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Best Panic Stricken Poems

Below are the all-time best Panic Stricken poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of panic stricken poems written by PoetrySoup members


The Enmity
The Enmity
Seeking justice is the only way you knew how to protect us.
As a juvenile delinquent I was too young to recognize it.
I am always...

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Categories: panic stricken, feelings, history, identity, poetry,
Form: Light Verse



Aerophobia-The Fear of Flying
Apprehensive and panic-stricken
I practice assuming the crash position .
While a “ fasten seatbelt” sign flashes
like a beacon, foretelling our demise,
cool beads of sweat form on...

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Categories: panic stricken, angst, fear,
Form: Free verse
The Demonic Child
I stare down the alley, upon a tree.
The Demon Child does stare at me.
I look back and He isn't there,
Leaving me frightened and unaware.

I can...

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© Mike Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: panic stricken, confusion, sad, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Interlocking Rueful Sky and Trapped Earth
Azure blue skies weep in rent glacial torrents,
iridescent earth sun trap poised  to garner sympathy,
dark red cloud’s indignant float might yet rumble,
toxic deluge drenches...

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Categories: panic stricken, anxiety, art, august, care,
Form: Free verse
The Darkness At Noon - Revised
First Version   -    (Posted 5/11/14)

Towards the end of late morning,
As noon was approaching,
And people went about their usual chores
A mighty...

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© Sneha Rv  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: panic stricken, death, horror, natural disasters,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Flew the Coop
After driving so far down the road,
I needed some sleep, so I slowed.
A sign said "motel"......
but one cannot tell,
when the weirdo is due to explode...

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Categories: panic stricken, funny, night, scary,
Form: Limerick
Halloween Night
A Hallows Eve of trick or treating, elaborate costumes, candy eating,
       Lantern’s dimming upon nightfall, locked doors marks next...

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Categories: panic stricken, death, evil, fear, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Implode
It was on a Sunday morning in the village where I stay
Out walking with my dog, I heard some pensioners say
Did you hear about the...

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Categories: panic stricken, angst, fantasy, hope, life,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Hitchhiker From Another World 4
“Come on, let's get introduced to my play mate in a palm.
Linda, these are Joshua’s true other selfs.” 
Lelia emitting a peculiar chuckle.
A comic situation...

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Categories: panic stricken, art, beautiful, beauty, celebration,
Form: Prose
It's Nothing
Random happenings of life
get out of record just as quick. 
They may sustain however, to boost
our own morals in some tranquil moment, especially
when such incidents...

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Categories: panic stricken, care, change, character, culture,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Don'T Bother Counting Sheep - Trochee
Sleep is such a precious thing
Now I lay my head,
Close my mind from worrying,
Count some sheep instead

I drift off into my dream...
Hubby starts to snore...

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Categories: panic stricken, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Let It Go
This will never be as good as 
the classic to live and let die
but to let it go I will try
mama I aint calling you...

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© Phatt Matt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: panic stricken, absence, character, deep, grandmother,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The End
It all ended there,
Inside the deepest, darkest valley in my heart
Where sorrow found me, and pain adopted me
Where anger consumed me, and hatred filled my...

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© Lala Merx  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: panic stricken, dark, voyage,
Form: Pantoum
The Dark Destroyer
The Dark Destroyer

Part I
The void arrives
Sucks you in and down
Into the nothingness
Only darkness breathes
Life out of focus
It seems all is lost
Panic stricken, then
Realisation hits
Aware that...

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© Laura Hay  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: panic stricken, blue,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angel Or Demon
Audio hallucinations, voices not angelic, they're atrocious and scathing.
No one else hears whispering every now and then: Did you hear that?
Going mad a big fear;...

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© I Am Anaya  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: panic stricken, mental illness,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things