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Staved Poems - Poems about Staved

IN THIS SPACE
...I've been eating my soul, as of late Devouring morsels of scarred flesh Trying to find an end to constant unease A place where my head could rest There's an angst the lingers over My big sturd......

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Categories: staved, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Just a Breathy Sigh
... A breathy sigh that moved the air encircled us with lusty flair. Its sweet and tender brush of love Left unsaid our intention there. Some deep and thoughtful bold assertion Drew us closer i......

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Categories: staved, devotion, love, passion,
Form: Free verse



After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race
...After President Joe Robinette Biden Junior withdrew from the presidential race... Planet earth (the Mother of all) breathed a collective and palpable sigh of relief, and I too deeply exhaled, ......

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Categories: staved, america, anxiety, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Free verse
April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa
...April 9th, 2024 would be ninety fifth birthday poem for dearly departed papa The following words crafted soon after the soul of me daddy set adrift into the empyrean realm joining the rank and fil......

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Categories: staved, absence, age, anniversary, april,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Secluded Nook
...Written: October 4th 2023 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An untapped jewel in a secluded nook. A home down with treasures to brook It is a phony ossuary, hence the ......

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Categories: staved, analogy, appreciation, confusion, home,
Form: Rhyme



Luanda 1974
...Luanda 1975 It was a fraught time in Luanda, the rebel army (freedom fighters) was closing in on Luanda, leaving civilians exposed to rape, murder and pillage. The Portuguese army had dastardly......

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Categories: staved, absence, abuse, africa,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member In the Land of Opportunity
...In the Land of Opportunity Entitlement reared her pretty head Without a backstop to plain bad luck Social Security's safety net was spread Next came the 'War on Poverty' Food S......

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Categories: staved, career, education, money, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Apple of My Eye Darling Daughter Numero Deux Gifted Me
...Apple of my eye darling daughter numero deux gifted me... Twenty four years ago – February 4th, 2023, whose existence begat by this dada and da mama aye revel in your bursting at figurative ......

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Categories: staved, adventure, age, america, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Danger Island Dumb-Dumbs
...We knaves had orders both explicit and dumb: Scare the blazes out of a management bum. Thunderstorm weather rocked wide Prince William Sound, Feisty gales pouring rain all around. My partner an......

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Categories: staved, animal, boat, drink, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shearing Sheep
...My head hangs low above the sink, Ha, no, unlikely what you think! True, there were times excessive drink Did see the gut, recoiling, shrink. Nay, far more happy time and place Would best desc......

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Categories: staved, hair, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Old Red Barn
...The old red barn once stood proud Against the storm, paying Its own way with the Mail Pouch Sign, brimming with hay It staved winter's starving chill A vanguard of stubborn will. But now the st......

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Categories: staved, america, farm, memory,
Form: Pastoral
Who Deals
...My mind it betrays I want what you gave In poems and notes All the words that you wrote Make foresight seem wasted And conscience abated For passion’s untamed It will not be staved Ta......

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Categories: staved, emotions, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Did You Ever Ask God Why
...Did you ever in your burdened heart ever ask God why? Could a good and compassionate God ever create a hell? An abode for fallen angels, Demons and lost souls to dwell? May people have walked away......

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Categories: staved, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boing Boing Boeing
...Bounce on the dead ending in dread no morals saved great profits staved......

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Categories: staved, africa, allusion, america, environment,
Form: Acrostic
Lost That Binds
...A union blessed is that of ours, filled with love, joy and other powers, loneliness, sadness, and unhappiness, shall always be staved; for this love, that came our way which neither time, ......

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Categories: staved, love,
Form: Free verse

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