Sunset SunriseThe sun closes her eyes, and I must close mine, this time,
but my breaking blood-brain barrier bids otherwise.
Another long night bodes foreboding in this light.
Forbidden thoughts seep deep from blood to brain.
I must fight, again, another tormenting night.
Earth's most frightening repetitive
cycle
plays on repeat as I try to cycle through
my backups to no avail,...
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Categories:
anxiety, fear, mental health,
Form: Lyric
I Was Homeless Christmas 2003!It was cold and freezing in the city of Denver.
A day in my life I will always remember.
The sound of sirens wailing all around.
The police had gathered near a body on the ground.
A man with no home froze there during the night.
It filled me with sadness to behold such a...
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Categories:
fear, 11th grade, blessing, depression,
Form: Rhyme
To My Children, Be Anxious For Nothing Trust God!I give thanks to the Lord,
Because he cares for me.
His love, I can never ever deny,
Through His Son Jesus,
I have been set free.
That day on the cross he died.
Problems will come,
But I will not fear,
Because I know just where to turn.
I wanted to tell it to you my kids.
Of one event...
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Categories:
fear, 12th grade, anxiety, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Samantha’s Unwritten VowsThe aisle stretched longer that day,
a white river with no other shore.
Her fingers crushed the lace of her gown—
Where is he?
The guests’ whispers grew teeth,
gnawing the silence between hymns.
Later, they’d say he was the villain,
the man who fled his own shadow.
No one mentioned the envelope
thick with cash in the sexton’s pocket,
or the father’s wine-stained lips
sealing...
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Categories:
fear, anger, betrayal, cry, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Codons of Contempt: A Crime Against Empathy
We came not for conquest,
but for containment—
though conquest is what happens
when containment itches beneath the skin
like sulfur spores in a sealed lung.
They had the secret.
Not gold, not weapons, not prophecy—
but language that healed.
Real language—
not poetry, not prayer,
but syntax of cells.
Their infants spoke in codons.
Their trees rustled in protein sequences.
Their dead decomposed into algorithms
that rewrote the...
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Categories:
death, fear, horror, myth,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Categories:
anxiety, fear, mental health,
Form: Senryu
Coping NaturallyYellow bottle caps
The pills to challenge my fear
May need pills to help me sleep
Don't like medicine
Its toxins with side effects
Thats why I take supplements
...
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Categories:
anxiety, fear, mental health,
Form: Sedoka
CautionYellow
Caution
Watch out
The leaf
The leaf painted on my bag
The stoplight says, "Proceed with caution."
...
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Categories:
anxiety, fear, mental health,
Form: Tyburn
If Only You KnewFear
Collides
With secrets
Hidden away
Just look within the yellow envelope
...
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Categories:
anxiety, fear, mental illness,
Form: Tetractys
Deprived of Your Love
Categories:
fear, god, life, son, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Fearless
1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”
Against the falling rain, a soundless version
rescues my heart with innocence, songs of grace
erasing the darkness, the thunderous conversion
still as the echo of a lasting peace, hope’s...
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Categories:
faith, fear,
Form: Rhyme
HelpMy ears fill with the rain- that are my tears.
Crying into the night, searching in desperate need for light.
Looking cluelessly into others' eyes for help, because I cannot begin to know how to help myself.
The words bite my tongue, rotting my teeth... yet I can't even begin to speak....
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Categories:
anxiety, confusion, deep, fear,
Form: Free verse
Josh Moore MinnesotaMoist sheets tossed aside
soaked pillows
Side by side
She was wet
Dime sack and tree rings
Green sight meet brown peepers
Plumb late April Boreal Plains humidity
Abittor Unami eau de cologne
Thin plain pink blanket on the window
Air conditioner recirculating
Salmon rays preen her face
Noon spring afternoon
the rain stopped the sun peeked in
Bare cucumber blooms sticky seeds
Hanging over pickled
The...
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Categories:
fear, 12th grade, animal, birth,
Form: Concrete
Hellish sleepI think it's getting worse
The visions happen less
Now I don't dream but still
I feel it nonetheless
I feel impending doom
A danger I can't explain
A parabola of needles
A sense of helpless pain
I sit there non-existent
Or at least not of this plain
I try to cry but don't know how
To feel present, much less sane
I sit in utter silence
Longing...
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Categories:
anxiety, depression, fear, psychological,
Form: Free verse
NO FEAR OF PETERS JHOREPERHAPS PETERS WIFE OF 60 YEARS WOULD BE .CONCERNED I CAN NO LONGER BE EXTORTED BLACKMAILED OR EMBEZZLED TO SUPPORT THE GARGANO NIGHT CRAWLERS FROM JAMAICA PERPUTRATING FRAUD UPON INCLUDING CATRINA BELL TALISA SHAW ALICIA HILTON JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY FLEEING TO CALIFORNIA POSING AS BOB SATTERFIELD GRANDDAUGHTER WHAT A JOKE TWISTED CON ARTIST YOU'RE...
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Categories:
fear, addiction, allah,
Form: Naat
Specific Types of Fear Poems
Definition | What is Fear in Poetry?
Poems Related to Fear
dismay, anxiety, angst, horror, unease, jitters, doubt, suspicion, dread, despair, terror, uneasiness, panic, scare, worry, concern, cowardice, phobia, distress, fright, agitation, foreboding, faintheartedness, nightmare, revulsion