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Angst Poems | Examples of Angst Poetry

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 short, long, best, and famous poem examples for angst.
Untitled Sonnet
I'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...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, dark, identity, innocence,
Form: Sonnet



My head is not working
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: angst,
Form: Free verse
Therapy and Tea
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Awakened
Awakened "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...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, crazy, depression, hope,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Are We Ghosts
when 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...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, girlfriend, longing,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member if you only knew --
if you only knew ... ~~weight of words ..., once more, I ... did~~what..., you knew ... hello...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, death of
Form: Monoku
epiphany
You can do as you want You can do as you please But all I ask, All I ask is just do it with me And you know that I'm scared But why shouldn't I be? You know I should be I...Read the rest...
Categories: 12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Tri this
What are ya gonna bring That same ol thing Or that home run swing The crack of the bat To let them know where your at That your not afraid to be all that You think you can be To stand...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, inspirational,
Form: Tritina
Plain Affected
The forest around her story damning the plains— The littlest girl seen by the wind through the plains. Green honey passes just by a bee's swirling wings; The gold smoothed by her heart; fingers reading the plains. The likelihood...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, future, goodbye, introspection,
Form: Ghazal
Nothing left to give
The world is burning And there is nothing that I can do to make it stop I have no money So I share posts in hopes of someone else having money I have such little hope So I share posts...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, angst, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Better Left Unsaid
I thought that I oughtn't have fought I thought that I ought to have cared I thought that I ought but all that I got Was a thought that I oughtn't have shared...Read the rest...
Categories: angst,
Form: Rhyme
April 30 Poem about poetry
April 30—Poem about poetry Why Do I write These poems every day? Why do I spend so much time Writing down these verses That few will ever see? Why do I bother? The only answer is because I must write daily My inner...Read the rest...
Categories: america, angst, write, writing,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Delusion
“ Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Jim Rohn “ Relentlessly I pace around the room, like a caged lion, dreaming of vast forests, yearning for savannah grasslands, vaguely remembered. I fret for I feel inadequate, still, I yearn...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, betrayal, hope,
Form: Free verse
rule of ten
As one gets older One often looks back At all the things you did In your life. The good, the bad, and the ugly And we all have those moments Because we are human. And some things you desired But never pursued. For...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, desire, write,
Form: Free verse
April 21 Serio Comedy 2024 Elections
The election of 2024 Presents an existential choice Which old white grandpa dude Both past their prime time Do you support for president? Friendly, grandpa Who has been president For the last three years? Presiding over a decent economic expansion Amid war...Read the rest...
Categories: america, anger, angst, political,
Form: Political Verse

Specific Types of Angst Poems

Definition | What is Angst in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs