Poems about Angst

• Currency Abuse

  A youthful aspiration- / in the hand of a society, / stifled and confused- / by unethical propriety. / A once exuberant dream- / has been t

  by Enoq 258 words, 20 comments, on Nov 3 2:14 PM. In Free verse, Dark, Sad, Thoughts, Life, Rant, Angst
• Breathe

  by Enoq 115 words, 3 comments, on Sep 26 9:35 AM. In Love, Adult, Angst, Thoughts, Rhyme
• Complacency

  My complacency tears away my progress. / Layer by layer I see it all, / Falling and disappearing from existence. / / Sine-like my life wo

  by tirwander 146 words, 1 comment, on Sep 24 10:18 PM. In Angst, Hope, Life, Personal, Rant, Sad, Thoughts
• A Poem of Eloquent Pain

  Words tumble over what came before
  tripping over what comes next...
  

  by Terry-too 254 words, on Sep 25 12:23 AM. In Angst, Life, Sad
• Coal or Fire

  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

  by tirwander 226 words, 1 comment, on Sep 22 4:59 PM. In Dark, Sad, Spiritual, Hope, Angst, Personal, Thoughts, Religion
• Fast Food Lunch Break

  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

  by celestialpie 369 words, 7 comments, on Sep 8 12:19 PM. In Angst, Contemporary, Free verse, Life, Rant, Society, Thoughts
• The Price

  The Price / / / After some lively if not cryptic banter / shot across the produce store / through the fruit filled vapors and / among tho

  by gdb 279 words, on Sep 3 11:22 PM. In Angst, Contemporary, Free verse, Hope, Life, Personal, Society, Spiritual
• At Home

  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

  by sparefolk 59 words, 1 comment, on Sep 3 12:50 PM. In Time, Life, Angst
• Cacoethes

  can't charm a snake with temptation
  listen to sounds of sensation

  by talonix 169 words, on Aug 24 12:25 PM. In angst, life, rhyme, women
• she left me walking (lyrics)

  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

  by dirty clean poet 245 words, 2 comments, on Aug 12 11:19 AM. In Lyrics, Love, Angst, Sad
• Fleeting thoughts

  Sometimes I wish I was dead.
  No more worries to trouble my head.

  by ladyjanew 169 words, on Jul 14 2:14 PM. In Rhyme, Depression, Musings, Angst
• Wednesday's Song

  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
• the clack of tangible contents

  I kept those hard, impossibly smooth/ souvenirs like you did.

  by annac 246 words, 1 comment, on Sep 2 8:11 AM. In Angst, Free verse, Love, Personal
• The Fellini movie is back.

  Something in me has changed and I don't like it.

  by Willow1818 331 words, on Nov 4 10:56 PM. In Angst, Dark, Personal, Contemporary, Weird
• Squashed Pine Cones and Motarboards

  / / 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

  by twentysecond 331 words, on May 30 2:06 PM. In Life, Personal, Sad, Angst
• Another Tale of Tears & Scars

  by baby lou 673 136 words, 3 comments, on Apr 23 3:36 PM. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Life, Personal, Rhyme, Sad
• An Emotional Con

  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
• untitled

  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

  by annac 109 words, 3 comments, on May 4 7:31 PM. In Free verse, Personal, Angst
• Chameleon

  A poem I made it to the semi-finals with. Have a shot at finals soon. It's published in Immortal Verses!

  by HopeWouldNeverFail 151 words, 2 comments, on Apr 10 11:33 PM. In Angst, Society
• Eighteen

  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

  by mothersaroha 214 words, 2 comments, on Apr 3 8:32 PM. In hope, angst, free verse, life
• Obligation

  Light the candles, serve the wine
  Look at these blanks, my clouds.
  

  by Stressful Event 116 words, 7 comments, on Apr 1 9:54 AM. In Angst, Beat, Dark, Weird. Reward
• Broken Heart

  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

  by mimianddax1 97 words, 1 comment, on Mar 24 10:14 AM. In Love, Angst
• What About Now?

  by marcusmoore 234 words, 5 comments, on Feb 25 3:03 AM. In Adult, Angst, Lyrics, Rhyme, Sad, Life, Addiction
• Still

  by riveralex 287 words, 15 comments, on Feb 22 10:55 AM. In Adult, Angst, Dark, Love, Lost love, loss, Raw, Family, Life, Pain
• Quality of Life

  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

  by celestialpie 495 words, 15 comments, on Feb 20 10:43 PM. In Angst, Contemporary, Free verse, Life, Personal, Rant, Sad
• Lament

  I write my poems
  slitting open my heart

  by ladyjanew 124 words, 2 comments, on Feb 17 11:21 AM. In Angst, Dark, Free verse, Sad, Personal
• Ode to Housework

  Dirty dishes
  Messy rooms

  by ladyjanew 165 words, on Feb 17 11:11 AM. In Humor, Rant, Angst
• Unrequited

  by ladyjanew 359 words, 2 comments, on Feb 15 10:48 AM. In Adult, Angst, Love, Sad
• The Message

  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
• Scarlet Ballet

  / / 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