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Best Crossroads Poems

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At a Crossroads a Poet Is Born
I hold my papers and pen
not a poetry to write
it is the school year again
one other journey in time.

My ever burning concern
would my words find...

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Categories: crossroads, beauty, destiny, faith, love,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties 
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
the gravel...

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Categories: crossroads, bird, death, grief, hope,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Within the Depths of My Vacant Soul
When she walked by my side on a lonely road
And took me to the other side, much more verdant,
Through the barren lands of scorched desert,

Clueless...

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Categories: crossroads, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Pray On Your Flesh
I want to place my final prayer
upon your plush velvet neck
murmuring my needs warmly
on that expressway where the crossroads of love and lust unite
focusing the...

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Categories: crossroads, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Bookish Menagerie: A Time Traveler's Library
Toddlers' Exploration: 

Cardboard drum, a thunderous beast,
Playful roars in tiny fists and feasts.
Fleeting wings glide, dreams just out of reach,
Soaring through tales of barnyard Waddles...

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Categories: crossroads, adventure, books, childhood, imagination,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member When a Sparrow Falls
I don’t know how many millions or billions
Of sparrows there are, but the Father does
How can he know when each sparrow falls?
He knows every detail...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crossroads, bird, death, sorrow,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Empathy of Elements with Ink Empress
When life parades a fine line 
between alienation and rationality,
internal intruders of the soul shroud spotlights.

In my dreams 
I'm playing charades with the grim reaper.
surrounded...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crossroads, analogy, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Love's Last Heartbeat
In the moorlands of desires, 
I've forever sung choruses of
fertile faith, amidst the flock 
of bleeding birds, sprinkling
heartbeats on lush olive herbs, 
In the dream...

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Categories: crossroads, angst, metaphor, sad love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Thousand Years From Now
If someone leans upon an ancient tree
In future’s shade, a thousand years from now
Might they engage a wrinkle in the brow
And ponder over death of...

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Categories: crossroads, introspection,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Dark Clouds - a Collaboration With Liam Mc Daid
Grey clouds the innocent sky ambushing light turns dark 
stumbling over a tombstone opening up cold graves

When eyes become frozen behind scenes in hidden truth...

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© Red Fiery  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crossroads, depression, grave, storm,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Angels and Demons
"Angels & Demons"




The Soul never sleeps
battered and lonely, the lesson 
Life spent in The Hard Sell

Soft-served you become
melting Insomnia 
mouth sucking a loaded gun

blue ribbonned...

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Categories: crossroads, abuse, addiction, angel, depression,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetic Meraki
Upon the twinkling of silent twilight,
tranquil thoughts set adrift, 
infatuated in elysian reflection.

The mind wanders, 
observing and listening - roaming;
avoiding confusing crossroads
leading into chimerical phantasms.

Overwhelmed...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: crossroads, analogy, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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: crossroads, life,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member I Will
I will search for you
when stars seem to be mute
their sparkle shrouded by the cool soot of love's burning root,

I will reach for you
when my...

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Categories: crossroads, desire, heart, i love
Form: Ballad
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: crossroads, destiny, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs