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Steadies Poems - Poems about Steadies

The Phantom Limb
...Each night I call your name— and the floorboards creak their answer, settling into the weight of waiting. Your laughter breaks the silence like warm light spilling through my chest, where my r......

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Categories: steadies, cute love,
Form: Free verse
MY EVERYTHING
...My love for you is like a star that shines in the sky, It guides my idle steps and lights my path. You are the glow that brightens my life, the warmth that stirs my heart. I love you for your beau......

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Categories: steadies, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



He Stepped Up
... He Stepped Up In the quiet after heartbreak, When the echoes of the past still stung, You arrived not demanding, Not to conquer, but to heal. You saw the tender places in me, The parts I ......

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Categories: steadies, beauty, blessing, confidence, for
Form: Free verse
YOU SURVIVED, and that's the perfect love story
...What a beautiful story this is a garden blooming after drought when fire scorched the thirsty earth and silence sang the darkest song. You cupped your heart like fragile glass let quiet wrap a......

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Categories: steadies, 12th grade, absence, allegory,
Form: Free verse
I'll Kiss Him Like Forever Is An Option, part two
... He knows almost everything. He knows how the migraines come in waves, how they paint lightning behind my eyes and leave me curled in corners, whispering nonsense through the static in my head.......

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Categories: steadies, 10th grade, death, farewell,
Form: Free verse



The Eternal Question: God, No God, Maybe God
...Sometimes, I think my soul remembers Him before my mind does, like there is something ancient stitched into my chest that pulses without needing proof. I have never seen Him with my eyes, yet I have ......

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Categories: steadies, 10th grade, bible, christian,
Form: Free verse
fat funny friend
... they always ask me to stay a little longer, as if laughter came from my skin. as if I could be unlonely just by making sure no one else is. I fill the room, and yet I’m never in it. they......

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Categories: steadies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Lonely House in the Steppe - 5
...A Wonder in the House In this house, there’s a wonder, truly rare, Something strange that hangs heavy in the air. In her repeated prayers, a name came to light, “Qusayin, the Ishan,” gave him a......

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Categories: steadies, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain
...You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing I call you by name not to possess it but because it is the only prayer I have ever known how to say You are the sea—each wave not an argume......

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Categories: steadies, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Nuclear Winter: Holiday Dinner Reimagined
... We sat in the fallout of last year’s gift exchange— smashed angel centerpiece taped back together as good as a rogue bomb if someone mentioned it. Our voices dragged like anchors throu......

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Categories: steadies, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Narcissist Who Saved Himself - Cynthia Howard - collaboration with Dilly Dally
...nothing spoils this surface view ~ see me crave attention, gift empty touch tonal mask veils flaws and vices face alter ego and kneel to feed the shallow shadow that circles ~ around ......

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Categories: steadies, angst, deep, mental health,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Our path
...Staid stillness steadies our soul’s intention to befriend silence, that thus doing nothing, pristine heart’s innate vibrance, sets up an intent wave searching for God in any shape He......

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Categories: steadies, silence, spiritual,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member Zen mode
...tingle in the chin node steadies resolve overseen by the threefold light of Christ within with the flaming forehead and toroidal heart entwining with enlivened spine and head ovoid conjoined with......

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Categories: steadies, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Son, You Need A Haircut: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
..."A dressed day has disrobed into the depth of a drawer's nightstand." (Oh, how positively awesome that what can be sorted out in such an explanatory pattern that a difference would maketh a day.)......

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Categories: steadies, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Songs of Soul COS No 8: ABBA
...Her laughter championed her trust wanton, in the garden ... baby naps peacefully, 'till a baby stirs, ignores looks made silly. After a short while, normalcy weighs-in, an exuberant baby squirms ......

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Categories: steadies, allusion, analogy, change, character,
Form: Sonnet

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