Short Fretting Poems

Constantly fretting

lost in deep fog of caring

worrying hides faith...

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Plants and animals
All fretting about music
Vehicles and cars

By Robb A. Kopp...

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sexy curved
body fingering
her strings
fretting not
what words
in chords
come out
of her
sound
hole...

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Teeth gnashing
Pencil snapping
Clock ticking
No clicking
Words failing 
Mind flailing
Forehead sweating 
Frowning, fretting
Blank page,
Blocking rage!
...

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Only Fools Fretting

Are only fools which will be fretting;
Each end result had been upsetting,
To receive,
And perceive,
And all of this they were regretting.

Jim Horn...

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When all worry and fretting has ceased,
in the North, South, West and the East,
we’ll look back on this day
and triumphantly say:
“’Twas a plague, but we conquered the beast."...

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Fretting
Freak
Pet 
this wreck.
Iron 
his wrinkled insanity.
Crushed,crumbled emotions
Inject love.
Fretting 
Freak
Increase his dosage.
Ahh...
Don`t you feel better now?...

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Searching
pacing
fretting
losing

Freak out!

Breaking 
crashing
burning
crushing

Time lost!

Up 
down
left 
right

Which way?

Lost 
gone
forgotton
never

Finally found!...

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Criticize Then Condemn and Complain

Some people sure like to entertain,
Driving back and forth in fast lane,
And are fretting;
Attention getting;
We criticize, condemn and complain.

Jim Horn...

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abstracted bass, cacophonic drums echoing.
fretting guitars, humming in jubilation.
knackish lyrics, melancholy narrated opus.
phrased quartets, rare sonorous texture.
upbeat virtuoso, windy xaphoons yodel Zep....

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I have this desire
To believe it is not me
These people only conspire
Against who I am to be 
Thinking, fretting, as I perspire
Dwelling in agony
Please just let me expire
So I can find the audacity 
For my own SHIRE.........

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My dearest internet
My bread and butter
If you disappear
I am fretting

When typhoon strikes
You are nowhere to be found
When power shutdowns
I fiercely frowned

You are the source
Of my resource
My happiness
My brightness.....

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In came the cool fretting wind
Unwrapping the gathering waves 
Unsettling a once scenery mind
Into a fist full of doubt
We stretched to view
The troubling distance
Unrevealing a present danger
Splashing and slashing
Every foot hold on reality...

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In came the cool fretting wind 
Unwrapping the gathering waves 
Unsettling a once scenery mind
Into a fist full of doubt
We stretched to view
The troubling distance
Unrevealing a present danger
Splashing and slashing
Every foothold on reality...

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respite’s 
calling

cool drops
falling

gentle
thunder

it’s no
wonder 

we feel
heady

autumn-
ready

we’ve stopped
sweating 

sighing
fretting

just for
now, though

for we
all know

heat will
hold sway

by this
Tuesday!...

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climbing
running

laughing
sunning 

hoses 
spraying

outside, 
staying

till past 
sunset

Happy?
You bet!

~~~~~~~

summer 
swelter

seeking 
shelter

fanning 
sweating

sighing
fretting

turn up
AC

now I’m 
happy


June 14, 2022...

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in the end I want your hand 
us laying on a beach of sand 
should the sun be rising or setting?
either way I won’t be fretting
all my years add up to this 
now my life equals bliss
all I’ll need is one last kiss
the future gone and the past fades away 
i take solace that I had today...

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She is faithful to poetry
( Yours and mine)
In the rankings
She has not sold her mind
When readers disappear
As I get near
Or their comments do
Year after year
Valsa George is there
Reading, encouraging
Not fretting, fearing
Ranking in a universe
Of billions of suns
Like our little star, so strong...

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I look upon my world and think
I see my life before me blink
Endlessly I search for the missing link
For the life of me I cannot find it
This soul of mine is fretting for something
What it is I am unsure and uncertain
It makes me restless so very anxious
I see my life before me blink
As I look upon my world and think . . ....

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I'm torn            between
two points of     view, fretting
that this little poem-writing I do
is silly—no good—just wasting
my time, even when I make
a nice rhyme, but still it
puts a cheer in my
heart: It's just
the shape
of my
art
!


(Written 18 Dec 2018 for "The Shape of My Art" poetry contest.)...

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Experts are fretting about our society
And how some people have slipped from sobriety
Scientists now fear the latest variety
Have you been jabbed as we all have a right to be

Head-shrinks and quacks have grown verbally lazy
They just tell us Covid has sent us stir crazy
But look at my photo and you will all see
That COVID-19 hasn’t affected me...

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There, a note lays on the table
And I would read it, if I were able
I move the candle a little nearer
In hopes to make its message clearer
My heart is racing, my hands now sweating
But, my mind tells me there's no use fretting
Will she stay or is she going 
Time must tell, for there's no knowing
Lines on paper I could heed
If only I had learn to read...

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I want to fly high
Fly up to the sky
I want to defy
People who say I can’t fly

Zoom! Away I go
To the blue place I know
Shining so bright
With the sun as my light

Flying frees me from fretting
Soaring straight into the sky
My friends are betting
How high I’ll fly

They don’t know
How high I’ll go

I will dream though
That I can let go
And fly...

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Billy

Saturday night in another winter,
The time was 8:00, and I remember,
Icicles were hanging from the dormer windows,
Arc lights wore halos as I waited for you.

My new red dress was wrinkling,
As were the corners of my fretting eyes.
Tears were forming tho to no surprise,
The phone rang, you were kind but gone.

Arc lights wore halos as I waited for you....

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Wipe the slate and greet the year;
It’s the best of choices.
Let the sorrows disappear
As everyone rejoices.

Things could always be much worse,
We always keep forgetting.
Shift to drive and leave reverse – 
What’s over needs no fretting.

Venture out and face the day
And feel the sunshine’s healing.
Find some joy in life’s bouquet
And focus on that feeling....

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