Short Stead Poems

driving me insane
changing like a weather vane…
costly stead of plain...

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cadaver bled
lifeline spread
posthumously read
endearing stead
perpetuity fed
vanity shed...

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Tis good and tis right
Tis truth and tis light
Swift stead, we shall ride
This ancient moonlight...

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Cracked unleavened bread
His life recorded in red
He died in my stead



Robb A. Kopp
© Nov.13.2012...

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don't look down
don't be a clown
there's bad there's good
its well understood
if we stand hand to hand
in stead
LOOK AHEAD...

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I'm only fifteen,
And who do you expect me to be?
I just don't see what you see.
You suppose to be my dad,
but in stead you get mad....

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making plans
have a hand
that will stand
trying do it yourself
have some one els
to help you think in stead
its better tohave
TWO HEAD...

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As we are here-nay, even dead, 
all worthy shall be in our stead. 
With all that we master, we guide others faster.
United, we travel ahead...

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Take note:
That none of my wants
Require currency grand

But in it’s stead:
Only friendly words, kind gestures
And caring touch of hand
...

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An old biologist named Ulysses
  Had a job identifying species
    Ulysses was arse-backward
    His technique manufactured
  'Stead of faces, he examined feces...

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death speeding down the rail
 desperate last breaths make appeal
 ‘stead of a dash to the rescue
 speaking volumes
 about values
 camera flashes for
 front page display...

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stand here
   and stead
with staff
   in hand
tawed 
   tined
     and staid
Hob –
   goblin
he, a
   tricky
ol’ fellow
   haughty
     ‘n hasty
       in greed



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Nothing else Matters
just Love. 

There is lots done,
lots said,
lots thought
in Lieu of Love,
in Stead of Love
in Place of Love.

Nothing, none of these
Matter.
Just Love....

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A strong aura beyond feminine resistance
taking the heat at work in her stead for instance
makes his head chivalrous
and shoulders not pompous
on her senses, his personality freelance....

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There was an old grandma
Who didn't live in a shoe
She did have children 
But did know what to do

She put them to work
She played in their stead
Life was so lovely
It went to her head...

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red trails behind me

bleeding hearts lie in my stead

two halves, not a whole.

 

(January 18, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)

(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Positivity is the key to a happy life
Negativity pushes in and cuts like a knife
Not easy to manage
But avoid the damage
It'll stand you in good stead if there's an afterlife...

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My audience is dwindling here on the Soup
Perhaps I should write about love stead of poop
Seems I've lost my way
Need help I must say
To come in from the wilderness and get back in the loop...

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Have you ever been a bad finger flipper
Feels SO good when the situation's a gripper
You'll know when it happens
Stead of soiling your depends
Raise the finger, stead of being a fence sitter...

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Relations are strained between nations as usual
Why can't we play nice like good little poopers
Stead of rattling our rattles
Preparing for battle
An age-old scenario where we all act juvenile...

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Got up at 3:00 AM, sure had enough sleep
Coffee at 10:00, made me ready to dance and leap
Thought I might as well rise
Stead of giving it a try
Got up to ten thousand, counting all those damn sheep!...

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Your tears do not become your eyes.
Would my guitar weep in their stead
to drench and drown the shade that tries,
and charm a smile when woe has fled,
the fingers of my restless hands
would dance to soothing sarabands....

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Wish I was handsome stead of a physical stud
With a body to die for, I'll let you guys be the judge
Good looks have advantages
But coz I eat many radishes
My complexion's glowing red so I'm switching to fudge...

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Imaginative stories read
by Mom to fill a small girl’s head!
She planted seeds by fancy fed
which later bloomed in me.
I've since been reaping in their stead
sweet joy in poetry!

For Dr. Ram Metha's Contest:
"Rime Couee"...

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As of this moment ?

What is the No 1 thing ?

You have missed above all ?

And what is the No 1 lesson ?

You think you have been taught ?

Or learned ?

Will stand you in good stead ?

Come whatever tomorrow brings ?...

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