The Hurt is Real
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Treated like you don’t deserve
tepid greetings that unnerve
No sparks of warmth nor dying embers
Did you hurt somehow this family member
Once you got along just...
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Categories:
unnerve, family, hurt, pain, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Topsy-Turvy
...The world is topsy-turvy
And from what I can observe,
There’s so much that can unnerve me;
Every pitch thrown is a curve.
So much time I spend conversing
Focuses on things adverse.
In despair...
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Categories:
unnerve, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
In Darkening Woods
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deeper, deeper plunge
in darkening woods
branches fallen
cross your way
as you fall
where once you stood
sunlight gone
sounds unnerve
skin crawling
while fa...
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Categories:
unnerve, dark, imagination, sound, sun,
Form: Imagism
Living With a Visiting Ghost
...Most local folk lore is intended to unnerve but
I think there's validity to the Haunted horse shoe curve.
The building of our nations rails took a terrible toll
on the Irish, the Chinese, and many...
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Categories:
unnerve, 1st grade,
Form: Light Verse
The Ghosts of Altoona
...Some daysI feel it's time to move and
live by the sea, especially when the ghosts of
Altoona are haunting me..
Many cities in Pa., so rich in history,
They were hey days in their time.
It's no...
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Categories:
unnerve, death,
Form: Light Verse
Corrupt
...For a time I witnessed
Power and its abuse.
Police all throughout the land,
Creating fear with no excuse.
People whose creed once claimed,
To 'protect and serve'.
Seemed to evolve...
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Categories:
unnerve, change, corruption,
Form: Quatrain
Foul Weather
... Storm is fierce but I elect
To wend my way towards the beach
Clad in foul weather gear I suspect
'twill be a push to reach.
Down a path, that's far too long
Hampered by intemperate...
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Categories:
unnerve, beach, ocean, storm,
Form: Rhyme
Hearts To You
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I feel it’s time to redefine
The fancy flair of Valentine.
Along sweet sacred lover’s love
What about longtime friends we have?!
They own a huge chunk of my heart
That they wi...
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Categories:
unnerve, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
All Hail the Village Mortician
...All hail the village mortician
his bearing, proper patrician
Sterling the gent's reputation
throughout his chosen vocation
A man of dignity and reserve
whose stare can a ghost unnerve
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Categories:
unnerve, anxiety, culture, death,
Form: Couplet
Tick Ticking Timers
...At first I didn't notice
Then at once it hit me
These timers they were everywhere
And all at once were ticking
Now there is no ignoring
This ticking now my only focus
Driving me to think abou...
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Categories:
unnerve, allusion, anger, anxiety, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Around the Churchyard
...Thrilled to the depths of my body and soul,
Time and wind had passed unseen,
Like an ice detached from a glacier,
It dwindled like a battered scream.
I'm befogged, benumbed and enfeebled,
An u...
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Categories:
unnerve, death, fear, life,
Form: Free verse
Corona Virus
...Corona virus sent to try us
Unnerve Confuse deplete divide us
It comes to scare it comes to kill
The vulnerable the old and ill
It spreads it’s panic it spreads it’s fear
It’s harsh unju...
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Categories:
unnerve, death,
Form: Free verse
Who's Who At the Zoo
...Anacondas crush to pieces
Bisons sport long shaggy hair
Cheetahs are the fastest species
Dolphins leap into the air
Elephants have large incisors
Fennec foxes, ears like Spock
Great white shark...
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Categories:
unnerve, animal,
Form: ABC
Resolutions
...Realistically, will you unnerve the devil?
Ensure he won’t tempt you to stoop to his level ,
Staring at the wine glass, my mind is in disarray,
Oaths I swore I would take, I can’t dismiss them awa...
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Categories:
unnerve, new year,
Form: Acrostic
The Dove
...Dedicated to Robert Lindley. Warning this tale is dark.
THE DOVE
A bloody stain upon the sheets, how cruel!
Soulless weight of the wretched beast who’d rule.
With his bare paws and dow...
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Categories:
unnerve, abuse, dark,
Form: Rhyme
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