Fritz

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Fritz
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Poet since 1984, when began in a German gasthaus in Heidelberg. Have written a bit since, with over 200 poems to my credit. I am a 1974 graduate of the University of Texas, and now live in Clarkesville, Georgia. I am a 75 year old single man.

  August 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 5 total

HATE

HATE



I hate
Never learning
How to hate
I pity those lost nights

Of envy
For those abnormal souls
Who can hate
Those

 

  Politically different

  Racially variant

  ...

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Scales, Fins and Reflections

SCALES, FINS AND REFLECTIONS


Like reflections from a mirrored glass
my muses lit ideas shining in my past
as my lure was cast by an unfocused mind
to float, eerily, for watery prey to find.
My mind muddled, as I periodically pulled
to lure...

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TO BE . . .

TO BE . . .

  OR ELSE!


DAMN! DAMN! DAMN! My undone curse
rang with my disturbed, rhymed verse
of horrors creeping eerily about,
of trolls at night on slippery routes
sweeping...

– by Fritz Crytzer

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WHY POETRY

WHY POETRY


I often wonder, when my frazzled mind is cursed
why someone like me has persevered and become
a spinner of words in meter, rhyme and sweet verse
instead of creating...

– by Fritz Crytzer

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The Mist

THE MIST


The mist rolled in
The cool mist enveloped my soul
It went within
Becoming Hades numbing ghoul

Dying, shouting evolving
I lived fretfully in its intricate death
I became lost resolving
Why I lived fading in a graveyard heath
...

– by Fritz Crytzer

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