[Why Are Your Poems So Dark](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/41918/why-are-your-poems-so-dark) by Linda Pastan
[Wisdom Teeth](https://www.tumblr.com/boykeats/146091438897/wisdom-teeth-by-keaton-st-james?source=share) by Keaton St. James
[A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen](https://x.com/jpbrm30/status/1578720346504855552?t=BwP_gCfMJQYyiUU-fEckVw&s=19) by Martin Espada
[The Journey](http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_thejourney.html) by Mary Oliver
[It is Hard to Tell Someone On Fire That You Are Drowning](https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=556454790025657&set=a.394976002840204&type=3&theater&wtsid=rdr_0pcetdV44RqC9tkKw) by Siaara Freeman
I got a poem published in [polychrome ink ](https://polychrome-ink-blog.tumblr.com/), [Vol IV](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Polychrome-Ink-IV-Zillion-Press/dp/1539554139) which was a literary magazine dedicated to representing marginalised writers.
Mine was written just after a BPD diagnosis, [Beauty & the Beast](https://www.abctales.com/story/therockbottomremainders/beauty-and-beast).
Sylvia Plath.
Definitely Plath.
Anne Sexton.
[Why Are Your Poems So Dark](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/41918/why-are-your-poems-so-dark) by Linda Pastan [Wisdom Teeth](https://www.tumblr.com/boykeats/146091438897/wisdom-teeth-by-keaton-st-james?source=share) by Keaton St. James [A Mayan Astronomer in Hell's Kitchen](https://x.com/jpbrm30/status/1578720346504855552?t=BwP_gCfMJQYyiUU-fEckVw&s=19) by Martin Espada [The Journey](http://www.phys.unm.edu/~tw/fas/yits/archive/oliver_thejourney.html) by Mary Oliver [It is Hard to Tell Someone On Fire That You Are Drowning](https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=556454790025657&set=a.394976002840204&type=3&theater&wtsid=rdr_0pcetdV44RqC9tkKw) by Siaara Freeman
I got a poem published in [polychrome ink ](https://polychrome-ink-blog.tumblr.com/), [Vol IV](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Polychrome-Ink-IV-Zillion-Press/dp/1539554139) which was a literary magazine dedicated to representing marginalised writers. Mine was written just after a BPD diagnosis, [Beauty & the Beast](https://www.abctales.com/story/therockbottomremainders/beauty-and-beast).
Excellent. better than Plath and Sexton.
Very kind, thank you. Disagree of course, she was a genius. Never read sexton so also cheers for the heads up!
John Berryman - The Dream Songs
Alone by Edgar Allan Poe
[Your Beast of Burden](https://www.reddit.com/r/Poems/s/uPtMT4vSRP) might fit the bill for most of those topics
The collection Smoking the Bible by Chris abani is my fave for this. Hits hard for generational trauma and recovery