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Best Dilemma Poems

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Premium Member Dilemma
Looking at the pills in the palm of my hand,
Carvedilol, 3mgs.
2 pearls a day of life giving essence
or 92 ways to end the depression.

How neatly...

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Categories: dilemma, confusion, depression,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Love's Dilemma
Love’s Dilemma

Happy one minute
Sad the next
Speaks volumes
To the constant
Ebb and Tide
Of what’s called
Love’s Dilemma. 

When two people
Meet and fall
Deeply in love
Passions abound
Emotions afire
Whilst they bask
In...

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Categories: dilemma, destiny, emotions, fate, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tearful
“My tears are testimony of my devotion to Beloved;
and from those tears white lilies will grow that speak the truth.”
Rumi

I had heard the legend of...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dilemma, appreciation, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member It Appears I'Ve Disappeared
A lot of acquaintances deemed me lucky, and I knew I was,
For I had a successful life, when all could have been chaos.

I had a...

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Categories: dilemma, art, confusion, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Bill and Ted's Excellent Conversation - A Message for 2024
*To fully appreciate this a person would have to be at least somewhat familiar with the movie: Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

"Dude, here's a heads...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dilemma, hope, love,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Oblivion
“I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”
Chuck Palahniuk


Is there such a metaphor as...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dilemma, abuse, angst, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Fable of the Fox and Goose
There once was a fox, as wise as can be,
 He lived in the hollow of an old oak tree.
 Not so very far from...

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Categories: dilemma, parody,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Eyes of Prophecy
You know how they say,'what will be will be'...
but what is it that will be?
What does the future hold
for me?
I wish somehow
it would all be...

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Categories: dilemma, future, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Visitor - Part 2 - a Collaboration With July Morning
The Story so far continued from 'Visitor'…
An attractive extra-terrestrial female researcher sent to a remote island to observe earth and beam back her findings is...

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Categories: dilemma, adventure, romance, science fiction,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Appear My Queen At the Pier
As the life of the day nears its last breath,
With a glow of crimson, forewarning its death,
Upon its cresting, the reflection, daunting,
The sea sets free...

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Categories: dilemma, beauty, desire, dream, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Feather In My Hand, Ink In My Heart.
Trickling over my mind
Came scampering the question
This dilemma of a heart
Come running into my embrace
Stricken with fright

It asked me
Father, why do we write
And so I...

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Categories: dilemma, devotion, on writing and
Form: Free verse
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: dilemma, destiny, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Thoughts of Infinite Light
Thoughts of Infinite Light


Thru no beginning and everlasting end, the loving light shall transcend
The Angels of illumination shall defend its passionate passage to extend
From within...

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Categories: dilemma, devotion, easter, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When Nature Calls
I strain against the rising tide
    But I find no solace there.
My only hope for some success
    Is to...

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Categories: dilemma, funny, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Desperate Hope

There is an illusion of dishonesty in darkness,
so we rejoice when spring sings saccharine serenades.
I've always been a soul yearning for summer scents,
but somewhere the...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: dilemma, assonance, emotions, love,
Form: Prose

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