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Best Running Scared Poems

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Running Scared
Left Right Left Right Left Right
Life went on a lot of years 
no one did a thing
Along comes one man, Donald Trump 
they all begin...

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© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: running scared, conflict, corruption, patriotic, political,
Form: Narrative



Not Ready At All and Running Scared.
All my life I have been itching to be free
Be let loose
Let go
But now, I'm not so sure
I don't know what to do
Just thinking about...

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Categories: running scared, childhood, confusion, history, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Ukrainian Flag Flies Again In Kherson
The Ukrainian flag flies again in Kherson, it is a joy to see
The Russian army are running scared from Ukraines military
Russia pulled out its army...

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Categories: running scared, celebration, conflict, death, war,
Form: Rhyme
Whiskey Glasses and Bathroom Mirrors
Two o'clock she hits me hard 
I salute to another captain 
look around and swallow hard 

Not as hard as you leaving 
hitting me straight...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: running scared, life,
Form: Free verse
I Made It
Push come and shove I still made it 
Despite the problems I had I still made it 
Running scared without much hope I still made...

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Categories: running scared, analogy, beauty, community, emotions,
Form: Rhyme



I Hate the English Language
A friend advised "Cheer up, buddy, and don't be blue",
strange of him to say that just when I was feeling low.
I was thinking, what was...

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Categories: running scared, confusion, funny, life
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member When Roy Sang
A song came on the jukebox and we listened with intent
He sang "Only The Lonely" with a voice that was heaven sent
I was only in...

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Categories: running scared, music, tribute,
Form: Couplet
Refuge
I am a refugee
Can you see me
I am not Australian 
Not of your nation
I'm fleeing, I'm running, I'm running scared
I'm tired of running 
How far...

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Categories: running scared, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Empty Barrel


These days, you just gotta be so aware,
always on the alert ... busy looking around
Harm you might step into, so sniff the air ...
dog trouble’s...

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Categories: running scared, allusion, perspective, violence, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member When I Was Young 1970s
I saw one journey end and another begin
I saw my world changed and in a spin 

I saw another end - the end of the...

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Categories: running scared, childhood, history, world,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Little Brown Feet
On quiet days in mid autumn 
When sun and clouds play ‘peek-a-boo’ 
Somber thoughts linger in crisp air
Of some other time and place where 
Harmattan...

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Categories: running scared, childhood, loss, warautumn, december,
Form: Free verse
A Specter Speaks To War
Smoke rising from the ground
Obscures the pools of blood
Where soldiers uttering sounds
Lie dying in the mud.
Horses neighing, running scared
In horror find no end
Of battleground that's...

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Categories: running scared, war,
Form: Rhyme
Divine Drink
It took many years to realize the truth
That from the day I was born
I was a blackened, charred soul: torn

A genetic anomaly 
that happens in...

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© Amy Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: running scared,
Form: Free verse
A De La Keur
The day that I have prayed for,
 Has finally come true.
For I am now and forever more,
 NO longer married to you.

Over are the days...

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Categories: running scared, happiness,
Form: Quatrain
Why the World Spins Around
Shyness of life courage of death
voice that rumbles inside your head 
and burdens like wormwood on weakened chest
or a spring bowl full of uneaten fruits...

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Categories: running scared, war, winter,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs