Best Agonizing Poems

Sharp Pains in my chest
a fire started in my throat
the sting of torment inmy eyes
a weary feeling in my heart

those last few words
that horrid look
the bitter sound of your voice
is torture to my ears

a hammer to my heart
a bullet to the brain
can someone please stop...

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My mind is in constant torment.
You say you love me, and she's a friend.

You say there is nothing to worry about.
Why then, is my heart clouded with doubt?

Intrusive thoughts plague my inner being..
Every smile, every word uttered, I go on imaging..

I want to bury my...

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Agonizing Christmas days in the infirmary
There I was, vanquishing ailment-inflicted misery 
Beseeching the Lord for miraculous victory*
While soberly pondering Emmanuel’s birth story
…marvelously wondrous in human history.

On his intensive care unit’s bed, ailing
Dad groaned in pain, health grievously failing
Afflicted since affected, I hated my own wailing
While...

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(alternately titled: Typical daily mindset today – 
July 17th, 2020)

The following words
mostly unredacted, nevertheless finessed
for curbed poetic/prosaic appeal
lock, stock and barrel
codify, and edify (hoopfully not mortify)
any reader unbeknownst and/or familiar
with unsteady state of yours truly,
(an ordinary garden variety generic guy)

who ofttimes expresses suicidal ideations
merely freed...

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Peaked out and everything was covered
White—some things totally invisible—visioning
Helpless immobility burdens, once always conquered:-

Background sunlight caste dull-white shadows
Across whiten, once pale green grass groundings;
Where excited dogs have left frozen scented footprints.

Wow, who would have imagined that warm yesterday
Was, as if fall had challenged winter to...

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The leaves fall in the consciousness
unable to find the spot where to begin.
The wind blows in the midst of meditation
without knowing when to cease.

Because it seems easy 
as sitting on the comfortable chair pondering,
because it feels being chased 
while running and thinking at the same...

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Here i lie, paralyzed by the sinful thoughts cursing my heart with deceptive tranquil blood clots,
who ever knew falling in love could bring so much heartache.
My eyes widen & my nerves are shocked by visualized images of a possible of misleading my Love(s) into another...

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Smiling unnecessarily just
Cuz you're smiling.
Worried intensely cuz
Your mood is off.
All I want is nothing more
Just a smile on your face,
No worries in your mind
Keeping you happy
All the time,
Am I in love.
Cuz it's the first time
I'm feeling this for anyone
And that's only for you.
Now you tell...

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Our life-giving planet in agony gasps for breath

As Man's barbaric actions are choking it to death*










© Demetrios Trifiatis
   03 November 2018


*Let’s take a moment to reflect on a sad truth. Our planet and almost all animals and plants living on it are struggling...

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Solitude breeds malignant nemesis
couched as woe seated heavily
within mine angst
riddled quavering psyche
blinding clairvoyance 
debilitates enthusiastic frequency
wavelengths propagate unfounded
probable future destitution

predicated upon intractable lifetime mired
within groveling penuriousness
"dirt poor" accursed fate
pervaded plentiful not ready 
for prime time playing years
repercussions long fostered anguish,
when offspring begot
(particularly the whip smart...

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All the pain, the fear
When will the Monster appear? 
Where and how severe?

The anxiety
The racing thoughts inside me
Never let me be

My mind’s on fire
The Monster is a liar
Can’t jump much higher

Will I hurt myself?
Could I injure someone else?
Clay pot off a shelf…

Delusions are real
They are...

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W-arn
E-ach
L-iving
C-reature
O-f
M-istakenly
E-ating

P-oisonous
L-eaf's
A-gonizing
N-atural
T-aste

Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Making Agonizing Choices

By Elton Camp

It’s a fact about which many are unaware
But there are millions of examples out there

Old people who aren’t able to hold a job
But struggle not to let it their dignity rob

Long ago gone is their modest nest egg
And they’d rather die...

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Here I am, again
The place where it all falls apart
Where the light disappears
For the struggle of my heart

My soul yearns...for pleasure
A nice, sound, ending
To pain, suffering, inconvenience
The incessant blending

...of circumstances, truth, reality, experience

Ugh!!!

There is no freakin' reality
In this world, that can have my heart
Haven't I...

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Soul of skeptic writhes with agonizing torture (like a burning man) in Dante's Inferno

Self immolation as sacrificial bleating lamb
promises eternal martyrdom
awaiting voluntary die hard protester,
where countless vestal virgins provide blissfulness
(think Playboy mansion on steroids)
synonymous with delightful
grand view garden of Eden
transmuting mortal flesh
(clothed in lovely bones)
into...

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