Best Fretful Poems


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 humpback whales 
Ships p......

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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 upon us in their dark-sprit for......

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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 whisperings of the restless ghosts,
Of......

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Categories: fretful, historymen,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member This Too
...This too,
                                 Shall pass
                                       Nothing here 
                                               On Earth
                                ......

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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 an olive green,
the strangest sight you’ve ev......

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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 grown out of it somehow...I'm gonna cry...
......

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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.

                                                         
         
Kim Merryman
For  n......

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Categories: fretful, mother, music, , Lullaby,
Form: Cinquain
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 succumb to the maddening icy grip of winter’s callous ......

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Categories: fretful, adventure, child, fear,
Form: Free verse
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 gone. Instead, it’s wont to stay -
infecting me with inse......

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Categories: fretful, life, me,
Form: Rondeau
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 upon us in their dark-sprit for......

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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 in hope....

She is ......

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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, o......

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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.
 
(Psyche) 
Please tell me what is wrong my frie......

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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 wait for day.
I close my eyes and try t......

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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 sighs.

Drift away to a special place,
Wher......

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