Short Scared Stiff Poems

Summer night, scared stiff
Trying to pay for condoms
With a rubber check...

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Trapped like a mouse!
Squished like a bug!
Stuck like glue.  Eeeew!
Scared stiff like a deer caught in the head lights!
Shaking like a leaf.
Sick as a dog.
Dumb as a doorknob.
Blind as a bat.
Mad as hell!

One thing I'm not lately is,
sleeping like a baby!...

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Wading water, my foot falters
This freezing feeling is seeping, stealing
Healthy heat from foolish feet
Now sliding, slipping and trip, tipping
Swimming swift so legs lift 
Scared stiff in the water wishing
That fish found this folly fitting.





May 28th, 2023
Alliterisen Poetry Contest, sponsored by Joseph May...

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Any noise, any sudden movement
Any voice calling me,
A step outside my door
A shadow in the street
A creaking stair
The rustling of fallen leaves
A tap on my shoulder,
Sets my heart pounding
My legs growing roots
My blood turning cold
My soul beginning to freeze...

I play possum!


~12/11/22
~Contest: A Brian Strand Premiere Choice #54...

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He cringes in fear, his legs wobble,  his young wings scared stiff;


                     below the nest yawns a dark, deathly chasm of  what if;


                                                   plunges into space,

                                            flaps, slows down the pace;


               ah, new-found  freedom of flight,  across, around the home cliff !...

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