Poems About Anxiety by Top Critiquers
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Daniel Long
Daniel Long
Poem Published
31st Aug 2024 6:06pm
31st Aug 2024 6:06pm
This Path of Uncertainty
I know this path…
This is a path I’ve walked before…
It’s a dark one with an indeterminate end.
Me, myself and I think there are some things that are just kept better quiet.
I don’t want to be quiet anymore.
I want to leave this arctic realm of realism, lower my foot into the warm bath water
of surrealism, and be home!
Here in reality, I am no one.
There in surrealism, I am someone.
I’ll raise my hand to the glass
and the figure in the reflection follows.
Then we join palms,
then a ripple in the glass.
All I...
This is a path I’ve walked before…
It’s a dark one with an indeterminate end.
Me, myself and I think there are some things that are just kept better quiet.
I don’t want to be quiet anymore.
I want to leave this arctic realm of realism, lower my foot into the warm bath water
of surrealism, and be home!
Here in reality, I am no one.
There in surrealism, I am someone.
I’ll raise my hand to the glass
and the figure in the reflection follows.
Then we join palms,
then a ripple in the glass.
All I...
#anxiety
#bipolar
#MentalHealth
#nightmares
#OCD
167 reads
1 Comment
Mstrmnd1923
Poem Published
6th Feb 2025 3:08am
6th Feb 2025 3:08am
Chronic Sleep Deprivation
Day 1
Tiredness is setting in
Unable to go to sleep
My impaired concentration
Preventing me counting sheep
48 hrs
Slow processing abilities
Solutions I can't solve them
Extreme irritability
One of my many problems
Day 3
Major difficulties thinking
Microsleeps unofficially
Walls closing in and shrinking
Hallucinations seen visually
96 hrs
Distortion in perception
Revealed secrets expose us
Exhausted mental deception
Disorienting psychosis
Day 5
Complete mental breakdown...
Tiredness is setting in
Unable to go to sleep
My impaired concentration
Preventing me counting sheep
48 hrs
Slow processing abilities
Solutions I can't solve them
Extreme irritability
One of my many problems
Day 3
Major difficulties thinking
Microsleeps unofficially
Walls closing in and shrinking
Hallucinations seen visually
96 hrs
Distortion in perception
Revealed secrets expose us
Exhausted mental deception
Disorienting psychosis
Day 5
Complete mental breakdown...
#anxiety
#confusion
#despair
40 reads
0 Comments
RyanBlackborough
Poem Published
18th Jun 2024 6:03pm
18th Jun 2024 6:03pm
Unyielding
What i've woven hardly matters.
With my tapestry in tatters.
Lay in place adorned with shadow.
Await that sunlit meadow.
But the harvest cannot grow,
without one to make it sow.
With my tapestry in tatters.
Lay in place adorned with shadow.
Await that sunlit meadow.
But the harvest cannot grow,
without one to make it sow.
#anxiety
#myself
128 reads
2 Comments
Grace
IDryad
IDryad
Poem Published
15th Jan 2025 7:33pm
15th Jan 2025 7:33pm
Defining the Difference
she gazed uncomprehending
at the star stuck on the arrow
stopped sharply from falling
to the flooded ground below
the twinkles from the sky's gone
the greyness seems permanent
no subtle colours between the tone
and rainbows struggle not to be alone
relax inhale and exhale
stop stay in one place
drifting in boats without sails
is not an epitome of peace
breathe...
at the star stuck on the arrow
stopped sharply from falling
to the flooded ground below
the twinkles from the sky's gone
the greyness seems permanent
no subtle colours between the tone
and rainbows struggle not to be alone
relax inhale and exhale
stop stay in one place
drifting in boats without sails
is not an epitome of peace
breathe...
#anxiety
#strength
86 reads
10 Comments
Trillium
Poem Published
19th Mar 2024 3:12am
19th Mar 2024 3:12am
Petting a Dog
You join me on the couch
Curled up in your favourite spot
With one of your people
Petting you is supposed to be relaxing
Often I can’t find the relaxation
Petting you consciously
Like a task to be completed
Tonight is different
Finding the relaxation in the texture of fir
Softness of your ears
Absentmindedly petting your head
Playing with your floppy ears
Finally finding elusive relaxation
For both of us
Curled up in your favourite spot
With one of your people
Petting you is supposed to be relaxing
Often I can’t find the relaxation
Petting you consciously
Like a task to be completed
Tonight is different
Finding the relaxation in the texture of fir
Softness of your ears
Absentmindedly petting your head
Playing with your floppy ears
Finally finding elusive relaxation
For both of us
#anxiety
#animals
171 reads
6 Comments
NoQuarter
Poem Published
20th Jan 2025 9:54pm
20th Jan 2025 9:54pm
Silent Stare
She lingers in the corners,
where the light forgets to stretch,
a shadow sharper than memory.
Her breath is the echo of things unsaid,
her gaze, a wound the night cannot heal.
He feels her before he sees her-
the weight of her absence,
the chill of her closeness.
She doesn't speak, but her silence screams
in the hollows of his chest.
An entity unseen tightens,
and he is bound,
not by fear,
but by the pull of something
he will never understand.
where the light forgets to stretch,
a shadow sharper than memory.
Her breath is the echo of things unsaid,
her gaze, a wound the night cannot heal.
He feels her before he sees her-
the weight of her absence,
the chill of her closeness.
She doesn't speak, but her silence screams
in the hollows of his chest.
An entity unseen tightens,
and he is bound,
not by fear,
but by the pull of something
he will never understand.
#anxiety
#fear
99 reads
0 Comments
Northern_Soul
Poem Published
23rd Jul 2024 7:16pm
23rd Jul 2024 7:16pm
Black Balloon
grief is a part of me
has been a mantra
since my womb died
sometimes his ring finger
cannot hear the fists I pound
into breeze block walls
I’m numb from the waist down
yet some nights it feels
like everywhere
like the hair I pull out in strands
once under control
that I can’t seem to stop
or walking the supermarket aisles
dreaming of vodka smiles
in wide eyed relief
sometimes I feel as if
I am more apology
than girl ...
has been a mantra
since my womb died
sometimes his ring finger
cannot hear the fists I pound
into breeze block walls
I’m numb from the waist down
yet some nights it feels
like everywhere
like the hair I pull out in strands
once under control
that I can’t seem to stop
or walking the supermarket aisles
dreaming of vodka smiles
in wide eyed relief
sometimes I feel as if
I am more apology
than girl ...
#anxiety
#confessional
#grief
194 reads
8 Comments
Ryan-G-Hayward
Poem Published
Yesterday 4:51pm
Yesterday 4:51pm
Story
I'll bring you stories,
of the one heart beating,
an end to thumping,
then the one dying,
the burial of daffodils,
and all of the roses,
story of sorrow,
the one of tomorrow......
of the one heart beating,
an end to thumping,
then the one dying,
the burial of daffodils,
and all of the roses,
story of sorrow,
the one of tomorrow......
#anxiety
#confusion
#despair
#emptiness
#grief
26 reads
2 Comments
Marks
Poem Published
31st Jul 2017 7:20pm
31st Jul 2017 7:20pm
Dr Poem
Pervading presence
Intimate
Unasked
Unexpected
Loss of identity
Clear
Anxiety
Wandering ...
... Waking up to vigour and light
Spectral visitors ... Arrival
I am Dr Poem ... Joy and hope
Imaginal borders... Affective disorders
... ... ... ...
Intimate
Unasked
Unexpected
Loss of identity
Clear
Anxiety
Wandering ...
... Waking up to vigour and light
Spectral visitors ... Arrival
I am Dr Poem ... Joy and hope
Imaginal borders... Affective disorders
... ... ... ...
#anxiety
#dark
#identity
#confessional
#WritingPoetry
634 reads
4 Comments
DevilsChild
Poem Published
24th Dec 2024 8:06am
24th Dec 2024 8:06am
Hey Devil
I say
hey Devil
please leave me alone
can’t you see I’m tired
of all this anxiety and constant doubt
maybe the world hates me
or maybe it’s all in my head
so what?
I’m different
I don’t need to hear you scream it
it echoes in my head
I can’t get a moments rest
this Christmas
doesn’t feel very marry
and I’m missing
my family and friends
especial the ones that have passed
the good ones leave early
yet the only one around here
is this fucking bitch devil
always trying to hurt me
always trying...
hey Devil
please leave me alone
can’t you see I’m tired
of all this anxiety and constant doubt
maybe the world hates me
or maybe it’s all in my head
so what?
I’m different
I don’t need to hear you scream it
it echoes in my head
I can’t get a moments rest
this Christmas
doesn’t feel very marry
and I’m missing
my family and friends
especial the ones that have passed
the good ones leave early
yet the only one around here
is this fucking bitch devil
always trying to hurt me
always trying...
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
93 reads
1 Comment
mel44
Poem Published
24th Jul 2024 11:13pm
24th Jul 2024 11:13pm
The Wave
Shuttering core
head spinning round
furious flutter
no sense of ground
am not floating
drowning in air
unable to breathe
racing stare
fierce battle
waging within
frozen limbs
cannot begin
anxiety crippling
sweaty drench
smothering
putrid stench
deep impact
wheeling swiftly
losing grip
ever quickly
familiar space
survival mode
here again
never slowed
head spinning round
furious flutter
no sense of ground
am not floating
drowning in air
unable to breathe
racing stare
fierce battle
waging within
frozen limbs
cannot begin
anxiety crippling
sweaty drench
smothering
putrid stench
deep impact
wheeling swiftly
losing grip
ever quickly
familiar space
survival mode
here again
never slowed
#anxiety
175 reads
8 Comments
3rdEYErising
Poem Published
8th Nov 2024 10:00am
8th Nov 2024 10:00am
Midnight Exhalations
Suffocated soul
Wings clipped...needing a moment
A mockingbird's breath
Wings clipped...needing a moment
A mockingbird's breath
#anxiety
#LifeStruggles
#women
350 reads
9 Comments
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