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Stiffly Poems - Poems about Stiffly

Stiffly Poems - Examples of all types of poems about stiffly to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for stiffly.
Last night
... a man wanted to pass through me, and I was sleeping as if I had left the present world, I was carried so deeply away, and I saw his eyes, he had small black eyes, elongated like two cheetahs, lik......Read More
Categories: stiffly, dream, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Ruby
...Ruby Ruby Bridges was one of the first Black American pupils in a 'White' school after racial segregation was declared unconstitutional. It was November 14th, 1960 when six year old Ruby sa......Read More
Categories: stiffly, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Learning From Loss
...The hardest losses are those too late to repair what has been win/win time lost to despair Just as love cannot co-arise where fear grows fully uprisen a prison predicting anger's nearby ......Read More
Categories: stiffly, addiction, anger, fear, happiness,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Snowstorm
...A white out A snow bomb Homes snow blanketed Whited sepulchres Cars abandoned Stuck in snowdrifts An arm sticking stiffly out Above its embedded body Deep in its shroud of snow The wind how......Read More
Categories: stiffly, snow,
Form: Imagism
Night Walking
... It creaks, drifts have rubbed the air raw it crunches as if some large beast were walking over the packed snow. All night listening had to it could have been a robber an ice-cold ho......Read More
Categories: stiffly, poetry,
Form: Free verse



Winter Wonderland
...I walk alone on a misty winter morn, Through fields of brilliant white, which they now beautifully adorn, Clumps of frozen grass scrunching stiffly underfoot, This crisp winter chill, ever so shar......Read More
Categories: stiffly, beautiful, christmas, december, nature,
Form: Rhyme
A sullen silken star
...Stiffly staring from a faded frightened far is a sullen silken star. Scornfully scattered behind it’s skittish skin of scolded scowling scars. Youthfully yearning for a life contentedly ......Read More
Categories: stiffly, care, dream, missing,
Form: Alliteration
Disobeying military order
... A stiffly worded instruction That should commence with a ruction, Opening fire; next action, Lifeless Bodies sole attraction... But then what of Reconstruction? Easier to crush than to re......Read More
Categories: stiffly, christian, god, humanity, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
The social stage
...There on society’s stage of social standards stiffly stands a man timid and tense. With his mind lying in a world that had never made sense . Bounding him under the brittle bones o......Read More
Categories: stiffly, planet,
Form: Alliteration
Translating Rumi
...not through the tongue and its wind-spray or the booming chest but a soul moved by broken wings, the whispers of ruined things crushed by a cosmic tongue here is a sparrow corpse this is hi......Read More
Categories: stiffly, poetry,
Form: Free verse
A girl with poor handwriting
...As The Note-Taking Girl scribbles And absentmindedly quibbles Her fingers are animated wriggles Churning out eccentric squiggles: Letters of Ever Clumsy Angles, One like a creeper that tangles,......Read More
Categories: stiffly, care, child, education, words,
Form: Rhyme
The bereaved employee
...Quick to forget the Off-Duty Grant That makes bosses not rant Easily treating An Observer, To a levity of A Grieving Server All stops are boldly pulled out Like irritable errors struck out, All......Read More
Categories: stiffly, anxiety, business, career, death,
Form: Rhyme
My Visit To Nirmal Hriday
...Perhaps from my childhood, it had been my burning desire, To glance Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) - a home I did admire; At the thought of Kolkotta - Mother's house - my heart did churn, To be with t......Read More
Categories: stiffly, caregiving, dedication, happiness, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member PREFACE
...Greetings to those who would willingly seek admission to theater of the absurd. Zoltan Goliath and Otis Trench are masters of the avant-garde genre silent musicals for the imaginary stage, an art for......Read More
Categories: stiffly, allegory, literature,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Embarrassment
...Last week, I walked up to a woman, My arms encircling her un-notified waist, After stiffly pointing out to some man His not- funny miscalculations from childish haste… Only yesterday was traili......Read More
Categories: stiffly, character, emotions, hate, hurt,
Form: Rhyme

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