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
Honey Moon is Brilliantly BlueWhat is something blue; the bride will tuck away her someday
in her til-death-do-they-part bouquet-distillation.
—by poet
Light up the darkness with star sound.
honey moon, round,
brilliantly blue -
preemptive view.
Sound of the sky, lights up bride’s gown;
blessings flow down.
Black rose, of groom,
forever bloom
in a silver-moonshine bouquet.
It’s bride’s someday
and her groom’s plight -
round-robin rite.
...
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Categories:
angst, fate, marriage,
Form: Verse
In a Heartbroken State"We can choose either to remain heartbroken all the time or with resilience, come back to cheer, as true happiness primarily stems from inside and not through external factors alone. Our happiness is mostly dependent on our way of thinking and how we see life"..... By Poet
She heard the sound of pigeons overhead.
Looking up she...
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Categories:
angst, pain, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
We'll unfold our versesIf everything’s been written
And everything been said
We won’t speak anymore
Won’t write anymore.
But if we are the new prophets
Sent to remind manhood
The world belongs to God
And if the world drowns off
In the mud of inky well
And scribes and Pharisees
Roar in the vanities
Then we’ll still howl our dreams
Writing down all our visions
And against their arsenals
We will unfold...
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Categories:
angst,
Form: Free verse
A Statement May Be a QuestionHe slipped away? Or did they take him?
Stranger things have happened, have they not?
Why do I ask so many questions of myself?
Or am I asking questions of him?
I could make statements.
He went off of his own accord.
This is one of his stranger happenings.
I have to ask so many questions.
So, this could be a question.
Or is...
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Categories:
anger, angst, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
a sonneta sonnet
a cockroach is climbing up
the outer wall of the building
aiming for my open kitchen
window
when reaching the window
sill, I pushed back down
it landed on a flower bed
I sensed its resolve, no doubt
it will try again
when I'm frying fish and
open the widow for the smell
it will make a move
...
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Categories:
adventure, allusion, angst,
Form: ABC
Today my heart races for youYour flesh was never warmer than my passion, a flame more intense than you could ever bear. My love for writing poetry is my secret weapon.
While I may not claim to be gifted
My identity is Black, and words have always motivated me. I can string them together easily, but making them meaningful? That’s...
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Categories:
angst, absence, africa, age, allegory,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Silent ScreamsThere are voices all around us
Not loud, not obvious,
But aching to be heard.
Within this poem lies three unheard stories
Three souls, each silenced by society
A woman who smiles in fear.
A boy punished for love.
And a girl whose dreams shrink in the shadows.
Their pain is different,
But their silence is the same.
This poem is for them
For the unheard,...
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Categories:
10th grade, angst, anti
Form: Narrative
JUST LET ME BETo be or not to be
To smile or not to smile
To wave or not to wave.
A foe I must fight
A stranger I must meet
A friend I must greet.
Why can't I just be
A face that no one knows
A voice that no one hears
A person that no one sees.
Why can't I just live
Buried in the rubble
Head...
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Categories:
angst, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Step Up or Shut Up, Bro!
You scorn the work my chisel made,
Yet you have never held the blade.
You see the flaws, call them mistakes,
But you have no idea what it takes.
It’s easy to point the finger with empty hand,
To stand high ashore and sound so grand.
But the sea never hears from those aground,
Only from...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Cash strapped despondent citizen bankerCash strapped despondent citizen banker
in unrelenting deep purple Depeche Mode crisis...
the yeast you could do
for a crusty and crabby old man,
(who I know
like the back of my clawed hand),
albeit well bred wordsmith doth wonder,
whose person analogously baited
courtesy being at the receiving end
of one after another phishing schemes
whereat identity thieves stole
loot linkedin with checking account
making...
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Categories:
adventure, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Cash strapped despondent citizen bankerCash strapped despondent citizen banker
in unrelenting deep purple Depeche Mode crisis...
the yeast you could do
for a crusty and crabby old man,
(who I know
like the back of my clawed hand),
albeit well bred wordsmith doth wonder,
whose person analogously baited
courtesy being at the receiving end
of one after another phishing schemes
whereat identity thieves stole
loot linkedin with checking account
making...
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Categories:
adventure, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
tormented
Categories:
angst, anxiety, conflict, pain,
Form: Senryu
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,