Best Stone Faced Poems

Night draws out like a long, sharp blade.
Keen edged, it carves its image upon a 
black-ink sky. As iron sharpens iron, the 
knife hurls glowing planets and stars 
upon the deep.

A soft-faced moon of soapstone,
is the sharpening tool upon which the 
knife's edge beckons light...

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One by one your bones are stacked,
to hold back Mother Nature.
Or as a need for privacy,
a man made stone enclosure.

You turn a graceful curve around,
a walkway or a drive.
At times you are snap-line straight.
A Canvas for artistic eyes.

You end against a building wall,
or with columns...

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Do not tell me anymore of mythical mermaids lurking
In the fine gradient of the sea, eyes heavy with a snaring desire,
A monalisa smile framed on their faces or of

Sexy mermen and smiling salacious simpletons
To stereotype the smile mystery of the swahili of diani;
Their courtesy charms...

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To a tattered-clothed monster, the city of lights looked so dim,
only stone-faced gargoyles never grimmaced at the sight of him,
everyday, with hideous cries of horror, voices rose and rang out,
it may have been his tears running down from the rainspout.

A human creature who can easily...

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In the dark I see you clearly
Images your hardly 
Ever share with the world 

Why be gentle in the dark
When others think you are hardened

That your emotions 
Were extricated at birth
Two complete opposites
Gentle versus rough

Stone faced 
With signs that if you smile
In the daylight
Your face...

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Gonna stop, and think a few
Expose what I'm committed to
Take a closer look, and see
What it is that's running me?

Let me introduce myself
Fun and friendly, hooked on health
Generous as you could wish
And considered quite a dish

Mostly happy, at times insane
Turn my back, so you can...

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Look at your hands.
Tell me the stories they would tell.
Will they speak of the deeds you have done??,
the good, the bad, 
the decisions they've pondered,
the wonders.
Eyes caught in stone-faced modes 
while being next to chins, 
or cheek bones.

Look at your hands.
what journeys would they explain.
will...

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Rogue and destitute, 
In dreamlessness I drift
Stolen by the numbness of routine
I lack your acceptance; I crave the pristine

Your pivoting words both lull and dull me
I harden day by day in its power
Though inside, the spark still lives
Gaining ground in an otherwise lost heart

Toil I...

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They said he had no heart at all
They said he felt no pain
The stone-faced man just gave the facts
No feelings would he feign

He talked of floods and accidents
He spoke of deadly quakes
There were reports of surgeries
He spoke of bites from snakes

But then one day a...

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Mr. Butcher, the undertaker, did a capital job of laying old Cheatum out,
Though he had to cram him in the casket since the senator was rather stout!
During the viewing, folks marveled at Mortician Butcher's cosmetic skill,
Especially the work on his bulbous nose, purpled by the...

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Stinking, dirty money
Foul, festering money
Putrid, gassy money
Rotten, disgusting money
Oppressing, cruel money
Castigating, merciless money
Admonishing, finger-wagging money
Subjugating, stone-faced money


Aah, money…
That your kiss is so sweet,
Your embrace so sensuous,
Your possibilities so tempting…
I am dirty with your scent...

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"No blood runs through his veins 
only endless ice that flows hate."

                          Quote - Constance

I know a man who...

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Beneath a columned structure people watch
     As man and beast compete in a deadly match
        Soon the drama  before them will unfold
 A drama contested by the very  bold

 In the distance...

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I watched the snow on the
mountain tops turn to liquid gold
as the sun set swiftly
as if fleeing from the cold.

So black was the night that
the peaks just disappeared
and everywhere was stillness
as the wraiths of night appeared.

So cold was the air that
it almost hurt to breathe,
so...

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Young Soul

Dear young soul who stole your smile that you go around stone faced like one who wears the weight of the world holding you down.  Where is the joy that once filled you when you chose to incarnate yourself in a form of...

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