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Best Worst Nightmare Poems

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Premium Member my worst nightmare
He sits in the attic all day, trimming his fur
A creature without a name or a country
Climbs into my closet an hour before bedtime
I sense...

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Categories: worst nightmare, scary,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Eccedentesiast
His smile is like a white crescent,
but a murky sky is hidden inside.

Afraid to portray mourning's of his mind
nor describe sour sickness of his tongue.
Piercing...

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Categories: worst nightmare, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lady Death
"LADY  DEATH" ------Chaos!!!

Craving life was all of 'HOPE' desire.
Torturing her into the odyssey of Hells fire.
Ending her in heartbreak by her own insane,
cruel father...

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Categories: worst nightmare, dark, death, evil, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Premium Member The Sad Tragic Tale of Dennis Lloyd Martin
His parents' worst nightmare that left them disheartened
is the sad tragic tale of Dennis Lloyd Martin

On a family outing at Cades Cove park
Dennis, his brother...

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Categories: worst nightmare, dark, death, mystery, scary,
Form: Ballad
Black and Unapologetic
I am not sorry for my brown skin , a magical mix of honey , gold , and the perfect hue of melanin 

 I...

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Categories: worst nightmare, beauty, black african american,
Form: Free verse



Time To Move On -
if she permitted
i would have curled in a ball
in a dark closet somewhere
and wept my whole life
“too many tears are too much“
“grief is a bottomless...

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Categories: worst nightmare, bereavement, son,
Form: Choka
As Far As I Can
Sore to the bone
Running on a drop of energy
Just gotta push through
I'll rest eventually

My shoulder has gone numb
But my body feels her weight
As if she's...

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Categories: worst nightmare, death, family, father, husband,
Form: Quatrain
Your Lies Changed Me
I was brave,
I was smart,
I was loved,
I was innocent,
I was ravishing.

Then everything changed,
when I started joining gangs.

I believed life was fun,
I became an alcoholic,
I started...

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Categories: worst nightmare, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Bird Dreams
BIRD    DREAMS   

The worst nightmare would be if I
Was an ostrich, and (of course) couldn’t  fly.
The fly-guys sit around...

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Categories: worst nightmare, funny,
Form: Couplet
Dead Dogs and Draftees
Sad song singing as the sickle keeps swinging,about Dead dogs and draftees
Marching mad miles of misery
through trenches of terror and maniacle mazes...on the whims of...

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Categories: worst nightmare, wardeath, death,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member That Sinking Feeling
Murky sea this day as she wades chest deep
Battling strong waves with every step
No other swimmers, no lifeguards, no sun
Nary a gull on the beach...

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Categories: worst nightmare, angst, sea
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Let 'Er Rip - College Students Today
College students today are a professor's worst nightmare
   They come to class late, with ripped jeans and purple hair
Without a word of apology...

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Categories: worst nightmare, humorous, satire, student, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond Tragic
The loss of a child goes beyond tragic,
a parent's worst nightmare and greatest pain.
For no pleading prayers, not even magic,
can ever bring your baby back...

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Categories: worst nightmare, 10th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form: Sonnet
Personal Prison
I live in a personal prison
Four cement walls surround me
As I sit in my own solitary confinement
Though there was no crime committed here
I must stay...

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Categories: worst nightmare, bullying, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dr Feel Good
Dr. P.D. Feel Good vs.' Doc the Poet (#2

Doc, you can keep wearing my CROWN.
It goes perfect with your pink hospital gown.
I am the one...

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Categories: worst nightmare, slamwords, poetry, drug,
Form: Epic

Book: Shattered Sighs