Best Scared Stiff Poems

there are those times in our lives
when we are the most afraid
a symptom of brain activity
that tears our nerves to shreds
in those times of misery
when...

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His scarlet head droops
towards his soulless emerald chest.
Perched upon a fruitless branch,
his spiritless eyes stare 
at the emptiness of freedom.

Above, streaks of ruby hints
flow among...

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A Monster Calls

A monster calls,
But I do not respond.
The frightening voice enthralls,
But I feel as though forewarned.
Down the ages and across the hours,
The fiend has...

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THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT

Often times things go bump in the night
We shake and tremble, filled with fright
Tiptoeing softly in search of the...

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In the ancient city of York 
My friends and I have been for a walk
Studying a little Viking history 
Instead of returning to the car
We...

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Summer night, scared stiff
Trying to pay for condoms
With a rubber check...

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I've never been here before 
Why is it so dark? 
This place is unfamiliar, 
So cold and unforgiving, 
I can hear wide open spaces 
And...

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Between a castle and a moat
One small goat
Strays too far, too long
But nothing happens
Yet scared stiff, the goat is scared stiff
To see this beast, this...

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The day is dying
The half-moon is faltering
In its nocturnal crawl
Across the gloomy sky

As the sleepy village goes to bed
Under the inky dark African sky
Stragglers are...

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He cringes in fear, his legs wobble,  his young wings scared stiff;


            ...

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Trapped like a mouse!
Squished like a bug!
Stuck like glue.  Eeeew!
Scared stiff like a deer caught in the head lights!
Shaking like a leaf.
Sick as a...

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Crushing snowberry bushes on a hillside,
Droops down, discarding fallen blossom petals,
magnificent sand dunes soaked in pure water,
countryside nature soothes with the sweetness of honeyed melody,
And...

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Blissfully sneaked into zeros,
the mind was playing zero sum games,
permutations and combinations whirled in maze,
calculating gain was tough,
scared stiff of the loss,
mind began seeing loss,
where...

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The Well

The Watcher watches all the watchers, for the Watcher knows
That what the watchers are watching, is something to behold.

But what are they watching? The...

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We were strapped in ready for take-off,
the engines churning all around us.
We'd longed for this moment,
but when it came we were scared stiff,
wondering if we'd...

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