Anxiety Poems

Popular Anxiety Poems
In This Moment.
by HIRAETH Mccombs

My lips are a barrier to a sick tongue,
Lies taste sweet, I can never get enough,
The truth is bitter, and It goes down tough,
My throat burns.

My thoughts take over the empty spaces,
And They find their way to the darkest places,
I can not even remember what today is, let alone what my name is,
Broken.


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Glass
by Cassidy Naekel

Like a bird trapped in a glass cage, you flutter around this town
Without purpose or direction,
diving head first into the edges,
spiraling down.
Landing in the barren fields of this place-
So many times that I have lost count.

You do not learn from your mistakes,
Instead you blame me
for not unlocking a door

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Ruined state
by Luke Dunskey

A black sky.
A marble ceiling.
The crumbling cement cracks with the wind.

An old dog, with gentle grey
under its chin, sleeps on an
overgrown sidewalk.

A half-finished microwave meal, under
a broken chandelier.

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The Room
by Sarah A

Haunted by the ghost
of the girl who once lived there,
The Room was a graveyard
of her bottomless despair.

Funnily enough,
The Room once kept her alive.
She couldn’t let them see her secrets;
she must survive.


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Schizophrenia
by Beth Johnson

I’ve got so many voices inside my head,
my Schizophrenia’s keeping them fed,
I’m starting to feel lost within myself,
think I’m turning into someone else.


I’m always planning my escape,
before my brain can escalate.

“I can’t find it,

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Recent Anxiety Poems
Palatable unpalatability
by Tobias Winters

Are my thoughts too loud,
Does the breeze of my breath graze your skin in the heat of summer?
And my hands cling too tightly that your palms sweat,
And you count the seconds until I notice?
Do my words come out staggered and awkward-
Far apart and yet too close,
And do I linger far too long for hands held too stiff for an applause? [one that won’t occur]

Do you like me kinder, sweeter and quiet?
Am I preferred to lie in the heat of battle,

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Hollow
by Aurel Mirashi

Who's this man in the mirror,
I have seen him, don't know him.
He is hostile, he doesn't like me,
Never believes a word I say,
I don't either,
Sometimes he cries tenderly,
I don't want to join him.
He will never like me,
It's not worth even trying.

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Endless life
by Jen K

Sorrow fills my heart like a barrel of lead
Regret drowns my spirit like a vengeful foe
Guilt gnaws my peace like a beast starved
Fear rises from my gut like a bubbling volcano

Pain clouds my sight and snatches my breath
I run - Despair lingers and hovers at every turn
An occasional burst of light - A flash - An image evades my grasp
Pain cripples my bones - And it's dark again

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Anxiety, Hyperventilation
by Nad Sof

"Panic attack," they say.
Is this it?
I whisper, my voice shaking.

I know it’s just in my head,
Everything’s fine.
But then, my heart races—
A drum I can’t outrun.
I flee to the bathroom,
Lock myself in a stall,

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Not so quiet Desperation
by Henrique Mirahy

To that petulant emissary of death

That seeks to chase me always

Like exhale after breath

As if i were life itself

With its beauty given birthright


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Popular Poets about Anxiety From Members
  • Brady Stewart
    Brady Stewart (11 poems about Anxiety)
    August 8th, 2002 - Pontiac Michigan
  • Author Reinvented
    Author Reinvented (5 poems about Anxiety)
  • Robert Chase
    Robert Chase (3 poems about Anxiety)
    May 1968 - Erie, Pa
  • Aurel Mirashi
    Aurel Mirashi (2 poems about Anxiety)
    April 20, 2000 - Korce
  • Oliver Nalder
    Oliver Nalder (2 poems about Anxiety)
    July 18, 2000- Utah
  • j d
    j d (2 poems about Anxiety)
    April 2000, New York
  • Corben Bruce
    Corben Bruce (2 poems about Anxiety)
    Glasgow, January 18th, 2000
  • Imme de Wilde
    Imme de Wilde (2 poems about Anxiety)
    October 3, 2001 - Holland
  • Henrique Mirahy
    Henrique Mirahy (1 poems about Anxiety)
    30/08/1999 Governador Valadares
  • J W
    J W (1 poems about Anxiety)
    UK