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Best Bottlenecks Poems

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Toys
"Teach us to care and not to care;
  teach us to sit still."
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Categories: bottlenecks, happiness, inspirational,
Form: Verse



Dare To Dream
Dimmed and crestfallen
You object for the vices!
Your trimmed hopes
Your dampened spirits
See what has befallen you
You played the prey
You braced for the claws


In the grinding grip
An...

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Categories: bottlenecks, change, courage, dream, heartbroken,
Form: Lay
All Bottled Up
All Bottled Up

Bottlenecks are one thing driving down the road
Making one late for work is another
Cumbersome, slow and an all time low

Containers made from glass...

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Categories: bottlenecks, conflict, drink, history, silly,
Form: Free verse
Meet Her At Byzantine
She has nothing to hide
She bathes from phoenix waters
Her face is a painting of emotions
Joy, fear, anger, sadness
Triumphs over lakes of unbelievable 
Her body is...

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Categories: bottlenecks, adventure, allegory, beauty, best
Form: Free verse
Toys
Toys

Too much of everything, no equanimity, 
ipods and emails engulfing your brain; 
snafus and bottlenecks, traffic and tie-ups,
endless confusion will drive you insane.

Perhaps it would...

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Categories: bottlenecks, uplifting,
Form: Verse



Bridgegate
The George Washington Bridge connects New York with New Jersey.
In recent times, it has become a center of controversy.
Two out of three lanes are inaccessible...

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Categories: bottlenecks, political,
Form: Rhyme
Lost
Lost am I 
In the bottlenecks of sorrow
Those hunches about you
Smug an empty tomorrow,

I lock the doors
Yet you appear
Behind those silhouettes 
I tend to disappear,

Burying...

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Categories: bottlenecks, absence, bereavement, deep, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
The Injured, Desolate Jericho
Where silhouetted sentinels silently stand in vain
bleeding shades of layered shame on blight-lined highways below, 
their ghostly shadows remind us of dreams we dared to...

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Categories: bottlenecks, america, city, community, jobs,
Form: Villanelle
Toys
"Teach us to care and not to care;
  teach us to sit still."
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Categories: bottlenecks, writing,
Form: Quatrain
Toys
"Teach us to care and not to care;
  teach us to sit still."
           ...

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Categories: bottlenecks, writing,
Form: Verse
Toys
"Teach us to care and not to care;
  teach us to sit still."
           ...

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Categories: bottlenecks, fun,
Form: Quatrain
Equanimity
"Teach us to care and not to care;
  teach us to sit still."
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Categories: bottlenecks, inspirational, writing,
Form: Quatrain
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...

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Categories: bottlenecks, anxiety, business, career, death,
Form: Rhyme
Las Vegas
City of illusion
Colourfully lit alleys, gaming joints
Millionaires, millionaires in waiting 
Chattering, dining away
Divulging beautiful illumination
Of a paradise on earth
Devoid of stress and bottlenecks 
Somewhere beneath...

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Categories: bottlenecks, addiction, imagination, myth,
Form: Prose
Balance
"Teach us to care and not to care;
  teach us to sit still."
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Categories: bottlenecks, children
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs