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Rectitude Poems - Poems about Rectitude

I C E : ODE TO SELF

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 I C E : Ode to Self

few Hearts can fancy dress their
nakedness in icicle Presence
fewer minds will slip into cemetery’s dusk 
soul...
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Categories: rectitude, allusion, character, color, courage,
Form: Ode

A Friendly Reminder For Our Nation

...Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Americans, and the world:

In the crucible of revolution, our forefathers etched their pledge—
a bold testament inscribed not solely in ink,
but in the quiet, r...
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Categories: rectitude, america, remember, slam, society,
Form: Spoken Word



D Y S T O P I A

...[Perhaps this is apart of my twisted delusions? Oh, mundane, antithetical, to dream of a median--a deranged, psychotic thought.]
[“I ponder the chains of order; perpetually asphyxiating a ‘disobedie...
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Categories: rectitude, angst, anxiety, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

SILENCE

...To live bound by “integrity”, where rectitude derides you? It’s starkly accustomed. I enrooted, enclosed by academics--the desolate nature of my sentience consuming my interior. Nether perfection def...
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Categories: rectitude, angst, anxiety, courage, dance,
Form: Haibun

The Worst Kind of Impossible

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Simply say 
yes

It’s all you need to say
yes in agreement to anything
if anything can have an agreement to
it would be better to be
beyond a doubt
so just say yes
and although the molehil...
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Categories: rectitude, riddle, truth,
Form: Free verse



Blink No 2

...a thousand colours above my head
pale and flaky
am i a guest?
i asked for a full moon
my pledges unheeded
o my god what am i to be
guster of leaves
a little light filtering
they sound bland t...
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Categories: rectitude, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberStoicism as Way of Life

...Purposeful thought leaders, empowering intellect they reign, 
In disposition phlegmatic, indifferent to pleasure or pain,
Rejecting emotions vain, impassive within taciturn domain,
Questing for mi...
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Categories: rectitude, inspirational, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUnassailable Purity

...Unassailable purity, a cognition divine of venerated mind,
Proffers promise inviolable, beneficence sacred aligned,
With force invincible emanating from goodwill of heart
Forming precepts impeccab...
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Categories: rectitude, inspirational, meaningful, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberUnassailable Purity

...Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.  ~Author James Baldwin

Humans drown themselves in ego by thinking they'r...
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Categories: rectitude, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBeautiful Life

..."He (GOD) hath made every thing beautiful in his time..." Ecclesiastes 3:11 of the King James Bible

Beautiful life indeed precious
packed with love and care, so gracious
my hear...
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Categories: rectitude, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian,
Form: Quatrain

A Sweet Secret

...A sweet secret 

Waves of depression without waste of opportunity,
Trade with season of whiff of irritation,
Worthy mentioned  whirlwind of smoke,
Animates to weight the wiles of innocence,
Tra...
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Categories: rectitude, feelings,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRavishing Beauty

...Ravishing beauty
You've got that  sexy allure
Wishing you were here with me 
My sweetly scented April flower

You are my rose 
It's you my heart sings to
My magic dove My lovely 
You've got e...
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Categories: rectitude, care, fate, love, rose,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberWhat Am I Supposed To Do

...What I am supposed to do
When everything around  me has gone crazy?
What am I supposed to do
When my beloved country 
Chooses the path to perdition 
Rather than moral rectitude?
What am I suppo...
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Categories: rectitude, anger, anti bullying, bereavement,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFahrenheit In Blue

...Fahrenheit in Blue 
David J Walker

The place of sons and 
Sons of daughters
A sky unwilling
 to rend its lights
Blue is its morning pallor 
A rusted yarrow 
Of Fahrenheits  

Blue lens an...
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Categories: rectitude, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

Jocelyn

...JOCELYN
( Acrostic )

 


Jocelyn,tthe most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard
  Sound of music that tickles a man’s heart and soul
  Like a star that twinkles in the sky at  night 
  A sweet n...
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Categories: rectitude, appreciation, art, beautiful, christian,
Form: Acrostic

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