GraceI tried,
I tried really really hard.
To be good enough, smart enough.
I became who he wanted me to be,
a good son who praised him.
Still that wasn’t enough, nowhere near enough.
I was no longer me.
I thought God was the same as dad.
So I hid myself. A cosmic game of Hide and seek.
That was when I learned,...
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Categories:
abuse, anxiety, celebration, christian,
Form: Free verse
In a Coat of PainI’ve knocked on every door of medicine men—
doors painted with hope.
Swallowed pills of every size and colour.
Been told,
“This one never fails.”
Another promise—
fulfilled only in disappointment.
The body that once felt mine
now feels like a stranger’s—
still wearing my name tag.
I sleep early,
trying to rinse myself from pain,
but wake up
still dressed in it.
The coat I wear?
Pain-stitched—
by a tailor...
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Categories:
anger, anxiety, cancer, caregiving,
Form: Spoken Word
Wake UpWake up
Stop dreaming
Hear the birds chirping
Thank God for the blessings
Each breath is a gift
Breathe in
Focus on your role
Hit the core with a heart of gold
Stay low-key, no time to envy
Seek discipline
Kneel to the Man who never sinned...
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Categories:
anxiety, baptism, blessing, courage,
Form: Lyric
I Am Enough
My hair is enough, my eyes are enough
My lips are enough, my face is enough
My legs are enough, my hips are enough
My skin is enough, my body is enough
I am me, I am me, I accept all that I see, all that I see
I am free, I am free just to be me, just to...
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Categories:
anxiety, beautiful, beauty, fashion,
Form: Lyric
It is what it isMoon juice paired,
With gems & stones.
Candle lit,
With intent on a scroll.
Storms have brewed,
In a 5 year drought.
Now I'm calling,
The spirits out.
Listen close,
To the spirits voice.
They're already here,
They all rejoice.
Raven perched,
On a flimsy limb.
Saying,
Forever more again & again.
Storms have brewed,
In a 5 year drought.
Make no mistake,
They are...
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Categories:
anxiety, crazy, desire, destiny,
Form: Free verse
The Weight of TomorrowI sit alone beneath the sky,
Uncle, thinking of your last goodbye,
The world feels heavy, dreams unclear,
With every step, I carry fear.
Graduation looms - so close, so wide,
But doubt and worry walk beside.
You always knew just what to say…
I wish you could be here today...
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Categories:
anxiety, 12th grade, age, anger,
Form: Rhyme
UNRAVELLING CHOICES AND CHOICES
In the spirit of hope, we contemplatively search
Beyond the horizon for the mystic exorcism
Of the pandemic deaths proliferating from
The disparity reigning from viral social
And political infestations decimating
We selected targeted ones of color:-
And the audacity of such hope, must be sought
Within the horizon of the spirit of our mind and soul,
Where abides the power exorcism infused...
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Categories:
anxiety, destiny, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose
what more can be taken
What More Can Be Taken
I came from a house where love never stayed,
Where fists did the talking and kindness decayed.
Where silence was safer than saying a word,
And a child’s small heartbreak was never once heard.
I ran to the bottle, to smoke and to fire,
Chased numbness like peace, sank deep in the vile.
Got locked in a...
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Categories:
anxiety, abuse, addiction, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme
house of grief
I dwelt within a house of shade,
By silent hand and sorrow made.
Each brick I laid with trembling care—
Of shame, of guilt, of cold despair.
No hearth did warm, no lamp did gleam,
But dimness thick as haunted dream.
No welcome waits behind the door,
Only the hush of evermore.
The days are long, yet never bright,
And stretch like wounds into...
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Categories:
abuse, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
The Forgotten Soul -made couple of months ago!!Alone I rot, yet no one cares to see,
The darkness deep within me.
I reach for loving hands,
Yet all I get is emptiness in these dark lands.
My voice is lost like whispers on the sea.
The wind may howl,
But no one will think of me.
I am a forgotten soul,
Never to feel whole.
They dance in warmth, while night...
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Categories:
anxiety, cry, how i
Form: Rhyme
Dark timesThe world is bleeding
and it seems no one can
do a thing to stop it.
There's desperation
in the urgent need for healing
and no one seems to care.
They've given up,
it's probably too late
as the planet spins out of control.
The greed of men seems boundless,
does no one see the coming of the end?
AP: 3rd place 2025
Submitted on July...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, corruption, dark,
Form: Free verse
Bitter BluesI often struggle to make peace
with nagging relapses that,
like endless tides, come
then I need to chase away.
Intrusive rekindlings of loss,
of wanting to resurrect the past,
each time needing to go through the motions
of convincing myself it's pointless.
Confined, trapped, buckled in,
I ride this live rollercoaster
that leaves me feeling disillusioned,
frustration having a bitter rancid taste.
AP: Honorable Mention 2025...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, blue, dark,
Form: Free verse
The forgotten killerHopelessness
When your body and mind are disconnected
When your falling in a sea of darkness and accept it
When the silence is loud you can hear your heartbeat
It's the feeling of a deep pit
In your stomach
All the contents of your stomach being Consumed by it
Replaced by the feeling of sickness
Leaving a...
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Categories:
anxiety, depression, discrimination, mental
Form: Free verse
a love poem to my recoveryno i wouldn't die for you.
i wouldn't,
and i'm not sorry.
i spent too long hiding in the shadows,
waiting
lurking
wanting
and hoping
that they'd see that I would have.
in an instant,
i would have.
a bullet, a train, a grenade, a pile of pills.
i would've taken any of them
for anyone.
but instead,
life shot me with an arrow.
life gave me you.
this...
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Categories:
angst, anxiety, depression, mental
Form: Free verse
Amateur GolferYou’re trying to hang tough
But your ball is in the rough
Don’t throw a fit
Just think then hit
Forget all that pro stuff
...
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Categories:
anxiety, boy, golf, nature,
Form: Limerick
Specific Types of Anxiety Poems
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