Stiff Poems - Poems about Stiff

et tu Brute with the stiff dagger and warmblood dripping from the betrayed hands witness the evil spirits of Judas lurking behind the scene burrow underneath the quiet earth for thirty shekels of gold almost speaking in tongues back and forth through the holy windows of time to complete the evil deeds of mankind and through the ghost-spirit sublime we conceive the wicked plot to murder the...

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No speech, no thoughts, Quiet is what they want. So that is what they get. I will never speak about love or respect- For anyone, so I will still as a stone. Cold, frozen, and hard as bone, But bones can still break and crack. Pressure, consistently adding to the stack, Of many worries that...

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a working stiff Woke, the bedroom was cold under the duvet snugness I burrowed deeper, enjoying the freedom of sleeping late. Life was hard, getting up at five and preparing breakfasts for grumpy seamen, smoking the first cigarette of the day. The breaking of the fast was endlessly tedious, something with eggs and fatty meat. Sometimes when there was a gap...

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Any noise, any sudden movement Any voice calling me, A step outside my door A shadow in the street A creaking stair The rustling of fallen leaves A tap on my shoulder, Sets my heart pounding My legs growing roots My blood turning cold My soul beginning to freeze... I play possum! ~12/11/22 ~Contest: A Brian Strand Premiere Choice #54...

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Now we have been released from the EU, and its cheap cost of livingWe are now going British with prices that are more than unforgiving...

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Keep a stiff upper lip, it isn't that bad Things will surely get better Life is a series of these ups and downs Surely isn't always fair weather Unpredictable is a word that's often used When referring to things in general For some strange reason as we all get older Life gets somewhat less pleasurable Can't do the things we once did...

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Shadows are stiff hard-edged, all telling, not fibbing nor forgiving. The mind's eye is blind to the shadowy-side we carry in ruck-sacks behind our backs. Shadows are brutally honest, dark and gloomy, sketches of self in outline, that we would rather lose 'cause they can't be colored in....

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STIFF STUFF Old age in men is when joint parts supposedly flexible just aren’t any longer, but are stiff instead; and parts supposedly stiff just aren’t any longer, and certainly no longer any longer. 10 April 2021...

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Keep a stiff upper lip, it isn't that bad Things will surely get better Life is a series of these ups and downs Surely isn't always fair weather Unpredictable is a word that's often used When referring to things in general For some strange reason as we all get older Life gets somewhat less pleasurable Can't do the things we once did...

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An Invocation Owusu Ansah! He birthed water it retained its wetness the water was not licked dry. Break your wooden confines! Get out! Get off! Get up! Shake off the Pincers, the vein grippers. Come Back! Madam, they go deaf, that is the price they pay for...

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A candle light in a dark smokey room Flames dancing on the walls across the roof A twinkling star high up in the sky Suddenly falls away into the space yard of goodbyes Dreams do die in the bitter struggle for gain The last high usually's never the same Until it's over Only the drugs remain And a cold stiff shadow Payment for fortune and fame...

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An Unlively Very Stiff (upper Lip) Masquerade (any resemblance between averred one laid to rest and yours truly...purely coincidental regarding unnamed person liberated into heavenly glade!) though innocently youthful looking air at three score year, or so the trumpeting "FAKE" mirrored reflection (animated, sans Alexa) programmed tube lear and spout, one most familiar Shakespeare refrain (frequently misinterpreted) wherefore art thou Romeo, really translates as “Why did...

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I will not turn towards God, I keep my face away from him, I know he has blessed me, But I choose to sin on purpose, I am ashamed to turn my face toward him, My neck has become very stiff....

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The beach was warm the waves felt nice Till they crashed down with razor cold ice Now I look into your face, lifeless gaze and not a trace Drifting to a different place, somewhere in the depths of space How I wish I could see your face, every night before I sleep I picture you standing by my feet, every...

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One shot, two shot, three Stiff drinks don't hide all the pain they sugar coat tears...

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