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Standfast Poems - Poems about Standfast


Premium MemberRemembering Four Centuries of Africans In America

...Fields where the bondman’s toil
No more shall trench the soil,
Seem now to bask in a serener day;
The meadow-birds sing sweeter, and the airs 
Of heaven with more caressing softness play,
Welcom...
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Categories: standfast, anniversary, celebration, history, racism,
Form: Rhyme

Restless Nights, Restless Pen

...lichen heart, 
of mossy bones,
kerosene humors in burning veins;
this anxiety in the night;
like walking wounded, 
needle toe, 
jumping at the squeal;
ink well vertigo,
dark in the blacklight...
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Categories: standfast, confusion,
Form: Free verse



Waves

...I standfast, ready on the shoreline. 
Waves roll in, crashing at my feet.
They invite me softly, they call my name.  
I jump right in, they take me home....
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Categories: standfast, sea,
Form: Verse

Sliderule

...Be drift the moon across cloudless sky
to shine it's light upon the cloudy I
beneath her gaze my darkened days
where time has slowed and doesn't quickly fly
 
And crowded are the days in lonely ...
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Categories: standfast, angst, care, death, life,
Form: Verse

My Flower!

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Love all the elements exposed to.. growing up free,
gentle winds, warm rays, light snow.. all nurture me.. 

Bowing down head, believe.. I love soft...
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Categories: standfast, hope, imagination, passion,
Form: Free verse




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