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Keep My Mind Staid On Thee
Popular with so many,
yet I tend to keep to myself.
Can be a difficult person to get along with,
to those without understanding of the 
divine drive that I've been blessed with.
I've been implanted with the desire to set 
a course toward's my dreams that are predestined...

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Categories: staid, beauty, blessing, change, destiny,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member In Staid Stillness
In staid stillness let us receive
with gratitude, each breath we take,
making mind tranquil like a lake,
negating schemes ego does weave,
for whose demise we need not grieve,
that in quietude we awake,
in staid stillness.

Burden of fear we chose to heave
was evidently a mistake,
which at soonest, we'd best...

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Categories: staid, inspirational, muse, spiritual,
Form: Other
You Should Have Staid
You're nothing more than a song
or a crude sculpture that i made
I made you into something beautiful
but you're not

I handcrafted this illusion
a pitiful scheme in love
a lie upon a story
covering up a truth I had forgot

I painted you a picture
a gallery of lies and desire
all...

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© John Allen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staid, friendship, lost love, love,
Form: Lyric

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Brotherly Bummer Plods Along His Staid Usual Humdrum Life Part One
Methinks lame excuses poorly explain
absent presence gnosh hoe wing up to
acknowledge our papa's ninetieth orbit
around sun, nor dearly beloved eldest
commencement successfully, modestly,
honestly (applying her smarts) as freshly

minted (sage) University of Pennsylvania
graduate, now where webbed wide world
avails untold opportunities to make positive
accomplishments, this papa never set
similar...

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Categories: staid, grief, heartbreak, hello, husband,
Form: Free verse
Brotherly Bummer Plods Along His Staid Usual Humdrum Life Part Two
does bound by marriage appeal, yet the
missus would be left high and dry, (or low
and wet if she dwelt closer to sea level), this
bleakness especially pronounced as role of
fatherhood no longer viable, enjoyable, applicable
aware how offspring impacted by poor examples

of parents accentuated by appalling housekeeping,
additionally...

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Categories: staid, absence, anger, anxiety, brother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Staid Verse - Trek Across Coziness
Written: August 26, 2023
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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: staid, analogy, appreciation, beauty, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Staid Stillness
mindful eye discerns and so learns
divine love heals, whilst desire burns
all is enabled, in timeless time
silent thunder within, Gods chime
stance erect, waiting for our turn

24-July-2021...

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Categories: staid, silence, spiritual,
Form: Quintilla

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry