Angst Number Poems

8
To think on this
Calm calamity
Bringing trees
To the sea
To sell for wood
I wish I could
Go back to those days
I swear I’d make it pay
With you beside...

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Never have i ever seen a day with 
Much  more gloom
If I gave  a damn i would say that
I am a perfect ...

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The power keeps flickering.
Don’t mean to be bickering;
Just glad that it keeps coming back.
True, the clocks keep resetting,
But what’s far more upsetting:
When a pump room...

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Another Friday assigned 
the number thirteen has ended
uneventfully or maybe it just seems 
that way to me whose days from that 
of my birth if...

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God allowed us to invent them: chess, mancala, Ludo, CC-saga;
And Candy Crunch Saga claims to be played everywhere
Methinks "On all seven continents, including Antartica."
Earlier I...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I
Love. Start by saying "Hello" to strangers
Even on Poetry Soup

II
Love somebody who seems "arrogant."
Or eliminate everyone who is not humble enough like you....

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I confess I was surprised to make POTD
That may have been at the start
Of this year, rhymes with PLENTY, 20202
No poem, 'twas, encountering abortion, guilty...

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Loneliness that throbbed inside deep seams
At ten I felt sad and small, full of wrath
Supine I fall, lamenting childhood dreams
Under my weeping willows’ green aura
My...

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I call for you 
when my stomach hurts
I call for you 
when I cannot swallow

I call for you from ghosted parts of my body
that are...

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fluttering breath burns
throat like acid
hands shake with an 
indescribable violence 
trembling fingers peel
back the pages of
childish pocket bible  -- 
a pained groan, a
strained sob...

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Billy don’t lose my number


No ones knows the darkness
Other than one who knows... the darkness
There is no snow
There is no white
Wings are clipped
There is no...

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Don't make me make that decision right now
I'm not prepared
Besides I am leaving tonight
to where, I do not know
Anywhere is better than right here
right now
I'm...

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Passing I alone through this Stygian wood
Quite alone, with ghastly breaths travels ‘long
In my heart, bleak darkness resides for good
Comes much bleaker by the hours...

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her paint by number love affair
was planned down to his kisses
was everything she expected it to be
wasn't long before truth showed
it was a love like...

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