Best Dreaded Poems

Pi
What statistics?
What trigonometry?
Geometry bamboozles me
The math language completely shuts me down.
Pre-algebra breaks my brain waves.
Please let’s not speak of these
Crazy math terms.
Pi...

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Tom Turkey got lost 'midst the teeming flock,

   Thus, avoiding the dreaded chopping block!

      Hunkering down spared his life,

         Averting the carving knife!

       ...

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A harsh wind blew in from the sea,
to give warning, of what was ahead.
Heavy pine boughs coming away from the tree.
A damaging storm, to anticipate with dread.

Clouds of gray, moving through the sky,
almost as if there was a race to win.
Leaves, swirling upward, ready to...

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Other people are chatting.
I am not.
Some are pretending to read.
Ha!  As if you could
In a doctor’s office.

I am sixty-six, and still do not want to be here.
Because of my fear of a prick, a shot, an I.V.
It takes a long time to get over...

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Hungry black bats pour from a dim dismal cave
flying about under a lucid full moon;
near old chiseled tombstones of each sealed sod grave 
in search of small tricksters that will be out soon.

Against clear ebony sky silhouettes loom     
on this eerie...

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This dread disease that has afflicted my home, 
This malady, this plague on my house;
This making convertible the former quaintness and provincialism thereof 
Into something wholly despicable and disgustingly homogeneous,
Yclept "cosmopolitanism," and "worldliness," and "globalization," 
(Or, perhaps "globalism");
That force of rude power that recognizes no...

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Oh how I recall the agony and worry
Over the first proper grown up kiss
That was supposed to send you floating among the stars
On a voyage of euphoria and endless bliss.

French kissing
I'd seen them do it here in England too
Even the monkey's did it in the...

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The call comes at three in the morning; no words are needed. 
The news is expected almost desired.... 
The voice says she passed in her sleep peacefully tonight. 
The funeral home has been called and are on their way here. 
"Yes, I will let Wayne...

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Death, A Mystery So Dreaded


What light will shine upon my demise
  perhaps a lone candle burning low
Penny for your thoughts sounds so wise
  will that light burn truly to glow!

Will light shadows dance upon the wall
  a lively jig, complete with shouts
Will...

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Gray haired orchards are still smoking in birds
Our inner plains revolt in signs of the zodiac
The longing creaks in white petals
Northern winds plan spreading of harvest 

We need the dreaded autumn...
Foals still wash their manes in dreams
The echo of romance spreads withered leaves
Last night I...

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Life is a hoot, make the most of each day
One never knows what's ahead
Could be sailing along not a care in the world
When you hear that word we all dread

First time I heard it, my dear dad was diagnosed
Thought, what is this thing called cancer
Is...

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She's dreaded
Her presence unpleasant
Thoughts twisted like the locks on her head 
She's deranged
Her brutal essence had victims beheaded 
She's insane, make it stop, put an end to fools like black dots
Hands down, ink deceased, lyrical suicide
on a maximum level that's
Self-inflicted genocide
Her dreaded obsession to oppress...

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Sticky mammogram			
The dreaded breast biopsy
Little prick and burn.
Warm flesh on cold stainless steel
The breathless waiting begins....

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From fourteen feet I visualize how heavy is the frame,
which parallels encasement of slow and lumbering brain.
While even with my vision blurred and tables in the way,
I certainly descry the face so flat,broad and plain.
Before my semi-weekly sessions, which conscience forces me to face
my body...

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the dreaded phone call came before seven on a cold Monday morning
my daughter calmly told me my three grandchildren were in a car crash 
on their way to school 
cold and icy the road spun them out of control
stopping only after sliding into a tree
the...

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