Nervous Poems

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card left unsigned
bouquet left at the door
~ cautious admirer


Submitted on September 3, 2025 to contest 1409 SENRYU sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - RANKED 1ST

Idle Hands

a scribble here
a scribble there
my pen randomly
drawing diagrams and
spelling out words

meaningless chatter
idle artwork
mindless spilling of
thought overflow

nervous tic
kinetic outreach
mental gymnastics
creative outlet
for pent-up energy



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Foghorn

foghorn in the night
daunting the road less traveled
white knuckle affair



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Nervous

I keep thinking about this summer—about starting a new school—and as soon as I do, I find myself internally monologuing and getting all high-schooly. It’s hoot, I know, but I can’t seem to help it.

‘You know,’ I think, as I’m eyeing myself in the bathroom mirror, ‘I’ll just turn up, looking good, feeling confident about

Working toward a Nervous Breakdown

Working toward a nervous breakdown she said
Hoping to have three before I am dead
Think she’s already had one said uncle Ed
Let’s count it as three said his brother Ted

My lost cousin

I sat on a chair completely nervous
to know where I would do my youth service.
Then came the rudest shock of my whole life,
I'd have to go up north where strifes were rife.

I didn't even try to change the posting,
I was downcast as many were boasting,
that they'd have a pleasant year of favour.
Me, it'd be a

Quiet, Stiff Thoughts

No speech, no thoughts, 
Quiet is what they want. 
So that is what they get. 
I will never speak about love or respect- 
For anyone, so I will still as a stone. 
Cold, frozen, and hard as bone, 
But bones can still break and crack. 
Pressure, consistently adding to the stack, 
Of many worries that

the stuff of memories

we met for coffee early one snowy day
i was nervous you were funny
it was magical and felt... just right



AP: 3rd place 2025

mine sexie nervous eve

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Nervous

Sometimes when
 I see you
I get a bit nervous 
my voice start trembling, 
my legs start shaking
and my heart starts jumping.
I even talk a bit of mumbo
and a bit of jumbo
To others it may seem amusing
but I find it so confusing. 
So I hope that 
I don't fall flat
each time you sweep 
me off my

Funeral Home Grumblings

A quick pre-Halloween poem to capture a creepy funeral home scene. 
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T’was the night before Halloween, the funeral home quiet.
All the tables were taken, like a frightening, dark Hyatt.
Stretchers were full of our customers too,
Varying shades of red, grey, and blue.
Arising a sound that persists unexplained,
Perhaps from a soul of these many remains.
The floor starts

Crush

The more i try to push you out, the more my mind denied that 

And as the days passed and nights grew i find your presence closer to me 

So i spiral and question every possibility of us although it feels like a reach 

I’m hopeless yet so hopeful and i’m so scared but so

Lucy’s Nervous Run

Lucy's running nerves made her stew 
Race time, her legs stuck like thick glue 
When would be her time
Now a hard stool crime
Why did she always have to poo!  
 

He watched as she got stuck and fell 
What an awful cheesy feet smell
I may lose my town's crown 
My kid is such a

Silence - advice from a teacher

Make noise, be loud, bold, let your voice be heard; don’t be a wallflower, we have
enough of those already, the world needs leaders; you are soft spoken, don’t let dismissal by
others of your quiet tone discourage you; yell if you have to, if it’s what it takes for your voice to
be heard by others; you

A Nervous Man, a Guilty Man, and a Dylan Fan

A nervous man raced on the interstate.
He would be more than just a little late, 
But that really wasn’t so bad, you see -  
His destination was eternity.

A guilty man raced on the interstate.
I'm sorry to say, he too would be late.
Given his crime, that would be just as well,
Because his destination would be

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