A senior moment experienced by this dripA senior moment experienced by this drip...
awash with intermittent amnesia.
Scant number of minutes elapsed...
before I forgot whether yours truly
took another dose of glycopyrrolate
ingested as a palliative prescription
medication addressing the issue of
palmar hyperhidrosis -- excessive
perspiration of palms of hands, an
unpleasant physiological symptoms
afflicting me more than three fourths
of my threescore and six years or
more specifically sixty six...
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Categories:
stress, 12th grade, anger, body,
Form: Free verse
The present, my woeI try no, I’m sure I do. Or maybe…
With the whole weight of my being,
I try to enjoy the present.
I stretch each minute wide enough to step inside, to sit a while not merely pass through.
This existence with intention, this awareness I otherwise tuck away,
as if noticing the fine grains of now could slow...
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Categories:
age, anxiety, appreciation, stress,
Form: Rhyme
The grief of greedI hate. I hate. I hate.
You aren't me.
I hate. I hate. I hate.
You don't want to be me.
I hate. I hate. I hate.
Through hell, I've earned it all.
I hate. I hate. I hate.
You dont need it, I do.
I hate. I hate. I hate.
What's yours is mine....
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Categories:
stress, abuse, corruption, desire, evil,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Cleansing The Heart Couplet
A heart has nothing hidden, that a tongue will not reveal.
In flashes of stress or anger, a tongue amplifies how we feel.
...
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Categories:
anger, god, heart, stress,
Form: Couplet
My Children God Talks Through His WordWhen problems come, I have nothing to fear.
Because I know my God is always near.
I seek comfort from Him through my prayer.
Because the Bible tells me that He cares.
I refuse to surrender to the voices in my mind.
That say God will not help you this time.
Instead, I choose to think and say "I BELIEVE!"
In my...
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Categories:
stress, 8th grade, anxiety, bible,
Form: Free verse
My Children I Searched for Good Luck In Life When It Was God I NeededI used to wish upon a Star, not knowing what to do.
Now I pray to the One who made them and my God it's You!
I no longer carry lucky charms, they don't do me any good.
I now put faith in God alone and that is where I should.
As kids we said stepping on cracks would...
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Categories:
stress, 8th grade, anxiety, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Missing outin a world of make believe
of people hooked on games
and scenarios seen on screens
people have become expendable
everyone is now jaded
content in their isolation
closing in onto themselves
with a growing distaste for socializing
we've become cynical and antisocial
friendship no longer a commodity
we smile and nod without oversharing
not letting anyone into our bubble
time is a factor we refuse to...
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Categories:
friendship, stress, time,
Form: Free verse
ENOUGHENOUGH!
I felt deaf from the ‘noise’ of information,
constantly butting, buzzing against my mantra of:
“The quieter you are… the more you… hear!”
At present, my lifestyle felt media manipulated:
tv, radio, newspaper, mobile, computer.. ad infinitum!
Besieged by endless emails, monopolizing mobiles,
beset by frenzied yaps from apps!
Enough is enough is….. ENOUGH,
I have to escape from the unrelenting hullabaloo.
Can...
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Categories:
stress, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Hairy Morning
Oh, my gosh, I’m freaking and feel such dread.
What the hay is this nonsense on my head?
I can’t go to work, can't enter the office!
I will be seen, visible to peers and bosses,
be the fool who provided entertaiment gossip.
God, please, send help, I am stress-nauseous.
I do not care about appearing faultless,
but I'd...
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Categories:
stress, color, cry, fear, giggle,
Form: Other
Sleep
Categories:
stress, sleep,
Form: Monoku
AFTER THE EFFORTAll was lost after the effort
Now tired, for he fought
Like a god's son, perhaps Zeus'
And the struggles despite no vows.
All he ever wanted was to be a son,
Respected by all—now, respected by none.
For his parents to boast with pride aloud,
Saying, "He’s worth every struggle allowed."
He longed to raise a daughter someday,
To make her proud in...
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Categories:
drug, poems, poetry, stress,
Form: Rhyme
The Peace of Isaac"Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there. But the herders of Gerar quarreled with those of Isaac and said, “The water is ours!” Genesis 26:19-20
Do you hear argument’s doorbell?
Jealousy causes a groundswell
like a sink hole.
Antagonists are raising hell
over an underground bombshell
greed's sordid goal.
Contentious opinions foretell
what sounds...
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Categories:
stress, 11th grade, angst, bullying,
Form: Lay
Dear SeventeenThe black pen with black ink is running out,
The paper on the desk is clean but creased.
It must hurt to have been crumpled up and straightened out time after time again,
Only to be used by someone else.
One year, and I am an entirely new person.
My tears have left...
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Categories:
stress, 12th grade, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
living in a nightmare, XIXillusion of a palmful of pills and confirmation clicks for the make-believe bliss
leave a mocking kiss on my delusional cheeks
smile for the lover's hiss because everybody sleeps
at the point the lies will blow out of your lips
then he stopped caring without an early notice
dry drawn hearts and unpaid fees
forever comes a long road, difficult to...
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Categories:
stress, anxiety, depression, drug, mental
Form: Rhyme
blood transfusionvirtue is nothing claimed
nothing but acceptance
weary roads of unstable
to reach out to my mother
inherited sadness, taken-on imbalance
derangement of two, nobody understood.
the so-called wise woman said "ignore,
ignore the signals"
how could i be so ruthless
and oversee the madness
tying us through this long hall of the past
no one takes a step
neither could walk away
to break the curse and...
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Categories:
stress, daughter, family, me, mother,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Stress Poems
Definition | What is Stress in Poetry?
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