Best Sternest Poems
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
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
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
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
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