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Best Impasse Poems

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Love Impasse
I am not ashamed to say it—
I revisit you—perhaps because 
you discarded me and you 
meant something to me.

But do I blame?
No—I should have 
seen...

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Categories: impasse, betrayal, conflict, courage, creation,
Form: Free verse



Hostile Head Takeover Part 1
I'm near cuckoo
This Monday blue
A day not eas'ly recommended
for making sense
I'm way too tense
And hung-over to comprehend it
 
My mind's on the bend
my imaginary friends
are...

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Categories: impasse, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member To War, From Youth
oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope,...

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Categories: impasse, war,
Form: Epic
The Bronzed Edge of Twilight
I'd bloomed from the warm glow in his eyes.
He had been my sunlight when darkness loomed.
His arms protected me, for he was my safe haven,
but...

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Categories: impasse, death, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Time and Space
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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Categories: impasse, space, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Power of One
The Power of One

Computer age impasse...the strength of one;
the fear of stroke of midnight had begun.
One second only, how our lives would change;
our current ways...

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Categories: impasse, computer, history, horror, new
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member In Poetry
In poetry’s fond verse we save
All matters of the heart,
Our thoughts that may be sweet or grave,
With which we’d hate to part.

Our fears of what...

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Categories: impasse, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In the Grass
Intimations of Immortality (excerpt)

Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendor in the grass, glory of the flower

We will grieve not; rather find

Strength in what...

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Categories: impasse, memory,
Form: Rhyme
The Sound of Nothing
The sound of harps played by virgin hands,
the falling of sparrows from innocence,

the orchestra of a thousand silhouettes,
the rhapsody of dying (and death),

the high-pitched songs...

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Categories: impasse, lifesound, sound,
Form: Rhyme
Anchored On a Windy Beach
I
Anchored on a sun filtered shore 
Upon rocks which lay the days of yore 
In swirling pristine aquas of alluring calm 
Let it serenade heal...

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Categories: impasse, africa, beach, beautiful, confidence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bright Sunny Rays, Sent This Soul Into Glee
Bright Sunny Rays, Sent This Soul Into Glee

I woke that clear morn in dew laden grass,
Still dreaming, of night's paradise before.
Our Love had flown away,...

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Categories: impasse, art, desire, devotion, forgiveness,
Form: Romanticism
Recourse
Recourse

The old man bends his   
knees- 
to the graveyard of 
speech.
His barren stretched arms  
raise up. 
Orates the last 
of his unpronounced...

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Categories: impasse, absence,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Mothman
anxiety, intense -
but I am not frightened ...
my heart races ... I want to flee
my blood heats and lies to
my senses ...
'get out! go now!...

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Categories: impasse, adventure, fantasy, moon, mystery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Green Armchair
I was a pleasant, conscientious librarian, whose world consisted of books,
As a world of fragrant beauty, can be found in the glossy, honeyed nooks.

Although it...

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Categories: impasse, adventure, books, fantasy, journey,
Form: Couplet
Paradox of Recognition
Paradox of Recognition


Unknown the impasse of a whisper
She echoes stranger in the darkness
Of her heart
So alone in the glowing flicker
The love she keeps alive there
By...

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Categories: impasse, love, mystery
Form: Free verse

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