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Best Sternness Poems

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Premium Member His Little Boy Inside
Behind the rough and gruff facade,
amongst the sternness and the pride.
Along with calloused hands and the scars
A little boy still resides.

in spite of responsibilities,
the hard...

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Categories: sternness, husband, boy,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member I Toss Another Stone
You throw a rock into a pool.

Watch the concentric ring slowly expand
from its point of origin.
Its curvature infinite. Shape pristine.
And yet... there it dissipates
at the...

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Categories: sternness, allegory, analogy, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member String of Pearls
Written: March 09, 2024

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sternness, america, devotion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cashing In
Each seeded pod of active indulgence
With the sternness of instructions
Delivered to one and all,
‘Never leave under light
Sunlight especially at fall,’
A test one thinks for the...

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Categories: sternness, imagination, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Love of Life
Starless night, a fire ahead
upon a wind sheltered hill.
Drizzling rain and steamy breath,
I feel the yearning for you.

Lighted by the flickering shine
you seem to be...

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Categories: sternness, emotions, loneliness, love, magic,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dear John
Dear John letter

But it’s not. His name happens to be John.
Rather a letter of a hopeful heart anticipating the future

Have I finally found the one...

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Categories: sternness, absence, devotion, forgiveness, loss,
Form: Free verse
Breaking Through
I drifted to this place	 
When might I drift away?			
Am lost in time and space		
Cold feet encased in clay		

Afraid.  I am offbeat			
Next year I...

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Categories: sternness, inspirational,
Form: Lay
The Parable of the Shepherd
Once there was a shepherd who walked amongst a mighty pasture. He tended to his sheep 24/7 and there was never a single activity that...

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Categories: sternness, christian, inspirational, love,
Form: Prose
Premium Member The House of Khloe
Tambourines in the air,
    Whistles and bustles in a 
      rhyme.
   In the house of...

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Categories: sternness, eulogy,
Form: Free verse
M O T H E R -O F - P E a R L 's
GREAT-one of size, long duration, importance, prominent, noble, illustrious, dignified, 
renowed, mavelous, magnificent, and  as an intimate friend in a relationship by one ...

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Categories: sternness, black-african amerlove,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Her Eyes
Her eyes were as beautiful as they could be
A puppy dog’s frown looking back at me

As they smiled they truly danced with life
Those big brown...

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Categories: sternness, dedication, devotion, faith, friendship,
Form: Couplet
Young Happy Christmas Snapshots
Lists
of dreams
Daddy mailed
with sternness changed
his playful nature emerged and prevailed

Mom smiles engaged in lifts of happiness
decorating
sweets baking
gifting 
love

Bro
cocoa
blanket warm
Christmas lights drive
siblings mingling in anticipation




... CayCay
December...

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Categories: sternness, christmas, happy,
Form: Tetractys
Premium Member Something About Oatmeal
My fortunes drop from my hands with despair.
Pearls that plop on the sand are the rest of me that's left to bare.
Juggling gorillas and dinosaur...

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Categories: sternness, funny, sad
Form: Sonnet
The Game Is Finally Over
I can feel my spirit crying 
And I can tell that someone is dying
I can feel my spirit crying 
When a special tear drop from...

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Categories: sternness, beauty, cheer up, deep,
Form: Narrative
Sober Times
Sober Times. 
A gigantic dark grey cloud covers the town and its environs 
and rain fall in large lazy drops that when hitting ground 
splits...

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Categories: sternness, brother, sympathy, light, day,
Form: Blank verse

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