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Distressing Poems - Poems about Distressing

Premium Member My Hectic Hair History
... There’s a nadir of personal despair - In feminine terms it’s - No hair, no flair! My hairy genes caused me lifelong distress, I longed for a look I didn’t possess. I daydreamed of golden l......

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Categories: distressing, humorous,
Form: Other
Premium Member Race Track Thinking or My Mind's Raceway
...Race Track Thinking 16… little did I know the initiation began. 16 is hard enough navigating adolescence. Hormone dumping, the anguishing struggle to fit in any way—- relinquishing my individualit......

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Categories: distressing, betrayal, conflict, confusion, introspection,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Race Track Thinking
...Race Track Thinking I didn't choose an ADHD brain. At times a random whispered thought, barely connected, pops in uninvited, insistent to be acknowledged and immediately included in my conversati......

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Categories: distressing, angst, anxiety, betrayal, confusion,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Long For
...I long for a time When skinned knees were my biggest problem When my most debilitating fear was an imaginary monster under my bed I long for a time when daddy was my hero, knew everything, a......

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Categories: distressing, age, change, childhood, growing
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tuckered and Tucked In-dodoitsu string
...tuckered and tucked in with him ebb and flow of pillow head personalities have dreams we walk on the sea we see no sun, with eyes shut lily pads and no frog legs and the sky’s a blinding blue......

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Categories: distressing, sleep,
Form: Dodoitsu



Premium Member I Am
... In the live network of intricate unassailable design, invisible layer on imperceptible layer, the latticed mind is stratified. On spiritual strata the devout strands align with the innate ......

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Categories: distressing, analogy, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sure Shot
... My voice protects human potential, I won’t walk down your road to failure; These words aren’t labeled confidential, they are perfume on me clean and pure. Walk away if you think I’ll downgr......

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Categories: distressing, anniversary, emotions, feelings, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom speaks
...Things are so quiet Letters don’t soar No one talks at all They try but they fail Inaudible words excel Forever i think that words don’t have sound Only emotions can turn the world around Tha......

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Categories: distressing, child abuse, corruption, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Glory
...*The glory* The beginning of a milky infant Every step we take ends on a soaking, softness of a wool Dratch in the mud of tenderness As times goes by we get to a ring of race Embalmed with a......

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Categories: distressing, africa, character, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Suffering
...Suffering, have I been crucified? We'll at least it seems walk a mile in these shoes, they truly don't know because If they did they will understand. My Suffering Some say I paranoid, Som......

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Categories: distressing, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Bio
COMPOSURE
...There are things I've done Things I'm not proud of Awful things Things I won't do If I'm aware of them Ignorance is a disease It causes cognitive dissonance I don't let it disarray my com......

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Categories: distressing, africa, children, christian, community,
Form: Narrative
The Beach
...The beach where people Hangs out to relax, the sea Exuberant and inviting Cleanse people dirts And purify distressing souls The sand, so white by time The waves, never ending Back and forth t......

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Categories: distressing, appreciation, beach, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Everything I wanted
...Everything I wanted, and I never had, Embodying courage to sift my daily realities To observe purified sun flashing on my face And watch the night light idling on my pillow, Unlocking sweet drea......

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Categories: distressing, appreciation, dedication, encouraging, hope,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member cucumbers dalmations and hysterics
...cathartic Cathy cautioned counted cucumbers distressing dungeon dragon’s delicate Dalmatian effective Evie enthusiastically explained efforts following five frolicking frisky French francs giving......

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Categories: distressing, word play,
Form: ABC
CUTTING CORNERS
...What of pride and presentation When time is short in duration? An octagon out of a square... Proverbial scissors used there. It is what it is - this, I hear Constantly in and out each ear. A tr......

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Categories: distressing, conflict, stress, work,
Form: Rhyme

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