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Whatever Your This IsIn times of change
Comes challenges of the character
Contemplating giving up
In this hungry world
There is no appetite for the uncomfortable
This new adventure I am on
Has tested my very thinking of what I am capable of
Dealing...
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Categories:
anxiety, career, confidence, conflict,
Form: Free verse
If You Only Knewhexastich with rhyme
I drink my coffee standing on alert
knowing that my tasks move this chunk of dirt
on its axis... my world, my family.
Of necessity, I grab each moment
attacking life with God, at faith's expense
wringing out...
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Categories:
11th grade, anxiety, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Bulldozer ManYou cut the rivers in half
bulldozed the banks edge
bristled the green trees
and threw florid ladies into the vetch
your old winkles
falling into shredded paper
your conversation not always edifying
...
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Categories:
anxiety,
Form: Free verse
No DuhI feel it, can't hold my cigarette because my hand is shaking
My nerves are acting up but my feet are still and planting
Yeah I'm tense, I might faint but I'm not going to be failing
Yes,...
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Categories:
anxiety, body, conflict, endurance,
Form: Couplet
Lucy’s Nervous RunLucy's running nerves made her stew
Race time, her legs stuck like thick glue
When would be her time
Now a hard stool crime
Why did she always have to poo!
He watched as she...
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Categories:
animal, anxiety, child, emotions,
Form: Limerick
epiphanyYou 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...
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Categories:
12th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
tight as a kitetight as a kite
the sparrows are minute
lead eye
face deftness
my lover is whole and beautiful
there is no dust on her shoulders
...
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Categories:
anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture like a burning man in Dante's InfernoSoul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture (like a burning man) in Dante's Inferno
Self immolation as sacrificial bleating lamb
promises eternal martyrdom
awaiting voluntary die hard protester,
where countless vestal virgins provide blissfulness
(think Playboy mansion on steroids)
synonymous with...
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Categories:
anxiety, abuse, allusion, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
THE DEVIL WANTS YOU IN YOUR UNDERWEAR---SCAREDThe devil wants to see you in your underwear;
That's when he knows your not in public;
You are covered in shame and you're scared;
The piece of minor cloth covering, under your covering;
For he know God's gonna...
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Categories:
analogy, anxiety, confidence, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Insomnia
Deprived of sleep
the mind revolves
in a slowly turning gyre
of thoughts,
capturing the past
and future
in its spiral
to feed its want
and taunt the will.
Dawn becomes
a cruel mirage dancing
on a distant horizon.
An exhausted self
is sieved through the...
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Categories:
anxiety, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Playing Games with an AncientI returned home after forty years to my home island of Hawaii. Its preferred nickname is the Big Island, lovingly a.k.a., the Orchid Isle, and yes, a.k.a., the Volcanic Island. Rightly named as the sole...
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Categories:
analogy, anxiety, change, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I'm TrappedI'm trapped inside a maze that's my own head
I don't know if I'd rather find a way out or be dead
Twists and turns, memories that burn
Burn the perfect picture of someone I thought I knew
I'm...
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Categories:
abuse, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKENNOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN
With your head, roll out drums,
Mighty trumpets in their stead,
And like Eagles soar higher in the sky,
The skies of your mind,
Do not crumble on vain things,
And do not hijack your...
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Categories:
allusion, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
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...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, betrayal, hope,
Form: Free verse
You All Hold The KeyIn this cell is where it all grows
The fear
The hope
The lost
The dream
The success
The grace
The signature
The fall
The race
The plan
It all grows here
Inside you
Inside me
Inside us
The balance shifts
The weight heavy
The cross awaits
Time the judgement
In this place
We are...
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Categories:
addiction, anxiety, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Anxiety Poems
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