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Crisis Poems - Poems about Crisis

The Boy With The Cardboard Heart
When you have nobody you have somebody and that somebody is yourself. Because you’re all you’ve got. So why need anybody? Anybody being nobody. Nobody being somebody. Somebody being anybody. Somebody. Somebody. Somebody. Nobody. Nobody....Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, abuse, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member PTSD SEVERE MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS
I SAT HERE IN CRISIS HEARING MY FETUS HEARTBEAT SEVERE EMOTIONAL MENTAL ILLNESS BREATHLESS PANTING SEVERE DEPRESSIVE DISORDER ANXIETY DISORDER PANIC DISORDER FINALLY STAYING FOCUSED ON MY HEART IRREGULAR HEART BEATS FUNNY BEING I WORE...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, allah,
Form: Naat



Midlife Crisis
Beware the midlife crisis: It takes you by surprise after your 40th existential rise. There is no remedy to cure this dralody. All you can do is feel blue and pout day in and day out. They say that life begins...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, anxiety, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Slab City Crisis Tamed
Written: February 26, 2025, for Antony Biaanco Contest ...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, angst, city,
Form: Free verse
The night they know is bright as day
There’s children growing up that believe the stars sound like crickets chirping, for their only exposure to these sources of wonder are through over-exposure to blue light and radio waves and soundtracks overlaying simulations. The night they know is bright as...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, anger, children, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Waiting for Waiting’s End
The chancy countdown clock of my mortality is ticking toward some unknown preset alarm. I’m aware of every taciturn tick tock in unrecoverable moments spent waiting for something to happen… and I do not wait well. I wait for stiff slices...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, courage, death, faith, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Positive attitude towards Life
Guys, why only a few persons out of thousands triumph?, Answer for this simple question is positive...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Our Ultimate Identity Crisis
Categories: crisis, bereavement, death, earth, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
The lizard Wizard
Paranoia guides my gaze to the wall, Where a dragon stands, fierce and tall. His tongue flicks with a wicked gleam, But something’s wrong no fiery fire stream. He snarls, yet no flames arise, And sorrow fills my heavy eyes. "Why,...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Identity Crisis
Escapism Not possible Now, and half a Lifetime over. Your hauntings Cannot be eradicated Until I get what I want. Eyes brown, Watered down. As you continue to hide from me. Tail between your legs, something I've seen before. Mirroring...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FENTANYL CRISIS CHICAGO
BEING A CONFIDENTIAL HUMAN SOURCE SURVIVOR OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FROM CORRUPTION FOR THE FBI GOING INTO HOSTAGE SITUATIONS THERE ARE SOMETIMES CASULTIES MY...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, allah,
Form: Qawwali
Premium Member The Crisis of the Humanities
In a world where wires weave our thoughts,? where screens flicker with fragmented lives,? we stand at the crossroads,? between digits and dreams, ?between data and depth. We must not forget the stories that shape us,? We must not overlook the...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, education, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crisis Of Confidence
Just lay back on the couch and tell me what’s unsettling you Everything has changed and I don’t know what I’m to do Expand on that in ways that might help...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, anxiety, change, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Age of the Crisis
Everything today is a crisis border crisis, migrant crisis climate crisis, carbon crisis ...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, america, angst, anxiety, today,
Form: List
Premium Member One Crisis After Another
Everything today is a ‘crisis’ from regional ‘hot-spots’ to the latest virus Which is why we select ...Read the rest...
Categories: crisis, conflict, confusion, leadership, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

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