Joyce Josephson's poem "The Glass" eloquently explores one's personal experience living with bipolar disorder. However, her poem is one that needs to be seen and not just read, as the visual impact serves to further emphasize the expansive mood and increased arousal and activity that are characteristic of mania, as well as the swirling darkness and crash into depression that for some can follow.
"I spill a bottomless glass of grandiose thoughts like stars
splayed in a boundless universe of my psychic radiance
floating easily through the infinite cosmic musings of God..."
(For the full poem visit: http://allpoetry.com/poem/3544212-The-Glass-by-Freed-by-Mercy)
"I spill a bottomless glass of grandiose thoughts like stars
splayed in a boundless universe of my psychic radiance
floating easily through the infinite cosmic musings of God..."
(For the full poem visit: http://allpoetry.com/poem/3544212-The-Glass-by-Freed-by-Mercy)
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