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“Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.”
— T. S. Eliot
The Subtle Anxiety Poem
by Dustin Down
At a final exam
I never studied for
I sit anxiously fidgeting
in a classroom
in a basement
on a hot summer day
when the power failed
and blackness fell.
I remember
a warm, velvet hand
coming out of no where
and taking mine;
a soft breath
on the nape my neck
and then, in the same spot,
the momentary brush
of lips.
The Anxiety Test Poem
by Wall Climber
You want to know
just what is
anxiety?
It’s an alliteration of angst,
It’s a congealed concern,
It’s a disarming disquiet.
It’s a doleful doubt.
It’s a doddering dread.
It’s the jumping jitters.
It’s a mopey misery.
It’s a multifaceted misgiving.
It’s multiple mistrusts
and numbing nervousness.
It’s a pandering panic.
It’s a ambling restlessness.
It’s a sleepy suffering.
It’s a surging suspense.
It’s a terrible trouble.
It’s an uncanny unease.
If you’ve got
just one or two
then, yes, it’s got you,
anxiety.
The Existential Anxiety Poem
by Marya Ophir
Instinctive expectations
a mental outfit, I put on
before time was hence
and try as I might
I can’t ever take it off.
I need to find a way
to distinguish between
psychological truth and truth
a priori valid or just a priori
expectations of a perfect world
up until that day
when you walked out the door
leaving me falling upside down,
anxious and alone.
In a world where nothing works
I’m always spinning in circles
while the world swallows me whole
just call it
my existential anxiety.
Symptoms of Anxiety, a Poem
by Rob Burr
Move across the land;
search for small symptoms
of anxiety,
hints of life.
Doubtful and irrelevant
otherwise serious people
sanction the tenet
but sweep the content
under the carpet;
they hide it for now
but not forever.
Signals emerge
from whispers at dusk,
these are tucked away
between siren calls
and anxious screams.
Hold the line,
follow the thread,
It’ll take you home.
The Separation Anxiety Poem
by Isabel Tolling
Your uniform world
is a measured lattice.
It is simple and elementary
until it isn’t.
It breaks up
against a primordial chaos
that bursts through at the seams
of your tight compact universe.
Great swells and waves
crash against your credence.
Each and every block of your world
is heaved up and dropped,
flat solid squares spread apart
on molten turmoil and crumble.
Yesterday’s certainty
is replaced by today’s anxiety;
as you wonder all the while
where you are
and where she went.
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