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Afright Poems - Poems about Afright


Premium MemberA Real Stinker

...Dedicated to Jan Allison

A REAL STINKER

Medically speaking, all humans have movement of their sphincter.
Eruptions of sphincters can cause disturbances of epic proportions.
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Categories: afright, humor,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberMarchsillypus

...O Marchsillypus!
Sour apples, roaring dandelions
lambykins and daffodils
furglowering seeds
blown through sweetling fingers
and tweedy cantankerous fiends
with the fierceness of lions
toss the...
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Categories: afright, humor, march, silly,
Form: Light Verse



Mellow Tenderness

...I have such sentimental devotion
My eyes are an outlandish ocean 
Wish I had positivity's pure potion
Pleasure and pain got me feeling my sad notion
Of what I've become - the chosen 

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Categories: afright, angst,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHearing the Wind In Garden City

...Word Lyric for Music #4

”Hearing the Wind in Garden City”

Got off the train at silent midnight,
Standing in the glow of a swerving streetlight,,
Then I heard something fly through the center ...
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Categories: afright, journey,
Form: Lyric

Homunculus

...Ago I watched a woman coax
A fellow back from death.
Sand clung to the drowned
Man's shoulder, briny fluid
Dripped from clustered hair
Breath pushed lung to throat

In that moment inelastic li...
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Categories: afright, corruption, dark, evil, universe,
Form: Blank verse



Centaur's Charge

...Fauning hairy sprite
Convene woodland diet
Passion and fervor ignite
From forest thickets alight
Guided by Luna's veil so bright
Gird your loins with all your might
Reins and halter held tight
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Categories: afright, fantasy
Form: Rhyme

The Ghoul Club

...Dancing and prancing around and around.
     They came in droves to Halloween town.
Laughing and joking they all came to sing.
     and all brought a handbell that each one would ring.
 
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Categories: afright, funnyhalloween,
Form: Rhyme

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