Best Robustness Poems

Gadabout butterflies
glitter like red sunset.
Gem sparkles in the west.
Gracious nature provides
glamour hues in winter.
Glad robin sings, lustrous.
Goodbye, last robustness....

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The robin led straight to the tenant,
Notre Dame, though not Gothic at all. 
The huge dormers were closed. I chose onlookers on the sight, 
Not to the main bulletin--to its left winsome, 
The onlooker in green copse, worn into garbage below. 
I pushed. Then it...

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By Stanley Collymore

There’s more to parenting than being a mother
who, whether consciously or accidentally so, 
conceives and subsequently delivers into
a world of uncertainty the helpless 
infant she’s successfully carried
for its full term, with or minus
the physical presence, moral 
or the financial support 
of a biological...

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"To My Dear and Loving Husband"
by Anne Bradstreet


If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife, then thee;
If ever wife was happy in a man,
Compare me with ye women if you can.
I prize thy love more than whole mines of...

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The Frail

The frail know not the zeal of robustness. 
Nonetheless, hopes seal
Daydreams that hearts conceal.


© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 26, 2010

Poetic form:  Englyn 
NOTE: There are several forms for this type of Welch poem.  This one is called Englyn penfyr

Poetic Form: Englyn penfyr (Short...

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Are the exploits slowly fading of the folk who forged this land?
Are there more important factors, today for us to understand?
Are we prepared to lose our national character?
Erase our borderlines, and forget about Australia,
where squatter and selector, fought fire, flood and drought …
the Shearer and...

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Small minds people’s frailties deride
Drawing comfort and report
Although average minds decide
Events to discuss in their effort

To imitate great minds
Who ideas and ideals discuss
Upfront and behind blinds
Where they fuss

On humankind greatness
Buried into ideas
Whose robustness
Fears

Nothing as they step forward
Swimming against the tide
Where a mediocrity coward
Draws succor and...

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Friends
Dr. Jim Martin


Fervency in repetitious meetings,
  Forwardness in eager greetings.
Randomness in concerted activities,
  Robustness in varied festivities.
Intolerance purposefully rejected,
  Inclusion lovingly elected.
Energies on each other spending,
  Evasion of frustration’s venting.
Needing no commendation,
  Neglecting self-adulation.
Devoted to the other's need,
  Desirous...

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early this year
gentle as calm ocean waters
lapping along a weir
thumb and fore finger
of right hand would peal back,

(via diagonally flippant motion
asper calendar
representing progression of time)
gets flipped over to veer
in one direction (linear)

revealing the next month at lightspeed
vis a vis tempus fugit galloping tear
thy head immediately...

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Meet the challenge

Nectar vanished 
Poison left out 
Divinity perished 
Animosity cherished 
Tenacity missing 
Timidity  existing 
Goodness in vain 
Badness in gain 
Sacrifice in pain 
Endurance taken 
      as weakness 
Intolerance becomes 
      robustness 

We...

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Albert Francis Simmons; in Detroit, Michigan, was born,
His robustness, with intelligence, nature did adorn;
Though, worked as a high-ranking Secret Service official,
His moral sense became a matter so prejudicial...!

Burnt, like charcoal, by Jason Wynn, his service, commander,
As a price for his, lion-like, unwavering candor;
Visits the kingdom...

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Nelson Mandela
by most accounts was quite a fella.
But sometimes he was dissed and dismissed,
said to be a card-carrying Communist.

Nelson Mandela fought segregation
in South Africa, his beloved nation.
With keen awareness,
and a great sense of fairness,
he encouraged reconciliation.

With characteristic robustness,
he was a champion of social justice;
and as...

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Daylight savings time more'n minute effect on me

In 2024, daylight savings time will begin at two o'clock ante meridiem on Sunday, March tenth. That will mean losing an hour of precious sleep and moving the clocks (around your house, and sundry frequented places) forward one...

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Courtesy severely receding hair line..., 
yours truly enveloped within morose mood

I (Samson incarnate) 
frankly experience zapped strength,
hence sulk and pine for salad days of youth
when abundant golden locks adorned me noggin.

Now in doddering dotage scant wisps of gray hair
(vestige of once luxuriant natural periwigged realm)
nothing except...

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Let go of cargoes of folly
Your imagination entertains
Unless you want Molly
To catalyze the increase of strains of pains 

You loathe to endure
In a bid to preserve the sanity
Ensconced in the mind you lure
To expunge the vanity

That invades the chest
Caught up between a rock and a...

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