life. Screw you world take a hike, I don’t deserve the rubbish, that you pile on me each night. Screw…
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Poem – Unsocial Media
I scroll, I flick, I switch I stare. I look for the answers, But your not there. I can not find, for what I search. The satisfaction, left unheard. And yet I repeat, the same dam steps. Motions engraved,in a dance of regret. What will it take to break free? To find the thing that…
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Poem – Burn
The moment that it hit me.The shock of burning pain.The spilt second of panicked thoughts.The tears that feel like rain. The torture of administering,your untrained botched first aid.The sense of utter deficit,at failing to be brave. The minutes of that treatment,that felt they’d last for days.The long nights, trying just to sleep,the outlook feeling grave.…
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Discrimination – Poem
What do you see? What do you see when you look at me?How do your eyes judge?If I could write the narrative,would your version budge? Are the filters you have place,Limiting your view?Can you see me clearlyOr is what you see untrue? What will your dialogue dictate?What expectations have you set?The limits you have placed…
Rowan Aderyn 