Best Sternness Poems

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 days, daily grind.
There within a man full grown,
that little boy still hides.

In the crooked grin, stuck out chin,
mischievous twinkle of...

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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 subtle sternness of the wind.
To blend with all the other blemishes
on the surface of the stream.

You try not to think...

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Written: March 09, 2024

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It's utterly aquiver and ambivalent
With is a glimmer of modesty
His fame stems from promoting peace
But who holds...

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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 human race
Does one wait to reap the spoils of his haul,
When so many of the world’s population
Are cloned when the...

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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 nameless to me.
But your words, your versant vein
recall the charm of the past.

Like a swallow in fall,
untamed and wild,
you’ve vanished...

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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 man who will be my intimate other? He who will, at the end, sit by a fire with me, sipping...

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Tambourines in the air;
    Whistles and bustles in a 
      rhyme.
   In the house of Khloe,
   Melodies of the heart;
   A reenactment in the farm house
     of...

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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 will as well		
Shamefully repeat			
Tucked inside my shell			

Are false masks better than		
The fear I have no face?		
Why not be a real...

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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 occurred within the pasture that the mighty shepherd was not aware of. One day a wolf came along and tried...

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GREAT-one of size, long duration, importance, prominent, noble, illustrious, dignified, 
renowed, mavelous, magnificent, and  as an intimate friend in a relationship by one             
generation to another.     GRAND- one...

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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 15 2017...

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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 my eyes
It is not a tear of worry,
Neither is it a tear of anxiety
It is not a tear of pain
And...

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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 tea parties swirl in discordant dance,
While my aimless mind presses spring in Hamburg 'gainst a wintry France.

All lives re-awake each...

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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 eyes of my beautiful wife

I sat behind glass as they filled with tears
Scared and alone her eyes danced with fear

The...

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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 into a thousand droplets like cluster bombs designed 
to destroy people but let building stand. Not many cars on 
roads...

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