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Affright Poems - Poems about Affright

Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

...Time bracketed between initial birthday and present birthdate

October seventeenth
nineteen hundred sixty one 
and October seventeenth
two thousand twenty four
represents, signals,
and traces ...
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Categories: affright, 2nd grade, 3rd grade,
Form: Free verse

Far-off Call : The Cry of the Writer’s Ink to an Anonymous Reader

...O some day to come, it may be that time will bury my memory deep as the hidden sleep of those who lie in some forgotten churchyard;
 but my judgment is that the future holds for me a fadeless crown ...
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Categories: affright, appreciation, art, black love,
Form: Bio



Premium MemberThe Bells In Honor of Edgar Allan Poe

...A Revised Edition      
From The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, vol. II, 1850

In the icy air where the stars do sprinkle bright 
keeping time, keeping time 
with the jingling bells ...
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Categories: affright, appreciation, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Time bracketed between

...Time bracketed between

December first nineteen fifty nine and
December first two thousand twenty three
represents sixty six orbitz
one prized Earthling
named Amélie Beth Harris-McGeehan
compl...
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Categories: affright, anniversary, appreciation, birthday, blessing,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFright

...I fell into a swoon under a burning moon,
flames setting me alight with a fiery affright...
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Categories: affright, emotions, environment, feelings, moon,
Form: Alexandrine



I Can Never Comply With Fastidious Hygiene

...I can never comply with fastidious hygiene

Try as thee most persuasive person might,
he/him, she/her,
they, them... can never wean
yours truly always objected
being told when to bathe/shower
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Categories: affright, 12th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMighty Predators

...Come the mighty night
with stars and moon blazing bright.
Hunters hark delight!
Predators prey with sharp sight.
Smaller creatures cringe, affright!...
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Categories: affright, animal, environment, nature,
Form: Tanka

Premium MemberI Am African

...I am African, I affirm that i am Original African 
untainted, unblenched, unsoiled. 
I am African, 
with all the dignity of the first human. 
unashamed, unbowed, undaunted.  I am African.
unique...
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Categories: affright, africa, age, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberLike Diamonds In the Trees

...Like Diamonds in the Trees

The freezing rain fell through the night
as Mother Nature cast her curse
and in the morn the world affright.
The chilling sight seemed so a...
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Categories: affright, nature, weather, winter,
Form: Dizain

Premium MemberMy Thoughts On Cancel Culture

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My Thoughts On Cancel Culture
Written: by Miracle Man
November 1, 2021

Cancel culture is stealing our freedom of speech,
when we disagree, practitioners will impeach.
We can expres...
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Categories: affright, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Sandman Tip-Toes

...The Sandman tip-toes into the room
  on that night when witches fly by on brooms

His task, alas, is daunting tonight
  with ghosts affright, jack-o-lanterns alight

Yet tired trick-or-treaters...
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Categories: affright, children, halloween, sleep,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberHalloween Fright

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Shadows fade into the night
Eerie darkness – oh, what a sight
Gloom and gore are my plight
Heart is racing as I write
Dreadful horror I try to smite
Fear falls heavy on hindsight
Te...
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Categories: affright, dark, fear, halloween,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberMockingbirds Are Noisy and Aggressive

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Mockingbirds Are Noisy and Aggressive
By: Miracle Man
July 19,2021

Sunshine peeking through a mottled sky,
painting a picture on parched ground.
A Mockingbird intermittently flutters...
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Categories: affright, bird, nature,
Form: Rhyme

Wind Up Humanism

...Realm of humankind wheedled in reset,
Homeland beray, lull to beset, 

Scrawling the parchment to a keyset,
Xenophobia in callousness, 
Dearth to darn the clout concord. 

Orness synergy allia...
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Categories: affright, community, creation, earth, environment,
Form: Free verse

Messiah's Coming

...The sky is cloudy, 
thunderous sound terrified with lightening, 
clueless people derping outside with rainshade, 
the rumble is hostile, rainbow bow in terror, 

The universe affright 
Houses s...
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Categories: affright, pain, scary, sin, sorrow,
Form: Light Verse

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