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
Breed ViatorEco-anxiety over the big cats,
I am in fear of an empty space.
Sitting on top of the food chain
in their absence balance is off.
Every day they slowly decline,
eco-anxiety over the big cats.
Panic is no longer dwindling,
increasing as numbers shrink.
The racing pulse of a lush forest
every creature is a part of it.
Eco-anxiety...
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Categories:
animal, anxiety, cat, nature,
Form: Other
Love cannot be controlled or confinedLove is thinner than a piece of cheesecloth,
transparent yet confusing to navigate.
More conservative than a political debate
More hearts are broken than mended
.
I am determined to search globally for an end to this love.
We desire it fiercely and embrace our fate to heal humanity.
Love may be a fleeting remedy,
Yet we pursue it with fervent...
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Categories:
addiction, anxiety, beautiful, friend,
Form: Blank verse
Thoughts in Fog
My thoughts are hard to hold when
I know they're hard to shape.
Like climbing out of fog
just to fall into more.
I try to dream,
but worry gets there first—
a shadow curled up in my brain,
wide awake at night.
Even sleep feels heavy.
Even silence buzzes.
Even breathing sometimes
feels like work.
Life, in general,
just won’t let go.
It presses in—
quiet,
loud,
never still.
...
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Categories:
anxiety, body, emotions, encouraging,
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
AbsentA-bsent, but caring
B-ound by social anxiety
C-ontinuing Christian charity
D-elighting in incognito
E-nthusiastic in spirit...
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Categories:
anxiety, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: ABC
It was nine degree outside in April
It was nine degrees outside in April
In the chill of a dreary April day,
I find myself wandering through the dimness,
My eyes were straining in the absence of light.
As I approach the door, a sense of familiarity washes over me, pulling me back to a time of comfort and solace.
The thought of retreating to the inviting...
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Categories:
america, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse
NOW THAT WE ARE AWAKENOW THAT WE ARE AWAKE
Now that we awake –
We had all the long while
Been in deep dreamless slumber
And while we were still
Still slumbering in our
Unreal bed of red roses
They planned, practised and projected
What “tomorrow” would likely bring
Now that we have realized with pain
That the “tomorrow” we failed to plan for
Has changed herself to...
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Categories:
1st grade, africa, anxiety,
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:
anxiety, absence, age, allusion, angst,
Form: Free verse
Inner World Of A Tormented MindLike a dust that has been blown away
If I only had the chance to really say
But I can only stand on the dock of a bay
Within this soul there is a empty world inside
With no one near or anybody far
Not even a single wound or a mere scar
No love, hate or pride
Just a place where...
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Categories:
anxiety, emotions, loneliness, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Poor Little DogI am so unhappy.
More than when I wanted to suicide.
I recently had a puppy.
Life was really is do or die
He did nothing, not even an ID.
poor little dog
lucky little dog
in and out like a
In beloved memory
ambition is a pointed point.
one in six maybe one...
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Categories:
allegory, anxiety, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Behind her eyes
Scratches all over my body,
Pouring into the glass of wine that spilled over my wound,
Counting on my fingers, the night terrors,
Scrambling to find the door where my heart belongs.
...
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Categories:
abuse, addiction, anxiety, beauty,
Form: Free verse
poor me PriscillaI was never part of a family
never on a team
never felt comradery
No one ever stood up for me
people bullied me
I was alone
Poor me
Poor me
Poor poor me
She held a pity party for herself daily
In the lunchroom at work
ruining lunch for the rest of us
All cheer and jollity are extinguished when she enters
poor her, poor her, poor...
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Categories:
anxiety,
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
Specific Types of Anxiety Poems
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