Short Sterling Poems

Frosted icicles
in straight silver symmetry...
sterling sentinels......

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sterling dawn
jump through space
breathe around mountain
dress morning...

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Sterling wires folded
With round-nose-plyers by hand
Mother's Day necklace...

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moon 
sweeps like
a lantern 
glazed in sterling 
stars...

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Threats of force seemed a sterling idea
Especially in light of Crimea
But you’re gonna get trolled
And the tanks gonna roll
When diplomacy comes from IKEA...

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J-ust
E-xpress
S-terling
S-tatement
I-n
E-pitomic
C-lass
A-s

T-houghts
A-re
N-oble

Topic: Birthday of Jessieca P. Tan (January 25) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Markle for President, I heard today
She's got sterling credentials, I must say
   Correct gender and race
   A self-promotion ace
Only thing 'left' now ~ to come out as gay...

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J-ust
E-agerly
S-cribe
S-terling

P-oem
O-f
R-emarkable
T-ruth
U-sing
G-reat
A-crostic
L-ine

Topic: Birthday of Jess G. Portugal (February 11) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Bowing sterling figs       		 	        falling from silvery stream                                                      exalt morning star...

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Vase of red roses instead of 
fondue
Gilding my White Lilly not pudging 
with stew
Cache of sterling poems rendered
In lieu, greenbacks not tendered
Blue carnation her jaundiced face 
to clue...

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Sterling tribute to spent fray
Universal trek around milky way
Nexus of night and day
Solar sparks igniting passion play
Enchanting fluorescent light display
Twilight's silver streams night betray...

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with sterling pen in hand and splintered heart
the poems flow day after day
beneath the old white birch



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted for CONTEST NO.380 sponsored by BRIAN STRAND - December 25, 2017...

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C-ompose
R-ighteous
I-dea's
S-terling
T-opic
E-mploying
T-he
A-crostic

S-tyle
A-nd
B-rilliance
A-bout
L-iterary
O-bjective

Topic: Birthday of Cristeta E. Sabalo (June 27) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Playful pony promenade
Quietly quizzing querulous quail
Respite regulated regimented rabbits
Studiously steering sterling striped starlings
Tricking trinkets, trunks and tributaries
Undervalued, underdeveloped, and underdone...

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Both my hands, decorated with silver.

Right ringed by waves, married to the ocean,
Shining rope and turquoise in the center.

Left has leaves to thumb for lifts,
And points the finger at sterling death.

One finger waits for gold....

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grey clouds bring large flakes                                                                               descend melting in moments                                                                                       the sides are sterling...

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Antics  dealer

I dealt  in antiques as well as antics
Once chased a  sterling  ‘bronze’,  very  unique
It  stood  its ground and just blushed
Till, by and by, I felt  bushed
And chastised,  quit things risqué and of  risk.


03 jun 12...

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Earthen causeway laps                                                                                               
Sterling river under bridge                                                                                         
Worlds ever apart...

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You soldier on in courage, dear poetess,
in knowing you, I am blessed,
you reach God's sight,
penning to a mighty and peerless height.
You have such sterling silver grace,
that I, in prayer for you do believe-
you are such a blessing to the human race. ~
...

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If every day to matter
If every moment counts
If every word to chant and sing
If every phrase be stout
If every coin pound sterling
If every debt marked paid
If every feeling dubbed divine
  —salvation pre-ordained

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)...

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All hail the village mortician
  his bearing, proper patrician

Sterling the gent's reputation
  throughout his chosen vocation

A man of dignity and reserve
  whose stare can a ghost unnerve

Frankly, he makes me quite nervous
  though one day I'll be needing his service...

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late summer storm

copper colored swirls
 silver leaves signal whirlwinds ~
  ochre flowers sway

platinum cloud ships
 race sails full of crystal squalls ~
  bronze waves of sunset

sterling sunrise dawns
 sunlight shining in white gold ~
  steel hued storm escapes

9/7/20...

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Let children's laughter
Lace the wanton winds,
Their sea-washed bodies
Crease the oozing sands,
Hold still O Time
Your flitting seconds
Just enough for watchful eyes
To cup in heaving heart
This sterling instant,
Lest the waves all wash away
From beach of memory
Its having ever come to pass....

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Sinister Minister of Information

Watson's IBM's New Technological Creation

Will He Fill  Human's Life  with Glee

Or Will He Be Like Hal's 2001 A Space Odyssey

Winning Jeopardy Is a Sterling Orientation 

As Long as this Ain't The Beginning

Of a Machine Take-Over Orchestration...

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The fires of wisdom, burning
Genuine insight is articulating 
Knowing others sterling
Understanding yourself, worthy
Mastering strength in humanity
Nourishing fire of body and psyche
Joshing at fear kindly
Beholding intelligence in oblivion
Each and every one 
The Fires of Wisdom Perfection...

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