Best Stalwart Poems

A change is coming here!
It will be announced when. 
As of this moment, dear!
It's a chance for you to stop
being frightened by all the 
leftist pens!

So make space, come out of
your closets, I implore you.
Plenty of blood was lost for you, 
years ago.
So you would...

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The stalwart soldier in my kitchen forever stands.
Faithful, diligent and ready, at my commands.

He wears a maroon uniform and keeps me comfortable.
Be it sunshine or in raging storms writing verse at my table.

His ammunition..forever stocked.
For come what may, he is totally loaded and locked!

No, silly~it's...

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Stalwart Sable Sister Soldier…
(Apropos A Major Home to Bury A Son)

She saw sorrow sadness shadowing shield 
Orbs of cataract visions veiled
In victorious battles of nothingness;
Told to think of the blessings bombings yield; 
That tomorrow the town will rise and manage
If they not waste time pondering...

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Born in 1915 at Birkenhead by the Port River Inlet 
A son of Port Adelaide  as one of the best youd get
In the days before bridges he would row
Across the river to training and games hed go

He debuted for the Magpies in 1936 at...

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stalwart sentinel
hotel for birds and squirrels
majestic oak tree





Date: August 20, 2019
Contest Title: Tree Themed Haiku Contest
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin


June 25, 2021
Bite Size Poem no. 9 contest
Line Gauthier, sponsor...

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Over saturation with 
welter weighted Yuletide
drenching world, web, wide
equal and/or greater
effort demands energy tide
to global warming,
lest apocalypse doth ride

high and mighty mandating,
inculcating, buoying... pride
toward planet Earth, the
apathetic, demonic, horrific,
plastic... malleable passive
can no longer run and hide.

Results elucidating, forthcoming, 
groundbreaking courtesy of 23andme
nsync with network of
newly...

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We are gathered here 
    tonight 
  to worship the one 
before whom there is no pretense
One of our congregants 
has been stricken 
Therefore we must 
  direct our hearts to him
Together we must ask 
    for...

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When wrath runs hot emotions rage within.
Explosive thoughts can occupy one’s mind.
The soul in anger justifies its end.
Soon, plots begin, influenced by much wine.
Grave danger thwarts mans soul because of sin.
Choose you, this day to live your life refined.
Let goodness overcome that evil urge.
Enjoy the...

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Stalwart owl on the trunk of a tree
Left behind by a busy family
They forgot a few things on moving day
I scooped him up, and took him far away

Serious owl on my back porch now
Being commented on. Some say “Wow!”
I am so glad he is mine;...

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I live in a "Mean Peoplez Zone"
soou
leave me alone: I'll introduce
to you to my dad Miezzer.
So stringy is he
and I'll let you see: he's
so
cheap he waits for clothes to go
on sale at goodwill. he told a story
of aman who used a elk, deer and
moose to...

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