Short Fretful Poems

When she is 
Fretful, 
She draws a square.
When she is happy, 
She dances on a circle.
When she is excited, 
The moon is excited....

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Wind trembles

with premonition

of a gold 

leaf's demise, 

throughout Indian summer's  

procrastination 




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Submitted for Kim Merryman's Contest: Shadorma Style...

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you looked on 
alarmed at the endless blackness
staring while hoping
for a spark 
to light you
far away from solitary
you stood bewildered 
fretful and fatigue
after struggling to run 
a motionless race
ending in an endless circle...

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Her unassailed Highness sleeps
belly upturned
in fretful repose

Garnished green, by a faerie ring
bare and barren
laid out for a spell

Majestic head in verdant bed
Impromptu eyeful
a cameo gaze

black and white, by degree
Covert, supine
pussyfoot queen...

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success
                           joyful,intrepid
             satisfying,enduring,mesmerizing
       merchants,academicians,politicians,students
                     cheating,rioting,killing
                          sorrowful,fretful
                                failure....

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Crochety,crusty and cross,
ever at a loss;
testy,touchy and huffy,
full of fickle fears,
impulsive teenage years.

Sulky,sullen then glad
faddish,fretful or sad;
tense,dejected and downcast,
each day changing fast.

Like a chameleon cast
by teens that,oh so slowly pass....

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At times we wonder
About our fate
Our destiny
Our future
The days their number
What’s around the corner
Our blissful ignorance
Mingled with
Fretful anxiety
We say we’d like to know
But could we handle it
Best live day to day



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on March 15, 2019...

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Whisper 
Soft lullabies
A mother's melody
Soothingly shushes fretful cries
Precious.

                                                         
         
Kim Merryman
For  nette onclaud's  Melody of Cinquain contest   2nd place win
9/8/11      

For PD's 2nd place winners contest...

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Never had the chance
To rain in the sultry sun
Or burn in the rain

"Poof" in the pudding
Spoon leaving fretful fingers
For chocolate bliss

Playing fiddles to dance
Smoking toes join the hot sand
Bringing joy to the prance

Arctic spice is keen
Warming the polar bear bliss
Biting the boreal kiss...

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A fretful humble day murmurs, thoughtfully 
Midnight dives, harvest sun cavorts
With a delicate stirring through the weeds 
Squirming in rusted quality 

O' cold fall moves fiercely 
In shades of blood red in the fog 
The afore-winter moon pillars tauntingly
Whilst daylight beams the dance floor with accolades...

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Freddie, tipsy, and it showed
Freddie lived across the road
Freddie knew she would explode
Freddie was a big, fat toad

Frannie waited in the bog
Frannie worried ‘bout the fog
Freddie, out and drinking grog
Frannie was a fretful frog

Freddie thought he had the jump
Freddie launched off from the stump
Driver didn’t hear the thump
Now poor Freddie’s not so plump...

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Patience


Patience, virtue of life,
   precious gift to bestow,
      permits willingness to
         prepare to wait in cool,
            perpetual calm, since
               pressure, fretful words
                  pull down goals and spirit.


Sandra M. Haight


~4th Place~
Contest: Pleiades, Please!
Sponsor: Kim Merryman
Judged: 11/27/2015
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Braggadocios  Colonel McBragg
caught a truth bomb
gag shrapnel frag
This sent his damaged, prideful heart
on a flatline drag

His coffin was dress uniform covered
by a neatly folded flag

All those in consternated attendance,
wondered ruefully ...
with fretful thoughts a-sag,
that brain prickly did nag:
 
What classified secrets loose lips McBragg
had let out of the intel bag...

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The Lord is Faithful I’m Grateful

Lord you are faithful;
I am not faithful;
Lord you are grateful
When I am not fretful
But I want to do better
Will you answer my call?
All of my prayers my letter;
To you Lord is to do better;
Praise God
                                                                       
                                11/6/16 
        Written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2016©...

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To Silence – blessed break from speech
And sounds that are beyond my reach
To the end of scrape and screech

To Silence – of the engines blast
And sirens clamor as they pass
To squelch alarms for sleep at last

To Silence – in my troubled dreams
And from my minds own fretful screams
To let my conscious be redeemed

To Silence – in the final sleep
Let no one come and no one weep
To Silence – my reward be reaped...

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What I regret in life
The times I was vengeful
A life of lies

Now I am paying the price
And, looked awful
What I regret in life

A circle of low life
That is full of stressful
A life of lies

Time.., do revise
I need a moment to settle
What I regret in life

The instance I drive
For something so fretful
A life of lies

Here you are, strong and alive
Trying to be prayerful
What I regret in life
A life of lies.....

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Assuming hand from above
guiding fretful pinioned glove
past waltzing pines and drunken oaks,
cheerful friends yet frightened folk.
Swelling fear puffs spotted breast,
no watchful eye, no woven nest.
Sharply shoved by hurried gust
and mistral maidens in a huff,
who twirl up toward yellow glare
to greet abashed doldrum air.
Green eye below, delusions home,
blue eye above, illusions roam
which flit and fly it seems with ease
Yet Freedom answers to the breeze....

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This restlessness won't leave me,
it buzzes about my chest
as though it were a field of daisies
waiting to be pollinated
by a swarm of fretful bees
who sting like honed pebbles
but never die

At night, I can hear the daffodils whimpering
from my windowsill,
they reach for me
with limp limbs,
I feed them honey
spit on their soil
and read a poem from my diary

but they're still ill at ease
so we count stars
wishing one might fall through
our fluttering hearts...

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