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Best Fretful Poems

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Premium Member I shall find a way or make one
(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the...

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Categories: fretful, dark, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme



A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: fretful, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ghosts of Gettysburg
This sacred soil that once resounded with the musket's rattle,
Imbued with mingled blood of Blue and Gray spilt in brutal battle,
Now stands serene with only...

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Categories: fretful, historymen,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member This Too
This too,
                       ...

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Categories: fretful, time,
Form: Rhyme
The Frog Prince - Part 1
A funny frog called Mr Snog,
once lived beside a slimy bog,
he was a most peculiar fellow,
his hat was red, his boots were yellow,
his waistcoat was...

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Categories: fretful, allegory, fairy, humorous, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse



We Were Young Once Upon a Time
We spent time with each other time after time
Now, we're older now...looking AT THE TIME FLY...
We were young and happy that splendid time
But, we have...

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Categories: fretful, adventure, best friend, deep,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Lullabye
Whisper 
Soft lullabies
A mother's melody
Soothingly shushes fretful cries
Precious.

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Categories: fretful, mother, music, , Lullaby,
Form: Cinquain
Premium Member A Great Unease
A great unease has come, quite slow to flee.
To some it brings woe twofold. Constantly,
I feel its breath upon me though I pray
to see it...

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Categories: fretful, life, me,
Form: Rondeau
Lost
A cloudless day, should have been warm but the frigid southern roaring 40’s cut like flailing daggers into the skin, leaving bones and joints to...

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Categories: fretful, adventure, child, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Bohemian Maze of True Evil
Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

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Categories: fretful, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Narrative
Sleepwalker
Sleepwalker


And in the darkest sweeping wings is held all probable
The night of dreamings; wished embraces of gossamer senses ponder miracles 
And leave their mark; ever...

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Categories: fretful, love, mysteryprayer, senses,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Broken Soldiers
Broken Soldiers

Broken soldiers, tend their wounds,
in sterile sunless corner rooms.
They bide their time in fretful hours,
to ward away the memories, dour.

These valiant ones, once walked...

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Categories: fretful, age, humanity, soldier,
Form: Rhyme
Psyche and Flesh
(Intro)
Psyche watched from behind blue eyes 
as Flesh stared at the mirror, 
the look upon the face was grim, 
the heart was filled with fear.
...

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© J. Summers  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fretful, age,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Restless Night
The hour’s late, and I can’t sleep.
My mind rebels at counting sheep.
Sweet dreams are very far away,
and worries surface from the deep.

I lie awake and...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: fretful, anxiety, faith,
Form: Rubaiyat
Premium Member Nap Time
In Mama's arms you're safe and warm,
As she rocks you gently, there's no fear of harm,
So close your sleepy little eyes,
Hush your crying and fretful...

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Categories: fretful, baby, cry, dream, Lullaby,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things