Weapons PracticeCitizens, weapons practice,
Refugeees, seeking homes,
Think globally, guys,
Evolving ceasefires---grand....
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, conflict, future,
Form: Free verse
Weapons PracticeCitizens, weapons practice,
Refugees, seeking homes,
Think globally, guys,
Evolving ceasefires--grand....
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, future, peace,
Form: Free verse
I didn't get to say goodbye
It always seemed things would fall
into place in some distant future.
It was delusional to think
we'd always have tomorrow.
So no heart-to-heart in our future.
Questions left suspended in mid-air
are meant to remain unanswered
and mysteries destined to stay unsolved.
Now that ship has sailed,
opportunities squandered
and it's too late ~
we just ran out of time.
And I’m the one left empty...
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Categories:
angst, conflict, goodbye, grief,
Form: Free verse
Heartbreaking In Leaves
A tree birthed in girl's heart behind the window
Wherever, however, old Aspens are made —
And God was in green's time, Christ coming in gold.
The solo leaf that before my look just swayed —
She dropped in the dark, though would her lost life grow.
While at Autumn's end, I remember her shade —
Tree limbs...
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Categories:
angst, children, devotion, growth,
Form: Rispetto
Sweet VenomI trace every move you make,
I trace every note you breathe.
But you're a Mozart in disguise
How could I ever compete?
Blind with tears and rage,
I compared myself to what seemed bulletproof,
All while my doubts built up inside,
Forming an invisible bruise.
I tried to be more like you
Though I knew it was no use.
I swallowed all your words,
Like...
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Categories:
addiction, allusion, angst,
Form: Lyric
I miss my momI miss my mom.
I don’t remember much about her,
It’s been over a decade and a half since
I last saw her,
Before she faded into
The person she’s become now.
But I remember when she was kind,
I remember when she loved us,
I miss my mom.
I miss swingset rides,
Her pushing me,
Higher and higher,
Into the sky.
Snapshots, memories,
A blink of her smile,
I...
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Categories:
abuse, anger, angst, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Heartbroken in His ShadowI loved him
I loved him with my whole soul
I loved him
I loved him until he became my blackhole
He took and he took
He took the color from my cheek
He took the light from my eye
He took my life until I became weak
But I knew he was good
So I gave and I gave
I thought 'it's okay, maybe...
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Categories:
12th grade, angst, love,
Form: Free verse
A Doll's Tissue
A porcelain vein under my skin,
Open burning of doll's eyes,
Girl rising to a pink end —
This just daybreak
Open burning of doll's eyes,
Black fire in her hair,
Girl rising to a pink end —
~Remember~ her shelf life, bare
Black fire in her hair,
Girl rising to a pink end,
~Remember~ her shelf life, bare —
A porcelain...
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Categories:
angst, dark, deep, innocence,
Form: Pantoum
My Heartbroken Love Song(swap quatrain form)
"So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.”
E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Bereft am I now that you’ve gone.
You took the sunshine from my dawn
and star-shine from the midnight sky.
Now that you’ve gone, bereft am I.
Where heart once was, there’s now a stone.
Away...
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Categories:
angst, heartbroken,
Form: Quatrain
DestructionDepression.
Wet floor signs everywhere.
So are puddles.
Falling.
Despair.
That feeling where you are covered in leaves.
And some leaves blow away.
But some are forever.
Desolation.
When he hands you the last crayon.
In the world.
And it just snaps in half.
Demolish.
Diminish.
Destroy.
Death.
And then the last of the last.
Just...
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Categories:
angst, depression,
Form: Free verse
A MAN TO KILL MENHere is a man who sub-dues the com-mon,
He rears an ar-my to keep a grim weap-on,
He crafts bombs that scare,
All types meant to tear,
And kills in the streets till the dawn, on
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Categories:
allusion, america, anger, angst,
Form: Limerick
BROKEN SILENCEI held my old pen
the page cried beneath the ink
a sound carved from pain....
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Categories:
12th grade, angst, pain,
Form: Haiku
open casketa black dress
an open casket
friends and family all around me,
trying to reach me
i couldn’t hear them, not at all
the only thing i could look at
was the face i once knew, the face that was my lifeline
laying lifeless in front of me....
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Categories:
angst, father,
Form: Free verse
untitledI walk the path I usually do
on the left side of the fence
Running on the right side there’s you
irrational and without sense.
Hence,
I stop
Make myself small,
And wonder
What if once more the fence were a wall?
In my mind, a memoir of fracture
And there it is, that echoing answer.
So I keep walking
Do not want to catch...
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Categories:
angst, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Mugging
My bones float over her, I'm glass
Now on memories drunk I sip —
Another sun that must be asked.
My bones float over her, I'm glass.
I gave myself, my skies; cup's pass
A blue bookmark upon your lips.
My bones float ~over her~ I'm glass
Now on memories drunk I sip.
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Categories:
angst, deep, drink, lost,
Form: Triolet
Specific Types of Angst Poems
Definition | What is Angst in Poetry?
Poems Related to Angst
nervousness, apprehension, agony, misgiving, uneasiness, dread, blues, depression, weltschmerz, mid life crisis,