Long Angst Poems
Long Angst Poems. Below are the most popular long Angst by PoetrySoup Members. You can search for long Angst poems by poem length and keyword.
My Uncanny Sighs of Distress and the Tears of TribulationI’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside
My tears are diamonds in...
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Categories:
angst, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form:
Rhyme
Echoes of a Shady PastAn icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
angst, art, birth, character, courage, dark, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
Echoes Of A Shady Past Part Twon icy chill descends on 13 Beaver Veil Cottage as sisters Ester and Ellie walk gingerly up the steps on this wet and windy night.
This once charming pied-a-terre was now in a final phase denouement.
The...
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Categories:
angst, character, dark, death, emotions, gothic, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Prose
An Adverse World Uncurled“I am NOT like my father!!!
You say that again, I’m going to kill you!”
I shrivel up in shame
For, I am not to blame
For the shenanigans you put me through so many times
Sometimes, I wish I...
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Categories:
addiction, anger, angst,
Form:
Free verse
Live 2 B U{intro}
(Whisper) mmmmhmmm
Turn me on by your tranquil, no-drama-no-trauma tune
It will be noon soon,
My sweet maroon moon
Don't panic, maniac of mine...you're swimming in your lament lagoon
Ohhhhh...
Please
Hear me out
At ease,
I hear your victory shout!!!
Ooooo I-I-I-I...
{verse...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, deep, depression, desire, fear, hope,
Form:
Lyric
When It Struck 11When it struck 11, I sighed in relief
When it struck 11, I haven't felt grief
The time kept ticking on and it wasn't brief
And I'm so… patiently shaking like a leaf
Vigorously feeling vital everyday...
Every minute...every second...come...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, betrayal, conflict, courage, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
The Hardships of Honesty - Neither Will II often surprise many people in many ways
With the words I say…with the actions I make…
It’s extraordinary how many seek high praise
With the words they say…with the actions they fake…
Neither will I…
Assume the worst in...
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Categories:
angst, conflict, emotions, endurance, faith, hope, passion,
Form:
Free verse
I Can'T Just Change Overnight Part 1(Inspired by my sister, Laura Breidenthal’s poem called “The Dream in His Eyes” and also, inspired by Disturbed’s song “Forsaken”. Special thanks to my sister for such an awesome poem and the writer that wrote...
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Categories:
angst, dark, deep, depression, desire, loneliness, words,
Form:
Free verse
Letters For People Part 4Dear people,
(Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare,
to perfect, before performance, …?
-sure hard to try...
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Categories:
america, angst, business, confusion, feelings, poverty,
Form:
Epic
The Breeze at Ease - with hardly any difficultiezDriven insane by sorrow, there’s no tomorrow to cure it…
Honestly, I’m in vain and so guilty…feeling way less than legit…
I’m holding you close in my optimism and its memories along with it
Torn apart by negative...
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Categories:
angst, beautiful, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form:
Free verse
Psychologically still thirteenPsychologically still thirteen
Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a juncture in relationship,
(whereby one or the other of us)...
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Categories:
7th grade, age, angst, birth, blue, family,
Form:
Rhyme
Yellow Winged AngelI.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness,
without want to weep and moan,
He was dreaming among heartless
building cloud castles alone.
He was waking up...
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Categories:
abuse, angel, angst, philosophy, solitude, yellow,
Form:
I do not know?
Where Art Thou Anonymous Benefactor To Offer Me SuccorWhere art thou anonymous benefactor...to offer me succor?
Ah... methinks legal tender
could be a boon to help me bolster
mein kampf with necessary material equipage,
which prospect to acquire essential
commodities sabotaged
at the altar of...
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Categories:
8th grade, absence, anger, angst, boy, confusion,
Form:
Free verse
Chapter 86 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Young Solomons Exclude DesharahDate December 31. 2040
Damian Stood on the ground floor
Of the new Mansion while
GrandDad Hakim rested In the
Living room watching TV. The
First level was half complete.
Damian thought the pace needed
Quickening. He would have...
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Categories:
angst, emotions,
Form:
Alliteration
The 996th PoemFulfilled fantasies and legitimate realities…you do know how to please…
Are you listening to my voice of longing and yearning?
No, don’t backstab me with your broken promises…stop being a horrid tease…
Do not worry, Lord, I am...
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Categories:
angst, beauty, change, corruption, courage, crazy, deep, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Point of a GunYou are a 15 year old girl;
so young and able;
stature small , petite short not tall, they hardly see at the kitchen table;
And at school it's not cool;
you're chosen;
But not for love, just..
Lust;
you see...
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Categories:
angst, appreciation, blessing, children, depression, children,
Form:
Ballad
Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To ChurchEarly morning dawn July
"Mallory" Damian whispered, sliding
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he moved quite quickly. He spread
Like wild fire. Soon consuming her.
The...
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Categories:
angst, devotion,
Form:
Alliteration
Winter Awakens My CareWinter Awakens My Care
anonymous Middle English poem, circa 1300
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Winter awakens all my care
as leafless trees grow bare.
For now my sighs are fraught
whenever it enters my thought:
regarding this world's joy,
how everything...
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Categories:
angst, england, joy, sorrow, tree, weather, winter,
Form:
Couplet
Self Destructive Wickedness Arrested, Convicted, and GaoledSelf destructive wickedness arrested, convicted, and gaoled...
with kidnapping little boy
ordered to suffer
life sentence without parole.
The deadly scourge of
one obsessive/compulsive disorder
nearly left me starving to death.
Anorexia nervosa absent bulimia
nadir of onset
diagnoses...
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Categories:
angst, 2nd grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, absence,
Form:
Free verse
Merov's Ghost and Other Shots Across My BowMerov’s Ghost (1) and Other Shots Across My Bow!
In mid-November of Fourteen, I published my first web verse here, (2)
the earliest spanned sixty years, composed for Senior English class
one night in Nineteen Sixty-One. Assigned just...
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Categories:
angst, blessing, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
The Breakfast Program and MeIt was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all of this cold
civil rights riots plagued my little...
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Categories:
angst, america, beautiful, black african american, chicago, memory,
Form:
Free verse
Oh My Numb CraniumWhy did He let me break?
Was it for a future's sake?
How did you all get here?
Are we all lost in epic fear?
Keep pressing on, my dusked Dawn
We welcome the sun, that's what we look upon
Do...
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Categories:
angst, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Jacqueline TrestrailOn this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...
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Categories:
angst, mother, tribute,
Form:
Prose
The Dancing: the Last DanceWas it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Your SanityStuck in place…
Free in space…
you’re insane
I’m as sweet as sugar cane…
Whatever happened to your unique personality?
Whatever happened to your sanity?
Has it transformed to insanity?
I like the way you make me feel
Oh, you don’t...
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Categories:
anger, angst, appreciation, beauty, change, emotions, encouraging,
Form:
Rhyme