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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.
Premium Member Sculpted
Life, are you a blessing or a punishment? I'm trying to understand how I'm a slave to the sculpted version of me. A prisoner without chains, upon a path forged with my own hands, feeling lifeless, drained from premeditated...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, pain,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Blonde
I hate that Nellie Olson —Laura Ingalls, Little House on the Prairie I’ll fix her. You’ll see. —Nellie Olson, Little House on the Prairie (regarding Laura) Season 6, Episode 2: The two get muddy fighting over a man. Nellie gets...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, jealousy,
Form: Acrostic
Once again the missus did volunteer yours truly as master of ceremonies
Once again, the missus did volunteer yours truly as master of ceremonies..., when triumvirate (Kathleen Bergen, Pamela Floreen, and Richard Jett) constitute Grosse and Quade real estate management cutting crew for Highland Manor Apartments in Schwenksville conduct requisite yearly property inspection (the...Read the rest...
Categories: adventure, america, angst, anniversary,
Form: Rhyme
Bloody Nest
I can't believe I thought that. In the shadows of my soul the whispers lingered. It murmured and elegantly sat massaging my last ego in the stool of regrets. My being was lied to, stomped at,...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Raining in Summer
If the sun married the rain - It would become a rainbow (quote by poet) This aquamarine aquarium is a prismatic prison, reflecting a reality of a pseudo persona and I've become tired from pretending behind this veil of...Read the rest...
Categories: angst,
Form: Alliteration



Granny
Granny, I know you love me so, But please just let me be, just let go....Read the rest...
Categories: angst, grandmother,
Form: Crystalline
Premium Member Too Close To The Edge
I walked the garden path holding all the intimate hands, nurtured in the impermanent world the hope of durability of me loved and belonged, and me owning and retaining. Times changed, didn’t know why storm of dismay...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, angst, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Close to the Edge
Memories of a bleak childhood haunted him ever and anon. Whenever he thinks of that dark day, a thousand blades cut through him. Shocked by the ferocity of that memory, his mind still goes insane. Old wounds are...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, death, depression,
Form: Haibun
MONSTER
I am your monster I hunt the wolf; I hunt the apex Ancient and hungry Ripping and biting I am your monster I eat your warmth and weakness Nourished and brutal It’s survival lest I vanish ...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member one of these days
A job defines bits of our life Though it often causes us strife We’ll find a new fit If we choose to quit And not slit our wrists with a knife...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, career, cry, dream,
Form: Limerick
Angel is a hidden devil
Crying, screaming, blaming? It's never your fault Irk beneath is flaming And outpouring daunt Close your eyes, hey goddess And let it burn Open them again And behold them burn The avarice in their lusty eyes The...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, angst, blue, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gracious Grace
Gotta Love Alliteration 5-21-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gracious Grace Endless effervescence of grace, In riots of radiance, infected by innocence, Seeks out the heart harassed by humiliation – Wrapped in sleepless shrouds of incensed worry – When alliterations of angst plunder soiled spirits with...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, love, peace,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Disaster
It's not a disaster, it never is It's a waiting time, pending analysis Weighed up, perhaps we learnt a lot (I'm in the camp of learning not a jot) Except it was a non event (my brain advised) Told...Read the rest...
Categories: angst,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unsheared sheep
Most are familiar with the stereotype of "an older woman who constantly gripes". We seldom here about "the older man complainer", in spite of the fact many are not sustainers.. Some aging men are petty, angry, full of...Read the rest...
Categories: age, angst, men,
Form: Rhyme
Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter
Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter Entrapment videre licet fiendish gnarly hustling scheme erector - sent me to the poor house, where alms not forthcoming to ease financial affliction, where yours truly money matters still stymies ways and means to relocate to...Read the rest...
Categories: absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Specific Types of Angst Poems

Definition | What is Angst in Poetry?


Book: Shattered Sighs