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The Fans view Bless you Jaddu

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In Test cricket…we talk quite a bit about the assumption to be a hit…need gumption and grit…another platitude about the right attitude at any latitude…selectors gratitude for vigour..rigour..fortit...
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Categories: sterner, sports,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe 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 MemberAbandoned

...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 MemberTranscendence

...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 MemberWales 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 MemberA 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 MemberLife 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 MemberIf 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 MemberOde 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 MemberThe 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

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