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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
Ended July 11, 2016 • 26 Entries • Created by misty
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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
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thesleepclinic

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Failure.

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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
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LizardBallou

Fear

I can feel my sanity slipping

When my dreams decide

To invite reality into my mind

At night

When I am at my

Most vulnerable

And can't run away

Or fight back

And all I can do

Is watch as you approach

Already knowing

What is going to happen.

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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
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Ellipsis

Dancing with Bees; Learning to Trust the Wrong Person

Breathe in her pollen

as you divulge your soul

to the keeper of a garden,

your garden.

She, the beekeeper,

listens and accepts,

but hidden in her hive lies

a wasp.

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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
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Vyxyn

The Unknown

Fear is usually the unknown and humans are quick to judge by looks rather than facts.

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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
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Limerick

Skies Painted Black

Falling, forever falling

Into the void of endless

Darkness

I see all yet I am blinded

My senses devoted to one thought

Darkness

Frozen air pierces my spine

Small needless hanging from my skin

Darkness

A voice calls out to me

I am helpless to escape

Darkness

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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
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KeepComingBack

thoughts cannot kill

Fear: an imagined emotion to distract our human minds from making the necessary change in order to exist in the present moment; a strained imagination ready to take control at any moment.

We are born with only two fears: Loud Noises and Falling.

Deductively then, all other fear is man-made.

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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
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CelticPrincess

Next stop: Fear

Fear is a deadly train ride

The first stop is dread

The next stop is agitation

Once we're underway again we meet trepidation

But this doesn't stop us from gripping frights hands

Once it has a grip on us we run into fright

Last stop is terror, before we exit

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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
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_A_

Fear is an utter abstraction

To describe it would take more words 

than all the stars in the sky

and all the grains of sand on a beach

words? Hah.

Words are useless when it comes to instinct.

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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
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ruffmiriam

Unfathomable

I cower in the crevice

  within my mind

The world outside dark

As ebony

Laughing at my

Weakness

#fearchallenge #poetry #amwriting

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How many words does it take to describe what fear is?
sunero4

F.E.A.R. I.S. R.E.A.L.

Frightening heights

Eternal nights

A forbidden desire

Rotten memories, from a time never forgotten

I can never fully explain the nature of fear

Silent, lonesome hours

Raw, awe-inspiring power

Eerie tales of ghosts and death

Awful people doing terrible things

Lest that it is real