Fear Light Verse Poems

Sewing machine, long idle, gathered dust
Cabinets, tables and chairs were old crust.
No mercy was shown on this abandoned place 
No one dared to restore its...

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..from that same kid several years and a couple of divorces later...

Dearest Santa,
Here's my list of things for which I am keen,
I've kept it lean,
In...

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Asked what most they feared
Death or Taxes, Americans answered
Death, without fear or comment. 
Think they were told: Death occurs
once, taxes are an annual event.

...

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Two weeks before Thanksgiving, I got a jolt,
I was driving my old bucket of nuts and bolts,
along the country road on a chilly autumn day,
Saw...

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I am the queen of delay.
some call me a thief.
others call me a bold-faced liar.
some say I’m weakness, a sin.
whilst others say I’m fear and...

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When the wolf applied nicely
If he could come in,
The pigs replied thricely he shouldn't.
Then they scratched at the hairs
On their chinny chin chins,
And tightly bolted...

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Our real master Teaches the beauty
free as a bird Flying on the heights
Sans fear of making a mistake, or falling...

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Indifference
Appears in nature..
Indifference to
Seemingly
Separate and different
Measures of importance..
Indifference
Appears as
Difference..
Perhaps an
Unsettling peace......

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Later this month I'll be seventy-three.
Thus this gift of longevity.
I seldom feel old and am told I don't look it
but that one-way ticket, I have...

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Not-knowing

Is nothing

Appearing as 

Thoughts..

Thoughts of

A hereafter

Of heaven 

Or any "beyond"

Appear..as might

Other thoughts

Denying such

Thoughts..

Not-knowing

Feeling as peace......

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My doctor is a surgeon, a man of know-how and expedience.
I set before you now his methods from personal experience:

When, to my despair, I developed...

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Lot’s Wife
(Genesis 19:15-26)


Not even the outcry of an angel
could keep her eyes from turning back.
With impending doom about to bring 
the cities down to ashes,...

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Be able to live without fright
express without reproach
smile without fear
walk freely
give love without betrayal
live in happiness
and dignity......

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Fear flashed like a shadow on the face
of Pharaoh’s curious daughter
when she lifted the baby from the water –
and why not, it was her first...

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A Congressman





A congressman, his face crunched in fear,
claimed God had whispered in his ear:
“Apply Isaiah’s words, then quickly select
men reasonable, mild and circumspect,
but please, under...

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