Tag: mental health

Impressionist painting of vibrant wildflowers mixed with various colorful candies and lollipops.
Being human, existential poetry, healing poetry, poetry, Uncategorized

Patience for the Yum Yums

Lindsay Keane

A five-word poem begins with five given words—and becomes whatever truth they unlock. Words from my sister and her two-year-old daughter : Flapjack, ice, yum yum, predicament, & vanity Stuck.Too much on the mind. Overwhelmto the point of freeze. I can’t decidewhat to door how to start. To break the ice—to burst into flowlike water… Continue reading Patience for the Yum Yums

Being human, existential poetry, healing poetry, poetry, Stopstigma, suicide, suicide awareness, Uncategorized

The Golden

Lindsay Keane

I wrote this poem after losing too many golden-hearted people to depression and suicide.