Best Frightful Poems

Weather forecast so frightful, so scary
   It removes from this season the 'merry'

Howling winds and blowing snowdrifts
   Force your car off the edge of a cliff

Visibility of less than half and inch
   Makes an experienced aviator flinch 

700 flights...

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Miss Muffet was a girl of thirteen, filled with youth's beauty and charm;
And a love of vibrant life zealous, like eager, vivid thunder of blue alarm.

She was a fine student, pert and popular; like the primrose popularity;
Or stars appearing at the designated hour, sparkling like...

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Used to be the weather was frightful
People covered themselves from head to toe
Now, despite the fact it’s Christmas season
I see more sand, than I see snow
The temperatures keep on elevating
To the moon, they just seem to rise
Oh, where is the Christmas of yesterday
The rosy cheeks,...

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As long as its right in line with the knights
hindsight of the plight during the frightful night
of the fight thats not justified
to the blinded divines cry for the swines wine
While writing a fine sign trying to be kind...

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A Sound in the Bushes

By Elton Camp

I take this walk most every day.
It helps worrisome cares to allay.
Today’s the first I have heard
A sound different from a bird.

Unless my ear misconceives
It is the rustling of fall leaves.
But what could be around
To make that type of...

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The Weather Outside is Frightful


Christmas in Miami is a difficult sell
When the outside temp is hotter than Hell
St. Nick tries his best in the humid air
But soon sweats right through his underwear

Partridges tend to avoid palm trees
And geese hardly ever lay by warm seas
Mocking birds...

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My frightful steel helmet is so battered, dinged and frayed
It was issued by the Air Force - not a haberdashery store
I don't suppose it would look very proper in an Easter Parade
But it sure did come in handy-dandy when fightin' in the war
For such things...

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THAT FRIGHTFUL DAY

It was a Tuesday,
The world was told.
Terror filled the skies,
Murder cold and bold.

Americans are secure,
Our world is safe, we said.
We work in total comfort,
Rest securely in our bed.

September is a lovely month,
Along the Eastern shore.
With turning leaves and autumn breeze,
Shouting peace forevermore.

The eleventh...

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Charlie's cartoon characters were afraid
`Cause Caren wants humor in her crusade
Only one person submits
Caren careens and retrofits
Curiously all have it made in the shade...

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That Frightful Day

It was Tuesday, 
The world was told.
That terror filled the skies,
With murder cold and bold.

Americans are secure,
Our world is safe we said.
We work in total comfort,
Rest securely in our bed.

September is a lovely month,
Along the Eastern shores.
Turning leaves and autumn breeze,
Shouting peace, forevermore.

The...

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Awake!
Hands shake

Room dark
So stark

In bed
Soft tread

On stairs
Raised hairs

Alone
No phone

'neath sheets
Heart beats

Door squeaks
Floor creaks

Spine chilled
Pants filled

Take chance
Risk glance

Bright slit
Back-lit

Shadow
Does grow

Nails scrape
Escape!

Laugh peels
Reveals

Best friend?
Amend!

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(C) John C Michaels, 2nd April 2017

Inspired by the "Fabulous Fun Footles" contest sponsored by Jan Allison....

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I grab my lance,
and my Steed is readily near,
the thoughts of those I loved,
and what I'm fighting for.

Love and Live and I must fight,
To get the prize I seek.
But on this frightful night,
The one I must fight is me.

But I get on my steed 
and...

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you and your friends are chilling
when you spotted this man through the crowd
he walks up to you
you're smitten
happy that you caught his eye
the both of you are dancing then he asks you do you want a drink
not thinking you quickly respond
yes, get me a coke...

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Headless
Madness


For Donna Golden's contest Footle fright...

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I'm going toward the frightful unknown
carrying the flaming torch of hope,
it's a challenge never taken before: 
I've made a new promise often broken!

Where can a disheartened person find courage...
when, in this age, most portray the wrong image?
Many have reached their goal through ugly deceit,
but the...

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