Best Danger Poems

I sense your presence, not seeing
Your shadow flitting about.
Without touching you, I can feel
The booming beats of your heart.
Your sudden scream makes my head throb.
I bite down with angry fangs.

Contest: Night Creatures, No. 2; Rattlesnake.
Written 1/17/15 by Isaiah Zerbst....

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Too slow is the speed of life, 
so we try to outrun avalanches and race sounds, 
flee into roaring tubes of hungry water, 
brave invisible waves in the sky. 

Too barren is the landscape of life, 
so we take shelter in surly jungles and unruly...

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I never meant to love you, I never meant to care
I never meant to cross the line or change a thing, I swear
You never could call what we have a sordid, cheap affair
There's a faint reek of stagnation and confusion in the air

I always thought...

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A beautiful vibrant woman you once were
Now you live your life in an alcoholic blur
Lying in a hospital bed your skin is turning yellow
Your hubby is finding it hard to cope, he’s such a lovely fellow

But your love is now for the bottle it makes...

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the jungle is dark
     the panther colored in black
          anxious to attack
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         In front of the dangerous animal
          I don't run but I don't stay close
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beware the thorny brambled track ~  trespassers risk entanglement



Proverbs 4 verse 14 (New King James)
'Do not enter the path of the wicked, And do not walk in the way of evil.
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A pyromaniac named Jack,
Who hailed from the town of Hackensack,
Decided one day, 
with matches he’d play
He’s a mummy now, flat on his back!
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Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh, my.
Lions and Tigers and Bears, oh why?
Lions and Tigers and Bears are not really all that scary to me,
When we read the facts about other animals in tropical forests, and under the sea.

We should change the song to this...

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Black as the night

I watched her dance alone to the holy Jazz songs. Simmering words make her body move slow and easy to the songs. I know to keep my distance, she was so damn beautiful and I knew.


If you dance with a woman, who...

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Beware of weirdos lurking the internet
Let them in your life at your own risk
It’s the playground of psychopaths
Wolves in sheep’s clothing
And social outcasts
Heed my words
Beware



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on October 21, 2018...

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THE DESPERATES

The hungry and the poor,
Will always try to find a door,
That will offer them a little more,
Than what they had before.
They cross the border through 
The Kruger Park, 
When it’s dark,
A singularly desperate act!
Between them all they,
Have made a pact,
To secure a life,
Where they...

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……….gale force winds announce the doom
…………………..portent of a dark and deathly gloom
…………………………..a maddening shriek of raging wind
……………………….howling terror the frightening din
………….rips great trees from the ground
….tosses the structures all around
………….raging malice haunting fright
………………twister spinning in the night
……………………….darkened clouds surging
…………….wind and rain merging
…..funnel of mighty hell
..tolls...

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when infatuation soars
careful who you let in
guard your heart
and lock your doors

for heaven’s sake think twice 
throw not caution to the wind
careful who comes close
lest they tear your life apart




AP: 2nd place 2021

Submitted on July 22, 2021 for contest DOORS sponsored by ANTHONY BIAANCO

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befuddled with liquor
hearing noises in the distance
unclear fuzzy thinking
faculties blown
lah-lah-land feeling
outer space beyond comprehension
inhibitions gone
someone maneuvers your body
you do not care 
fences gone
whatever happens happens
a dangerous place...

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