Best Phobia Poems

No flame within! 
      do I hold for you
no delightful delicacy
      shall I put to...

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~JSLambert does not (currently:) use, or encourage hallucinogenic drug use.

    Telepathic psilocybin prescription erasing elastic depression. Competition 
wanes, just when nocturnal emission...

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Peekaboo
I see you
But you do not see me

Clammy sweat
Palms get wet
You want to run, be free

Shiver, shake
Wide eyes make
You give a stiffled scream

Unclear doubt
What's about
Feel's...

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A bsurd and foolish it might be
B ut it’s my nature, you’ll agree;
C annot ignore what I go through
D espite the help I get from...

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By thirteen I was quite tall—
Five-foot seven—friends were small
Always tallest in my class
On school lines—was always last.

Friends were shorter, more petite
Always looked to size-up feet
Compare...

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Fragile
humanity.
Haunted by a world of 
divisive 'isms' and phobia,
Struggling
to find a voice, aching to live.
The gentle embrace of
a child. Sweet hope
takes wing.




*'isms' - things like...

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You are my pest-friend,
As you may not know,
And I deem it my pleasure and privilege
To write this panegyric of you.

Mostly chocolate brown in complexion;
And very...

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Nyctophobia


Darkness

instant horror

huge demon cannibals
 
hell's voracious toothy monsters

devour


Sandra M. Haight


~NA~
Contest: In 5 Lines Or Less #1
Sponsor: Skat A
Judged: 11/07/2015

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Nyctophobia is a phobia characterized by a...

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I had seen - her calm, cool, composed - like a soft soothing breeze,
Though she could turn tempest or tornado or weakly wheeze;
Like a formless...

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Ideology is silent, victory is violent, we are corrupt, death is abrupt;

Perhaps if the world were still flat we wouldn't know what we know,
Stacks of...

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Yes
  I will go on this ride
  cling to my safety harness
  overcome my phobia of heights
  ignore those screams from...

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wrap me in threads of moonlit grass
just for this  single waning eve
though blossoms rest on quiet waves
I feel split from the halves of earth
as...

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Beneath the Sword of Damocles

As we nurse our nuclear nightmares
in a not to certain day
We are conjoined in common phobia
of madness or foul play.

Little children...

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Didn’t digest my all-dressed pizza
Suffering now from insomnia
A touch of every possible phobia
Mostly of ravenous bacteria 
And humongous tarantula
O yes, and the sordid mafia
Did I...

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'Neath this sod dwells Mavis who suffered many a phobia

Makes one wonder how she's handling claustrophobia...

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