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Best Dead End Poems

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Premium Member Jesus Christ
Life ground to a halt
living down a dead end street
where there's no sunlight
and shadows of doubt linger...
Till your love blew them away.

 © Harry J...

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Categories: dead end, faith,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Final resting place
Brick by brick I built my walls,
despite fires raging,
I preserved paths that connected
bridges between our breathless existence. 

Now that my heartbeats
have reached a dead end...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead end, death, love, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Interlude
"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood." 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

In this performance we call life,
my spirit searches for an...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead end, angst, death, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Face Like Thunder POTD
I was a planetary climatologist, who studied climate variability and change,
Like sweet variability of stunning, green tulips, in lavish garden rearranged.

Studying the said effects on...

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Categories: dead end, fantasy, flower, imagery, nature,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Fate and Destiny
How mischievous those goddesses of fate
That bend our paths toward our destiny
They tempt us, setting traps, with diff'rent bait
Like fools, we complicate simplicity

Each turn we...

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Categories: dead end, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member When a Poet's Promise Dies
I tried to create a poetic dream,
to fulfill our promise,
but we became a victim 
to fate's wounding ways.

My flower garden lies in ruins,
suffering in silence...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead end, death, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
My Path
Desire strong as the concrete beneath my feet
Missteps hinder my stride along a winding course
Signs clearly marked  "Proceed With Caution"
Muscles scream to try something...

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© Carol B.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead end, destiny, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
A Quill
"Scratch, Quills of God". Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Rhymes scream like cats and wriggle out of
my arms. Words hide and sick. The stanza’s end
comes to dead-end…...

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Categories: dead end, inspiration, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Crossroads
Together   			     we walked,
       Side by side 		     ...

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Categories: dead end, confusion,
Form: Shape
Getaway Vacation
"Baby, this view is fantastic, 
Who knew what you could buy with plastic! 
With these credit cards, unlimited funds, 
Any regrets, heck no, baby I...

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© Ct Duet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead end, humorous, vacation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Trust You My All
I TRUST YOU MY ALL

Father God...
I come to You at this time.
Father, I want to utter some words but it seems I can not find...

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Categories: dead end, prayer, spiritual, trust, uplifting,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Relapse
Tiptoe into my room
and hide behind the curtain;
You wait to slither onto me
and be my demon.

You lurk in the shadows
waiting to pounce upon me;
You seek...

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© Amrita Jha  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dead end, conflict, confusion, evil, fantasy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The One That Got Away
Was cleaning my goldfish bowl
in the bathroom one day,
put "Goldie" in the bathroom
sink temporarily to play,

Tried to hurry so I could
put her back in the...

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Categories: dead end, fish, humor,
Form: Light Verse
The Tear I Abhor
Tension crawls into the pores of crashing contemplation
Why has it become so hard to breathe?
If only it was known what this dejected heart is saying
As...

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Categories: dead end, analogy, life, loneliness, lost
Form: Free verse
I Am Ghost
I think, therefore I am,
And of what I think
Becomes me out of thought,
Momentarily, memories make
More mad moments of me,
Be it reality of fantasy?
Physical or Metaphysical?
My...

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Categories: dead end, death, education, fantasy, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

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