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Popular Fear Poems

Prevision

by Aline Kilmer

I know you are too dear to stay;
   You are so exquisitely sweet:
My lonely house will thrill some day
   To echoes of your eager feet.

I hold your words within my heart,
   So few, so infinitely dear;
Watching your fluttering hands I start
   At the corroding touch of fear.

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Our Deepest Fear

by Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness
That most frightens us.

We ask ourselves
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.

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Talking Turkeys!

by Benjamin Zephaniah

Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas
Cos' turkeys just wanna hav fun
Turkeys are cool, turkeys are wicked
An every turkey has a Mum.
Be nice to yu turkeys dis christmas,
Don't eat it, keep it alive,
It could be yu mate, an not on your plate
Say, Yo! Turkey I'm on your side.
I got lots of friends who are turkeys
An all of dem fear christmas time,

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The Pig

by Roald Dahl

In England once there lived a big
And wonderfully clever pig.
To everybody it was plain
That Piggy had a massive brain.
He worked out sums inside his head,
There was no book he hadn't read.
He knew what made an airplane fly,
He knew how engines worked and why.
He knew all this, but in the end
One question drove him round the bend:

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The Wild Iris

by Louise Gluck

At the end of my suffering
there was a door.

Hear me out: that which you call death
I remember.

Overhead, noises, branches of the pine shifting.
Then nothing. The weak sun
flickered over the dry surface.

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Recent Fear Poems

Alex Pretti.

by Siobhan Reardon

They shot another one of us today.
And a storm is rising just beyond the horizon line –
a great wave of snow, sleet, and ice.
Ice I fear the most.

Another man is dead in the street.
And this storm will bring downed lines –
many will be warmed by wood stoves and generators.
I feel so damn alone.

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never hungry and never satisfied

by Sarah A

never hungry and never satisfied
i dont know where to run
but i know where to hide

craving nakedness
at the hand of your touch
but i can’t take off this robe
that i love so much

it’s dizzying

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normal as it gets (or dollhouse in a megaphone)

by Sarah A

sometimes i think about all the ways you could let me go
i dont know if it’s trauma or if i want to be alone
i clip my nails and ride my bike and try to act normal
but you said you were scared of me because i’m unpredictable

maybe i put too much weight on the words that come out of others’ mouths
i know my words are balloons that i forget i’m holding and then let go
pondering if when they come back down they’ll ruin something’s home

i’m jealous of the sweet muslim girl who prays at work

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My Selfish Vow

by Aditi Hayaran

I look at you, cheerful and joyous;
Your presence, your laughter, your voice.

You're too precious to even take a risk;
To me, you're the most valuable, a brisk.

You, the one who protects me from each storm;
In each cold dismay, your hand as an anchor warm.

I'm too young to swear an oath, to protect you, they say;

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Keep Your Mind Pure

by Igor Vykhovanets

True Purity

Keep your mind razor-clear,
No lies, no twisted frame.
Red is red, green is green —
No darkness in the flame.

Dogma’s chains will crush your soul,
Traditions blind and cold.
Reject the fools, resist control,

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