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Anxiety Poems | Examples of Anxiety Poetry

Anxiety Poems - Examples of all types of anxiety 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 anxiety.
Whatever Your This Is
In 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...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, career, confidence, conflict,
Form: Free verse



If You Only Knew
hexastich 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...Read the rest...
Categories: 11th grade, anxiety, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Bulldozer Man
You 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 ...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety,
Form: Free verse
No Duh
I 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,...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, body, conflict, endurance,
Form: Couplet
Lucy’s Nervous Run
Lucy'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...Read the rest...
Categories: animal, anxiety, child, emotions,
Form: Limerick



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
tight as a kite
tight as a kite the sparrows are minute lead eye face deftness my lover is whole and beautiful there is no dust on her shoulders ...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture like a burning man in Dante's Inferno
Soul 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...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, abuse, allusion, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member THE DEVIL WANTS YOU IN YOUR UNDERWEAR---SCARED
The 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...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, anxiety, confidence, endurance,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member 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...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, sleep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Playing Games with an Ancient
I 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...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, anxiety, change, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
I'm Trapped
I'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...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN
NOTHING 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...Read the rest...
Categories: allusion, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free 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
You All Hold The Key
In 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...Read the rest...
Categories: addiction, anxiety, courage, dark,
Form: Free verse

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