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Unsettling Poems - Poems about Unsettling

Unsettling Poems - Examples of all types of poems about unsettling to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for unsettling.
Premium Member Circus Vision
...Creepy patience, eerie desires following the dreamlike honeycomb, consistent unawareness, wax in tatters, exhaling fortune-tellers, spooky scenario, come in harlequin mischievous, that is not time......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, dark, horror, magic, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Liminal Space-Surreality
...Classical infusion Beethoven’s “ode to joy” Playing on blaring audiophile speakers annoy Purposely looped to destroy vagrants with electronic music Blends of subversive elements and anxious acous......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, confusion, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Speaker
...Speaker, speaker I'm listening... You’re doing the right thing! Unswayed from Kremlin propaganda Isn’t how our country should swing Faith changed; policies rearranged Soul-searching, ......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, appreciation, political,
Form: Political Verse
Unsettling premonition kickstarts fiendish abomination
...Unsettling premonition kickstarts fiendish abomination Consider the following dogmatic, enigmatic, fantastic, idiotic, jargonistic, kimetic, linguistic, narcissistic, opportunistic, poetic......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member FBI ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS CONFIDENTIAL HUMANS SOURCE CRISIS TEAM
...CRISIS TEAM:HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP AGENT BROWN: HELLO I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT BETWEEN THREE OR FOUR AM I CANNOT BREATHE PANTING HEARING MY FETUS HEARTBEAT SO LOUDLY CRISIS TEAM: YOU ARE SAF......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, america, analogy, anxiety, art,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Cowpoke
...Cowpoke by Michael R. Burch, circa age 16 Sleep, old man... your day has long since passed. The endless plains, cool midnight rains and changeless ragged cows alone remain of what once was.......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, evil, heart, home, poems,
Form: Rhyme
An Excerpt of the Voices in My Head
..."Cured" by the medication, my mind goes numb Is feeling nothing better than feeling it all? Screaming in my head becomes a constant drum Do people really love me or can I not recall? They say t......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, abuse, betrayal, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wounded Sigh
...A crumbling cabin, a jungle deep, An old soldier trudging by, Imagining he heard, in the breeze, A ghostly, wounded sigh. This elder sat 'neath a mangrove To ease his creaking bones, His une......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, death, dream, loneliness, war,
Form: Rhyme
The one-foot game
...Bad people don't hide very well, they can't keep themselves from coming out to say hello. Eventually, they are caught. So, they make plans, let's call it a game. The 1-foot game. What is the 1-foo......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Natural Rhythm
...I feel there's something heavy Pressing on my bones Medusa's gaze has got me Turning into stone.. My life needs new perspective Like some higher place to view A log jam in my thinking Or my ......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, anxiety, drink, feelings, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Monday
...I don't know if I'm rested Just that I could drift So without land I need to leave this vessel Have faith that my feet will find solidity Not an endless drop Nor be swept from safety Monday ar......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, journey,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Man on the Precipice of Eternity
...In seventy-eight, my steel-stallion, KZ1000, pride, wind in my hair. Its Sissy Bar, firm tether, bag secured, my wanderlust's prayer. Sun, snow, wind sculpt my journey's theme, my ......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, death, destiny, emotions, faith,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Unmoored
...white balloon of pulse beats its sluggish hops on March land matted with half melted snow freed from a nearby high rise balcony cut from its red and blue compatriots still hooked onto the rail......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, allegory, allusion, endurance, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Whispers in the Night
...Boom! A thud echoes in the darkness, Voices call out to me, Despite the cold and the night's chill, I'm drawn towards the mysterious sound. "You scared me," I gasp, "No more trespassing," I wa......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, home, weather,
Form: Free verse
Still remember you
...Still remember you You were springtime of love I still recall And it faded away and I saw the season of fall You sparkled in my universe of love just never to stop Never did I know our commitm......Read the rest...
Categories: unsettling, analogy, appreciation, beach, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme

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