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Stays Poems - Poems about Stays

For the one who stays
She wakes before the sun, packs two lunches—one for school, one for work, if she remembers to eat. She brushes her child’s hair while tying back her own pain. She looks in the mirror and sees a woman who stayed too long for someone who only knew how to disappear. He said forever, then broke it quietly. Took the best of her years and left her with bills, baggage, and...

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Categories: stays, beautiful, courage, family,
Form: Free verse
When the Door Stays Locked
You’ll come Knocking on my door One of these days And you’ll know What it’s like To be able to feel your insides That uncanny descending feeling Like a rock being dropped In the ocean Buckling your knees With a thump of desperation On my porch Silence ringing In your ears so loud You can’t...

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Categories: stays, boyfriend, break up, loneliness,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Birth rights; not wrongs
There are those born women' And those born man A very few are both genders Yet none were ever born As trans.!...

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Categories: stays, anxiety, boy, education, gender,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Annie Stays Put
Her nickname perhaps should be ‘Whizzy’ She rushes round making me dizzy Right now, she’s unwell But asked me to tell That grim reaper guy that she’s busy...

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Categories: stays, courage, wife,
Form: Limerick
Nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same We all know how it goes Appreciate what you have when you have it Everything isn’t meant to be forever Do things stay the same our entire life? Hardly ever Change makes me uncomfortable Yet it’s still going to happen Life is meant to be full of passion Starting over sometimes is necessary Facing...

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Categories: stays, life,
Form: Free verse



The Love That Stays
I didn't expect to see God showing me, To remind me of what I already knew indefinitely, The emotions become overwhelming and try to stand in the way, But then again I knew God intentionally built me this way, For without that part of me how could I ever feel? It's ingrained in my spirit, it's part of the...

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Categories: stays, beautiful, blessing, deep,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Still, She Stays
Her bathrobe hangs forgotten by the door. Her clothes strewn all across the bedroom floor. And I find that I don’t care anymore For she’s still with me. Her makeup takes up all the counter space. My lonely toothbrush hasn’t got a place. But now I see it all as such a grace For she’s still with me. All I’ve done to break...

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Categories: stays, feelings, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member THANKFUL WHEN OUR MIND STAYS YOUNG
Today I’m thankful as we grow older when our mind stays young and strong…. How, when our body tells us we’re too old to do something, our mind says “DO IT…and prove your body wrong.”...

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Categories: stays, age,
Form: Rhyme
Why the Husband Stays In the Garage
Just before the couple’s wedding day a young man told me about his plan How he and his wife would be equal no difference between the woman or the man All the chores like cooking and the cleaning would be shared equally by each one That way neither would have the burden and working side by side would be fun But after that...

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Categories: stays, humor, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Nothing Gold Stays
Who can resist the strangulating grip of time? That which exists today may not be there tomorrow Like shooting stars which vanish in the flicker of an eye Life comes and goes quicker than a darting arrow The only constant in life is its inconstancy With time, even our existence turns a myth As every sunrise follows a sundown, Each birth leads...

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Categories: stays, change, death, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sylvia Stays Sedentary
Sylvia stays sedentary still seeking superiority Sometimes summarizing situations so subtilely*, Suddenly somnambulistic, she slips silently Sensing some sarcastic silliness, soon senility. *alternate, archaic spelling for “subtly.” SECOND PLACE WINNER Written June 28, 2022 For "Begin With a Letter" poetry contest sponsored by Angela Tune...

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Categories: stays, fun, word play,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Love Stays
LOVE STAYS I thought of you today Just Like I did yesterday Still can’t believe that you walked away - People Change I hear time has a funny way Of makin’ the memories fade I wish you didn’t feel the same - People change People change People change People change But love stays My love stays This heart was always yours Probably will be forever...

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Categories: stays, love,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member What Happens In the Mustang Stays In the Mustang
I want to write up your adventures Ashleigh said. Sometime later, I told her, after I am dead. She did not understand and took an unauthorized selfie with me. This made me mad, sol I took a dump on her beloved willow tree. I am the king, so no one should take a photo without permission. I drive a red...

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Categories: stays, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Death Comes Yet Life Stays
DEATH COMES YET LIFE STAYS Death comes yet life stays they say, all good things must end they say, all good things must end Yet they humanity doesn’t know the hell I’ve been Been through here on terrain earth living daily Darkness was my only companion until Jesus my light came and shine on me I pray for your voice for God...

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Categories: stays, analogy, destiny, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member True Love Stays
love stays when trees in fall bare of leaves. It's rays still shine in the winter of our discontent when moon and stars flee the night sky, ...

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Categories: stays, love, meaningful, truth,
Form: Rictameter

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