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Angst Family Poems

These Angst Family poems are examples of Family poems about Angst. These are the best examples of Family Angst poems written by international poets.


Haiku - Keeping Peace
I hope you lose sleep
All these things you did to me
I'm done keeping peace...

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Categories: family, abuse, angst, anxiety, drink,



Forgetful
My eyes became red and I was trying to rub it away.

Then I jerk awake and everything is bright and different.

Everyone is moving and whirling...

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Categories: angst, family, heartbroken,

Psychologically still thirteen
Psychologically still thirteen 

Ordinarily meaning pre Internet days
familiarization with me would entail
bringing the avid listener 
into my private mancave hideaways
less a physical place than a...

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Categories: family, 7th grade, age, angst,

Patients and Patience
They take that patient on that trolley.
Echoes bounce from that corridor,
from talk, from footsteps, from that wall -
and from that misery.

That misery is a mystery
for...

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Categories: angst, anxiety, conflict, family,

Premium Member Wearing The Blue
I'm wearing the blue,
yes, proudly, and don't prejudge me
and I won't prejudge you.
Some nights I sleep swirling in
nightmares,
seeing the blood of victims, and
I still very...

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Categories: family, 6th grade, 7th grade,



SALVE FOR the PSYCHE
Cerebral ventricles capitulate in the face of fatigue.
At night I am judged by executioners from the shadows who stalk me.
At dawn demons hold my head...

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Categories: family, anger, angst, deep, depression,

The jar
Growing up I was small 
I constantly hit the wall 
I tried to be the best I could 
And always felt misunderstood 
I felt so...

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Categories: family, age, anger, angst, childhood,

Premium Member Ambushed
I retrieve scrapbooks and photo albums from my bookshelf, frequently visiting their pages hoping to keep the very best of everyone who’s blessed my life...

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Categories: family, memory,

Premium Member A Chair At My Table
Before you kill me,
can you come to my home?
I will prepare a meal for you.
You can play with my children.
Together we can dance to music,
laugh...

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Categories: angst, conflict, courage, family,

Premium Member Knock Knock Knock
Knock, knock, knock
seething at her core,
it's your older sister
emoting once more..
Knock, knock, knock, 
bar that door.
She's launching missiles
in hopes of a sibling war..
Knock, knock, knock.
You've...

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Categories: family,

Premium Member Poor Old David
Words I’ve heard my whole life
Poor old David, poor old Michael, poor old daddy

If you’re from the heart of Appalachia, these are…
Words that mean the...

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Categories: angst, appreciation, emotions, family,

Premium Member Vanilla Pudding
nobody sees you the way I do
in your wheelchair
with your unopenable arms
where everything crashes to a gray twisted landscape

my brother
alpha male
of demon strut clashes
in our...

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Categories: family, angst, bullying, caregiving, child

Premium Member Chapter 112 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: Damian and the Family Go To Church
Early morning dawn July
"Mallory"  Damian whispered, sliding 
Closer to her. "Mallory" he Whispered 
Again gently caressing. She wanted
To say stop. It was to late
he...

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Categories: family, angst, devotion,

Such Sadness
I don't want you to know-- not all of it
the good, the bad, the dirty
No, there's no such thing when I try to speak my...

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Categories: family, abuse, angst, change, childhood,

Premium Member Oklahoma Stands For Women's Rights
Oklahoma just passed an executive order
About the obvious disorder
Of letting men break through the border
Called a women’s bathroom door
Which has always been there for
Keeping out...

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Categories: angst, courage, family,


Book: Reflection on the Important Things