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Austere Poems - Poems about Austere


Premium Member AUSTERE TIMES
Milk bottles we would rinse out and return. Pop bottles take back to claim the tuppence. Kellogg’s cartons collected for the kids To cut and paste and learn creative art. Unburnt cinders reclaim from last night’s fire And add to burn again with today’s coals. Rinsed food cans collected by rag-bone man. Blue sugar-bag take back to the Coop To be filled...

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Categories: austere, life,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Austere Chapel-Exodus 17 9-12
austere chapel held up with clout of Aaron and Hur fidelity...

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Categories: austere, christian, endurance,
Form: Monoku



Covid New Year's Wishes
Expectations for the New Year, Aren't very high I fear, But let's start it with some festive cheer, Hoping life soon gets less austere. We're all learning patience we didn't have before, Making do with simple pleasures for sure. Spending time relaxing or walking outdoors, It'll be awhile before I'm back on a dance floor. Friends and pets are such solace, But when can...

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Categories: austere, new year, new years
Form: Sonnet
Kin
Kin by Michael R. Burch O pale, austere moon, haughty beauty ... what do we know of love, or duty? Daredevil by Michael R. Burch There are days that I believe (and nights that I deny) love is not mutilation. Daredevil, dry your eyes. There are tightropes leaps bereave: taut wires strumming high brief songs, infatuations. Daredevil, dry your eyes. There were cannon shots’ soirees, hearts barricaded, wise . . . and...

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Categories: austere, absence, beauty, death, love,
Form: Verse
Both Austere and Fair So Compare
Both Austere and Fair So Compare When things started out were austere, And found out in the end became fair; Wonder how; Then or now; To analyze further we should compare. The object is to take three rhyming words and blend them together into the form of a thought and subject. Finally complete it in the form of a limerick poem. A good President is...

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Categories: austere, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick



Austere Adoration
Arrogance absorbs an ambition as asses attack asses: all are astray, aghast and alone. Amidst atrocities and abhorrence, an angel aspired amity; amaranthine ardor: agony, absent... Arms appeared and accorded assistance; all are abetted, amidst apprehensions....

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Categories: austere, faith, forgiveness, hope, inspirational,
Form: Alliteration

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