January Anxiety Poems

Shivering shards sliced through my sullen system. 
nightss nag with naissant nightmares
mornings moved as malignant monsters 
trust twisted in tabescent thorns tearing within me
I ignored...

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I love those snowflakes swirling around,
but lately winter has gone a little mad:
no snow in warm January;
every kid is feeling sad...
only the clearest day!
...

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I love snowflakes swirling around,
but lately winter has gone a little mad;
no snow in warm January:
every kid is feeling sad...
only the clearest day!...

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Ingredients:

~ A pint of stress
~A cup of anxiety 
~A tablespoon of guilt
~A pinch of regret
~A dash of hopelessness
~A sprinkle of self-doubt

Directions:

- Mix all the ingredients...

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Adolescent infatuations...never consummated

Greetings reader from a cross between an aging seventy inch long (ringing ding dong) haired pencil necked geek and a Norwegian bachelor farmer...

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Oh, how I dread the horrid sight
of that nasty slop, what a wretched plight.
Its stench invades my twitching nose
I turn away, but my nausea grows....

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Ace colonoscopy doctor Kellen Karl Kovalovich

revisited January 23rd, 2024
on the evening before yours truly
(the one and only Matthew Scott Harris),
a stand up comic wannabe, who
historically...

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Plagued with lifelong lower gastrointestinal Sturm und Drang

Ever since a young lad
irritable bowel syndrome
in my humble pinion wracked
lower abdominal area 
gurgled and ballooned gastrointestinal tract
(similar...

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Addiction is not a pretty word
But when it accompanies love
It has a different connotation
I want to add love to addiction
Or augment addiction to love
To make...

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At Peace

A dark cloud of cancer looms on the horizon.
Will it simply pass or rest above me, and shower demise?
Or will the clouds break with...

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Attitude with latitude

originally written January 19th, 2019
and tension defines the dynamic

Valiant prince sip pulled effort
rebuffed, snubbed, thumbed
courtesy eldest daughter
uncontested vainglorious woke
mine genuine apology,
viz sincerely yours...

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You’re making me wait
“just two more weeks,” 
but already the wait’s
crossed half a year.
“A few more weeks, 
no difference,”you say,
and it’s true, but you see,
in...

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Au revoir oh perilous freedom...

Since pledging my troth
to the missus July 25th, 1996
after the comma error
punctuated mein kampf with disequilibrium.

Ever since the notions
of life, liberty...

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I My soul shattered by the bullet of betrayal…

Shivering shards sliced throughout my sullen system 
Nights nag with naissant nightmares
Mornings moved as malignant monsters 
Trust...

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My left-brain dominant challenge
begs for a worldview
of unconditional warm regard

Which sometimes feels uncomfortably warm
through heated confrontations
confused about whose voice is rightfully speaking
respectfully with whom

And who...

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