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Best Stone Faced Poems

Below are the all-time best Stone Faced poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of stone faced poems written by PoetrySoup members


Night Like a Blade
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...

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Categories: stone faced, moon, night, stars,
Form: Free verse



The Light of Love
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...

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Categories: stone faced,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ode To the Rock Wall
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...

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Categories: stone faced, nature,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Hunchback
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,...

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Categories: stone faced, character, freedom, image, judgement,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member 'veneer'
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...

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Categories: stone faced, life,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Unwrapped
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,...

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Categories: stone faced, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Look At Your Hands
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...

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Categories: stone faced, me,
Form: I do not know?
Zealot
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...

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Categories: stone faced, adventure, anger, beauty, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member The Tin Man
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...

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Categories: stone faced, death, imagination, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Gravediggers - a Sequel
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...

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Categories: stone faced, funny, words, old, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Filthy, Stinking Money
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...

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Categories: stone faced, on work and working,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Ice In the Veins
 
"No blood runs through his veins 
only endless ice that flows hate."

            ...

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Categories: stone faced, evil,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Penny For Your Thoughts
I summarized the query that befits you
A kingdom you will never inherit
You bring a thought to mine ears
And I chose to offer a penny for...

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Categories: stone faced, life,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Wretched
Rivulets of raindrops cut tributary streams
On the panes of the windows, running freely they cling
Stone faced and staring, motor skills corrode
Just snippets of memories in...

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Categories: stone faced, caregiving, confusion, education, family,
Form: Rhyme
The Rag Market and the Church
Stalls with red plums, green grapes and yellow corn
And bits and bobs in the market of rags.
The Bullring was a buzz with life that morn
Children...

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Categories: stone faced, love
Form: Sonnet

Book: Shattered Sighs