Best Austerely Poems

Death never favours
Death does not discriminate between
Saints and sinners
losers and winners
Princes and paupers
followers or leaders
Dependents or
breadwinners
The fatter or thinner
Those who over ate of life's banquet
and those who austerely skipped its dinner.
Or the healed and the healers
the kinder or the meaner
The angels of death almost acting
as...

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Yesterday, playful children engaged with the outside    
Endlessly enjoying their midsummer day's ride    

Today, another car collision, stuck in traffic  
Overwhelm by the society’s demographics  

Tomorrow, weary and mangled from overworking  
Needing assistance my aching legs...

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26/2/2012
By Sashi Prabhu (zeauoxian)
Contest: treasure trove

Austerely laid my eyes firmly on my garden far side 
 Tattered page piles, from my attic treasure trove, littered outside.

I picked up a dog eared page of the days of sitting together,
In this garden, cuddling and smooching in cold...

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“Life” I scolded, the other day

For 

Her insistence on repeating the same lessons

Innumerable times.

“If you had learned the first time around, no

need would have been there for me to go over 

them again!” She, austerely, replied.




© Demetrios Trifiatis
    18 July 2015...

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Auspicious August was a king of old,
who used aspersion as if it were gold.
Baron Aseptic, he declared: filthy,
and his best virtue, his asperity.

The Baroness called the king audacious,
her husband was very assiduous.
“He austerely cleansed all crime from his land,
King August could not claim something so...

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On Valentine's day 
A grieving heart Cupid approached and thus
It spoke:
 
"Come, oh Cupid, 
You winged child of Venus and Mercury,
come
and tell me, once more,
why
should I, willingly, offer myself as a target again
for
your sharp arrows of love to practice on?"

"Have you forgotten the times your...

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Absolutely surrendering to the amusements of fate
Benign benevolent sentiments within bring bodacious bait 
Abiding austerely into the ageless absurd fits and starts 
Never negotiating with nature's nebulous nuptial new arts
Divine decorum dazzling dawn is what the environs drive at
Obscure oasis of the omnipotent ominously pat
Nefarious,...

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As time is waning, will you be paying attention?   
Procrastination, what ifs, and what you could have been?
Therefore, is your life in order? Are the bills paid for?
Beyond life’s shore, will a child be kick out the front door?
Most Americans live on a...

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By beckon of midnight the stars fuse

Along the subtle twilight moon

A sharp, yet quite an adept muse

Struck while atop I sat a dune


Adrenaline scours my veins

A flux unlike any before

Soft as the nature of cinquains

Paradise forevermore


Prosperity oozes in masses

Euphoria profuse I sought

Despair swift she collapses

Austerely...

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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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