Angst Problem Is Poems

Here comes the drill
that will inhabit
my tooth.

Goggles and mask
overhead. Victim, I
mean patient, not
patient, wanting out.
Still,

to make it out of pain,
I must let the end-

odontist root
out...

Read More

There are prayers that we’ve been praying
Hoping hunger will somehow vanish away
Little hands held up to heaven obeying

Laughing and smiling, children are playing
In spite of...

Read More

listen 
we
really
don’t
want or need
to hear
every
goary
detail

just tell us
how to fix it



AP: 2nd place 2021

Posted on October 14, 2018...

Read More

NEW TIME SAME PROBLEM STILL PREJUDICE

I am colored by my skin type is...
Dark brown I am black
If the color of my skin offends you, then
Just...

Read More

I ordered a steak
It came back too rare

I looked in the mirror
I'm losing my hair

A traffic nut passed me on the right
Honked my horn with...

Read More

Stepping Over The Problem

I make my bed 
on the street
Curled in a doorway 
under your feet
You step over me
we're unlikely to meet
I'm covered in newspaper
sometimes...

Read More

Here Lies the Problem

I can’t believe it! I did it again!
Once more I told the truth!
Each and every time I desire to disguise
Something that should...

Read More

Mind not dense as neutron star
Stil feel like I'm in hot tar!

What a sticky situation
Under pressure of masterbation

Do I really need release?
Father forgive me please!

Be...

Read More

i should do this
not that
control control control
i should be this way 
not like me
sucks to be me 
i'm not you

I should be perfect and kind...

Read More

A Problem
     By Dane Smith-Johnsen

Worry
Tormenting minds
Over having low cash flow.
Threatening to foreclose on home loans.
Homeless.


Form:  Cinquain.
©  November 2009...

Read More

‘ What Is Your Problem ? ’   16th Senryu



         What is Your Problem ?
 To...

Read More

Yeah, I know,
It's "My Problem"...
No sweat to you...
Even though I might beg,
For help or advise what to do...

I'm cut off from the internet...
My last human...

Read More

i am a possibility
of many possibilities
i am a ratio
an indecisive factor
in the rest of what this dimension has to offer

the world is a top
i spin...

Read More

Sullen and defensive
(what's it to you?)
quietly disappearing

what difference does it make?
[tiny] and inferior
beaten into believing the propaganda
from [un]reliable sources

Her heart knew [stuck in survival mode]
nothing...

Read More

I stay awake to this fading dream
Unable to sleep for dreams of her
I avoid the truth within my head
I burn the things that make me...

Read More