Anger poems. Anger break up poems.

Love - one kind of fire.

Anger - quite another kind. Burning with rage. In a red hot rage. Rabid. Enraged. A white heat of rage. Consumed by anger. Fueled by anger. Driven by anger.

Anger poetry. Anger poems. Sometimes poetry is the strongest way to get the emotions into words.

Love poetry - lots of people think of love and poetry together. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."

But what about: how do I hate thee, you snake in the grass, you snivelling drivelling idiot, you slimy toad.

Sorry for the slur on toads - entirely unwarranted - and likewise for the slur on snakes in the grass, often harmless, and definitely more harmless than someone in a white hot rage. Rage. Hatred. Hot-headed. Hot-temepered. Not thinking straight. Blue murder.

Poetry - a powerful way to convey feelings, including feelings of rage, anger, frustration. In fact, rap poetry, rap words are known for this. One can find love rap poetry - but that isn't what rap is known for. Instead, a beat of anger, a beat of insistent persistent sense of ongoing injustice and deprivation. You done me wrong! And I will make you pay, slime bucket! (In my head was another expletive, but it had to do with sex with mother, so I substituted.)

Anger - both empowering - we can explode out of where we've been confined. Anger - coming from frustration at a world that won't listen. Anger - also destructive - self-righteous rage in which people murder, sure they are justified. He had it coming! She had it coming! God loves me, this I know!

Elsa's anger poems - some of the many faces of anger (along with other states of mind) are found there.

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I'm up against the wall

I'm appalled I'm aghast

can't blast through the wall

can't force the wall to fall

the wall is

the wall is

the wall is the wall

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You think that you know

but you don't know

You think that you have

but you've been had

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Chains in the mind

They cripple and they bind

make me deaf, make you blind

keep us both confined

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Scarlett thinks she knows best

Scarlett never rests

No rest for the wicked

Scarlett with a knife

in her hard heart

Scarlett with a knife

through uer chest

Scarlett at her best

sorry for no one but herself

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I am not meek

I am not mild

I seethe I boil

Like an A-bomb I go wild

Can't keep the force INSIDE

The shell won't hold

That is my goal

to break the shell

which keeps me coiled

to break the spell

which has such hold

ESCAPE VELOCITY

ESCAPE FEROCITY

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For more of the faces of anger, come to Elsa' Anger Poems, Anger Poetry - anger and lots of other states of mind.

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But my anger poems are mainly in the frustration range.

So what kind would you like? Sizzling hot anger? Ice cold anger? A blue funk of anger?

For that, I turned to Google.

When I went to hunt up other good anger poems for you, I thought that would be it - a nice and easy harvest of anger poetry. But no.

The first finding. Though Google may have hundreds of parameters to its complex algorhythms, it needs to add a few more when it comes to poetry. Right at the top of the first page when I searched for anger poetry: "anger is something you feel when your mad at someone." Those words were (May 2008) on the short blurb on Google - seemingly to attract me to click! (http://www.poemhunter.com/poems/anger/page-2/)

I clicked. Here's the start of the first poem I came to:

anger is not love

anger is driking

Driking? Probably drinking, or maybe driking is some new vice I'm not yet aware of.

I didn't, until the second page on Google, come to anything that resembled what I'd define as good anger poetry - and then it made me laugh (intentionally).

she drove me to the Flea Market and exchanged me for a chair

A chair after all serves a purpose.

(http://www.authorsden.com/)

I got another surprise when I searched for anger poetry on Google. Instead of lots of anger poems, right at the top of the ratings were several sites telling me how bad anger is. Bad, bad, bad

Sri Chinmoy: "Anger is a great obstacle. The after-effect of anger is frustration and depression. We should take anger as a thief...." (www.poetseers.org/themes/poems_about_anger)

Next: "Ciao offers you an extensive forum to exchange your reviews and thoughts about Poems of anger and rage with other people, How to overcome anger. ... Anger Poems. Up one level." (www.ciao.co.uk/Poems_of_anger_and_rage__5612633)

The anti-anger messages gave me a big pause. I'd hate it if, hunting for (say) love poetry, I got all kinds of admonitions against falling in love.

I know there's a difference - I know anger is a dangerous emotion. We may kill, consumed by anger. We may be sure we're right, and sure that those we see as enemies deserve to have their brains smashed against the wall. But still ... No good anger poetry, just admonitions! And what about when anger gets us to act against injustice, makes us intervene to protect, gives us the fuel we need to speak up.

Is anger so dangerous we shouldn't ever dare express it, or see it as ever worthwhile?

Anger, I heard somewhere long ago, means "I want."

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Anger is expressed, applauded, in some areas - but not under terms like angry poems, or anger poetry. Under rap, gangsta rap, gangster rap, hip hop.

Straight from the first page of Goggle for Rap:

How To Write a Break Up Rap Song | eHow.com:

"Step 4. Build your own image up in the song. Rapping words flatter the rapper by telling the world that they are great. Make certain that you include how great you are and how unlucky the other person was to break up with you. ... Step7. Insult the person that broke up with you. Sorrow seldom is the mode of rap; anger takes priority."

For lots of examples of anger accepted and celebrated, anger taken for granted as totally justified, go on Google, put in a search term like gangsta rap, rap, or hip hop - and you will get lots of links to YouTube videos where anger is not seen as something bad and to be avoided.

There in fact, the attitude is often the reverse: how dare you question this, call it anti-women, reverse racist or anything except deep and true expression!?

"To white dominated mass media, the controversy over gangsta rap makes great spectacle. Besides the exploitation of these issues to attract audiences, a central motivation for highlighting gangsta rap continues to be the sensationalist drama of demonizing black youth culture in general and the contributions of young black men in particular. It is a contemporary remake of "Birth of a Nation" only this time we are encouraged to believe it is not just vulnerable white womanhood that risks destruction by black hands but everyone. When I counter this demonization of black males by insisting that gangsta rap does not appear in a cultural vacuum ..."(http://race.eserver.org/misogyny.html)

Note that, of course, whites are to blame. Forgive me if I roll my eyes, not quite in anger, but definitely not in agreement.

I do think many whites have some blame, by the way - in not standing up and confronting generalized anti-white anger much earlier on, as it has been a powerful force in aspects of the black rights movement from the beginning. Not Martin Luther King Jr - the dream of equality. But, for example, the Black Panthers and much of Malcolm X.

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For non-American rap, here are the Anger Boys - and the word anger is just as prominent as in anything American:

"13 Oct 2007 ... Anger Boys is the first Arab rap band to merge real Arab .... be shocked arab rap is one of da best rap musics and ANGER BOYS is the best ..." (www.mideastyouth.com/2007/10/13/anger-boys-arab-rap-for-change-and-freedom/)

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So far I haven't come across any meeting of the minds between the likes of Sri Chinmoy and Gangsta rappers.

In the meantime, I know I have lived with anger all my life - a powerful force, sometimes for good, but very easily for ill. Explosions of anger. Blinded by anger. Eruptions of anger. Liberating anger. Red hot rage. Simmering frustration. Anger swallowed. Anger slept away in the night.

Anger poems - at their best, they are expressions of all the complexity.