TrappedI’m a rat trapped in a cage. Spinning my wheel round & round forever. The days don’t start & the days don’t end. I just exist & at the same time I don’t. It makes me wonder if phantoms are real & if they are is this how they feel? Like they’re floating outside reality....
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Categories:
anger, angst, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Free verse
flying lessonThe flying lesson
White as a shroud, the virtual paper in front of me
I wanted to record my first flight in a Dakota plane
Inside, the aircraft looked like a bus, reaching under
my seat for the parachute, the steward said
there wasn't, but he handed me boiled sweets which
I didn't eat in case it was a drug keeping...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, birthday,
Form: Blank verse
Profit
Profit
Weather a penny or it is a pound,
a profit’s a profit when it is found.
By
Josehf Lloyd Murchison
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Categories:
angst, money, school, wisdom,
Form: Other
The Watermark
The mark of water is an empty void.
It washes clean.
It slips through fingers,
It has no cup, leaves no trace
For it is the primordial spark,
the fountainhead of life,
the matter and medium
that's within sustaining
all living things.
The watermark you speak of
is the scar of what lingers,
after water has been and gone—
the scum that clings,
the salt crust and...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, water,
Form: Free verse
It’s February
It’s February
the soft stones
are still hard
among the eaves
clinging to the river
...
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Categories:
absence, age, allusion, angst,
Form: Free verse
- As We Moooooove On -
Categories:
angst, humor,
Form: Shadorma
being alone
Categories:
angst, conflict, lonely, longing,
Form: Senryu
God's acreGod's Acre
In a field, not far from here, I see millions of lit candles
But only at night, during the day, it is a potato patch
A man, you can call him God if you like, walks along
The candles and, every so often, snubs out with his
thumb and index finger, a lit candle, with fingers
sore...
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Categories:
absence, abuse, angel, angst,
Form: ABC
Listen to meThe river flows
But not outside of me
My body
As much as I tell it
It will not respond to my emotions
As much as I cry inside
It will not cry outside
As much as I smile inside
It will not smile outside...
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Categories:
angst, body, cry, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Moonlight Lit on Pond at Night
The moon glows like a pearl on a dark pond.
Ripples fracture its reflection beyond.
Shadowy edges become a mysterious scene.
With its face becoming alive to gleam,
a demand that you read its lips and smile,
to the omens it brings with gusto and guile.
The moon above has a fixed stare, stony-faced!
Reflected in the pond, it's wildly debased,
Crying...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Remnants
There is always something
unspeakable in what remains—
a fractured spectrum of what once was,
scattered in the leftover bits:
half-maimed, dismembered,
and quietly rejected,
in what we scrape into the compost bin.
Every spick and speck reeks
of the aftertaste of endings —
with our recycled grief and rejection
dissolving in the detritus
of what we could not finish....
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, memory,
Form: Free verse
the neck tieThe Necktie
He woke up fully dressed, minus his tie, in the lumpy bed
of a third-rate hotel, which had a fridge beside the TV
The last semi-civilized place, one up from sleeping rough
The room reeked of depravity, and a dusty curtain
protecting the inhabitants from the cruel world outside
The news was about a woman who strngled with a...
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Categories:
abuse, age, america, angst,
Form: ABC
JUST ASKLyric Man (Chance Summer)
songer.co/song/u8ulv7rbi89mspeng2luhj54 (copy & paste to listen)
JUST ASK
[Verse 1]
If you're needing healing, wrestling with disease,
If your wallet’s empty, you're down on your knees.
If you're feeling lonely, too proud to even cry,
Or lost in the darkness with no strength to try.
If you're holding shame like a heavy stone,
If joy...
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Categories:
angst, confidence, emotions, faith,
Form: Lyric
I just want to walkFEBRUARY 2024
I've got the shoes of life on the wrong way
so chop off my legs and let me walk with the stump,
so I won't have to take this anymore.
I'd rather walk left, left, left
than right, right, right
to fall into your arms, into your ballad of wrongs.
But I'd rather walk right, right, right
than left, left, left
to...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, break up,
Form: Blank verse
Those passing days we had to lived throughGreetings, joyous May!
Welcome, enchanting Month of May!
What wisdom and wonders do you bring to light?
Reflecting on the frosty days of January, the playful pulse of February, and the turbulent winds of March—
As we embrace the dawn of a new beginning,
What treasures do you hold ...
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Categories:
absence, allusion, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Angst Poems
Definition | What is Angst in Poetry?
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