Fear Shelter Poems

In school, we practiced what to do
In case there was a fire.
We’d quickly exit, silently,
As teachers would require.

But there were also shelter drills,
(I’m talking decades...

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a loud siren sounds
     the people are all afraid
          to shelters they...

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She cried on national television
A plea that broke my heart
Her baby clung so tightly
In the bomb shelter they embarked.

Once, I experienced such turmoil
No baby on...

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A Psalmody of Psalm Ninety One
God is our refuge, He is our shelter
Kept safe from demons are those who’re blessed 
Beneath wings of the Almighty...

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I could care less about 
getting a haircut or 
finding hair color to 
dye my nappy roots
So what my nails need
a fill and my feet...

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Finding Shelter During End Times (1)

Do you think you’d feel pride as the last soul alive
on a planet that dies as your knife pricks its...

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It seems to happen frequently
At least in this millennium
All the freedoms we enjoy
We now must keep to minimum

They say we must can cel our plans
And...

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Shelter

When it’s raining outside
And there’s no where to hide
Give me shelter tonight
Oh baby, give me shelter

When I’m cold in the night
And heat breaks the budget
Give...

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I keep tripping over hurdles
Barriers forged between our hearts
Walls of a garrisoned fortress
Lofty palisades I must ascend
without crawling on my knees

I admit my faults lie...

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Ashen was the sky 
That rejected hand of sunrise
Sullen was the heart
That stumbled in affection,

Incapable of lauding
Ruby blush of budding rose
And pink passions on horizon
Defying...

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today I exist as a vapor then I am no more
some may equate logic for fear that brings nothing near
my chest is heavy and my...

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l decided to write a little poem today about when my late mom and dad told me about the time when, as a newly young...

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Would you visit the dragon’s tower?
And slip into his lair
The place where he has all the power
You wouldn’t have a prayer
Could you walk with one...

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A home am I for friendless thoughts,
	Lonely thoughts that are centuries strange
	And wouldn’t a hostile country range,
For they fear her frigid and mindless taunts.

My face...

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A platypus is living down under
He has a great fear of loud thunder

  When it rains, he takes shelter
  Makes a quick helter-skelter

Beneath...

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