Best Deadlock Poems

Written: August 09, 20230
Fifa Women's World Cup 2023 Poetry Contest   Sponsored by: Mark Toney
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In the realm of soccer, where dreams bear flight,
A stage...

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dreams
decapitated

damsel in
deadlock

disappointed
disillusioned

will dust off
try again



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on July 8, 2020...

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Time and space in deadlock
Time unlike the progression of a clock
Time dependent on interpretation
A linear cessation
Space dependent on mass
Triangulation through impasse
Portals of acquisition
An inner self...

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Jerusalem expensive 

They took her by force and took it from under our feet They went out 
We love and we want, but their weapons...

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A restless girl in a pink bedroom 
  Scans the implacable ceiling, 
Or buries her face in a book 
  To subdue the...

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The birth of a kid is just an adventure
Which has its start about nine months before 
After an instant of joy or of  venture,

When...

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POEM
Title:  Broken

I was wrong,
So wrong that it hurts,
So wrong that it burns,
And the reason is difficult to discern,
We mathematically solved to get love in...

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Dragon had got himself in trouble…. Obviously… Not unforeseen!
He jumped out and scared some little kids in the spirit of Halloween.
He said it wasn’t his...

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Friction
Dereliction
Tattoo addiction

Drones
Bunk loans
"You're fired" immune deficiency syndrome

Boatloads
Troll roads
Hipster mustachioed

Deadlock
Rhetoric squawk
Locker room talk

Medication
Gene mutation
Social syndication

Accuse
Right to choose
Hashtag abuse

Getting fatter
Online chatter
whose lives matter?

Political turbidity
Global humidity
Pokemon stupidity

Going viral
Vinyl...

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It’s the final quarter
In this seventh game
From courtside to the bleachers
People are chanting my name..

I look at the clock
It reads only three
The score’s a deadlock
Everybody’s...

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A post-apocalyptic society shrunk from socialism at its worst,
Whence a wicked mechanical  catastrophe confounded in us a curse.

The year was 3001 where what is...

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[Stanza: 1]

The spring break earring hitting her face. 
Eyes like Cleopatra carved out of stone of grace 
The Prettiest face I ever saw as my...

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Wedlock.
single life I'm ending this deadlock,
batcheler life just got the sack,
crushes getting heart attack.
No more need to be alone,
a love I now make my home,
a...

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After the Last LastCall
everything should undoubtedly END.
Put plans aside, take a stroll:
nothing completely drives round the bend.

After the last sigh of Hope
words will dry out...

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C'mon Gimme A Botox Smile!

'Pon bing asked by spouse, while she didst dock
and pooched herself abed 
handily at nine o'clock
to see "handsome" pedigree dentastix
dog face...

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