Angst Poems - Examples of all types of angst poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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What About Me?As I sit back and reminisce about my day,
I ponder all the happenings that came to play.
All the concessions, all the bargaining, all the ways I gave in;
My stomach drops as if I've committed an...
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Categories:
angst, conflict, how i
Form: Rhyme
UnscathedUnscathed
I didn’t know
I was coming apart at the seams
Until i came undone
I didn't know my arms were mangled
Until they fell off
I didn't know I was fragile
Until I heard my heart break
I...
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Categories:
angst, emotions, heartbroken, introspection,
Form: Free verse
My Hidden Broken Leg
First Part: All I see are my toes!
A constant burning and stinging sensation under this weighted plaster cast has got me bedridden. The cast is made out of plaster and is white in color that...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, body, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Troublesome Times
Troublesome Times
Written: by Miracle Man
5/17/2024
Many times I’m bothered,
by current world events.
But I try hard each day,
accepting what life presents.
I oft believe it’s okay,
if my smile remains hidden.
Life events, too often,
flood my mind unbidden.
Many times, when...
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Categories:
angst, god, jesus, prayer,
Form: Quatrain
Too Close To The Edge
I am standing much too close to the edge,
the abyss knows my name and is calling
to me like a lover making a pledge;
darkness I promise is soft and enthralling.
My heart is pounding out thoughts in...
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Categories:
angst,
Form: Sonnet
If only you knewIf only you knew
How, like a wallflower, I have wished for you.
Too shy to lift my eyes to yours.
Your wrists. Your shoulder.
I lean on you to steady me,
Wobbling above,
I wish we were in love.
Maybe...
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Categories:
angst, crush,
Form: Free verse
Reap This Walt MarieI walked in to my least favorite words,
‘Last call.’
We didn’t have an alternate plan;
What now?
So the streets will meet our mayhem;
Inflamed;
Should have given us your refuge;
Reap this!
Now we burn what you told us to...
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Categories:
angst, emotions, feelings,
Form: Other
If only you knewOn the eve of that somber, stormy night,
I began to see strings of spring swirling soundlessly
along the thread-thin blade of this culinary cutlery.
Why does gravity lay on thick in this silver steel accessory?
If only you...
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Categories:
anger, angst, dark, deep,
Form: Free verse
If only you knewWritten for the poetry contest "If only you knew"
Sponsor: Silent One
This poem is inspired from the song “liability” by Lorde.
sat down with my brother the other day
asked him if my smile screamed heart ache
he...
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Categories:
angst, cry, dance, death,
Form: Free verse
CliqueSort of morning that
Though dark jubilates in blue,
A worn out welcome....
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Categories:
angst, blue, dark, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Untitled SonnetI'm coming as storm shadowing your grief,
The atmosphere bursting where you need me;
We're in the middle of the push of rain
That is streaked between inches of our pain.
A whirring draft of the glass on our...
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Categories:
angst, dark, identity, innocence,
Form: Sonnet
My head is not workingI want to do all so I don't do anything at all.
My heart is beating fast and I don't know why.
I am not attending at tutoring every monday because I am scared people in my...
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Categories:
angst,
Form: Free verse
Therapy and TeaI was 16.
I already hated this room.
I would wipe my finger across the table with magazines.
Expecting dust, but it was clean.
I wondered if someone cleaned it at night.
At night, I’d be sad.
And they’d be cleaning.
In...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
AwakenedAwakened
"Silence fills all the spaces between
the soft flutter of fragile butterfly wings.
There one second and then gone, the faint breeze in a syncopated song.
As twilight gatherers...
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Categories:
angst, crazy, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Are We Ghostswhen i reach out
I touch aether
when i hold you
im clutching a cloud
when we talk
hours float by
and when youre gone
i still feel you by my side
but sometimes
when you leave
a part of me
my incorporeal hands
clutch grains of...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, girlfriend, longing,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Angst Poems
Definition | What is Angst in Poetry?
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