Short Mettle Poems

cutting grass in a suit of armour    the mettle of social anxiety...

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A bold strong mettle
Do we need to speak the truth;
That we need to know....

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when on one's mettle
beware the backlash spring, from
backbiter take downs...

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Let's not Minichu on fear ~ it's courage and mettle we should hold dear...

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His pedigree
was his degree
Rhodes scholar selection

Yet once in the fray
he was easy prey ~
Mettle, reality assayed...

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Became distinguished each flower petal, 
And with many people they may mettle; 
Soil sticking; 
Some picking, 
Then laid on ground and soon did settle.

Jim Horn...

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Trump Many Times Mettle

Trump many times may like to mettle,
And then down us he will try to settle,
Him being bleak,
With another leak,
Then changing subject and back pedal.

Jim Horn...

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falls and rises tests our mettle 
in timeless time, erst fears settle
no ego cravings are tabled
lower mind rests, love’s enabled
soul blossoms, petal by petal

02-June-2022...

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There is a hero within 
Rise up and go through the battle 
Thrive to survive 
So you can show your mettle 
Embark on your journey 
In order for you to make history 
Success is yours 
Reach for your victory...

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Go for it and set the standard of excellence 
Have proper execution 
Implement your strategy 
Carry out the mission 
The journey will be challenging 
You may have to go through a battle 
Climb those mountains 
And find your mettle...

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Journey through Life  ©

happiness, the fire
forges our steel to withstand
pain and thorny times

laughter melts metal
cold bath sets the steel mettle
fine blade to cut life

blade wrapped in fine silk
until the next battle comes
pain and blood drip down...

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O flower in my garden,
You are wilting today,
But I will you pardon
As you fight the sun's ray.
You have been a beauty
As everyone notes...
You have shown us your petals
And done fair your duty,
Though you're now for the goats,
So be on your mettle.





9/26/2015...

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Watchin’ John Wayne ag'in
The West alive right to defend
Riding tall in the saddle
Showing men his mettle

For those days the bad guys knew
He would give them what was due
For in the end you know what’s true
A man’s got to do what a man’s got to do.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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As a star from a giant cloud ignites,
the day bursts open wide;

My spirit lifts, beyond dawn and mist,
the luster of my mettle shines.

And this singular element of the Universe,
a lesson for me divines:

That however small our place may be,
We are the Sun, the Earth, and Sea....

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Chariots


Battlefield dawn,
Mortals rise high,
Chariots sigh,
Sound of bugle,

Bows shoot arrows,
And swords rattle,
Armoured mettle,
Red soil of dusk !



Written on 4/8/14
By Dr. Upma A. Sharma
Theme- Chariot
Contest- Ride on a pathya va
Sponsor- Nette onclaud


Awarded 7th place...

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Valor is a better word





Valiance that invincibly fortitudes,
Anticipates its own unfailing courage,
Letting heart ignite the patriotic fire,
On boundaries proves the sanguine mettle,
Recognise and salute the chesty fearless.





Written Jan 15th, 2016
For contest by Verlena

Awarded HM...

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Stand up tall upon your stage
Shake your fist and rage man rage
For the things that you have lost
That you now can count the cost

Before you hear the deadman’s rattle
Don’t let it go without your show of mettle
And when you rest at your campfire
Keep yourself away from the muck and mire.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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At my leisure I strolled through post-college life
    worked smart by day, partook of pleasure at night

  One morning woke up on the back side of the hill
    my dreams unattainable, attenuated my will

  Never tested my mettle, never once even dared
    stretch my arms out to Him, make my life over with prayer...

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Ringo was knighted today
For music and his entertaining way
He was the last living Beatle
To have this honour for his musical mettle

For peace love and music he is well known
And for his sixties peace sign shown
So as the Beatles start to fade from memory
We will always remember their story.

Paul Warren Poetry...

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A monster in our midst
it knows no borders,
flouts the strictest checkpoint,
shows no pithy,
its tentacles of horror seizes headlines,
sends shivers down the spine of those cocooned.
Despite all this there lurks an inner zeal,
emboldened human mettle on the march
that bullies such ?as these can never match or ever bargain for....

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Smokey stop pell,

hovering on the station sail,

policy of the ram hitting in a jam in their whole man-
the self assured meander un~spell.


Yes, yes it's a 2000 time tell,

it's so sojourned now we can't expel-

that leader had his mound,

and his following the overt round,

but we had face that was sound?

What is the mettle now?...

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Just when we thought
wars were well and truly over,
done and dusted -
Russia invades Ukraine.
No mettle for friends
to take up arms.
to don the coat of arms
and fight tooth and nail
to quell the invader.
Instead its alms that are offered
and sanctions to starve and demean
the invader's will to fight.
It's a new World Order 
at arm's length....

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Do you miss the patter of the rain on a tin roof
When each sound held its own element of truth
And you were snugly tucked in
It was great when it would begin

Some things you remember are so special
That becomes part of your memory and mettle
Of a time when the world was so light
A place to visit when you choose it is right.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Sedated, but now in full fettle
Yet I cannot boil the darn kettle
I can’t turn on tv
But can go for a pee
My hubby must be on his mettle! 

Having been sedated I am not allowed to ‘operate ANY domestic equipment for 24 hours – I am lucky I have hubby and son to help me … but feel for anyone who lives on their own

07/07/20...

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Filigree eyes so fervent
Agitated incensed thoughts
Silenced…
Lest terror and dilemma 
Sacrifice you to lifeless mettle

Muddled illusory echoes
A vacant faced hollow shroud
Defined…
Rise and slake the flames	
Quash the panicked ire

Reside in ardent moments 
Suppressed of biting angst
Falling…
Catch the yield of filigree eyes
Crystalline tears...

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