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Best Crossroad Poems

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Premium Member Crossroad of My Life
 
" Like a fish caught in a cruel net; 
or a bird caught in a trap,  
in the same way a person can...

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Categories: crossroad, life,
Form: Villanelle



Standing At a Metaphysical Crossroad
Standing at a metaphysical crossroad
Not knowing what is real
What is imagined
What never was or will be
Looking in the distance
Stars surround a glowing sun in a...

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Categories: crossroad, angst, confusionworld,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At a Crossroad
At a Crossroad  ** 

            Treading down the     ...

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Categories: crossroad, faith, god, inspirational, life,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: crossroad, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member On Avenue of Aimless End
In pre-ghost era of my sowing days,
and long before my crumbling had begun,
my feeble goals sparked insufficient blaze;
the avenue I chose was not hard-won.

I packed...

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Categories: crossroad, life,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Mellifluous Muse
In my hunger,
I saw a hallucination of heaven.
From afar, visions of a golden glow,
lustered, lingering above a crowded crossroad.
This aura of agave aromatherapy,
left an amorous...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crossroad, assonance, love, romance,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Blood Red Moon
Blood Red Moon

Deep devouring passions bleed now from this solar eclipse 
As black blood flows from an evil army of “undead” beings 
Whose fangs hideously...

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Categories: crossroad, dark, evil, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Poems Come To Life When Tired Tongues Are Silent
Slave to wayward thoughts,
unwritten poems return to haunt.
Tempest of tragedy arrives as a harbinger,
wrecking fences that divide sleeping paths. 

There is no one to show...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crossroad, destiny, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Destiny and I
Lost,

At a crossroad of my life,

Destiny I met

Smiling, she inquired where I was
 
Heading to 

“I am waiting for you to tell me.”

Was my reply!




©...

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Categories: crossroad, future, life,
Form: Epigram
Birch
Sycamores certainly speak French, cypresses - ancient Greek, the Old Testament's olives are bilingual: they speak Hebrew and Aramaic. Birch is a Russian tree though...

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Categories: crossroad, nature,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member A Poetic Plight
A Poetic Plight
Poems never read, never shared
for no one cared
The heartaches, sorrow, despair 
no one was there.

Nothing hurts quite as much as that
it knocks one...

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Categories: crossroad, feelings, imagery, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Binary Decision

Life always offer choices — 
Some easy,
some hard

Alternate current inner voices:
Pulse charge emotional,
or neural beta rational

Positive or negative energy flow
Binary decision 
is either yes or...

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Categories: crossroad, introspection, spiritual, visionary, wisdom,
Form: Tristich
Leave Me Alone-Not For Contest Judgement
I'm plagued by memories I'd rather forget,
and with shadows that linger, I'm often beset.
They hover around me, leaving me daunted
in my waking hours and in...

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Categories: crossroad, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Journey Through Time's Long Blackened Maze
Journey Through Time's Long Blackened Maze

Avoiding many pitfalls, I walked a narrow ledge
a tramp searching for treasures that would heal  
 empty soul since...

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Categories: crossroad, art, dark, death, deep,
Form: Free verse
We Are Energy
We are pure energy,
drawn from the stars—
adrift in a vacuum halfway
between sun and Mars. 

Is our existence
the product of chance—
or the musings of gods
who create...

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Categories: crossroad, character,
Form: Rhyme

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