Afeared Poems

"The Door has opened, The Way is clear"

Weak, sick, dying  afeared of change,
Hope 's gone, can't hear or heed the call,
They can't be led, or clasp the breadth.
We've now seen, yet they can not,
The light out there's for them's,...Read More

Incorrigible Recalcitrant - Doppelganger (mine)

Ala Goofus and Gallant 
highlights my diametrically 
divergent alter egos
always the reserved 
obedient docile boy
afeared to stray outside narrow

circumscribed comfort zone
figuratively tethered
extremely short leash
choked me like yoked oxen,
albeit non red dually bullish
under bated breath

otherwise submissive
internalizing fury...Read More

A snowy owl sat on her nest
   while tending to her brood;
her mate flew out upon a quest 
   to gather up their food.
An old grey wolf then soon appeared
   who wandered in the...Read More

Grandma,
I know
you know
that it's my
ultimate favorite
but I must refuse to eat it
I am too afeared
because today
looking straight at me
there is a 
S H A R K 
in my bowl 
of alphabet soup



submitted on December 18, 2018, for contest SHARK IN...Read More

You’ll find this disgusting, but Rudolph was busting
He peed in that fish pond of mine
But it wasn’t tragic, cos Rudolph is magic
And he piddles sparkling wine

The water went hazy, my goldfish went crazy
And splashing all over the place
It’s true, don’t...Read More

CHANGELING CLOUDS

Changeling cheered her doubts
Afeared mother of many clouds
Secretly placed by a wand’s haste
A godmother who’d offered to help

~ Coin of flipped fate - dark cloud cataclysm ~

6/3/2017
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Oi be nowt but an auld country hick,
we a liddle bit of gall, an a lotta stick.
Oi baint niver afeared to speak me mind,
nor critizise folks harshly iffen Oi find
zummit I don’t loik.  Tis allus best
Oi reckins to git...Read More

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   Nailed to a wooden cross he died.
   Lord Jesus Christ was crucified.
   A crown of thorns, King of the Jews.
   As passers by spat out abuse.
   Beneath the cross...Read More

In Marshside Lea, there stood a tree, old in trunk and bough
'Twas long ago, this tale, although, it may still stand there now
And in its shade, the young sheep played as often did young lambs
Whilst in the eye, always nearby,...Read More

  
By Elton Camp

Howdy, Leroy, how’s you and you’rn?
I ain’t seed you since th' baby was born.

Livin’ way up hear in th’ mountain,
Of th’ days I sorta lose accountin’.

Well, Jim, as fur as I kin tell
We’se doing tolerable well.

Lulu’s...Read More

I am HighwayHorace your hero dog
I prowl the area at night
Chasing away the naughty cats
Who wake children up when they fight

I woof at the burglars making sure
Your all safe whilst your asleep
Before going home to my own kennel
To dream of...Read More

There's a rumour hitting town
It's party time real soon
Not a thing to wear
Have to ring to fix my hair

Hear Beyoncé will attend
Didn't know she was your friend
Will she wear clothes this time
Best she does she's past her prime

Has this party...Read More

Stage Flight


How I talk is a flawed wiggle
Wish it were how I scribble
To pay back for being afeared
Moses grew a lengthy beard;
Though he endured stage fright
Mine is worst it is stage flight!


JM

07th Nov’ 2013
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Bubba’s Limousine

By Elton Camp

Bubba made his living as a car thief
But the latest one brought him grief

For he saw a good chance one day
Took it from the governor’s driveway

The chauffeur had left the keys inside
In a limousine, Bubba never had...Read More

DARKNESS

When first I considered penning a verse for the poetess,
The clouds methought would open and show riches,
Would say to me happiness be thine,
Verily thou shalt be free and fine,
The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,
‘Twill be easier than a courtier’s...Read More

Wriggled in her arms
Lost in an adventure of romance 
Moving far afield 
Though I have no weakness for writing, 
My story got underway.
Wallowing in the admiralty of her beauty
Adorned with beautiful antique ornament.
Adulterated with the laudable attribute of nature
Epitomizing the...Read More

Bubba’s Away at College

By Elton Camp

“Howdy, Leroy, how’s you and you’rn?
I ain’t seed you since th’ baby wuz born.
Livin’ way up hear in th’ mountain,
Of  th’ days I sorta lose accountin’.”

“Well, Jim, as fur as I kin tell
We’se doing...Read More

No, It was not my time
to jaunt & jump about 
the Morld with You, to
glowering-green-glows
of Ischia, the privileges
of Mackinac, "...our Paris, Ilsa!"...

Ornamented ataud &
calefacted incinerators are
merely better-funded!, to a last-
notice of proteaned hoar, the
dearth of silk...

So, it was to be
Goa,...Read More