Best Affrighted Poems

..."Sing to me, Muse, of the wrath of Achilles." - Iliad, Line 1

Western dreams were born in wrath,
Overmastering all the noble aims of reason.
The bloom of youth, cut from its proper path,
Fallen......

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...AT THE RISING OF THE SUN

The sky was slowly brightening with the dawning of the day,
It had been three days and nights now that the Savior there did lay,
But then suddenly an earthquake and the ......

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...They danced and they turned and they tumbled
In wind, how it sighed and it grumbled
With force, how it howled in its fury
But still they bore no trace of worry

In cool autumn winds they cavorted
My ......

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...There was a man;
Whose lived by the mountains for ages.
He was; but to be seen,
Or heard.

He was; truly bizarre,
With no lads by his side,
He lived in the castle;
Of Romania of Britzsit.

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...If raindrops rise in leu of fall
would you seek the meaning overall?
Would spectacles endow with a clarity of fog
would you follow tangled lines of a rearward call?

Inevitable advance to steppi......

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...There was a garden gnome named Griselda
who lived by my back garden gate
she was nasty and mean, at times quite obscene
to Gregor, her poor garden mate.

She screeched and she stomped as she thr......

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...It's a wonder young children still turn out all right
With the stuff that gets crammed in their heads every night.
Things like visions of sugar plum fairies and sprites,
Or a thousand tales of Ara......

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...The feisty woman spewed torrential abuses
He holds her in his arms till her anger defuses  
To despair over her phobias he  simply refuses

Nightmares of being hated and unloved one day
Cloud he......

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...My heart submitted to no one,
A completion of self with another was a fight to shame a proud mother
And still as the waves crash against the rocks, 
You sway against me, push upon me- rough and wa......

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...Athwart Without Surcease — Edzel

Erelong the sphere was contrived,
intrinsically safe with His arms.
Born— soon derived,
and molded from His heart so warm.

Fain to live,
hight to be a no ma......

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...Beholding the painting of Jesus Christ’s resurrection
I find myself reliving a glorious occurrence in history
                    --- captured divine fulfillment ---
Prophesied and recorde......

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...a blonde Baboon face
wings around cows tails or hooves 
affrighted black crow eyes......

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    A radical named Hans Grenade Carter
    His desire in life to be a martyr

      His explosive ignited
      All the targets, affrighted

    From the stench he emitted, the farter
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...The heart and mind meld this time
I would that I bleed, not cry
Bleeding tells them my body hurts
Crying reveals my heart and soul hurt

The tree of life is uncertain and short
Season in; seaso......

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...Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle

After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcola......

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