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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.
2 Weeks of Hell
Today's Mother's Day Cafe closed, I scream. Going bonkers place to place wheelchair bound. To irked to do whatnot I let off steam , Saturday, same crap. I wheelchair around. Last week Cafe closed 3 days,no daydream. Ice water...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Ottava rima



In A New Season of Favor
In a new season of favor, we stand With open doors to our destined land It is time to bridge the mind-body gap Letting go to embrace the new field map. Transitioning into the unknown Where tabernacle and miracles are...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, celebration, change, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Death Is Beautiful
Our bodies are designed for birth and death; our brains are subconsciously in control. At birth, we instinctively take a breath, without being told; we're born to our role. Our bodies release endorphins at birth to ease our passage, dulling...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, beautiful, body,
Form: Sonnet
Hidden Talent
Hidden talent Creative mind Scared to talk But tucked away So much to invent But how do I vent? Unmotivated, uninspired all it went I'm not poetic I hope you can relax Knowing fully well This boy will flex Don't believe in me I...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, beauty, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In The Waiting Room
Let me introduce myself My name is suicide I live in the shadows Just at the back of your mind You’ll probably never meet me Sometimes I'm on posters Usually in your doctor’s waiting room You may glance at me Put me to...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, dark, suicide,
Form: Free verse



is it real?
i was never her favorite. what if she despises me and she believes i’m just another person who will go away and she’ll never see again, who she never loved even though i love her? and it hurts...Read the rest...
Categories: 8th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Elegy of the Night
In the quiet depth of our shared despair, You vanished into the cool night air. My soul cried out, in the stillness, for thee, Yearning for the comfort only you could guarantee....Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse
The day
A day full of cigarettes A day full of riding, Oh what a calmness My face was full with dirt And mind with lust, I'm alone here Like nobody else, Living every hour I was mine Cause it's only mine and mine..???? ...Read the rest...
Categories: addiction, allegory, anxiety, black
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stepfathers who abducts his own children
After my traumatic brain injury witnessing a murder I didn’t think the world could even get any worse my children and I survived 4 major hurricanes I decided to move north to his home town...Read the rest...
Categories: angel, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Factory
As a child I was warned that if I looked at the light for too long it would send me blind and yet the stuttering flash and eerie blue light from an arc welder that crackled deep inside the factory would tempt...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, childhood, dream, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dazzling Sunrise, Come Quickly
If this increasing darkness conveys a fear not chided, as ghostly shadows conspicuously confer mystery: do I hide or firmly resist being threatened by their miserable aspect of susceptibility? Anxiety builds fret inside first slowly, then rapidly? I squeeze and...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, dream, emotions, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SPRINGS GALE WINDS SCRIPTED-
Battered winds surrounds me so Engulfing intertwining Capitalizing on the… Atmospheric pressures gales 5/10/24 Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024© ...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, appreciation, mystery, visionary,
Form: Jueju
Premium Member As Cruelly As People React
Always control your temper, don't explode in fits of anger; not all appreciate kindness. There are a few good people and there are lots of bad ones with different moods and tones: there are those who worry less, all they do is...Read the rest...
Categories: anger, anxiety, emotions, evil,
Form: Lyric
an actor i knew
An actor I knew I saw him sitting alone in the dining room  of a small hotel, drinking brandy with coke his handsome face was bloated, and he was deep in his cups I told him of the Humblebee story...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, color, culture,
Form: Blank verse
Radiance In the Dark
In the gloomy nights Dies my life; my soul Fighting unconquerable fights Demons within the cold Lying on the floor half dead__alive Fading image of the shore Far off for a glide A sense of vision Blurry in its appearance __mysteries of...Read the rest...
Categories: anxiety, care, change, deep,
Form: Rhyme

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