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Sterner Poems - Poems about Sterner

Premium Member The Leaf
...The frosty morn was sullen... My breath lay frigid to the air. I walked a darkened wintry trail To enhance this stark affair. I sat upon a wooded bench To give aid to my relief... Beneath a t......

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Categories: sterner, loss, morning, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Fallen Heroes
...Fallen heroes By Michelle Morris 02/10/2021 It's so sad, the fallen heroes; Those we once looked up to, so high; From pedestals, they topple down To the hell created storms... No use tr......

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Categories: sterner, corruption, hero, humanity, integrity,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Abandoned
...The lush fishing village of Kaloo-Nong Rich with folklore, dance, and song Natives thrive in work and play Through joy and sorrow, day by day When young Tahina feels lost, tense, and blue The ......

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Categories: sterner, depression, lost,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Transcendence
...He, a seeker after Truth, set out on an audacious journey to see his old master with a handful of blooms he paused before the open door. from deep meditation the squatted figu......

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Categories: sterner, blessing, devotion, giving, mentor,
Form: Free verse
The Eagle Survives
...In this tumultuous political climate I find both parties irrelevant and obsolete They do not speak to me or my families’ needs Neither do they consider our suffering Day after day immigrants......

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Categories: sterner, patriotic, political,
Form: Free verse



Tear-Tainted Sail
...In the beginning this boat was bare, Greenest with infant's sinless stare; Before soles more selfish than sane Had trodden its dreary derelict main. First to blacken its still-tiptop form ......

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Categories: sterner, age, allegory, allusion, betrayal,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Wales To Me
...Wales to me is the strangeness of mountains, for where I live is as flat as flat. Wales to me is the singing in unison - those choirs... the conductor in the top hat. Wales to me is the musical......

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Categories: sterner, society,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Friend's Rebuff
...O, why's my love not quite enough You say that things are super-rough You have to be insanely tough And turn your voice up extra-gruff No time to be a soft creampuff Solution's made of sterner......

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Categories: sterner, friendship, how i feel,
Form: Monorhyme
Taxidermist
...You a ferrous metal and I a magnet Drawn to you by design, Yet sin degrades all With it’s terror and it’s squall. On my worst days When I listen to the liar Saying “It’s okay its natural Lik......

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Categories: sterner, faith, recovery from, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Is Rough
...To live is to suffer Life is rough, sir The weak cry, 'We've had enough, sir.' The strong are made of sterner stuff They reply, 'We'll tough it out, sir.'......

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Categories: sterner, life, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member If You Pull a Long Face
...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE If you pull a long face Just because you had a bad day That’s alright you won’t lose face Everyone’s beset some hapless day If you pull a long face Day by day com......

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Categories: sterner, courage, humorous, life, symbolism,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Ode To Flowers
...Ode to Flowers Praise to our God for such as one of these, raised forth to give out beauty in the sun. A throng of glories basking in the breeze, the flower kingdom’s parade has beg......

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Categories: sterner, beauty, flower,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Call Guy Dedicated To Stephen Pennell
...Steve works in a call center to earn an honest bob but some days he can't believe the words that flow from some folks gob They cus and curse Then eff and blind - you'd not believe......

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Categories: sterner, for him, humorous, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Private Romeo
...Romeo Jaxx had a friend for a fool So he never thought "Baby's in love." He fought for his rights and he slept through your dreams With his self-centred wolverine paralysed Drove out of the c......

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Categories: sterner, america, journey, lost, military,
Form: Ballad
Long Be His Journey To Death
..." Long be his journey to death! ", someone hollered as he dragged his feet into the rising dust hotter than sand; only a defeated and tormented soul would have admitted looking ahead," Much innoce......

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Categories: sterner, death, journey, war,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

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