Short Panicked Poems

they sold a six pack in the grocery store
politicos all panicked
the rest of the world shrugged...

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What Was I Thinking

Slept through the alarm - dressed in panicked state - wearing one blue, one black shoe...

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Woke in panicked haste
Like coffee burning in my lap
Over slept two hours

By Robb A. Kopp
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Wide eyes
Panic
lips hovering right below a scream
hair pulled into a fist
mouth covered
panicked eyes
wide
heart rattling
fear...

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So,
when
I delete 
An App from 
my iPhone, the 
shaking icons make
it look like they’re panicked
over who is going to be deleted...

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Scurrying about...
Darting here and there... panicked
Whimpering feebly... 
Brave predators lick their lips...
Caged, trapped... helpless... caught fast...

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March winds, 
beauty ends...

hair knots,
frizzy globs...

bad luck,
locks stuck...

sight...mirror,
panicked terror...

Uh oh,
nesting crow!

...

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From very far away heard the death.
Each word pounded against silence
Withered breaths of mine panicked
Reality forced a
whisper in the ear,
faded were gone.
Rush to the
time-stamped
Peace....

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You left me holding an empty canteen
So I ran to you like a panicked stampede
But your fountain of love
Was all dried up
And my raindance only made you seethe


Received Honorable Mention in "losers" contest...

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Zelda, that tired old witch, she overslept
No surprise, with the late hours she kept
  Panicked, Zelda grabbed her broom
  Off to scare children she'd zoom
Stores sold out of 'B-r-e-w-m-e-t-h-a-n-o-l' ~ she wept...

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Heat rushed through her fleshy parts from the thrust within mine charge
  That look on her face as I made flight for rest did melt this cold heart
    Oh I panicked yet mustered the wake to cause her dream in sleep...

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The sale of toilet paper during the pandemic
In the billions, we panicked and became schizophrenic
Could read the evening news
Articles could make us go pew
Needed to be removed from the store with a derrick...

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Listen to poem:

Your absence hurts me,
Like a persistent toothache
Or a pair of too-tight shoes.
But, worse, your hard face,
When finally we meet,
Leaves me panicked, gasping:
A doomed and thrashing swimmer,
Drowning in your indifference....

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midnight silence

                                    screech of eagle 

                         panicked prey awoke from sleep





HAIKU CONTEST inspired by BASHO only Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Damned I-Be
Date: 08-01-2022...

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falling four days
sideways 
the crux of capitalism
crushing financial happiness
into a credit card cube
panicked children chained in debt
to failing governments and corruption 
walking green bricked roads
from Wonderland into the abyss...

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Sleeping in Souls


Frightened thought image,
   scared of the unknown.
Perception by envisioning,
   evil eyes of stone.

Reaction chose hastily,
   panicked stress whispered ear.
Garnished Souls devour darkness,
   lying next to you right here......

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Talons.
A Pidgeon panicked!
It flew flapping in its thunder;
In a motion rolling beneath 
swaying leaves.
Floating in its light
eyes wide,sunlit,shattered
In its thunder.
Morning appears through
a misted velvet night !
A solitary coo, no thunder
or wings....

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teens overnighting
in the social hall
yet feel
apart, alone
panicked

a dark, quiet room
curl up 
in the corner
arms holding knees to chest
head down
trying to feel
anything

nothing there
empty, a shell
huge hole
where 
they say
a heart
resides

why?
no answer...

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Is this happiness?

Or is this healing?
  
If I promise to never let this happiness go…

Will I simply let myself down again?

Right now I am-  

Happy!

I am also-

Panicked,

Worried, 

And hopeless…

But I know I am strong enough-

To keep those feelings secret....

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Changes, oh so gentle
Untold how many moments repeated
A place in time not my own
To see that which should not have been
Stole me,
For I panicked when I noticed
Realizing I'm forever in a time all unknown
This world, not my own
I can only hope that what replaced me
Keeps me safe
For I am, it...

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Lost within the corridors of my mind,
With no end in sight,
I panicked  in fright,
For shadows hound,
And the ground groans,
Were must I go,
To and fro
My mind gos,
What is this madness,
Infecting,
Spreading,
My mind runs away from me,
Oh god the shadows hound, 
running me into the ground....

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Somewhere, stark in lunar light,
A werewolf wakens from a wight,
And creeps throughout the sleepy night
To give his fellow creatures fright.

Somewhere, hapless sot alone
Through forest stumbles toward home,
Types panicked text on shaking phone...

Somewhere, werewolf gnaws on flesh-ripped bone....

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Coronavirus has good and bad timing
I know that a lot of people are dying
 The animal’s well-beings are inclining
The animals and plants really are thriving
The ecosystem’s cleanliness is climbing
So while this is hard on all of the living
The world has become a better planet
Even we are still a little panicked...

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We bought books.so many
We read pages by the thousand
We asked friends, help groups
We camped in libraries
We panicked, we worried
We were overwhelmed
No understanding, no experience
We were so lost in this new world
Then it happened, and later came
We discovered to be parents
You write your own learning

1990...

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Going up and down in an elevator
Furiously walking, getting off and climbing through stairs
I've got an urgent appointment

The higher I go
The closer to death
Everything around is falling apart
There's one window of opportunity
To escape the whole ordeal

Panicked, sweat rush
A new passenger gets on
She delays my entry
Indefinately......

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