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Stead Poems - Poems about Stead

Premium Member Truth of my lies
... For what charge is this you lay at my feet? For what misdemeanour or untruth did I afore commit? Did I steal, did I lie and some innocence fall in my stead? Did I indeed do much worse and is som......

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Categories: stead, conflict, dark, feelings, identity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Balloon Head
...Love Always Goes To My Head. But(t)... I'm Sure It's Nothing I Said. The Troubledest Scoundral The World Has Ever Bled... 'Cause I Fell In Love With A Fantasy Loving Endlessness... ......

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Categories: stead, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Summer Passing
...Impossible beauty, summer in swell, Fragrance aflowing and fluttering around; Though now, I admit, I don’t see it well, I know – my ears! – all the birds by their sound. Heaven surrounds me, but ......

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Categories: stead, age, beauty, death, howl,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Victorian Christmas Eve
...There is happy ado on the old farmstead as Yuletide draws nigh! Wondrous things to savor as gales blow and snow begins to fly! The tempest rages for days - they will surely be snowbound, But a bla......

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Categories: stead, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Struggle of Being a Lady
...Her beauty turned to malison and woe, As ladies, envious, scorn her radiant face, Their hearts, inclined to rivalry, bestow, A bitter enmity, her charm’s disgrace. The world casts down her f......

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Categories: stead, allusion, america, analogy, anger,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member The Mirror’s Gentle Truth
...When you stand before the mirror so still.. Do you count the years, against your will? Trace each line like a fading chart.. And mourn the youth that did depart? But what if mirrors told the ta......

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Categories: stead, age, beauty, celebration, character,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Word
...A word can be kind A word can be hateful A word can be cruel A word can be grateful A word can be whispered A word can be shouted A word can be screamed A word can be written. A word can ......

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Categories: stead, blessing, christian, forgiveness, god,
Form: Rhyme
Holy Spirit
...My soul is lifted out of my mind. In its stead— filled by the Holy Spirit, guided in silence by its breath... like an angry wind held still above a river born of crashing falls, with a tooth th......

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Categories: stead, baptism, bible, christian, religion,
Form: Narrative
I Sleep Inside Your Head
... [Verse I] Thou knowest not the breadth of me, Though I have dwelt where shadows creep. Each night I rise without a sound, To haunt the ground where thou dost sleep. [Verse II] Thine eyes, o......

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Categories: stead, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Path of Contemplation a Song
...I walked a long path today. Off in the woods nearby. My dogs walked with me, and took side trails on the sly. A little trail becomes a deer trail, through the eucalyptus and pine The oxal......

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Categories: stead, growth, journey,
Form: Lyric
The Bead of Destiny
...Cento One: “Shadows of Deceit” In eldritch times, Ori's companions did weave a tangled web of guile, —their hearts beset with malice. With cunning guile, they did solicit the king, saying: ......

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Categories: stead, betrayal, destiny,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A crown fit for a clown
... There once was a clown who paraded around town he thought the world of himself and liked everything to be top shelf He bought himself a mannequin he married her no panickin' soon his humour......

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Categories: stead, abuse, power, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
A Mother's Love
...From the beginning Your love held me in good stead Keeping my soul with constancy Before my eyes discerned the light Before my hands discovered their might Before my mouth your name could say ......

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Categories: stead, appreciation, care, child, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shadows of the Valley
... Written: May 13, 2025, for contest by Robert James Liguori ******************* On the golden steed, dreams catch flight, In the sunny flame, rings of final sigh ignit......

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Categories: stead, analogy, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There will be days when no one will grasp the depth of your hidden feelings
...There will be days when no one will grasp the depth of your hidden feelings, and that's okay, a silent complicity that embraces your soul like a cloak of mystery, days when your words will get lost......

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Categories: stead, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

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