Angst Poems - Examples of all types of angst poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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My Bloody ValentineYou are the star of my mahogany heart
For you gave me the blues the biggest scar
Everything I let go of to win your trust
Was my mistake for you take love for lust
I am to blame...
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Categories:
angst, heartbroken, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Empty Lungs
She alone shadows my outside heart in glass,
Unknowns in saws and hands, a lifetime's goodbye
That her memory's stay will still on us crash,
Where the breath in both our wombs, this hollow light —
A channel...
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Categories:
absence, angst, child, heartbroken,
Form: Rispetto
FRIGID BITTER ATTITUDE SMUTTED WOMAN-FRIGID BITTER ATTITUDE SMUTTED WOMAN-
Wintry mix soul of emotion--
lack of compassionate no-show;
...So she was winter crisp chilling,
stony unsympathetic heart'
Disposition mean ice-queen part;
Your cold, responsiveness lacking;
2/11/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2025©
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Categories:
angst, character, conflict, confusion,
Form: Tail-rhyme
shijie cai buzaihu!Pain, now far
It’s happened too much!
I can’t feel it anymore!
Getting hurt, so tragic
If only I felt human!
Time will pass
With or without me
Life, it moves, moves!
It doesn’t matter if I’m here
Nothing matters!
My body, so horrid
Medical...
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Categories:
abuse, angst, anxiety, depression,
Form: Lyric
SoupI am a can of soup.
I am being recycled.
Because I was used up.
Even as a can made of solid metal…
I get tired.
Of the clanging of other cans around me.
Of the sounds of machines.
A can of...
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Categories:
angst,
Form: Free verse
BhamiBhami
Slow down take a run
Wobbly—?dribble?— dabble addled eye balls gawking at.. what is that? First encounter of the second kind
Clanging?—?clinging?—?cloistering—?changin colours in daytime
Running lights off...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
BhamiBhami
Slow down take a run
Wobbly—?dribble?— dabble addled eye balls gawking at.. what is that? First encounter of the second kind
Clanging?—?clinging?—?cloistering—?changin colours in daytime
Running lights off...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Did I Exist?I was never part of it.
Not for years.
Not in the whispered secrets.
Not in the plans made in rooms I wasn’t in.
Not in the jokes that landed
before I could hear them and felt like I was...
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Categories:
angst,
Form: Free verse
no mystery hereNo Mystery here
when I shut my eyes, I see millions of stars not bright stars they only bring light onto themselves static and unblinkingly.
On the bottom half of what I see, is a mist called...
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Categories:
absence, angst, courage,
Form: ABC
DarturaI drew burning stars
Around her jagged scars
I had never seen embers burn as bright
As hers did into that endless night
As she bloomed
I seen her light
I gazed upon it
Basking in her unparalleled...
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Categories:
10th grade, angst, crush,
Form: Free verse
New ThingsI can learn new things.
Although nothing comes to mind.
Except maybe that math class I failed.
I dropped out of college a few days later.
I can learn new things, new things…
I remember learning...
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Categories:
age, angst,
Form: Free verse
Sea of Roses
O n c e upon
a medieval arc,
when the coral night
was engrossed in
fuchsia epitaphs of fireflies,
your fingers,
embalmed
in the fangs of february moon,
shredded the love...
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Categories:
angst, deep, emotions, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
What's in your closet? Three poemsOh, let me not think
of the soiled dishes in my sink,
and let me not posit
the dirty secrets in my closet,
or recall any of what brought me to this brink.
Some things I don't want to think...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, dark, identity,
Form: Rhyme
The hostages are human'Its a reggresive sight to see the condition of hostages
Being released by hamas?? Its a sad counterpoint to the
Whole sad situation.' And gnaws away at hope of there
Being any good solution, any way to sanity..For...
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Categories:
angst, conflict, courage,
Form: Narrative
The Two Mothers in Me
Categories:
angst, conflict, fear, how
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Angst Poems
Definition | What is Angst in Poetry?
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