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Best Nervous Wreck Poems

Below are the all-time best Nervous Wreck poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nervous wreck poems written by PoetrySoup members


Insomniac's Lament
Now I lay me down to sleep, 
I’m feverishly counting sheep …
Hoping that the perfect number 
Rewards me with a dreamless slumber.

Envisioning the sylvan state,...

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Categories: nervous wreck, animals, funny, me, me,
Form: Rhyme



The Poet Destroyer Vs. the Acrostic Italian: Round Eight
Putting my kisses all around your neck,
Obligates you to do the same to me.
Electrify my soul and I will be
The one whose knees will quickly...

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Categories: nervous wreck, love
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Oh Ye Poets, Weep Not
Oh Ye Poets, Weep Not!
(Apropos When Silence Is Betrayal)

To write of peace, love and beauty,
Would be what others think should be
The poets’ only duty;
Albeit, what...

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Categories: nervous wreck, analogy, black african american,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Am --
My own gypsy roaming in countless hemispheres
A painter who splashes emotions of life’s tones
Maybe a lightkeeper flaming a child’s wonder
Also, a bookworm awed by enigmatic...

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Categories: nervous wreck, me,
Form: List
Zilch, That Is What I Got
After watching the news my stomach was in a knot
my brain on a hiatus leaving my creative juices to rot
imitating the thinker wondering why my...

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Categories: nervous wreck, adventure, humor, muse,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member The Barnacle On My Bum Part 2
My tale about the barnacle I bared upon my bum
has now passed into legend and folk law
The  battle I thought was over and now...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nervous wreck, crazy, fun, funny, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
Old Shep
Mum will be worried and tonight will be a frost
The sun is going down quickly I know I am lost
Not at all sure if we...

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Categories: nervous wreck, animal, child, dog, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Humpty Dumpty Case
Humpty Dumpty's job was an important one he knew
a secret service agent looking for clues
sitting on the brick wall as a lookout man
as the kings...

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Categories: nervous wreck, humor, murder, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Anxiety, Just Leave Me Be
I'm a nervous wreck when my anxiety makes its presence known
It swallows me whole; my happiness a sinking stone
I want to rise above my insecurities,...

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Categories: nervous wreck, change, power, psychological, sad,
Form: Rhyme
My Lack of Lucky Charm
You raise me up above the mountains
You bring me below the vibrant valleys
You allow me to weep happy fountains 
When I walk in your bright...

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Categories: nervous wreck, deep, desire,
Form: Verse
An Aging Squash Fan
An Aging Squash Fan

As a father watchful over the progress of a little girl active in a chosen sport..
Little wonder that I am a bag...

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Categories: nervous wreck, confidence, daughter, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Funny Face
She looks kinda cute even when she is mad
yet, so composed when things turn out bad. 
How she smiles even in deep, sweet slumber 
that...

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Categories: nervous wreck, funny, happiness, wife, me,
Form: Narrative
He Never Shook My Hand - Epilogue
I think back now to the man I was,
Before I met my friend,
How different I was,
Altogether an average Joe.

I now sit here a nervous wreck,
Dishevelled...

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Categories: nervous wreck, confusion, death, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse
World of a Maze
on cloud nine it seems
gravity pulls me back down
to the moon’s sunbeams
the magnitude forcing a frown

there’s a certain purpose for the trial
knowing somewhere down the...

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Categories: nervous wreck, absence, abuse, addiction, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Born One Hundred Years Too Late
My co-worker posed a theory to me
That our boss was born one hundred years later than she was supposed to be
Neither of us could exactly...

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© Amy Sell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: nervous wreck, absence, change, home, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things