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Your take on Fear.
Your take on fear. What do you fear most.
two entries per poet
old or new writes but not winning poems
no collabs
no extreme contents
Don'T Fear Death
Don't fear death in earthly travels.
Don't fear enemies or friends.
Just listen to the words of prayers,
To pass the facets of the dreads.
Your death will come to you, and never
You shall be, else, a slave of life,
Just waiting for a dawn's favor,
From nights of poverty and strife.
She'll build with you a common law,
One will of the Eternal Reign.
And you are not condemned to slow
And everlasting deadly pain.-
by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich[i]
two entries per poet
old or new writes but not winning poems
no collabs
no extreme contents
Don'T Fear Death
Don't fear death in earthly travels.
Don't fear enemies or friends.
Just listen to the words of prayers,
To pass the facets of the dreads.
Your death will come to you, and never
You shall be, else, a slave of life,
Just waiting for a dawn's favor,
From nights of poverty and strife.
She'll build with you a common law,
One will of the Eternal Reign.
And you are not condemned to slow
And everlasting deadly pain.-
by Aleksandr Aleksandrovich[i]
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The Green Jackets are coming
The park tunnel was long enough
to lose peripheral vision,
it dripped even in dry weather.
Sometimes I would sit in the shadows
watching kids run like bumper cars
sparking fear onto blackened bricks.
I was learning.
A test for the playground huddle.
Have you heard?
when we leave at four the Green Jackets
will be waiting by the bridge before the park,
its winter, it will be dark.
There was this girl walking home,
on her own.
Four of them jumped her.
“What did they do, what did they do?”
They stripped her and carved Green Jackets
on her back with a razor blade.
Children spun like sycamore seeds,
their coats twirling held only by the hoods,
a tribal chant began.
The Green Jackets are coming,
the Green Jackets are coming,
Through every class room at every age,
the story spread like falling dominoes,
tears where beating snot bubbles to lips.
By four o’clock the police where there
guiding panic stricken children
through school gates that creaked
with laughter in the wind.
I have grown.
You're weak, needy and vulnerable,
safe behind your screens,
pickings for someone as well schooled as me
in telling you what to dream.
Reaching out down copper wires,
I can listen through a billion phones,
watch you through your webcam
uncensored, unchecked and unconstrained.
I can sell you God in the morning
and whiten your smile in the afternoon,
I can make you drool.
control any gullible fool who still believes,
the Green Jackets are on their way.
to lose peripheral vision,
it dripped even in dry weather.
Sometimes I would sit in the shadows
watching kids run like bumper cars
sparking fear onto blackened bricks.
I was learning.
A test for the playground huddle.
Have you heard?
when we leave at four the Green Jackets
will be waiting by the bridge before the park,
its winter, it will be dark.
There was this girl walking home,
on her own.
Four of them jumped her.
“What did they do, what did they do?”
They stripped her and carved Green Jackets
on her back with a razor blade.
Children spun like sycamore seeds,
their coats twirling held only by the hoods,
a tribal chant began.
The Green Jackets are coming,
the Green Jackets are coming,
Through every class room at every age,
the story spread like falling dominoes,
tears where beating snot bubbles to lips.
By four o’clock the police where there
guiding panic stricken children
through school gates that creaked
with laughter in the wind.
I have grown.
You're weak, needy and vulnerable,
safe behind your screens,
pickings for someone as well schooled as me
in telling you what to dream.
Reaching out down copper wires,
I can listen through a billion phones,
watch you through your webcam
uncensored, unchecked and unconstrained.
I can sell you God in the morning
and whiten your smile in the afternoon,
I can make you drool.
control any gullible fool who still believes,
the Green Jackets are on their way.
Written by Razzerleaf
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Fear
Fear is a hungry animal
It feeds a little at a time
Silently taking away strength
Making simple things more difficult
Building mountains to climb
Fear becomes a whisper
In the silence it can be heard
Knows what buttons to push
Heightens the emotions beyond control
Eating away at common sense
Fear touches the imagination
Bringing the shadows out of darkness
The feelings of uneasiness get stronger
Legs become heavy and hard to move
It’s like being gripped by invisible hands
Fear clings in times of uncertainty
Putting doubt where there shouldn’t be
Creeps through defences when least expected
It knows what your thinking
Cause this beast becomes the thoughts
Fear is the straight jacket
That ties you up in knots
Coming through the air like a breath
It’s cold on skin
That’s when reason goes awry
It feeds a little at a time
Silently taking away strength
Making simple things more difficult
Building mountains to climb
Fear becomes a whisper
In the silence it can be heard
Knows what buttons to push
Heightens the emotions beyond control
Eating away at common sense
Fear touches the imagination
Bringing the shadows out of darkness
The feelings of uneasiness get stronger
Legs become heavy and hard to move
It’s like being gripped by invisible hands
Fear clings in times of uncertainty
Putting doubt where there shouldn’t be
Creeps through defences when least expected
It knows what your thinking
Cause this beast becomes the thoughts
Fear is the straight jacket
That ties you up in knots
Coming through the air like a breath
It’s cold on skin
That’s when reason goes awry
Written by AspergerPoet56
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AspergerPoet56, thank you for your entry.
Dancing in Hell
The time has come, here and now
No choice remains, you must go
Darkness has fallen, delay no more!
Tonight you dance with demons
The hall is at capacity, every monster
impatiently waiting- honored guest
You indescribable, exquisite mortal,
dance like your soul depends upon it
They will try to force you to submit
these tempting devils you dance with
offering to end your pain, right this instant
Surrender sweetly, darling... just let go
Move lightly, don’t miss a step
stay with the beat, keep smiling
Little time remains, make the call
You haven’t been trapped just yet
Bells toll the hour, it is Midnight!
Cries start to rise above the music
Dancers whirl in frenzied abandon
making this your final chance to escape
Music shrieks, hands of demonic dancers
clawing clothing to shred, tear at fragile skin
Malevolent grins leer at you in triumph,
now caught by an arm around your neck
Surrounded, pressed in with no quarter
freedom seems fantastic, too far away
Your last swan song, going down fighting
screaming, wailing until you suffocate
The hall shakes, chandeliers fall, walls crack
hellions hurrying to exit but are trapped
There is no way out, to escape the cries
stemming from your heart, sacred holy soul
Your throat is raw, tear-choked, silent
as hideous fiends fall to their knees
Clutching the last gasps of miserable lives
before falling lifeless to the dance floor
Silence falls over everything, achingly peaceful
The doors to the hall open, you are now free
Battered, bloody, you lift your tattered skirts,
walking through the opened doors into the sun
You have escaped Hell - a feat beyond description
Dancing with demons, you'd all but given up hope
Near surrender, barely escaping eternity in Hell
Nothing is freer than a cry from a broken soul
No choice remains, you must go
Darkness has fallen, delay no more!
Tonight you dance with demons
The hall is at capacity, every monster
impatiently waiting- honored guest
You indescribable, exquisite mortal,
dance like your soul depends upon it
They will try to force you to submit
these tempting devils you dance with
offering to end your pain, right this instant
Surrender sweetly, darling... just let go
Move lightly, don’t miss a step
stay with the beat, keep smiling
Little time remains, make the call
You haven’t been trapped just yet
Bells toll the hour, it is Midnight!
Cries start to rise above the music
Dancers whirl in frenzied abandon
making this your final chance to escape
Music shrieks, hands of demonic dancers
clawing clothing to shred, tear at fragile skin
Malevolent grins leer at you in triumph,
now caught by an arm around your neck
Surrounded, pressed in with no quarter
freedom seems fantastic, too far away
Your last swan song, going down fighting
screaming, wailing until you suffocate
The hall shakes, chandeliers fall, walls crack
hellions hurrying to exit but are trapped
There is no way out, to escape the cries
stemming from your heart, sacred holy soul
Your throat is raw, tear-choked, silent
as hideous fiends fall to their knees
Clutching the last gasps of miserable lives
before falling lifeless to the dance floor
Silence falls over everything, achingly peaceful
The doors to the hall open, you are now free
Battered, bloody, you lift your tattered skirts,
walking through the opened doors into the sun
You have escaped Hell - a feat beyond description
Dancing with demons, you'd all but given up hope
Near surrender, barely escaping eternity in Hell
Nothing is freer than a cry from a broken soul
Written by inechoingsilence
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FEAR
Fear is the unraveler
Undoer of all things
The impediment to happiness
And perverter of the senses
Fear is a binding
Felt in your chest in a night
As dark and slick as ink
Enveloping you in yourself
Fear cripples
And dismays
It is a parasite that burrows
Deep within your psyche
But when you chase it
And finally grasp the wretched thing
It cowers and shifts
And takes on a new form
And so the struggle renews itself
Isn’t that beautiful?
Undoer of all things
The impediment to happiness
And perverter of the senses
Fear is a binding
Felt in your chest in a night
As dark and slick as ink
Enveloping you in yourself
Fear cripples
And dismays
It is a parasite that burrows
Deep within your psyche
But when you chase it
And finally grasp the wretched thing
It cowers and shifts
And takes on a new form
And so the struggle renews itself
Isn’t that beautiful?
Written by DaryaWaters
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Signs and Forebodings
I do not fear harm to my physical being,
But rather for my state of mind,
I fear the heart ache and loneliness,
That the fates will take what is mine.
I do not fear discomfort to this body,
But the agony of taking my affection,
For a brush with death is one too many,
As I dread a long and endless abjection.
I do not fear death for it’s inevitable,
But I do fear it for taking the one I love,
For when there are signs and forebodings,
I fear a punishment is coming from above.
Yes, I may be selfish and egotistical,
But I want to grow old with my mate,
For I fear the ages of being alone,
I would rather trade places with fate.
Written by wallyroo92
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