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Angst Spoken Word Poems

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

Battler

I am losing the war against myself 
Who I am vs who I am supposed to be against what I am 
It exhausting when your...

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Categories: spoken word, angst, deep, depression, fate,

Numbered

I am not the nightlight, nor am I the monster under my bed that my father would tell me to fear. I never feared the...

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Categories: spoken word, angst, child abuse, grandfather,

Nonsense to you

Do you think I had forgotten about you? 

You carried me home when I drank too much. 

Hoisted me over your shoulder, drowning delicately in...

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Categories: spoken word, break up, drink, drug,

It is always better when the lights are out

It is always better when the lights are out 
I close my eyes and listen to better bards 
Over great instrumentation to wind me down...

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Categories: spoken word, angst, anxiety, future, happiness,

The Breakfast Program and Me

It was 1968 we'd gathered again in the school auditorium my tiny hands sweating only five years old while my name was called in all...

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Categories: spoken word, america, beautiful, black african

There Will Be a Man

There will be a man and he will say
I am a good man
He will will say 
I am a good man and he will be...

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Categories: spoken word, anger, angst, anxiety,

Beth

Reel me in, I’m feeling further
My Desmond daze reaps a soulful yearn as you cross my plain
Reaching out yet only my eyes feel you
She’s God’s...

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Categories: spoken word, angst, autumn, break up,

Letting It All Out and About

It's all inside heating up steam
hell-bent anger wanting to explode
this is all so wrong takes one over
one press just like any old download

What causes this...

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Categories: anger, life, spoken word,

Let Him Explain

She wore uncertainty on her shoulder
    hesitation held back her shoes
  Twitches split her left forearm
    these emotions...

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Categories: spoken word, angst, marriage, parents, spoken

Devotion To Emotion

I have a devotion
To damned emotion
It's like locomotion for a masochist
Who is ironically a pacifist 
I'm not always passive
But my weight makes me massive
I cut...

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Categories: spoken word, angst, dark, emotions, how

Jinxed Juvenile

Jinxed juvenile slithers, withers unseen.
Feeling the angst of earlier guilt trips,
A Christian conscience and its censorships -
this golden-haired boy was not born to glean. 
Mind...

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Categories: spoken word, 11th grade, father son,

Performing Poets

They stand there for ages
Pouring out angst and woe,
Seeming to gain strength
As their words start to flow.
They curse and they swear,
Stand, scream and shout,
And I’ve...

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Categories: poetry, poets, spoken word,

Our Domain To Rule Over

we often lie about 
what we're thinking

deny deny deny
unwilling to divulge
our private thoughts
our inner secrets

not wanting
to be violated

our thoughts are ours
flawed and broken
right or wrong
as...

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Categories: spoken word, angst, confidence, introspection, spoken

Bipolar

Staring onto the blanks of skin depths,
I might as well fake for forsake.
Bright eyed and brushy tailed,
Hidden in the mask of despair.
Abandoned quiets of youthfulness,
juggling...

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Categories: spoken word, 12th grade, angst, for

We Exist

I don't know which type I am. The A
type which is always ready to for an
adventure, would want to talk on the 
phone and not...

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Categories: spoken word, angst, anxiety, character, courage,