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Staunchly Poems - Poems about Staunchly

Premium MemberI AM YELLOW

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I’m as vibrant as the core of the chromosphere
Sometimes I’m radiant like golden sunflowers
I can be pale as primrose or as bold saffron spice
But to name my different hues may take ...
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Categories: staunchly, color,
Form: Couplet

Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii

...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Pun...
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Categories: staunchly, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberWaltzing Over Ashes

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Written: January 21, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Brian Strand

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We waltz on the edge of a wildfire
where fiery flames ...
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Categories: staunchly, analogy, love,
Form: Free verse

restless is Portugal

...Restless is Portugal 

There is mayhem in Paradise
the citizens of Lisbon are tired of the bother
and street fighting, where knives are used by
migrants 
Gang fights, robbery, and shop theft is...
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Categories: staunchly, 2nd grade, africa, age,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberAwakening

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Whilst at school, in the years gone by, when as a child,

Impish I was, and sprightly too, but not so sure of my mind;

Followed the old teacher’s dictum, “memorise by rote,

To succeed ...
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Categories: staunchly, age, education, innocence, integrity,
Form: Rhyme



Youngsters and Their Free Souls

...Having journeyed through North, South, East, and West,
Witnessed the spirit of young souls at their best,
A psyche befreed from detest,
Unmatched souls amidst the rest.

Their zeal be fierce and...
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Categories: staunchly, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThere Oughta Be a Law

..."Aequum et bonum", Latin for "what is right and just".

Laws are the pillars of civilizations,
They underlie great cultures
And shore up great states and nations.
But laws are only as good as th...
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Categories: staunchly, political,
Form: Political Verse

Chasing the Unworthy

...Finding the existence of something which never existed,
Heart went on and on despite the mind staunchly resisted,
'Kind-heartedness' was the one considered to be vulnerable,
'Presence of mind' bec...
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Categories: staunchly, how i feel, love
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberTiger Lily Teases Daffodil

...Tiger lily does yoga into the wind
Driving Daffodil crazy
He has loved her for days now

She bends and flecks, 
Her petals twinkle like leaves
She has no idea what she is doing to his libido

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Categories: staunchly, flower,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberShe Looks Calm

...calm she looks
i know better

her blue eyes bore a hole through the humans
she has been mistreated by many

she stands staunchly rigid
unyielding

hating them in more than a few ways
her wr...
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Categories: staunchly, emotions,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWhite House

...Built by the tired hands
Many from far off lands
Taken away from farm and spouse
Yet they built the sacred House

A house leased for 4-year terms
Unique privilege to be confirmed
To an America...
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Categories: staunchly, america, appreciation, celebration, humanity,
Form: Rhyme

It Shadows

...funny how heavy a sadness weighs
and angry rage which surely stays
pyre fierce fire an unfair blaze
attempting to burn me in its haze

hotly blinding your tearful gaze
this solemn haunting eulo...
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Categories: staunchly, anger, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Oak Tree

...Though torrents
of blinding snow
fall furious
though storms
spit lightning
cracks limbs
shreds my cloaks
diminishes me

reckon this

I endure
I fight
I prevail

My stoic
resolve undau...
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Categories: staunchly, introspection, strength,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberYoung Rebel

...You placed yourself in harm’s way. 
I hated that you would join the fray.

Now you bravely faced and fought 
the devil I had stupidly bought.

It was unwise, absurd from the start,
Foolish and...
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Categories: staunchly, bullying, conflict, courage, friend,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberWriting In the Now

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Stop present time now!
Let us go no further.
Let's enjoy the now, somehow.
Muses and we, sisters and brothers.

Batten down the hatches on reality.
Only stars dance, we staunchly state....
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Categories: staunchly, feelings, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

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