Best Sterling Poems

moon 
sweeps like
a lantern 
glazed in sterling 
stars...

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Sterling silver spikes me softly
Come inside the wound and make it yours
Taste the blood and wonder at the glory
Of crushing into dust your palm.

Sing me to sleep with your whispers
Cradle me with your tears
Trace my lips with your irony
And smooth my hair with your inconsistency.

Teach...

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Sterling November and I can feel the winds of change 
Now in the shadow of the moons' bright light 
Well we may not have it all together but together we 
Have it all somehow that gives me hope 
Wagon half empty, wagon half full well...

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This Sterling Day of Nothing

Where is God?
God is where gods are not.
Not in office bright,
Or silver stairs cued to reason
Or trapped in football season,
Or filled to the brim,
in fife and bugle corps where
Ceremony roars;
Or dangling from her chin,
Or full and bright in summer’s glory;
But deep...

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with sterling pen in hand and splintered heart
the poems flow day after day
beneath the old white birch



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted for CONTEST NO.380 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - December 25, 2017...

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Birth of a nation birth of a child
Celebration tears from soldier proud
He can be her she can be the
All tears of love in the infantry

My cousin fought in Vietnam
His name is as hard as his job then
As a medic he saw many sons
And daughters at...

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Some of us wear simple pewter bracelets,
others many gold hoops.
Some of us wear the love of another in the form of a diamond wedding ring, 
shining in the happy light.
Some have dragons coiled around strong fingers, next to the Irish Claddath, 
a billboard of our...

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Sterling silver
Sterling character
Sterling as a last name
Sterling as a football player or movie star
Sterling as the name of a city

Sterling is pure
Sterling is unsullied
Sterling is outstandingly glitzy
Sterling is humble but righteous
Sterling brings a moderate appetite for glamour or fame


Sterling is a silver paint
Sterling is a...

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J-ust
E-xpress
S-terling
S-tatement
I-n
E-pitomic
C-lass
A-s

T-houghts
A-re
N-oble

Topic: Birthday of Jessieca P. Tan (January 25) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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J-ust
E-agerly
S-cribe
S-terling

P-oem
O-f
R-emarkable
T-ruth
U-sing
G-reat
A-crostic
L-ine

Topic: Birthday of Jess G. Portugal (February 11) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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C-ompose
R-ighteous
I-dea's
S-terling
T-opic
E-mploying
T-he
A-crostic

S-tyle
A-nd
B-rilliance
A-bout
L-iterary
O-bjective

Topic: Birthday of Cristeta E. Sabalo (June 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Shall there be a soothing rest within the arms of a shallow grove, from whence the aches of an early dawn arise in its  presence, as a burning flame before the veiled eyes of a sterling mire? Count it not as so, that all inherently...

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Soak into your senses 
Stop stepping down your standards for someone's satisfaction
Your skeptical because selflessness sent you staggering 
Stumbling and succumbing to something you are not
Something stagnantly synthetic
Submerged under the surface
Something inside you sees the shackles separating you from sustainment
Trying to salvage the shortcomings and...

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