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Best Stout Poems

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Premium Member The Old Oak Tree
Oh I am but a simple leaf
         withering within the gutter
      ...

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Categories: stout, autumn, life, spring, summer,
Form: Free verse



Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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Categories: stout, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member A Time For Heroes
The child stands valorous before the door
    With nary a tinge of fear or dread.
Armed with a spatula and a pancake flipper...
...

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Categories: stout, appreciation, inspiration, thanks,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member White Angels
How many roses since have come and gone?
he thought as he sat looking at her grave.
How many futures had been staked upon
those brilliant blooms to...

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Categories: stout, death, lost love, moving
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member Blarney Stone Collab-MORE ADDITIONS
If anyone would like to have some community fun, 
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.  



The famous Blarney Stone,...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stout, humor,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member deceit's receipts -
the breadth of breaths a breast can heave
dark depths so delved as falsehoods leave
from tongues, the tangled webs we weave
that trap our own good wills
though...

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Categories: stout, angst, conflict, dark, wisdom,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Going Wild About Clare
Going wild about Clare 

     Where hills lay barren, and bedrock’s stripped bare
        ...

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Categories: stout, allusion, beautiful, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Taste of Guinness, Scent of Heather: a Monotetra
Sunlit days I spent on the moor
Sweet Summer heather scents allure
Bathing in waves on Dublin's shore
Aye, Irish lore       Aye,...

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Categories: stout, ireland,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dadgumitrefereeism
Football coach Bobby Bowden was never one to cuss
But refs make mistakes and coaches have a right to fuss

“St. Bowden” as he was lovingly called...

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Categories: stout, funny, sportsgod, god,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Irish Nectar of the Sun Goddess
Irish Nectar of the Sun Goddess

This mystical aura of golden radiant sunbeams so sublime
With a warm mead laying lovely below its enchanted neck,
Is breathless releasing...

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Categories: stout, dream, fantasy, heaven, love,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Youth, Time, Night Sky and Heaven's Blessed Voice, Second Poets Tribute Series, Vladimir Nabokov
Youth, Time, Night Sky And Heaven's Blessed Voice

As I lay me down in lush verdant grass
Gazing into night sky as Heavens pass
Twinkling stars, to an...

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Categories: stout, appreciation, art, creation, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mary Elizabeth Frye Dedication Poems, Seventh Poet Honored Part One
Part One of Two

Mary Elizabeth Frye Dedication Poems, Seventh Poet Honored
Part One 

(1.)
Graveyard Visit, Seeing Death's Saddest Truth

Walking rows of silent tombstones that litter in...

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Categories: stout, creation, death, dedication, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Mother's Love, Steels Her To Infinite Faith and Sacrifice
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A Mother's Love, Steels Her To Infinite Faith And Sacrifice

She cooked breakfast, got her kids off to school
took a brief rest on her favorite stool,
watched...

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Categories: stout, appreciation, character, dedication, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Man on the Precipice of Eternity
In seventy-eight, my steel-stallion, KZ1000, 
   pride, wind in my hair.
Its Sissy Bar, firm tether, bag secured, 
   my wanderlust's prayer.

Sun,...

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Categories: stout, death, destiny, emotions, faith,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Father Figure
leaves whirl and cling to stout bough and branches -
sigh with tempered lows and highs

verdant spring is vast
a cornucopian nest -
sound of leaves flapping

the weeps,...

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Categories: stout, tree,
Form: Other

Book: Reflection on the Important Things