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Inchcape Rock

by Robert Southey

No stir in the air, no stir in the sea,
The Ship was still as she could be;
Her sails from heaven received no motion,
Her keel was steady in the ocean.

Without either sign or sound of their shock,
The waves flow’d over the Inchcape Rock;
So little they rose, so little they fell,
They did not move the Inchcape Bell.

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Still I Rise

by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

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Song : 'Love Armed'

by Aphra Behn

Love in fantastic triumph sat,
Whilst bleeding hearts around him flow'd,
For whom fresh pains he did create,
And strange tyrannic power he shew'd;
From thy bright eyes he took his fire,
Which round about in sport he hurl'd;
But 'twas from mine he took desire
Enough to undo the amorous world.

From me he took his sighs and tears,

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The Poem Of Zuhair

by İbn Abî Sûlmâ Zuhayr

'Does the blackened ruin, situated in the stony ground between Durraj and Mutathallam, which did not speak to me, when addressed, belong to the abode of Ummi Awfa?

'And is it her dwelling at the two stony meadows, seeming as though they were the renewed tattoo marks in the sinews of the wrist?

'The wild cows and the white deer are wandering about there, one herd behind the other, while their young are springing up from every lying-down place.

'I stood again near it, (the encampment of the tribe of Awfa,) after an absence of twenty years, and with some efforts, I know her abode again after thinking awhile.

'I recognized the three stones blackened by fire at the place where the kettle used to be placed at night, and the trench round the encampment, which had not burst, like the source of a pool.

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Disabled

by Wilfred Owen

He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,
And shivered in his ghastly suit of grey,
Legless, sewn short at elbow. Through the park
Voices of boys rang saddening like a hymn,
Voices of play and pleasure after day,
Till gathering sleep had mothered them from him.

About this time Town used to swing so gay
When glow-lamps budded in the light blue trees,
And girls glanced lovelier as the air grew dim,-

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Recent Fear Poems

haiku: shape : belief

by Ghairo Daniels

belief held too dear
another facet to fear ~
let go of matrix

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LIEF helD

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The scariest thing

by Siyana Tsvetkova

I don't get scared easily
I'm the tipe of person who'd watch a horror film and laugh at it
But the thing that truly scares me is being alone, is being obandent
When you're alone you don't have a wall to hold on to, there would truly be no point, no point in doing stuff, in existing, in living
If I ever was alone in this big horrifying thing called life
I'd just give up, give up and die, die alone in the cold harsh would that we live in
Don't you agree
I'm truly curious what do you think
If you're alone in the cold harsh would would you just end it before you realize how sad and alone you are

Addiction

by Kait Nelson

Every night I stay awake
Then curse upon the sun
Until my dreams can swallow me
And from myself I run

Stumbling up the stairway
I ignore the field of flags
Convince myself they’re burgundy
And shred them into rags

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Angst

by Mario Odekerken

Im Dunkel sitzt sie,leis' und kalt,
ein Schatten,der mich fest umwallt.
Sie flüstert Dinge,kaum gehört,
die Seele zittert,aufgewühlt,verstört.

Ein Hauch,ein Blick-schon ist sie da,
so greifbar nah,so sonderbar.
Ich schließe Augen,halt sie fest,
doch sie bleibt-mein stiller Gast.

Don't rely on the bogeyman

by Mario Odekerken

Don't rely on the bogeyman
to frighten you into stillness.
He is only a shape carved
from the edges of your doubt,
a shadow cast by stories
meant to keep you from wandering.

The fear is real-
but not the face you gave it.
It waits not under your bed,

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