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Poems about Angst
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A youthful aspiration- / in the hand of a society, / stifled and confused- / by unethical propriety. / A once exuberant dream- / has been t
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My complacency tears away my progress. / Layer by layer I see it all, / Falling and disappearing from existence. / / Sine-like my life wo
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Words tumble over what came before
tripping over what comes next...
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Glory fills my soul, / God's mercy and forgiveness, / The flame for my coal. / / As if floating up, / High upon the ethereal palm, / I fee
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I step out of the blue-gray world of the office / To the yellow-gray world of August smog. / Greedy for my hour, begrudgingly-bestowed / My
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The Price / / / After some lively if not cryptic banter / shot across the produce store / through the fruit filled vapors and / among tho
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The walls are closing in with mind crushing emptiness / / The floors don't swallow me like I wished they did, / / and the tv buzzes stati
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can't charm a snake with temptation
listen to sounds of sensation
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She left me walking home through the cold, cold night / She left me walking home out of pure cold spite / She left me walking home where I
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Sometimes I wish I was dead.
No more worries to trouble my head.
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by marcusmoore
112 words, 45 comments,
on Jul 10 4:32 AM. In Angst, Lost Love, Love, Personal, Rhyme, Sad, Lyrics, Life, Pain, Lost, Adult
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I kept those hard, impossibly smooth/ souvenirs like you did.
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Something in me has changed and I don't like it.
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/ / Suits resurrected from musty cupboards; / Faces plastered. / Driving on driving / till cars flock and lie like sardines, / / We are all a reservoir of ill-fitting gowns and mortarboards. / I have never been so smart yet felt so stup
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by marcusmoore
114 words, 34 comments,
on Apr 20 1:26 AM. In Rhyme, Lost Love, Love, Loss, Sad, Angst, Life, Personal, Adult, Pain, Anger, Abuse
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REVISED..I am sure of this/as I am sure of my eyes/and my hands and their mouths./Listen closely to my forged calm./Of most everything else
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A poem I made it to the semi-finals with. Have a shot at finals soon. It's published in Immortal Verses!
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It ends at the beginning / with promise mixed with pain, / with elation congealed with dispair. / Loss of dreams, agony to the core. / / Faceless features, formless life, / buds, lifeless buds of unformed petals, / Decaying, shedding, brea
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Light the candles, serve the wine
Look at these blanks, my clouds.
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A broken heart is tears and pain. / A broken heart is taken in vain. / I think I want to be hit by a train. / These are definately not by b
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by riveralex
287 words, 15 comments,
on Feb 22 10:55 AM. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Love, Lost love, loss, Raw, Family, Life, Pain
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You knew me when I was beautiful. / I don’t want you to see me now. / I don’t want you to walk away tsking, / the pity— / / “Not even thir
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I write my poems
slitting open my heart
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This beach is red / with sand from stones as old as Earth. / Our grey sea, long ago, / reduced the granite peaks to dunes / and today, /
by riveralex
260 words, 29 comments,
on Feb 12 12:50 PM. In Nature, Angst, Spiritual, Survive, Pain, Life, Depression, Sadness, Inspirati
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/ / He didn't know why / today was different. / Seeking perhaps to distance himself / from this new, / slow-motion silence / of piling, a
by gdb
241 words, 1 comment,
on Feb 12 8:03 AM. In Angst, Contemporary, Dark, Free verse, Life, Sad, Society, Spiritual, Death, Pain
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