Best Carved In Stone Poems

Careless whispers from sordid lips
Echo through the wooded landscape of hearts.
Destructive wants and needless needs,
Carried on the remnants of rust and bone,
Discarded amongst the fallen...

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Just Chris

Nothing very special here,
I’m young as old can be
Grey is just a state of mind
that’s come to set me free

Laughing at the future
as I’m...

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Your lover’s drawing straws without you, better bid farewell;
he’d never time for rhyme or reason, so it’s just as well.
Slip out the curtained window quick,...

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Across the land, and in the wind, a way of life would end
Who could have known, when sons were born how deep the blood would...

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I carried it on my lap all the way to you,
    The bus ride was so long, so long, Mom;
Lost in old...

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Ignorant to the favoritism; a desire to be special too
Naïve to all the sarcasm and criticism; finding it easy to subdue
Validity still not broken as...

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To give is good, most would agree,
When helping poor feel more secure.
A splendid thing's philanthropy,
Though motives are not always pure.

We seldom sacrifice at all,
Our charity,...

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With pride to boast when gnarled in vines
     that seek to take as nature's own
     this citadel...

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It was the first day of the new school year
The children of Beslan had no need to fear
In anticipation they eagerly left home for school
Some...

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On a cold winter night
Not far from here
There was a child
Suffering great fear

She was unfortunate
She was hurt
She always wore the same dress
and the same shirt

She...

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Of The Famed Labors Of Hercules
ninth poet, poet dedication series, Emma Lazarus

Through Time's mesmerizing and meandering paths,
Colossus of heroic worship rightly praised,
He that vented his...

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our days are now numbered
as we creep into the years
we are raging into the future
yet we haven't found the wheel to steer
concentrate we must
for this...

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Carved this stone a breath in life 
Then opened wide these pure made eyes
Where tempered hues paved roads their gray
...Yesterday, washed away of blue....

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Within these corridors of time
Our works are carved in stone.
We do not view for judgment; 
That task is God’s alone.

They serve as a reminder
Of conditions...

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"So…when I leave you
The pain of leaving
A part of myself behind
Shall linger…forever" I broke off there to wipe a tear
And recover moments of her sweet...

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