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Best Dead Ahead Poems

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Better Days, Dead Ahead
Better days, dead ahead
Don't let these things slow you down
Pick yourself up again and again
Because you'll fall overboard and possibly drown

Better days, dead ahead
Fighting with...

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Categories: dead ahead, hope, inspirational, life, people,
Form: I do not know?



Premium Member I shall find a way or make one
(Inveniam viam)

Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales
Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails 
Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the...

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Categories: dead ahead, dark, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crack House
CRACK  HOUSE?

They come most ofen two at a time
Dressed all in black, with hoods
I call ‘em black knights
With hoods?    Fer crap,...

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Categories: dead ahead, society,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Ahoy There - Out of My Way
'Twas a dark and stormy night on that dark and stormy night!
HMS Blunderbuss plied the billowing seas just off the Isle of Wight!
Able Seaman Steer...

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Categories: dead ahead, dark, funny, light,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Titanic
Collisions avalanche, beneath the icy
Waves, of the North Atlantic.
Birthed in the cradled of Belfast,
A maritime giant, became crimsoned,
By champions shattered tradition,
An ironic omen presence to...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead ahead, adventure, imagination, inspirational, international,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Those Were the Days, I'M Telling You
High School ~

Being asked to search my memory of school 'daze' gone by
is asking quite a lot of me but I promise to give it...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead ahead, introspection, school, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's Lament
One day not long past our economy faltered
And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered.

'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap)
'Cause...

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© John Mudge  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead ahead, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
Dead Mans Curve
The old steam engine chugged trying to reach the top,
Slowly it inched as the pressure valves were about to pop.
Just a few more feet and...

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Categories: dead ahead, death, dedication, devotion, lifeold,
Form: Verse
Near Miss
Driving home one afternoon from school,
It was raining and the air was nice and cool.

Less than a mile from home in my little S-10,
Traveling the...

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Categories: dead ahead, faith, hope, lifenice, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Whore Edwin Hofert
Whore  Edwin Hofert

Sure I'm on the right track both eyes set dead ahead.
The big threat to my future came from back behind instead.
Many of...

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Categories: dead ahead, absence, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Immortal Words!
Many immortal words have been spoken in the heat of the moment,
During romantic settings, wars and other distressful foment!
Damsels have said, "I wouldn't be caught...

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Categories: dead ahead, funnywords,
Form: Rhyme
Dormant Seeds
The kamikaze martyr steels his nerves
To seal the sacred mission of his life.
He loves the all-important cause he serves,
Yet dreams about his mother and his...

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© Ed Morris  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead ahead, psychological, war,
Form: Sonnet
Crossroads
Admiral John Smith sat stark and semidark at the crossroads among the war torn.
With no urgency for liturgy, he wrapped his men tightly with tattered...

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Categories: dead ahead, war
Form: Narrative
The Dancing: the Last Dance
Was it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?

It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding...

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Categories: dead ahead, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wreck On the Highway
cold
sea fog
shrouds the road
corn whiskey breath
permeates truck/s cab
flashing lights dead ahead
break too late - crash certain, glass
shatters, blood splatters like red paint
I didn't hear nobody...

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Categories: dead ahead, drink, loss, prayer,
Form: Nonet

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