Fear Lyric Poems

They start thick— 
not the polite kind you stir into tea
not the mild drizzle on breakfast toast
but the kind that runs hot
slow
dangerous 
coating your tongue...

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Tangled up in blue   Bob Dylan song contest

Tangled up in you


I remember the day I saw her, 
running down the avenue...
Chestnut hair flowing...

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IX.

In the ICU, machines create their own songo—
ventilator, heart monitor, IV pump—
forming an accidental orchestra
the clutch of machinery holding time
like a hi-hat choking its own...

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Inspired by “Stand Up & Shout” by Ronnie James Dio

Ride Your Wishing Star

In our solar system, 
     the king of stars...

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Each day she comes to sit and read
A story in herself
It often makes her feel as if
Her life dwells on a shelf

She lived here with...

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[Verse 1]
Hey dudes,
You ever feel small
Like the world’s too loud,
And none of it’s you at all?
Your dad said, stand tall,
But your heart just wants
To crawl...

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Nowdays society is in total chaos, don't keep asking yourself 
" If Anything ever changes ": who dares to fight has no fear;
making the same...

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I see the shadow in your eyes,
The quiet war you try to hide.
Still, I stay, still I wait--
Drawn to every twist of fate.
On a bed...

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The silence here is not of peace—
It hums like blood beneath the skin,
A hollow hush that will not cease,
A quiet carved from what has been.

No...

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[Verse 1]
We can’t look away from the pain and the sorrow,
From the fear and despair,
The cries of the broken, the lost and the hollow
Are rising...

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To Be Sung to the Tune of Man on the Silver Mountain in the style of Ronnie James Dio with Rainbow

I compute, I compute
I'm a...

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To feel worthless and lost
can be the worst defeat;
don't wear that look of pretentiousness 
it takes away every joy and sweetness!

No, there's no deep affection...

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Edward Ibeh's This Or That, Vol. 33 Contest...posted 21 May 25

[Verse 1]
Most folks flinch when the skies turn black,
Shut their doors, never once look back.
But...

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Dear Ma, if this letter finds
Your gentle hands, your quiet eyes,
Knowing I have fallen where silence climbs,
Beneath a blood-rubbed, broken sky.

The wind here howls like...

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[Verse 1]
Hope once sparked, now flickers low, 
Footsteps fade through falling snow. 
Love was red, now ghostly white,
Lost in silence, chasing light.

[Pre-Chorus]
Fought the fight and...

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