Long Fraidy Poems

For some enchanted evenings...

The following scenario imagined
after the hoopla of
Democratic National Convention miracle workers
Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
trumpeted politically wholesome zeal,
and achieved advancement
propelling them ahead
in the race to the White House.

Unlike the hangdog expression of...

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It’s Faint Paddies Day
everyday,
from my oxy scarce commuter view

At this Rocky Mountain skin altitude,
death is always on the dispatch menu

Faint Paddies 
be sweating onion fear on a ghetto roll
Cry babies
be diaper blues potty wailing —...

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A couple nights ago
(today being August 4th, 2021)
while walking around the parking lot after dark
over yonder shrieking catcall heard - hark
at first methought, a baby experienced distress,
I immediately scratched that notion
far fetched as sound out...

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Feint faint "Fake" no nor'easter

If putsch comes to shove,
aye ain't no doggone fraidy cat
nor chicken little
fearing coup d'état,
yours truly simply
risk averse, and more exact,
he stays sequestered
within these four walls,
cuz tis safest inside this flat
always... mein...

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Little piggies in a hurry,
gotta run and catch that muddy dollar
As me rat race cheese-off,
peddling asphalt fumes of a 401k Harley

Punch-the-clock tired worker bees
drone alone in a homely cubicle
Fraidy kitty cats don’t snatch the keys,
‘cause...

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It’s always a good practice when living on a farm,
To have a family of cats living in the barn
They always keep the rats and mice at bay and furnish humor too –
Wherever you find kittens...

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I'm certain a lot of people
     can relate to what I'm about to lay down
It's having that one cool relative
     you attach yourself to whenever they come...

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My nerve cells are ceasing my thoughts 
My breath is barricading my life
My limbs are trembling 
My heart is hovering in fear

Oh mommy!  I am being victimized by me. 

The earth is sinking under...

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imagine any haunted house to have: 
Creaking stairways
Whispering blinds
Creepy doorways
Blood-curdling sounds

Spooky cob-webs
Ominous darkness
Ghastly shadows
Dreadful loneliness

Spine tingling shrieks
Owls hooting
Things that make 
Your skin crawl
Foreboding terror

An eerie silence
yet squeaky rats
A threatening suspense
with fluttering bats.

Thus a place crawling...

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My goosebumps have goosebumps
They are plain to see
I can't believe 
How this came to be

Exploring this old haunted house
I'm feeling quiet uneasy
My hackles are raised
Any my stomach is queasy

Not alone in this house
I got the...

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A bug who loved to doodle
was floating on a noodle.
He had to get some sunscreen;
the sun was getting brutal.

He could not reach the lotion;
he needed a commotion
to interrupt the pristine,
make waves just like an ocean.

He...

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Halloween night, a slender flapping scarecrow,
With the remorseless wind, he's doing a tango,
An owl is hooting, and large yellow eyes glow,
A witch in black is cackling, in deeper shadow.

Jack-o'-lantern grinning wildly in the window,
Dark night...

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The Blow
Miracle Man
5/25/2022
The super cell birthed this mighty blow,
This wall cloud quickly produced a tornado.

Soon, stationary objects were filling the air,
and many in “Fraidy Holes” were in prayer.

The wind emerged with a whooshing sound,
from outset,...

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When bad guys came through causing strife
in Mayberry, fraidy-cat Fife,
the lawman who never
was dauntless and clever,
could not catch them to save his life.

Huge blunders caused people to mock
and point at this town’s laughing stock.
Still, this...

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