My Own Favorite Poems

The spirit-defeating, life-dissolving, often unavoidable personal doom of mental illness is poised to strike at so many of us - either directly upon ourselves or indirectly upon a loved one -during our existence here. It is these grim scenarios and outcomes, especially those limiting or destroying personal life events, that the author has struggled with personally through nearly all of her life. Experiencing and thinking on such grim scenarios would perhaps be expected to elicit writings th...