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Stiffly Poems - Poems about Stiffly

I Am From pt2
...I am from sitting in the front row church pew I never wanted to be in twice. The genuine smiles in the photos on the memory board were oh-so-different from The ones we plastered on at the American ......

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Categories: stiffly, death, funeral, grandmother, grandparents,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Premium Member She spoke to me yesterday
...She spoke to me yesterday Rippling in the brisk spring breeze Humming her song of freedom Etched with the pain of passion Humbled by the sacrifices endured Snapped sharply as a gust stirred imag......

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Categories: stiffly, america, freedom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member salvation army
...salvation army she wore purple because she liked it. hanging stiffly on the store rack, yellow goodwill tag with smudged blue ink, was it a three or five? she argued for three, willing ......

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Categories: stiffly, purple,
Form: Free verse
True Story
...I had a vision,a waking dream.I drove someone,a female to a beautiful secluded spot in nature.It may have been the trail of tears state park.We sat in the car and talked for a while till I asked her ......

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Categories: stiffly, 10th grade, dream, winter,
Form: Prose
Premium Member frost
...crust on water's edge stiffly standing cattails resting ground for geese......

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Categories: stiffly, water,
Form: Haiku



Premium Member can you please get me out of here
...mermaid wrested her breasts on the edge of the dish Her powerful tail gave one tremendous swish Be open to new people, her inner voice said. Who are you? Mermaid asked, fluffing her hair of red. ......

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Categories: stiffly, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Calibration
...Here I stand, entirely symmetrical with the longitudinal lines that thrusts perfectly through the balance of our planet with not a moment of fluctuation. Stiffly positioned in a direct sta......

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Categories: stiffly, 12th grade, blessing, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Stately Iris Flower
...The Stately Iris Flower Bearded irises are tall and stately in form They grow from rhizome sculptured leaves through a storm Standing stiffly upright or curving at the tips A swollen stem where......

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Categories: stiffly, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Ambedkar
...Part II What would have happened to million’s fate, If Subedar Ramji had failed, thee to set. In 1891’s simmering heat of April Born true nationalist Phule’s pupi......

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Categories: stiffly, 7th grade, appreciation, community,
Form: Ode
A Lost Touch
...I touched her hand and the warmth of her soul rushed my veins like a mad river, obliterating all doubts. Would that I survive the tumult, the undying desire to touch her skin again, even for a mo......

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Categories: stiffly, missing you,
Form: Free verse
Almost Xanadu
...Winged mannequins dot the forest trail, forest fairies in the dale - so lifelike in their chalkware skin, unexpected in the vale. Stumbling under their glossy gaze, lost inside a leafy maze - ......

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Categories: stiffly, fairy, fear, summer, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
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, like ......

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Categories: stiffly, dream, love, mystery,
Form: Free verse
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......

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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 ......

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Categories: stiffly, addiction, anger, fear, happiness,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: stiffly, snow,
Form: Imagism

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