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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#anxiety
#depression
#motivational #MentalHealth
#motivational #MentalHealth
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The Dark Is...
The dark is, most times,
soothing to be with
late at night.
He'll deny the light of things
I don't want to talk about;
bribe the sun to come back later.
When the hurt tries to breach
he slides a key in the lock,
places a keep out sign
over the door.
He calms the waters inside
stirred by life.
Dries my drenched sadness.
And when the sun must intrude;
when it shouts to be let in,
he filibusters, delays the inevitable.
But in the meantime
he helped find missing...
soothing to be with
late at night.
He'll deny the light of things
I don't want to talk about;
bribe the sun to come back later.
When the hurt tries to breach
he slides a key in the lock,
places a keep out sign
over the door.
He calms the waters inside
stirred by life.
Dries my drenched sadness.
And when the sun must intrude;
when it shouts to be let in,
he filibusters, delays the inevitable.
But in the meantime
he helped find missing...
#anxiety
#dark
#LifeStruggles
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7 Comments
Little Exercise
( After Elizabeth Bishop )
—for Clewless and those suffering anxiety
Poison oak grows beautiful on the vine
its lush leaves inviting to the touch,
think of this as life, at times: biting.
Behind that velvet green lies a subtle itch—
its urushiol blood birthing blisters that will not last,
yet, stake their claim in pain nonetheless.
For everything there is something—
nature ensures that, Calamine eases
the stinging of rash, Moringa a restless...
—for Clewless and those suffering anxiety
Poison oak grows beautiful on the vine
its lush leaves inviting to the touch,
think of this as life, at times: biting.
Behind that velvet green lies a subtle itch—
its urushiol blood birthing blisters that will not last,
yet, stake their claim in pain nonetheless.
For everything there is something—
nature ensures that, Calamine eases
the stinging of rash, Moringa a restless...
#anxiety
#hope
#LifeStruggles
#nature
#ElizabethBishop
1522 reads
40 Comments
Lancelot
Lying here watching you sleep
Had become torture to me
Once I thought I heard a name
But you said a name that wasn't me
The smile on your face said it was a wish or a memory
Maybe of a high sdhool sweetheart
That was there at the start
Do you wish that you could build on those memories
Maybe in a world with more stability
This is a world as we know without me
I come with conversations that may go wrong
We both know I'm not emotionally strong
We live on the edge, we're complicated
Our relationship alone must be...
Had become torture to me
Once I thought I heard a name
But you said a name that wasn't me
The smile on your face said it was a wish or a memory
Maybe of a high sdhool sweetheart
That was there at the start
Do you wish that you could build on those memories
Maybe in a world with more stability
This is a world as we know without me
I come with conversations that may go wrong
We both know I'm not emotionally strong
We live on the edge, we're complicated
Our relationship alone must be...
#anxiety
#love
#FallingInLove
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0 Comments
Oracularity
The French gave us the word cliché
and so to honor Gallic grace
let's urge cliché to be passe
so no more discourse will debase
from any verse or any pen
where some foreseeable trauma
repeats its ugly life again
to flare into a melodrama,
or kindle more calamity
with ideation raised anew
antipodal to amity
which most of us already knew...
but still would not associate
a lack of tact with repeat fate.
and so to honor Gallic grace
let's urge cliché to be passe
so no more discourse will debase
from any verse or any pen
where some foreseeable trauma
repeats its ugly life again
to flare into a melodrama,
or kindle more calamity
with ideation raised anew
antipodal to amity
which most of us already knew...
but still would not associate
a lack of tact with repeat fate.
#anxiety
#suffering
#apathy
#choices
#PersonalGrowth
105 reads
10 Comments
My Survival
I fight to survive certain
people in my family because
they cause my anger
to explode and sometimes
you want to kill them
but consequences are to high
for me so you write
poetry to get rid of
this anger inside your
soul which is causing
you pain and yes I know
they are family but
sometimes family
get on your nerves
So live life to the
fullest and the
Hell with the rest
people in my family because
they cause my anger
to explode and sometimes
you want to kill them
but consequences are to high
for me so you write
poetry to get rid of
this anger inside your
soul which is causing
you pain and yes I know
they are family but
sometimes family
get on your nerves
So live life to the
fullest and the
Hell with the rest
#anger
#anxiety
#men
#family
#evil
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7 Comments
Seeing Mental Health Illness Within The Shadows Of My Eyes
We are now heading upon the throne of Autumn, where, within some states we will kiss the shadows of the sun goodbye until the beginning of Spring 2024, as all eyes shall witness the beautiful transformation of falling leaves, then barren lands, we tend to spend more time indoors than out.
Please take into consideration as the day gets shorter and the nights become longer, this is the time for a mental check to keep your mind intact, your heart pure, and the body replenished with food that give us energy and can compensate the mind.
The Mind
In...
Please take into consideration as the day gets shorter and the nights become longer, this is the time for a mental check to keep your mind intact, your heart pure, and the body replenished with food that give us energy and can compensate the mind.
The Mind
In...
#anxiety
#depression
#MentalHealth #humankind
#MentalHealth #humankind
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9 Comments
Don't Squeeze The Charmin
Hearing the yapping echo of Mr. Whipple
it just didn't happen a false sense of poo
screaming death's diarrhea a moment sat
watching the creepy crawlies explode
in the devil's chair covered in frost
listening for a flush squeezing the Charmin
it just didn't happen a false sense of poo
it just didn't happen a false sense of poo
screaming death's diarrhea a moment sat
watching the creepy crawlies explode
in the devil's chair covered in frost
listening for a flush squeezing the Charmin
it just didn't happen a false sense of poo
#anxiety
#regret
#grief #disappointment
#grief #disappointment
70 reads
2 Comments
Blissful Illiteracy
I had twelve years old, and dreams so young
Dreamed To be a future poet as life was so long
I had twenty two, and dreams even younger
Yearned for poems written when getting older
I had thirty three, dreams started to land
They started to slow down, when ascend
Then forty four, dreams stopped to soar
Shoulder weighed down by the loads i bore
Now past fifty, dreams are only winged words
Lazing like those birds hovering above the herds
And then, i envy those care free sleepy...
Dreamed To be a future poet as life was so long
I had twenty two, and dreams even younger
Yearned for poems written when getting older
I had thirty three, dreams started to land
They started to slow down, when ascend
Then forty four, dreams stopped to soar
Shoulder weighed down by the loads i bore
Now past fifty, dreams are only winged words
Lazing like those birds hovering above the herds
And then, i envy those care free sleepy...
#sadness
#anxiety
#rejection
#emptiness
#apathy
70 reads
8 Comments
What on earth!?
What on earth is happening
What on earth is going on
Can’t keep up with all the calamity
But everything’s going wrong
First my dad gets cancer
Then I find my own mum dead
Now they think I have HIV
And it’s fucking with my head
Just give a girl a fucking break
Let me please chill the fuck out
Need a lie down in a quiet room
It’s stirred up so much doubt
Brother in rehab the year before last
A cousin with a brain tumour too
Got debt coming out my eye balls
And yet I keep plodding on
...
What on earth is going on
Can’t keep up with all the calamity
But everything’s going wrong
First my dad gets cancer
Then I find my own mum dead
Now they think I have HIV
And it’s fucking with my head
Just give a girl a fucking break
Let me please chill the fuck out
Need a lie down in a quiet room
It’s stirred up so much doubt
Brother in rehab the year before last
A cousin with a brain tumour too
Got debt coming out my eye balls
And yet I keep plodding on
...
#anxiety
#confessional
#MentalHealth
#myself
#NaPoWriMo2024
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5 Comments
Don't Let It Galvanize
The rhetoric of
your excuses
transposed a frailty of fortitude
to the disposition
of
decadent
distraction;
the embers of my soul
were ashen with the
magnanimous motives which
yours embarked
to destroy mine.
sweet lies from
vermilion lips fracturing asunder
the reality of
this bards’ quill….
Amethyst tears fall
to parchment;
the atomic dragon
poised upon zephyrs – the archetype
of a soul assassin,
cold and capricious.
the re-deciphering of ...
your excuses
transposed a frailty of fortitude
to the disposition
of
decadent
distraction;
the embers of my soul
were ashen with the
magnanimous motives which
yours embarked
to destroy mine.
sweet lies from
vermilion lips fracturing asunder
the reality of
this bards’ quill….
Amethyst tears fall
to parchment;
the atomic dragon
poised upon zephyrs – the archetype
of a soul assassin,
cold and capricious.
the re-deciphering of ...
#anxiety
#depression
#loneliness #relationships
#loneliness #relationships
63 reads
2 Comments
The NO! machine malfunction
Eeny meenie miney moe,
my day is flying – watch it go!
The to-do list is like a rope
around my neck – there is no hope…
…that I can get out of this heap
when every task is layers deep
and messages won’t quit – BEEP BEEP!
and people keep on asking me…
…to do the things I promised them.
What was I thinking way back then??
My stupid optimistic mind
has bit me in my own behind!
There’s only one thing this could mean --
I have to fix my NO! machine.
my day is flying – watch it go!
The to-do list is like a rope
around my neck – there is no hope…
…that I can get out of this heap
when every task is layers deep
and messages won’t quit – BEEP BEEP!
and people keep on asking me…
…to do the things I promised them.
What was I thinking way back then??
My stupid optimistic mind
has bit me in my own behind!
There’s only one thing this could mean --
I have to fix my NO! machine.
#anxiety
#choices
#NaPoWriMo2024 #responsibility
#NaPoWriMo2024 #responsibility
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DU Poetry : Poems About Anxiety by Top Critiquers