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Best Stead Poems


Premium Member Cinder Girl
...An ember sparked will softly glow,
and fed by fuel, will grow and grow.
I once was cinder, sparked by you,
first timid. . . till the flames then grew.

And so our start was touch of dawn,
with ......

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Categories: stead,
Form: Rhyme
The True Mother
...
“The True Mother”

What part of a heart
in another could one trust
when betrayal comes
like a silver bullet, words and deeds
sharp piercing to bur......

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Categories: stead, betrayal, imagery, love, mother
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Plague
...as the PROPHETS of profits, WE lead and WE’re fair
while WE’re living the life of the poor BILLIONAIRE
– silver yachts, pearly castles, cash (plenty to spare) –
with the world on OUR backs... ah! ......

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Categories: stead, society,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member Food For Thought - With Chris Green
...Lyrics start 0.05 - timed to the music

Pack your bags dear, there’s a Croc near
And he’s creeping, through the night
With his eye on - on our old stead dear
And it app......

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Categories: stead, food, health, scary,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Child
...A child lights our way in life...
The greatest gift there is to be.
They suppress our selfish inclinations...
They set our passions free.

They give sense to our mortality.
They put narcissism ......

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Categories: stead, children, love, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Rum n Raisin Special - Seeking Milton
...Their human ma and pa were spark out in reclining chairs
But Rum and Raisin watched the TV with enraptured stares
The western had just ended with the credits rolling past
And Raisin said, “That gu......

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Categories: stead, cat, remember,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Look Ahead
...When breathless pain of sorrow 

                          Steals the joys of each tomorrow

                                        Look ahead.

                          Echoes peeling...of l......

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Categories: stead, beautiful, destiny, father, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Armadilly Billy, the Slingshot Kidster
...Armadilly came galloping into Troll Lake, bent on seeking a new life, to unwind.
He’d rode out of the Badlands, leaving only a trail of blowing dust and leaves, behind.
His steady stead Jalopy had be......

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Categories: stead, adventure, fantasy, funny, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member My Thanksgiving Prayer
...T	he God of our Fathers, sole author of all life
H	e, by decree placed man above the rest 
A	nd all other creations in his charge for keeping
N	ow and forever, let your truths be written in our he......

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Categories: stead, devotion, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Acrostic
Darkest Destiny
...Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery begins
 
Ghastly ghostly ......

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Categories: stead, dark, halloween, horror, imagination,
Form: Terza Rima
An Empty Throne - Part 2 of 9
...An Empty Kingdom 

The news did spread, a kingdom’s will
For sorrow placed its shadowed hand
‘Pon castle steps the crowd did fill
As heart break took a firm command

The skies, a darkened ......

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Categories: stead, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Through Blinders
...The truth can’t be seen through blinders.
Eyes and ears covered with hatred.
The tongue’s ready-lash sidewinders,
twisting and spinning what’s sacred.

The truth, the fact, reality
masked - the......

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Categories: stead, truth,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Darkest Destiny
...Out of hell’s breath the Devil’s Coachman comes and turns
around the tale to woe twists as the world creeps backwards
underneath the clay slithering sacrificial savagery begins
 
Ghastly ghostly ......

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Categories: stead, dark, halloween,
Form: Terza Rima
Orientate
...A woman, or a girl,
hooded and hiding,
may pensively gaze down 
at the sun, or a sinking stone.
Or a man, not a boy,
neither hooded nor hiding,
may, in her stead, gaze, ecstatic, upward
at the......

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Categories: stead, art, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Would I Be a Flower
...Would I be a desert flower
    To beguile your wandering eye
Where you hesitate a moment
    To peruse a flower such as I.
As you so lovingly marvel
    At the fragrance of my bloom
And your ge......

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Categories: stead, appreciation, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things