worrying about limb damage
I count fifteen enormous branches on my giant oak
If lightning got them and they fell, it would be no joke.
I bet each one of them weighs at least forty pounds
This magnificent tree might be the largest oak around.
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Categories:
worrying, tree,
Form: Rhyme
worrying is a time thief
Worrying is a pastime I do not engage in
I do not like having my time stolen by what if’s
Unless I am writing, using my imagination.
worrying is a time-thief.
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Categories:
worrying, me,
Form: Free verse
It's Harder At Night
It's harder at night
In the dark all alone
Just the hum of the ceiling fan
Where my thoughts start to roam
I worry about you
Where you are how you've been
Are you healthy and happy?
Or in pain again
Are you eating ok? Are you sleeping?
Are you warm in your bed?
These are the questions
That spin in my head.
I try to
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Categories:
worrying, angst, break up, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Waiting and Worrying
My cousin never showed up
At a place he should have been.
His phone goes straight to voice mail;
No one knows where to begin.
He’s always been reliable
So this is not the norm.
My sister called the police to file
A missing person form.
We live in times where contact
Can be made in seconds flat.
When it isn’t, there’s not much
That we
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Categories:
worrying, missing,
Form: Rhyme
I'm Worrying Much Less
I can only imagine how wonderful tomorrow
will be: being illuminated with the sunrise's blissful light;
I'm breathing a promising new life without strife,
I look above making myself this solemn promise:
to live all day and accept them without feeling low,
with no uncertainties on this mind seeking pure delight!
I'm worrying much less,
letting this prophecy pass;
it's not fate that
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Categories:
worrying, anxiety, beauty, confidence, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Worrying About What Ifs
Worrying About What If’s
Miracle Man
November 24th 2023
Many fret about things,
before they occur.
This tends to drive me,
straight up the wall.
This practice can cause,
my words to slur,
Please wait until it happens,
before you call.
“Worry cannot solve one problem,
Or add one cubit to my day.
Things in life that I can’t handle
Jesus always knows the way”
Tom
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Categories:
worrying, truth,
Form: Lyric
Worrying Turns of Events
There is suffering, we write checks.
There is much madness, we duck and dive,
walk in groups.
Preppers dream of solar powered generators.
Small guns are concealed upon large men.
Troubled times, the news is too much
for these short days.
The popular narrative is to worry
while we can.
On a cycle path I walk on tiptoes.
Last year a young lady was assaulted
on
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Categories:
worrying, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Remorse
Months have passed by since I last saw you,
I cannot still forget the worrying eyes that you had on that night,
leaving me thought, that we weren't okay but,
I still disregarded it because you seemed to be okay,
I wanted to apologize for setting aside the real problem that we had
and wish I could turn back the
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Categories:
worrying, change, emotions, july, longing,
Form: Free verse
Overwhelmed
The list is long, demands all large, all needs that must be met,
I try to keep afloat among the red letters of debt.
Your eyes all plead their silent plea; ‘be ok, don’t need me’,
You’re desperate to go on and live life how you think it, freely.
My pleas fall flat and pile back up, as bricks
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Categories:
worrying, anxiety, confusion, depression, family,
Form: Rhyme
It Is a Worrying State
It can be a good day
if you let things go their own way
and things might not be good
I must admit
sincerely that is the truth
for no heavens are aligned
from the stars above
on their own
I won't tell you
what it takes
because if I knew
you would too
We are on a roundabout
where a bit of knowledge
puts you a
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Categories:
worrying, beautiful,
Form: Bio
Taking the Worrying Out of His Hands
What should I wear? He asked.
He is seventeen and is meeting her grandparents.
A lover of fashion,, he has all kinds of clothes.
Are they Democrats? Are they Republicans?
Are they Liberals? Are they socialists?
What to wear, what to wear.
She is seventeen and confident.
She lets him know that he can wear anything.
We do not care. We are the
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Categories:
worrying, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
The Gap We Should Be Really Worrying About
So many gaps are getting bigger by the day,
The gap between the rich and those that are not rich,
The gap between the famous and the infamous,
The gap between the generous and the not so generous,
The gap between the closed mouth and the open mouth,
The gap between the tree huger and the developer,
The gap between the
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Categories:
worrying, allusion, analogy, assonance, character,
Form: Burlesque
Mr Anxiety
I feel like I am drowning
Cant pull myself ashore
Floating further away
From the me
I Know no more
Sinking in my thoughts
crippling in self doubt
Please try not to listen
Let the negative thoughts be out
I feel like I am trapped
Stuck within my head
Overthinking
Worrying
I should be looking ahead
Replaying failed scenarios
From years and years ago
Why are they so relevant
Only
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Categories:
worrying, anxiety, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
The Worries of Darlene and Dharma
My Aunt Darlene used up hours worrying.
Turning down invitations, sitting in one spot.
Afraid she would fall if she got up.
People brought her meals, so she would eat.
It is unclear whether or not she ever used a commode.
Darlene worried about the weather, the time, aliens, space travel, ESP.
She worried about sugar, cancer, diabetes, mice, snakes and
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Categories:
worrying, woman, women,
Form: Prose Poetry
Worrying Warriers
The war fronts
Fools,idiots and stupids
Waring
Worrying the learned
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Categories:
worrying, character, community, conflict, culture,
Form: Free verse
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