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Premium Member Grandma, the Farm and the Silent Young Cat

...Grandma, The Farm And The Silent Young Cat

Before soft golden rays the roses slept
Night, its slumbers had not yet bid adieu
From its barn perch the young, silent cat leapt
Upon the old farmer'......

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Categories: sternest, art, beauty, cat, farm,
Form: Rhyme

What Would Santa Claus Say

...What Would Santa Claus Say
by Michael R. Burch
 
What would Santa Claus say,
I wonder,
about Jesus returning
to Kill and Plunder?
 
For he’ll likely return
on Christmas Day
to blow the bad
......

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Categories: sternest, bible, christian, god, jesus,
Form: Verse

Love Hardened

...LOVE HARDENED
I would o'erstare the sternest eyes that looks,
Outbrave the heart most daring of crooks,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Mock lions when they roar for a prey that s......

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Categories: sternest, 1st grade, love, poetry,
Form: ABC

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Premium Member A Man of Few Words

...(woman)"Just cause I didn't smile at you
Just cause I didn't wave
I'll not wear feelings on my sleeve
That's no way to behave.

But it could be, that I like you 
Maybe like you quite a lot
You......

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Categories: sternest, crush, funny love, humor,
Form: Ballad

Christmas Is Coming and This Is Why We Celebrate

...Christmas!  The most loved time of the year!
Holiday magic: decorations and festive cheer,
Returning festivities of this late December day
Is a world-wide celebration of one, whose birthday
Set t......

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Categories: sternest, christmas,
Form: Acrostic

I Wasn'T There

...I wasn’t there when she was small
To see her scrape her knee
Or ride her bike around the block
Or scramble up a tree

Or listen all about her day
And what she did at school
How Lisa was her ne......

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Categories: sternest, absence, childhood, children, daughter,
Form: Rhyme


Go Figure Those Weeblitz Cry the Walliforth

...“Go Figure…Those Weeblitz”… cry the Walliforth!
By Ingrid Showalter Swift

Of Walliforth...the Dreggors Gorth!
with calls of frobulation
The Spraliwongs do bleet and frong 
In roudious trapulation
th......

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Categories: sternest, hope, humorous, inspirational, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

The Fervent Atheist

...She left the tent in holy fervor,
Hell-bent to spread the Word.
The Spirit moved and made her quiver;
No act of faith was too absurd.

She knocked on doors, she spoke with zeal,
Her faith she s......

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Categories: sternest, atheist, faith, funny love,
Form: Light Verse

Premium Member The Contrast

...In slumbering slope they lay, 
their gaiety snores in rhythmic peaks of cadences,
The lily livered japes 
Kings from central castings,
Heroes of one hour, 
jostling  for President with mere word......

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Categories: sternest, africa, character, courage, freedom,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium Member From My Lips To Santa's Ears

...WHAT I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS

I don't make my intentions public
But I'll voice it all to you
Though I know you really don't exist
I'll pretend that you actually do

So for Christmas this year
Wh......

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Categories: sternest, christmas,
Form: Sonnet

Remembrance For a Choker In My Deathbed

...Remembrance for a choker in my deathbed 
(Read-only version, a knick-knack too) 
 
Precious finger, the witnessing one, Count 
The forehead of a pious one, leaving a mark 
Glowing along days and......

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Categories: sternest, care,
Form: Free verse

The Diviner

...When the diviner reaches out for truth
And winds of fury hurry through the plains,
The youth of summer loses all her gains
Though love’s caresses linger long and smooth.

When time is lost at si......

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Categories: sternest, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

Malignity

...I do bitterly fault your restless digits, slatternly time;
Your agile dial's design I defy with mutinous rhyme. 
What's the veiled intent of your lightning procession,
Against this snail-mover's b......

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Categories: sternest, age, art, betrayal, death,
Form: Carpe Diem

Premium Member Echo Return

...Echo return contoured by consciousness 
Oft ignores our interconnectedness 
Sternest rebuff being indifference 
In a poignant, painful, time stretched silence
Mitigating our innate blissfulness 
......

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Categories: sternest, innocence, love,
Form: Rondeau

Happy-go-lucky Wannabe

...I saw you smile,

Now, I'm smiling too

You say so many words.

I know you don't mean all of them.

When you say 'leave',

I know your heart would search for mine.

I don't want to be the......

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Categories: sternest, change, desire, endurance, longing,
Form: Free verse
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