Stance Poems | Examples

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Premium Member Stoic stance

Positioned near the peak and then pulled back,
matters not to us since ego is dead,
for though we were denied we feel no lack,
so we shrug off those moments when we bled,
continuing to with mindfulness tread.
We will wait for as long as it may take,
for our capsuled consciousness to awake,
be it in this lifetime or the next one,
so here we are, a rippleless calm lake,
our bliss drenched presence lustrous like the sun.

Stance


Spells in our lives
When things done for money
Bring less delight
We had enough motives
But struggle to keep living up
Necessity makes us so keen
Like it is all to us
Tours in our ways
When little done for love
Born memory ever green
We had much fright
Yet we never gave up
Stress for what seems nothing
Leaving assurance most time
In chase of precious gem 
To tie ourselves to the prime 
Wonders if good not mixed bad
That wrong not brewed right to blend
The wight of loss and gross pulse 
We shall hardly believe logically,  reason mortals  surcease 
And question the paper for the pen's drive

Premium Member WEREWOLF STANCE

Full Moon High
From Human to Beast
Craving can’t hold
Search for flesh
Attacks and Eats
Darkness through the evil eyes
Wolfman calling the shots
Bullets with careful aim
Targeting the heart
Instant death
Don’t be bitten by a Werewolf
One bite, a human will become one
Watch as the Full Moon formulates
Transformation bout
Wolfman strength
Powerful and fierce
Beware and on alert
Somewhere and somehow, the Wolfman lurks


Premium Member A SOLID STANCE

In Standing On Solid Ground 
No longer sinking down 
I'm anchored hold
 Been walking with my best friend 
Jesus has been bold 
He must be carrying me 
Because I only see one and 
In soul, believing just
I and graced a d saved, in Jesus 

12/3/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2025

Premium Member A SOLID STANCE

In Standing On Solid Ground 
No longer sinking down 
I'm anchored hold
 Been walking with my best friend 
Jesus has been bold 
He must be carrying me 
Because I only see one and 
In soul, believing just
I and graced a d saved, in Jesus 

12/3/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2025

Premium Member A SOLID STANCE

In Standing On Solid Ground 
No longer sinking down 
I'm anchored hold
 Been walking with my best friend 
Jesus has been bold 
He must be carrying me 
Because I only see one and 
In soul, believing just
I and graced a d saved, in Jesus 

12/3/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2025


Premium Member A SOLID STANCE

In Standing On Solid Ground 
No longer sinking down 
I'm anchored hold
 Been walking with my best friend 
Jesus has been bold 
He must be carrying me 
Because I only see one and 
In soul, believing just
I and graced a d saved, in Jesus 

12/3/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2025

Give an ape a gun

If you give an ape a gun
will he know how to use it
Would he throw it like a stone
maybe twirl it around
Could he even load the gun
If he figured out 
how to load and shoot
then we'd need to give guns to other apes
to protect themselves
You can't have one ape running amuck
with a gun
then they'd need a bomb
who wants to get close to apes with guns
just hurl that bomb at them
but who wants apes with bombs
just get rid of the apes
that will solve all the problems

GET UP AND TAKE THE STANCE

When you are broken 
The pains of life become unbearable 
Making you vulnerable 
You become unstable 
Unable to focus on the target 
Amidst your capability 
You start living in captivity 
If you don't use your agility.

Get up and take the stance
It's your chance to dance to life's music 
The tones are echoing from distance 
Disability is not inability 
When life hit you hard; hit harder 
Don't become a liability 
When you were made for the possibility 
Believe in your ability 
For dedication yields productivity 
Taking you from stagnation to your destination.

This is not a motivation 
Rather an inspiration or education 
Enlightening you to pay attention 
Because attention yields redemption 
If you don't know where it has been broken 
How can you restore or make amendments?
Pay attention to the signs so you don't sigh negatively.

Premium Member STANCE AT GETTYSBURG

Shenandoah cries
Voice of a Leader
Echoes of a Nation
Tomorrow only the beginning
The change needing a change
Soulful hope
Skies above in realize
Direction from Heaven
White House woes
Freedom, Wisdom and Rise
Bitterness through emotion
Far from the Liberty shores
Darkness plight
Wonder of the day, and the offspring of thought
Turnaround to oppose
No Slave shall be
Rebel no more
Freedom ways
Impact says
Pathway to a better life
No more demands
Freedom by order and command
Honor and Leverage
Proclamation and Freedom is now a privilege.

Premium Member STAY STANCE-

"She so says,
        He must really love me because he just won't go away 
He must really care for me because he's ever present like the air, moves yet stays, Always  available awesomely so cares. Like Daddy God yet and still his stance stays.
He moves, moved quietly yet he stands loudly. He won't go away he accepts me for who and whose I am
         He doesn't comment on my negativity his space is graced with the love, of the Father His heart is earnest so important he craves attention yet he does nothing about expense still and still he stand he refuses to leave yet he stands oh what a love this man had such a gentleman he prays for me often interceding quietly such a whole man yet instilled he understands quietly awaiting yet still I'm pretty his heart's blossoming beating yet still don't know the provision don't understand the vision yet and still he stays he won't go away he .......






just stands,  so in my stay I'm just gonna stance"


11/28/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2023

Premium Member Stoic Stance

Laboured breathing and bones weary
Yet vibrant heart, far from dreary
Gentle eye, echoing love’s sigh
Soul’s stoic stance, seems so eerie

To be as such, fear forms must die
That flag of love and light flies high
Poised, irrespective of outcome
Mantra of life being, retry

Within heart continues to strum
The gong of Om, God’s cosmic drum
Bliss magnetism pulsates inside
Music of spheres does softly hum

In the vast void, to wingless glide
Breath by breath, enjoying the ride
Free from cravings of lower mind
Face smile dressed, always dignified 

Childlike innocence, brave and kind
Playing life’s role, as is assigned
Heart prayerful, thoughts beautiful
Is with all existence entwined

Premium Member In Stance the Autumn Sparrows In Flight--

so late fall damp rains
brightly flies sparrows so calls
getting wet in flight



10/12/2023
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2023©

Moral Stance

We need to accept what in fact  we are...nil lowest nor abundant...

Premium Member Nathania Nana's Bubble Stance-

Bubbles blowing in the wind 
Moving in the air
 Flowing in the water's capsule blend
Breezed translucent spears 

With air covered with water flying suspicious
 All around me bubblicious
And when I run out of the solution soap extinguished
 Mommy can we use the soap we use for the dishes


8/21/23
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2023

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