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Best Set In Stone Poems

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Icons Set In Stone
How firmly they stand,
the spires of history
that no one can destroy.
What a curious melange
of hate and love
and yesterday's antipathy.
Indifferent they are,
leaving us their basic legacy--...

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Categories: set in stone, time,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Tomb of Ancient Bloom
Take me to the place where the aromatic fragrance
threatens to envelop our obelisks glorifying death;
to the place where the seraphim of old long to steal...

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Categories: set in stone, appreciation, beauty, devotion, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
Three Days Prior
Friday, three days prior;
The Son was scourged and bleeding.
Sunday, when He rose again-
A spotless Lamb proceeded.

Friday, three days prior;
The Son had cried: “forsaken?”
Sunday, when He...

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© Tom Valles  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set in stone, christian, easter, god, good
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dear Budding Poet
Dear Budding Poet,

Modern poetry is a mix of new and old with modern styles created by bending or even breaking the rules of old forms...

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Categories: set in stone, encouraging, poetry,
Form: Prose
Premium Member On My Loneliness
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

My childhood spent without peers
alone and prey to my fears.

Nights spent face buried in my pillow
my emotions  like a weeping willow.

The school kid disliked and...

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Categories: set in stone, loneliness, planet,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Time Lost Eyes
Sitting all alone
Sitting pondering time
Time I can't get back
Time travel is impossible
Impossible is but a state of mind
Impossible until it's possible
Possible to rise 
Possible to...

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Categories: set in stone, imagination,
Form: Blitz
My First Priority Is Me
If theres one thing i know 
That's set in stone
Is that you can't be
Everything
To everyone you know
So just be you
If their expectin more
It's time to...

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© John Conde  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set in stone, art, cancer, dedication, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Show Your Work
If you want to succeed at poetry, start off by showing your work.
Be proud of what you’ve created, even when others will smirk.
Focus on what...

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Categories: set in stone, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
We'Ll Be With You
You were our happy dreams
The sparkle in our eyes
You were our destiny
That sadly passed by

Nothing is set in stone
No one can deny
Life's unexpected turns
That make...

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© Lyric Man  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: set in stone, absence, child, death, heartbreak,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Who's Your Daddy
What makes a man a Daddy, let’s give that some thought.
Is it the seed that he donates or maybe some diapers that he bought?
Could it...

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Categories: set in stone, dad,
Form: Rhyme
15 and Stupid
This poem was inspired by my best friend and her troubles: )

We go out on our first date,
We go back to your house,
Your parents are...

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Categories: set in stone, lifeme, parents, age, age,
Form: Narrative
The Medusa Touch
What have I done? She wonders…
Brittle blue gaze riveted on her lover’s chiseled features
His is a face set in stone
Eyes, mouth, jaw; all fixed, grim...

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Categories: set in stone, angstfor her, for her,
Form: Free verse
Blank Canvas
A blank canvas
That is me
The unmade bed
The formaldehyde 
I can have it all
A pure white frame
That is me
The dissected shark
How I suffer for my art

Only...

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Categories: set in stone, art, life
Form: I do not know?
Leave the Hate Behind
Don’t judge me by the colour of my skin or the name of my god .
They don’t not define me, or give you rights to...

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Categories: set in stone, conflict, grief, hate,
Form: Free verse
Promises
You said you'd be here, you said you'd stay,
But you went to heaven, and you went away.
You broke the promise you swore you'd keep,
That we'd...

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Categories: set in stone, funeral, lost love, me,
Form: Rhyme

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