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Fretted Poems - Poems about Fretted

Premium Member Tortured Memories
...Memories are fickle things They seem to love to torture When you desperately just want to forget Seems memory's fruitage is an orchard They can seemingly come from anywhere But they don't need......

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Categories: fretted, for her, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Effusion to Elvani
... Time and tide flit so fast, Forgetting how mellow memo faded. So long pain and pining last, Getting missing mood brocaded. Strings in both hearts, rent by retrospective rift, Amid murky m......

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Categories: fretted, for her, longing, romantic
Form: Romanticism



a happy day
...A glad day the morning started badly at breakfast when she reminded me, I had a doctor’s appointment at four in the afternoon Breakfast was ruined, at lunch, I ate a little fretted about the stor......

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Categories: fretted, absence, age, angst,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Xmas Tide
...Xmas tide, a time for familial gatherings, The golden chain of friendship …and companions Sweet on each other, parading arm in arm Together to share a feast and gift giving ...Nativity sce......

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Categories: fretted, character, christmas, lonely, longing,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member September Falls
...Shedding of leaves Every flower fading Petals drooping Temperatures declining Early morning mists Moments of weak sunlight Birds chirping uneasily Each day with winter on its way Red,yellow a......

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Categories: fretted, autumn, nature, september,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member My Son John
...My son, John, was an engaging fellow, who was barely ten years old; And liked frogs, marbles and playing ball, in luscious, noontime gold. My son, John, was rather a dreamer, like the laz......

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Categories: fretted, character, color, fantasy, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Looking At Things From A Different Prospective
...I can understand Cowgirls And some are real cows But 'Cowboys'? Shouldn't they be Bullboys? Why did they call the chimp On Tarzan 'Cheater'? I wouldn't play cards Did Williams Tell spill the b......

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Categories: fretted, howl,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Storms
...The shrewd gulls fretted and flew, veered inland to avoid the storm. Some strutted over spiky rocks, others flew low over the sea, occasionally swooping into the cold rough sea below, foraging ......

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Categories: fretted, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Guillotine
...I heard screams from those marked for a guillotine death No compromises for their cries before taking a last breath Words of repentance for dastardly crimes were bemoaned Begging for mercy with fe......

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Categories: fretted, death, murder,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Skipping Stones
...Skipping Stones I went to an interview with a nervous heart, My mind racing agile, my thoughts all apart, I paced and I fretted, I worried and stewed, But then I saw a skipping stone and my moo......

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Categories: fretted, analogy, appreciation, future, strength,
Form: Rhyme
As the Crevice Crept
...The one who proclaimed his love for her For some time had been drifting away. But she often longed for what they were, Sometimes unable to keep the tears at bay. There were days she'd felt the ......

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Categories: fretted, cancer, death, loneliness, love,
Form: Rhyme
Limericks Viii - a Bit Risque
...Limericks VIII plus one Lead-In Poem Updated Advice to Amorous Bachelors by Michael R. Burch At six-thirty, feeling flirty, I put on the hurdy-gurdy ... But Ms. Purdy, all alert-y, ......

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Categories: fretted, hilarious, humor, humorous, romance,
Form: Limerick
I'M Sorry
...The earthly pain you endured Grew twofold every day My pleas to God for mercy Were seemingly unheard When you fretted over nothing I knew it wasn’t you My inner voice kept telling me “There’......

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Categories: fretted, emotions, grief, loss, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Saga of Kelley and Luvey
... A Story from My Heart Kelly was a Red Tabby and a contemplative soul!Elena, my daughter used to put him in her doll buggy and walk him around the house. How......

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Categories: fretted, beautiful, cat, daughter, happiness,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Walk Through the Meadow
...I walked through the meadow this afternoon To enjoy this spring’s bloodroot growing wild Short-lived blooms soon disappearing among The taller stalks of milkweed and columbine. I mask......

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Categories: fretted, adventure, bird, flower, nature,
Form: Free verse

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