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Sternness Poems - Poems about Sternness

Premium Member Spring Arrival
...How the birds chitter chatter and the church bells ring. Daffodils fill the graveyard and are picked by passers-by. Families attend the spring fair where a florist sells arrangements. The chided c......

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Categories: sternness, easter,
Form: Free verse
Waking Up In a Supermarket
...I go to the supermarket to buy some mangoes. I’ve had five coffees And spent hours on detangling computer wires. Reciting a poem I remember from fourth grade I opened another three colle......

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Categories: sternness, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ghosts of Christmas Past
...Ghosts of Christmas Past I do not fear the ghosts of my Christmas past. My yearly visit with each one is a gift a present for this one day I drive out to Lantzville Beach and bring my dog......

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Categories: sternness, christmas, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member String of Pearls
... Written: March 09, 2024 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It's utterly aquiver and ambivalent With is a glimmer of modesty His fame stems from promoting peace......

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Categories: sternness, america, devotion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Existential Curiosity
...Anti-intellectualism may breed anti-curiosity. Harsh reality can frustrate existential sternness. They tied backlash against "mere" curiosity. Yet, every human behavior has a purpose......

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Categories: sternness, analogy, appreciation, inspirational, world,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Dont Quit Your Day Dream
...Eureka of Archimedes was part of his daydream, Thomas Edison nurtured his dream in bright light like gleam; Could sleep ever overwhelm Alexander Graham Bell, Till he heard the noise from the other......

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Categories: sternness, day, dream,
Form: Rhyme
Music
...There in the wastes comes music, singing Such contrast, a backing track to real life Like some Hollywood film, unreal, constructed Gathered souls in green clothes passing through streets ......

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Categories: sternness, music, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member On Mother and Father's Day
...The husband asked, "When is Mother's Day?" I said, Everyday! M is for makeover. We don't always get it right the first time O is for older souls fertile with love as mother T is for tenderness ......

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Categories: sternness, appreciation, blessing, encouraging, fathers
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member I Toss Another Stone
...You throw a rock into a pool. Watch the concentric ring slowly expand from its point of origin. Its curvature infinite. Shape pristine. And yet... there it dissipates at the subtle sternness o......

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Categories: sternness, allegory, analogy, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Cashing In
...Each seeded pod of active indulgence With the sternness of instructions Delivered to one and all, ‘Never leave under light Sunlight especially at fall,’ A test one thinks for the human race Doe......

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Categories: sternness, imagination, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Game Is Finally Over
...I can feel my spirit crying And I can tell that someone is dying I can feel my spirit crying When a special tear drop from my eyes It is not a tear of worry, Neither is it a tear of anxiety I......

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Categories: sternness, beauty, cheer up, deep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Young Happy Christmas Snapshots
...Lists of dreams Daddy mailed with sternness changed his playful nature emerged and prevailed Mom smiles engaged in lifts of happiness decorating sweets baking gifting love ......

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Categories: sternness, christmas, happy,
Form: Tetractys
Love of Life
...Starless night, a fire ahead upon a wind sheltered hill. Drizzling rain and steamy breath, I feel the yearning for you. Lighted by the flickering shine you seem to be nameless to me. But your......

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Categories: sternness, emotions, loneliness, love, magic,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dear John
...Dear John letter But it’s not. His name happens to be John. Rather a letter of a hopeful heart anticipating the future Have I finally found the one man who will be my intimate other? He who wi......

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Categories: sternness, absence, devotion, forgiveness, loss,
Form: Free verse
Conscription and Boyhood
...The coarse green fatigues etches away at me, cracking and burning my skin. The hands I once so warmly held are replaced with the cold sternness of pistol grips. Every shot of my gun whi......

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Categories: sternness, growing up,
Form: Blank verse

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