Best Stoic Poems

"Bring it, life, all your adversities...they only strengthen me!" - quote by  poet.



oh, adversity... 

haven't you exhausted 
               all efforts 
to knock me off my equilibrium,
to make me 
 ...

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Written: October 28, 2023
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Among the living is where perfection is found.
Stoicism is a path of life that acts as dull ground.
The advice is to focus on the bright side of life.
Dispel...

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A stoic sentinal midst waves,
you staunchly stand erect and tall.
Emerged in frothy, churning white,
you hold your own in nature’s squall.

Atop, your beacon light shines bright
to let the mariners know well,
there is a guardian at sea
that can be seen above the swell.

How stoic now you bravely...

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Our path, sometimes grows arduous with bends and twists.
Trials of life keep tormenting us and others.
It's miserable to watch or endure such suffering.
But despite all heartache, we feel we are not done.

When I see the swamp bird with broken wings
Struggling to rise from the water’s...

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18 Stoic Faces
- by Bob Atkinson

eighteen stoic faces
faced four who had come
to read the erudite refrains
of poets both dead and gone

readings were in earnest spoken
for respect for some who had
garnered from the establishment
accolades, awards, well sanctioned

yes, eighteen stoic faces
faced four who read so good
those meaningless...

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Its a story of an ambivert
The charade lively mingler personality
She was an acumen
The amiable heart

But she had another face
Shrinking violet persona
A soul who was forsaken
A creature who was ostracized
The spirit who believed that she was the most unlucky mortal
The one with the silence

Maybe she was...

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stoic warrior

feathered master of night

nocturnal lights shine.

 

 

(January 21, 2011  Wausau, Wisconsin)


(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Stoic Silence Serves

The silent stoic stands
mumbling ice crusted mantra
“my light must never fail”.

Riddled by the sting of stony hail
blanched white by salty spray
peering into the maelstrom’s eye

un-blinking in the excoriating gale
knowing its duty is to serve
those in need – at their worst.

A silent storm’s “eye”...

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Be your lifes' grateful Master,
Nourish a fluffy cluster.
Day by day and drop by drop
You'll receive a cosy crop.

Let a pioneering thaw
Be your mentalitys' law.
Let your belief, passion and zeal
Be your motivating meal.

Have inside yourself a spark
Even when it's cold and dark,
Always have a stoic zeal,
Don't...

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I have the greatest admiration for it
Though every one usually dislike it
It exemplifies indifference to the hilt
That makes it an extraordinary beast.

It is often seen standing nonchalantly
Suffering the woes heaped on it coolly
Without troubling anybody absolutely
Deserve treatment by all benevolently.

Neither protest about the harsh treatment
Nor...

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knowing is not the becoming
until we assimilate wisdom
recognising within heart
lies God’s kingdom

yet having been and so seen
truth of underlying reality 
in the midst of storms
we retain clarity

within the womb of existence
there’s no haste to ascend
standing still all we do
our will to God bend

03-March-2023...

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They marched in like they owned the place
In uniforms, formidable and menacing
Bereft, looking around with hostility
Bayonets in hand, immutable in their stance
They pillaged what was not theirs
She was lumped in their vicious interlude
So enraged was she, her body lay brittle
Taken by force, abused and humiliated
A...

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where the pipeline meets the lake
spewing sewage in its wake
several snowdrops grow and help to paint God’s earth

and as acid rains from clouds
upon the litter strewn by crowds
lines of daffodils speak more than words are worth.

next to piles of household waste 
tipped by those who...

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FATE LEADS THE WILLING
when my life 
my very wellbeing 
depends on the actions of those around me 
it’s a trial to my innate sensibilities to bring my side 

if my destiny is to live my final years in isolation 
cut off from the interaction with...

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Immutably
the rock rests solemnly reposed,
settled in its venerable vigilant venue.

It silently witnesses the estuary of geo tides
muted in indolent vibrations
crafted from the command of tacit eons
that carve its inevitable formation.

Narrated within stoic calmness,
its testimony is written under the oath of
time, space, wind and weather
without revision...

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