Best Lurking Poems

There's a shark lurking in the soup they say
With sharp teeth ready to strike any day
Our pens remain our best weapons
No matter what the shark threatens
We will just write more to send him away

12/27/18...

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What was that sound?
what was that noise?
There in the dark.
Was that a voice?
That faintly creeping,
encroaching tone.
my feeling tells me,
I'm not alone.

It must be the wind
or the house settling in.
Nothing is there,
there's nothing but air.
I Turn my head and close my eyes
Then here comes, a new...

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Lurking Darkness

Sleep now my love, 
you have earned a great rest. 
It has been hard on you.
It has been hard on us. 
There is still time left. 

They gave us days, you already proved them wrong. 
You are a warrior, equal… toe to toe with...

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To be spoken silently
In that unpleasant tumult 
Lurking behind the facade
He does not suspect in what wild fear
He'll join with her in a fatal play
Thus he sees his life as 
an outrageous fortune 
Like thunder shuttering orisons
The demented contempt of a puny mind
Repudiated into self...

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Lurking in the Darkness

Monsters lurk and wonder everywhere

Footsteps lightly bound

Sneaking here and there

Spirits waits to catch

All sleeping on the clouds

Overhead! Look Up, look down!

Everywhere and everywhere

Shadowy floods and cloudy-looking woods

Bent and battered

So haggard and so woe-begone

Cricket loud chirping shrills from stone to stone

Grasshoppers snapping and...

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I sense there's something lurking
Out the corner of my eye
But when I turn to take a look
Away it seems to fly

Maybe I am haunted
By a dream that's all but vanished
Perhaps it's by some buried thought
That refuses to stay banished

Maybe it's a memory
I thought I'd slain...

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He returned with peevish looks, 
a condescending demeanor, 
Vaunting as though his bones were made of rocks 
and his sinews of brass, 
bottled up acrimony burning from his bowels, 
A prideful face, and a visage adorned with rage,
forty years of fury fueled from afar, 
none...

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Another love poem for all you people
This guy's quite the charmer it seems
Could teach the young guys a thing or two
About wooing pretty young things

Don't mean to brag but I'm quite irresistible
When I turn on my masculine charm
Afraid you won't stand a ghost of a...

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Dementia genes may lurk inside
But since there is no cure,
I wonder what’s the benefit
Of finding out for sure.

Would knowing change the way you live
And spur some foreign travel?
Or would it plunge you to the depths
Where fear makes minds unravel?

Perhaps you’d contact long-lost friends
To help provide...

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A successful man with a beautiful wife,
Three great kids, loves God and his life,
Goes into work every single day,
Loyal to his beliefs and makes an extraordinary pay,
He married real young, did the right thing,
A good looking man, always wearing his wedding ring,
But a woman in...

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How perfidious is it to hide,
not to be found and be recognized
for the values not revealed
but shamefully being cast aside? 
How deplorable is it to renounce existing,
refusing the crown of meekness,
a life of peaceful days, of a lesser complicity  
and accept the glory of...

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The poem and poet merge on the page
And the cruel pandemic has its presence
Its nature strikes me with dark words of rage
Death teases humankind unpleasantly

Time's essence is so hard to understand
Mighty nature sweeps down on all nations
Disinfect your minds; sanitize your hands
Dare I make a...

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Scary LURKING


Something somewhere there
What it is I don't NO it...
It just be lurking...

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Shining timelessness
Looking at the light
Sits an entity
Power that’s bestowed
Upon all that see

Love is lurking
Right on the verge
Which does complete
Its full greatness

For myself
Why oh why
Do I see

This love
It’s true

Sure

Russell Sivey

Contest: Love Yourself
Sponsor: Dana'lynn

Edited 6/28/2013...

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About Fear

Fear is a horrid emotion that makes one attentive at once,
whilst shocking the heart to beat hard—fast and faster!

It causes an ill-feeling and a sense of terrible foreboding,
which can instantly provoke some unintended responses.

Fear has its own unique spirit that can paralyze us cold,
whilst...

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