Stress Poems - Examples of all types of stress poetry to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets on PoetrySoup. Read
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UNTITLED AND UNFINISHEDThey call you a queen
Where is your crown?
They call you a hero
You've got no cape
They call you a beauty
How can you be called so when you are the beast
You are called a victor
When you have...
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Categories:
stress, anger, dark, feelings, sad,
Form: Free verse
Grumpy OllieThe grump got out of a lumpy bed,
Slipped on his slippers, scratched his head.
Stood on the scales, saw what he weighed,
Then made some toast with marmalade.
The grump then cycled down the lane,
He moaned and...
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Categories:
stress, angst, anxiety, education, good
Form: Rhyme
Tearful SmileTired of lying about why she is crying,
She soon unleashes the truth of how she is feeling,
But nobody, close to none, knew the true meaning
Behind how she is always deceptively smiling....
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Categories:
stress, blue, cry, depression, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
Whorled-Wind
Assaulted by waves of profanity
high tides of depravity
Bestrewn, shards of urbanity
~ flotsam of humanity...
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Categories:
crazy, spoken word, stress,
Form: Rhyme
An Interior Mechanism
There are no cogs, springs, wheels, or gears inside of me.
I'm a flawed human whose mind and heart often disagree.
I don't have parts, interior mechanisms like those inside a clock.
but if my heart makes a...
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Categories:
stress,
Form: Rhyme
TryingI'm trying to be okay
Even on the roughest days
It's hard but I've come so far
I just got to survive this life
I just got to thrive
...
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Categories:
pain, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Work yearStress induced work year
waiting for time of relief
Awe my vacation...
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Categories:
stress, work,
Form: Senryu
Christinas World by Andrew Wyeth - American Artist 1948“Art is the medium by which a person, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others” – Leo Tolstoy
A bleak monotonous landscape,
Had been her outlook for years.
She so vehemently longed to escape.
The young woman...
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Categories:
art, stress,
Form: Ekphrasis
Kill Two Birds With One Sales PitchSoldiers sacrifice their arms and legs
While your greatest weapon is forcing my hand
Oh but I'm told it's all in the name of romance
But when I fall asleep at night and the pillowcase
goes damp...
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Categories:
stress, analogy, angst, freedom, how
Form: Free verse
You Were WarnedI see them on the internet,
women complain, haven’t stopped yet,
rail on about their college debt;
we told you, you were warned.
your teachers told you: “Get a job,
of you’re potential don’t be robbed,”
and now so many women...
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Categories:
men, philosophy, political, stress,
Form: Rhyme
Space Invadersparrying street space invaders
with restive vinegar smiles
their incessant bip bip bip
countering my spilling step
us, at opposite ends
past coffee shops
past drug stores, calling
to each other in the rain
. . . gargoyle heads
. . . busy bullets
....
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Categories:
anxiety, life, people, stress,
Form: Free verse
Sorry For the WaitWritten on August 14, 2017 10:16 PM
In the echoes of time, your words reverberate,
'Later, I'll reply,' you say, in a deliberate state.
'I'll read it later,' your commitment in the air,
Amongst my heartfelt lines, you handle...
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Categories:
dream, endurance, fate, stress,
Form: Rhyme
They Crashed the ServerThey crashed the server
But they didn’t lose the poetry
They crashed the server
But they didn’t lose the poetry
Parts of three days the Soup’s been down
With most of us wearing a frown
Trouble started intermittently
Causing some to worry...
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Categories:
stress, appreciation, community, computer, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
TornTorn
By Lady Arabella
When your head tells you no ,but your heart says give them one more chance
When you’re sick of the revolving dance
When you know it’s not fair on somebody else
And...
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Categories:
stress, confusion, dance, emotions, extended
Form: Rhyme
Let Me KnowKilling me will not save you
Saving me will not kill you
Without a choice we’ll be stagnate forever.
We will never get out of this hell by just sitting there.
Now tap on the wall
Scream at me,...
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Categories:
stress, abuse, angst, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Stress Poems
Definition | What is Stress in Poetry?
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