Best Stales Poems

The image reveals to its audience, four light slices of tall, stale bread
Being held upright alongside five glasses of warm, thickening honey
Filled to the very rim, coagulating as the bread stales due to time’s extended hold
A long table embracing these entities, blurry life buzzes in...

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‘Twas unsettled light which greeted me
  this morning first when after slept alone,
As though moon ascended too timidly
 and left no space for sun to call its own;
From nearby cars exhausted music played
 beneath vanilla sky bereft of clouds
  which drifted soft along...

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As I sat in quondam agony and anguish,
The inimical air stales through my nose.
A teary, terrorising sting like a potent radish,
So envious of shared beds and emotions volubly composed.

Weakened by haste I screamed in ignominity,
Unaware of these eyes of judgement swelling my wounds.
I pushed away...

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The course, ne'er bar the word enforce
that war is the ensemble, sad endorse,
and lawless art resembles tithing's source,
that then I fight for truth, however coarse!

That madness of engender stays remorse,
no cure could grasp asunder's reinforce,
hurt follows hurt, and wonder hides resource
so that this fear of...

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Rage! Rage! This angst, oozing from yawning deep, 
Render to numbness, silent cornered weep, 
Iniquitous decrees, when lulled to sleep, 
Seduced by dybbuks, only vice to reap, 
At impasse is reason in chaotic sneap, 
Battle! Battle! Wrought courage to muster, 
Nerves, sinews and pulse to...

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The Code of Chivalry, Courage, Fortitude,
{even at the risk of it going sour} in the
final hour.

Pour forth the honesty, the complete madness,
yet your distant loyalty.
To hang on to a faint spark that might yet be
ember, stroked thought anew.

A little bit of a late night under...

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I, (and the missus)
     pleased as punch residing
     at this Schwenksville, Pennsylvania locale,
     (since july first tooth house

     sand eighteen), marks one year
and better with (on site
  ...

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Verse 1
Never wavier, never stale
All abundant  we inhale
Blessings come and sorry stales
Even with both feet on the ground
and this I've found, and this I've found

 Chorus:
:God is blessing
God is testing
God is providing all for all
God is gracious and His glory enough for us
And the...

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some people love being " in love"
are perpetually in love
their cars and houses sing of it

their pets and children
take a back seat as
they are all about this new
fresh never-had-before feeling

They exist and survive solely
on the unique emotion of being in love

Unfortunately, being-in-love stales, and
molds up,...

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some people love being " in love"
are perpetually in love
their cars and houses sing of it

their pets and children
take a back seat as
they are all about this new
fresh never-had-before feeling

They exist and survive solely
on the unique emotion of being in love

Unfortunately, being-in-love stales, and
molds up,...

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While trying to live life to the full
Unaware of the dangers attached
Attired in vices to suit self best
Masked in virtues for human respect
Only to know that it stales fast.
As conscience stirs us upside down.

The journey towards the mature world
Enroute path lost so many times
Each day...

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In their own tenacious way
Luddits creep out of dust
Forcing time to stand and stay
In the stales of past
They crimilalize in panic
Everything that moves
Passengers of ghost Titanic
Though the news we cruise
Prohibitions fall like leaves
In the August rain
There’s no air for me to breathe
Under luddits reign 
So...

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Big Bucks of Life

Worshiping money
Instead of Almighty God
Stales the bread of life.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 16, 2010
Poetic form: Senryu...

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Its not the eyes i notice first
but the way disappointment
seems to hang on her frame
like a curdled shawl
The weakest of smiles she forces
As embers of her love for me
disintegrate into silenced air
Then those jewelled emerald pools
were turmoil bathes
Were once a haven of safety
a home from...

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