Deference Poems - Poems about Deference

... Written: April 05/5/2025 for contest Sponsored by: Mystic Rose Rose As she drinks nectar from a flower, sweetness from heaven falls like dew anointed with a gentle rain amidst ......

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...The truth accounts for a fiendish bill But lies are sweet and lovely, still Honorable tasks corrupt the will The loyal betray for an easy thrill Trust is a burden on brittle bones Deceit makes......

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...Does anything fear a man? Making him any softness Of manhood? And dignity? Extruding a bit deference from him? Does poverty do that? And power? and death? And anything else potentially g......

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...Author Lewis Carrol was horrified At the thought of being lionized He did not want approval from anyone Wanted to be left alone to create pure fun Lionization is for people who want adoration ......

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...Ashen faced Prometheus aghast at inferno gone awry Whether arsonist at fault or confluence of ripe conditions triggering perfect firestorm, the titan of fire beside himself with misery, though......

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...It's a New Year again, Time to turn another page -- though I am far from new~ closer to Old Sage. Time to forgive...and let go... -- as seasons flow the cold of January will leave our Nor......

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...Mad as a hatter is a phrase that came naturally about In the eighteen hundreds hatmakers were going insane Using mercuric nitrate, which removed skin from pelts A poison that had them acting funny......

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... This being Native American Heritage month I salute the indigenous people whose knowledge and principles I wish we’d done more to embrace… instead of doing everything in our power…their culture an......

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...I am in a stupor a hypnotic daze my feet no longer work they have atrophied soon my body will be a statue completely petrified I can blame no one but myself my recliner is too comfy If I to......

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...A shadow crossed the room in the corner of my awareness A cloud outside somewhere, probably, but for an instant, I thought that motion was you. Thoughts of you are casually intrusive. Mayb......

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...If I should write a poem, my last, Before the morning frost, My cause would be the charity, Of all we knew and lost. The legacy of those who live, Is more than who they link, The blessed righ......

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... What will truly make ART great again, is when people return to the critical realization that it is not about quality, it is about expression, and more importantly, JOY. Don’t be too concerned what ......

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... clutch them … nourish them … draw all to your being with a lover’s hunger the cosmos bears suns, innumerable each a rarity of scintillation unlike any other - a macrocosm of nascency and ......

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... the bane … of complacency the enemy of apathetic ids an all-consuming blade of inspiration you, mighty weapon have slain the fiercest dragons of detachment and disregard that humanity has ......

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