Poems About Anxiety by Top Critiquers
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Poems about anxiety by top critiquers. Poems written by members who have given lots of feedback to other poets this month.
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Vision_of_insanity
Poem Published
5th Apr 2024 10:40am
5th Apr 2024 10:40am
Stress Free
As if I should care
The less I can understand
Laid-back happy man
The less I can understand
Laid-back happy man
#happiness
#anxiety
#haiku #ignorance
#haiku #ignorance
81 reads
16 Comments
Samnash
Sam Nash
Sam Nash
Poem Published
15th Apr 2024 1:07am
15th Apr 2024 1:07am
Lives of Poets
What makes me wonder
Is not why writers and poets
So young and old
Succumb to emptiness.
It is the lives they had lived
Under the bright sky.
Things they must have seen
To mold those words of bitterness.
From Homer’s Olympus heights
To Byron’s mountain of light.
From the banks of a gushing Nile
to the flows of the Mississippi might.
Mountains, rivers, hills, and streams
Have molded words and wondrous dreams.
Dripping blood mixed with ink
Together they form a hidden...
Is not why writers and poets
So young and old
Succumb to emptiness.
It is the lives they had lived
Under the bright sky.
Things they must have seen
To mold those words of bitterness.
From Homer’s Olympus heights
To Byron’s mountain of light.
From the banks of a gushing Nile
to the flows of the Mississippi might.
Mountains, rivers, hills, and streams
Have molded words and wondrous dreams.
Dripping blood mixed with ink
Together they form a hidden...
#WritersBlock
#WritingPoetry
#anxiety
#depression
#SelfHarm
92 reads
14 Comments
TheOralizer
Poem Published
22nd Jan 2021 2:01pm
22nd Jan 2021 2:01pm
JEALOUSY ACROSTIC
ENEMY
It has taken me years,
self-examination, honesty,
and structured behavioral
CHOICES
to win over jealousy.
It started with a basic
awareness of what jealousy
is and is not.
J-E-A-L-O-U-S-Y
IS:
J-umping to conclusions
E-nemy of relationships
A-ttacking others
L-oss of friendship and love
O-pinions based on insecurity
U-nreasonable responses
S-elf-esteem enemy
Y-ou victimize yourself
These 8 acrostic qualities,
in my opinion and experience,
if taken sincerely and...
It has taken me years,
self-examination, honesty,
and structured behavioral
CHOICES
to win over jealousy.
It started with a basic
awareness of what jealousy
is and is not.
J-E-A-L-O-U-S-Y
IS:
J-umping to conclusions
E-nemy of relationships
A-ttacking others
L-oss of friendship and love
O-pinions based on insecurity
U-nreasonable responses
S-elf-esteem enemy
Y-ou victimize yourself
These 8 acrostic qualities,
in my opinion and experience,
if taken sincerely and...
#anger
#anxiety
#rejection
#bittersweet
#fear
453 reads
2 Comments
faithmairee
Poem Published
Yesterday 00:08am
Yesterday 00:08am
Kidnapped
The rickety bus jolted as we were driven across the only real desert in Africa . I'm trying to stay positive pushing back thoughts of how easily it would be for the old bus to break down at any moment
I decided to dismiss the thought because we had finally reached Cape Town. I couldn't wait to see all of it and film everything in sight
But it wasn't in the cards as things changed in a split second. Suddenly , I feared the worse as our bus was flagged down by two men
They were white men that climbed aboard with guns in hand wearing nothing to disguise what they...
I decided to dismiss the thought because we had finally reached Cape Town. I couldn't wait to see all of it and film everything in sight
But it wasn't in the cards as things changed in a split second. Suddenly , I feared the worse as our bus was flagged down by two men
They were white men that climbed aboard with guns in hand wearing nothing to disguise what they...
#Africa
#anxiety
#fear #suffering
#fear #suffering
40 reads
2 Comments
deliabear
Debbie
Debbie
Poem Published
11th Jun 2023 7:12pm
11th Jun 2023 7:12pm
Dreaded Sensation
I can push my pain down.
No longer allowing it sound.
But it perpetually screeches
through my mind's ground.
Collosal hurts are nothing new.
Like taut monstrous vines
of manipulations.
Always strangling,
the infancy of budding contemplations.
Still wishing my inner peace to incubate a graceful gestation.
Always lurking, the dark horror of unwanted realizations.
The most dreaded sensation.
And all it's vast vibrations.
No longer allowing it sound.
But it perpetually screeches
through my mind's ground.
Collosal hurts are nothing new.
Like taut monstrous vines
of manipulations.
Always strangling,
the infancy of budding contemplations.
Still wishing my inner peace to incubate a graceful gestation.
Always lurking, the dark horror of unwanted realizations.
The most dreaded sensation.
And all it's vast vibrations.
#anxiety
#SelfReflection
163 reads
8 Comments
crimsin
Unveiling
Unveiling
Poem Published
27th Feb 2024 00:28am
27th Feb 2024 00:28am
Atonement
I walk into the light...dazzling
a darkling of fervor
needful redemption
a prayer goes forth
a spell if you will
it is in me to show our Father honor
he masterminded everything
the smallest theater to the grandest play
it's lonely at the top
sacred vows my thoughts rise to greet him
in my shallow need, I ask awry
it is for him to bless or take away
I can make argument with this
sometimes he relents and turns back his wrath
sometimes I'm hell-bent
a strong will
he says much like his own...
a darkling of fervor
needful redemption
a prayer goes forth
a spell if you will
it is in me to show our Father honor
he masterminded everything
the smallest theater to the grandest play
it's lonely at the top
sacred vows my thoughts rise to greet him
in my shallow need, I ask awry
it is for him to bless or take away
I can make argument with this
sometimes he relents and turns back his wrath
sometimes I'm hell-bent
a strong will
he says much like his own...
#anxiety
#dark
110 reads
6 Comments
nightbirdblue
enbyblue
enbyblue
Poem Published
4th Mar 2023 10:23pm
4th Mar 2023 10:23pm
Dissociated Games
Flinches
And spasms
That swallow
Me whole
The zaps of
Electrical jolts
Tears shooting
Vertical out
Of my eyes
Out of my mind
Where has the time
Gone, I flutter away
Can’t make
Myself stay
Breaking out
Of my cage
I dissociate
I dissociate
I dissociate
And spasms
That swallow
Me whole
The zaps of
Electrical jolts
Tears shooting
Vertical out
Of my eyes
Out of my mind
Where has the time
Gone, I flutter away
Can’t make
Myself stay
Breaking out
Of my cage
I dissociate
I dissociate
I dissociate
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
#disability
215 reads
0 Comments
PoetSpeak
Poem Published
9th Jan 2024 11:02pm
9th Jan 2024 11:02pm
Pangs of Jealousy
You like to torture me
Or I like to torture myself
Who would like that?
The mania is something to do
OCD festival of bruised ego
I don't deserve you
You don't deserve me either
We're kinda stuck with each other
Unless we want to buy new vaporizers
Or I like to torture myself
Who would like that?
The mania is something to do
OCD festival of bruised ego
I don't deserve you
You don't deserve me either
We're kinda stuck with each other
Unless we want to buy new vaporizers
#anxiety
#jealousy
#relationships
#LifeStruggles
#StreamOfConsciousness
181 reads
12 Comments
WillowsWhimsies
Poem Published
26th Mar 2024 10:22am
26th Mar 2024 10:22am
extrasensory necessity
I don't know this forest
with its steel & concrete spines
where winds whistle a lonely call
a haunting so chilling
despite the crowd around me
...I always walk alone
oppressive shadows press me down
stretching across littered tracks
glowing eyes directing patterns
the constant stop & go of it all
and the wails...the screams
of injured & dying things
as predator meets unwary prey
I am but one of many
where absolute darkness whispers death
...or worse
be suspicious of beckoning branches
stay the...
with its steel & concrete spines
where winds whistle a lonely call
a haunting so chilling
despite the crowd around me
...I always walk alone
oppressive shadows press me down
stretching across littered tracks
glowing eyes directing patterns
the constant stop & go of it all
and the wails...the screams
of injured & dying things
as predator meets unwary prey
I am but one of many
where absolute darkness whispers death
...or worse
be suspicious of beckoning branches
stay the...
#anxiety
#dark
#city #confessional
#city #confessional
105 reads
7 Comments
wolfatthedoor1966
Poem Published
16th Nov 2023 3:31am
16th Nov 2023 3:31am
anxiety
the flames
draped
over
my folding
darkness,
the tangle
behind
blurring dreams,
pressed
in gleaming
ruins,
these
passing nights,
well worn
in layers
of frailty,
this brittle
climate,
this is
where
the candle
burns brightest
at sunrise.
draped
over
my folding
darkness,
the tangle
behind
blurring dreams,
pressed
in gleaming
ruins,
these
passing nights,
well worn
in layers
of frailty,
this brittle
climate,
this is
where
the candle
burns brightest
at sunrise.
#anxiety
#escape
#healing
#risk
#vulnerability
156 reads
8 Comments
monovox128
Poem Published
27th Feb 2023 8:42pm
27th Feb 2023 8:42pm
REFLECTIVE REVELATIONS
When I was younger and even more as I grow older I have truly come to realize
I honestly have a dislike for those that can honestly look you square dead in the eyes
or even can even keep a smile continually beaming on their pretty or cute little face
and have no intention to befriend you for they don't have any room left in their heart space.
They contact you or spend time only long enough to get whatever from you they need
just enough time so they can pacify their wish fulfillment while squalshing their greed
No longer have time or energy for those...
I honestly have a dislike for those that can honestly look you square dead in the eyes
or even can even keep a smile continually beaming on their pretty or cute little face
and have no intention to befriend you for they don't have any room left in their heart space.
They contact you or spend time only long enough to get whatever from you they need
just enough time so they can pacify their wish fulfillment while squalshing their greed
No longer have time or energy for those...
#anxiety
#strength
#frustration
#disappointment
#bittersweet
136 reads
2 Comments
Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
25th Sep 2023 10:11am
25th Sep 2023 10:11am
Hammered into Shape
Life, a hammer pounding down
we negotiate its every blow
the hardships to avoid, prosperity aimed
our souls like forged steel endure
every strike shapes us anew
each pain pushes us to bear
more heartbreaks that hurt
and tear us apart
the fire's forge burns but shapes
our capacity to bear more sorrow
transformed by trials our fight resolute
to keep on fighting to survive
yet in the end the blows
will find us fair and true
sending us to another stage
where other hammers beat us down.
we negotiate its every blow
the hardships to avoid, prosperity aimed
our souls like forged steel endure
every strike shapes us anew
each pain pushes us to bear
more heartbreaks that hurt
and tear us apart
the fire's forge burns but shapes
our capacity to bear more sorrow
transformed by trials our fight resolute
to keep on fighting to survive
yet in the end the blows
will find us fair and true
sending us to another stage
where other hammers beat us down.
#anxiety
#strength
#courage
87 reads
9 Comments
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