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Best Anxiety Poems

Below are the all-time best Anxiety poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of anxiety poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Dear Anxiety, Collaboration With the Silent One
Dear anxiety
Nemesis to my reality,
mental manipulator of tentative trust,
massacring my once sagacious soul -
you cut me into a slice of loneliness.

The fault is in our...

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Categories: angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Art of Anxiety
When anxious thoughts linger through a grey maze of silence,
I search for metaphors of hope in trembling twilight-
while ink refuses to bleed~ heart fights for...

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Categories: angst, anxiety,
Form: Tritina
Anxiety
This is what it feels like to have your heart racing 
and not knowing when or if it will ever slow down.
Your fatigued body can...

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Categories: anxiety, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Hands
With all the time on my hands, I gave my hands one job.
 My Hands   -The Artist-

My hands paint everything in my life
they...

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Categories: anxiety, beautiful, beauty, birthday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Plastic Narcissist Collaboration With the Silent One
When we search for answers from egotistic minds,
life is full of meaningless questions that lead us nowhere.
You sabotaged the sandman who brought me my dreams,
corrupting...

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Categories: abuse, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Frozen Noose
Anxiety    (The Worst Noose In Town)

-- like flooding waters, creeping in
I count 30, seconds, holding my breath again
Drowning in agitation, overwhelmed by...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, conflict, crazy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member A Shout Into the Void
Upon the arc rises familiar visage of tenebrous dawn
As birdsongs protest, yet another day gone wrong,
In anguish of emptiness thrashing~ stygian, forlorn,
Screaming relentlessly of despondent,...

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Categories: anxiety, emotions, life, stress,
Form: Verse
Premium Member OCD Overdrive collaboration with Ink Empress

Life is not as sweet as a bowl of golden glace cherries,
nor is there a golden illuminated future for a fruitless mind.
Trembling hands and gritted...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, care, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Superstar
The adoring crowd here at Red Rocks amphitheatre awaits. Tonight, like every night, I will go out there and give them my best. They will...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: addiction, anxiety, celebrity,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Hope, a Little Remained
Hope, A Little Remained

She walked the creaking floors of the rat-infested room,
trying to remember what tragedy had sent her to this shabby place.
Her heart felt...

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Categories: anxiety, dark, emotions, fate,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Hope and Peace
While walking amongst an angry crowd,
               trying to escape the turmoil...

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Categories: anxiety, hope, inspiration, peace,
Form: Free verse
When She Dreams
When she dreams/ with Jennifer Noble

(It was a) different time...
a different world
Long ago she learned that..
trust can turn

(Everyone said) such a pretty girl...
Her porcelain skin...

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Categories: abuse, anxiety, dream, for
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Cruel Compassion, Collaboration With the Silent One
My mind is a puzzle of cryptic metaphors.
whilst searching for my sanity,
I've become my own worst enemy.
In this cauldron of despair,
time is like sand in...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Apocalypse Now
Running through the Lost Forest of no tomorrows, my heart beats at warp speed as the hideous howls draw nearer. My thoughts briefly digress to...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: anxiety, fear,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Don'T Throw Me Away
You look at me so uninviting;
I may have some missing teeth, stumble when I walk, bout' to FALL!!!
Stutter when I talk, but yet I'll still...

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Categories: anxiety, appreciation, blessing, caregiving,
Form: Ballade

Book: Reflection on the Important Things