Best Stiff Poems

It was with immense fortitude that he endured the pain.
His back was arched and head rose as he strode down the thoroughfare.
No one need know what lurked behind his eyes. 
Although in all honesty he wanted someone to know what lay behind his eyes. 
He...

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Bart Bren was a novice politician      
Who was fair at stating his position.    
But folk who wouldn't listen
Caused a major transition.
Bart found his audience as a mortician....

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The Bindle Stiff

Parks have beckoned me with aplomb
A bench to sit and lay at night
with limpid dreams I share with naught
And realize that I’ve been taught
To set my sails for wondrous seas
To live a life with only me

What prompts a man to live on scraps
To...

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there are those times in our lives
when we are the most afraid
a symptom of brain activity
that tears our nerves to shreds
in those times of misery
when the future is in doubt
we try to find some peace of mind
looking all about
while trouble speeds our way
were looking for...

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(the word (moll) means a mobsters wife or girlfriend)



I heard of a wiseguy named Guido
Who suffered a waning libido
His disgruntled moll
Made a quick call
Now Guido is incognito...

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Make sure you enunciate it loud
      and all five girls in accord…
Then repeat three times,
             “light as a feather…stiff as a board”.

One dark night,
a sleepover turned to fear-
The...

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A candle light

in a dark smokey room

Flames dancing

on the walls across the roof


A twinkling star 

high up in the sky

Suddenly falls away

into the space yard of goodbyes


Dreams do die

in the bitter struggle for gain

The last high

usually's never the same


Until it's over

Only the drugs remain

And a...

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Keep a stiff upper lip, it isn't that bad
Things will surely get better
Life is a series of these ups and downs
Surely isn't always fair weather

Unpredictable is a word that's often used
When referring to things in general 
For some strange reason as we all get older
Life...

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Now we have been released from the EU, and its cheap cost of livingWe are now going British with prices that are more than unforgiving...

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An Unlively Very Stiff (upper Lip) Masquerade
(any resemblance between averred one laid
to rest and yours truly...purely coincidental
regarding unnamed person liberated 
into heavenly glade!)

though innocently youthful looking air
at three score year,
or so the trumpeting "FAKE" mirrored reflection
(animated, sans Alexa) programmed tube lear
and spout, one most familiar...

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The Bindle Stiff
Parks have beckoned me with aplomb
A bench to sit and lay at night
with limpid dreams I share with naught
And realize that I’ve been taught
To set my sails for wondrous seas
To live a life with only me

What prompts a man to live on scraps
To...

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So much alike on the inside, you would think we were twins,
Comparing us from the outside you would never be able to notice this,
We look completely different, we don't act the same,
We don't have the same hobbies, or play the same games,
Its certainly not boring,...

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Keep a stiff upper lip, it isn't that bad
Things will surely get better
Life is a series of these ups and downs
Surely isn't always fair weather

Unpredictable is a word that's often used
When referring to things in general 
For some strange reason as we all get older
Life...

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a working stiff

Woke, the bedroom was cold under the duvet snugness 
I burrowed deeper, enjoying the freedom of sleeping late.

Life was hard, getting up at five and preparing breakfasts for
grumpy seamen, smoking the first cigarette of the day.

The breaking of the fast was endlessly tedious,...

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One stiff drink
After another 
Celebrating the coming

My body touches oneself
Receiving the satisfaction 
That I am still here
In the company of a friend...

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