All Comments on 'Depression and Damnation'

"Depression and damnation

Wrapped around each other

Like the roots of a suicide tree"

excellent lines

...again, lost. This poet is clearly a growing voice who needs to be read by everyone here!

Genuine emotions and questions explored. I always look for works like these.

to a place I call home, Hellsylvania

nice line:

Like the roots of a suicide tree

Nice line break, considering line further down:

Screaming at the cross

Roads that have no destination

Lost, found, and lost again

While laughing at blasphemy

this is a nice distrbing image, but does not meld well, with the rest of the tone.

Curled up on the ground

A fetus out of utero

Discovers loneliness

Very powerfully beginning & concluding stanzas! I was a bit unsure if the word "son" in the last line of the second stanza was intentionally a play on words referring to the mother & child from the first stanza or if it was supposed to read "sun." Overall though, this is an excellent poem!

Depression is so ... depressing, but this manages to convey the feeling so well while not becoming depressing to read.

This poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 37,500 poems.

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