Anxiety Abc Poems

the accident 

When crossing the street, cars had stopped 
to let him cross in respect for his age
He was thinking of death; he hoped it would...

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to a vegan be

We humans can be good for wild animals
Their life of surviving hides hearts of love
by showing empathy and understanding
They can change and...

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A Little Fish



I opened a tin of sardines in olive oil for my evening meal.
Headless and nicely packed they were, except for one that
had a...

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A Bus Ride

I had bought a
newspaper in town and was taking the bus home
an hours ride
up to my village. I looked at the
headlines
noticed the paper...

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The Odd Narrative
Steamed up the window, my finger I paint a landscape,
Mountain, forest, and lake; the peak cries into
the lake becomes a vast ocean,
where trees...

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When love is a failure

The bird of love sits in a gilded cage, sometimes
it gets out and flies in search of mischief.
Anton, a young student...

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The boy, the padre, and the abbess.

The padre hung in the bell fry the boy didn’t know
at the time, the padre was his father; this...

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the avenue's trees 

What is with this month of May
the day is as cold as November 
the leaves on the trees are full
and green, yet among the...

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The lonely heart

This loneliness is eating me up
we are miserable in different rooms 
words have been spoken over and over again 
what more is there to...

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the end safety

No modern weaponry can stop this brutal onslaught.
The Med is far from here, where the Atlantic breeze is cooling
we who do not travel...

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Pressure, pressure

Why can’t they leave him alone
Today the bay window
Demonstrates a panorama of beauty
He longs to go there
Taste the salt sea
To sail away from all...

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What the papers didn’t say

We read the octopus is an intelligent animal, I’m not sure if this is true but they can be trained to
play...

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More gift cards

What is it with people and the money they dream of I’m not a money person, cash in hand is ok 
Perhaps a...

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Painting of Oblivion

The canvas is uniformly white.  
As a screen depicts nothingness
And there is immobility.
 A red dot appears
When a mass of void moves
Into life...

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Agoraphobia 
Can you imagine, all my life, I have suffered from agoraphobia, the fear of being exposed as the true me without a fig leaf...

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