Best Tempered Poems

TEMPERED GRACE

one challenge, one heartbeat, one goal
blinding blast--Boston’s blood
achievements brutally, ruthlessly denied

(My prayers and heart go out to Boston--the Athletes and their loved ones)

Kim van Breda-15 April 2013...

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The Storm's Fury, Can Be Tempered


When you are overfilled with a deep hate,
grab not a gun but rather the good book,
Carefully read, give Proverbs a close look
think of love and mercy before its too late;

Why act in a foolish and hard hearted way,
with the temper...

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I’m stronger than I realize,
I’m not alone
And I’m not a failure

I am focused on the prize -
God’s Kingdom today, though I’m on my own
Feeling like a Jailure

I was brave enough
Life can be quite rough
I was courageous to the touch
Nothing much is happening and such
I was...

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My temper is fiery
It wants to break loose
Your passion is icy
So tender, so smooth

Your touch it feeds me
It wills me to stay
The coldness it dulls me
Controlling my rage

Always we dance dear
Pulling close than apart
Your touch leaving me frostbit
My fire wanting to ignite

We are perfectly tempered
Us...

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Let not ill-tempered words destroy your serenity
But let the perfect peace which resides within
Be the most memorable portion of your identity.

Let others see your calm nature-defining affinity,
Your strength to take raw adversity on the chin
Let not ill-tempered words destroy your serenity.

Keep in mind that hatefulness...

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i reach to depths within
and find peace



AP: 3rd place 2022

Posted on September 5, 2022...

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Trail away an impatient notion
A stoaked up heated locomotion
Keeping leveled mind as whole
Added coal takes convulsing arteries toll

Bites of charred coal triggers bitter spews
Madness chews, and choe's, chew and choe's
Aggrivate me to smoldering speeds
Added coal boils blood like riled up steeds

Anger steams conciousness into misty...

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"Pushing on Tempered Glass"
(Into the Night Shadow's Part 1)
By: Miranda Renee (Night Shadow)

This is the day,
So I better write it down,
When I lost my way,
Buried in my shallow grave I found.

Tempered glass,
Is what I lay upon,
Push to hard,
Underneath me it will be gone.

Shackeld heart,
Reaches out...

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There are no gentle movements
into a calm goodnight


there is a rage 
of intemperance
in the stupidity
of attempting to mark, 
as to be in memory


there is no remembrance


as one I arrived bare
maggots my butlers,
devouring each and every
shedding,
eventually 
being their main 
course


and a life in circles moves


a thousand...

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Sharp edge,
singed in with heat,
a knife tempered red,
was as bad as it could get....

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Full of hate
Or full of pain

The result
Tis oft the same...

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cranky
hanky


11/11/23...

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There are words that I’m slow to say,
Bound inside and kept away, so
My tempered tongue I won’t betray.

Without much thought an ass will bray;
Many with their jawbone slay, so
There are words that I’m slow to say.

Fire forged barbs will make you pay;
Injured mettle I must...

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Burning with the flames of past exchange
An interwoven thought with new distaste
Shadows ever dancing with our remains
A new-found hate for what we face

Washed up by the tides of endless grief
Now everything is gone, replaced by need
And now we understand the sea of greed
A new-found hate...

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