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Best Impossibility Poems

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Premium Member Aerodynamic Impossibility
cannot fly but does
her bumblebee confidence
trumps the doubters...

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Categories: impossibility, faith,
Form: Haiku



My Rose Was Not Seasonal
 My cherished one...

Here I am ,alone with stone wall paper

in the silence of my room.

The pit-pattering raindrops upon my windowsill 

help me to remember,...

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Categories: impossibility, absence,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member August Blessings
Gentle light flows through the pines,
Inviting the oaks, the laurels, to sigh,
Echoing soft breath, smoke rising –
Mist in the sky, a moment of silence
Breaks the...

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Categories: impossibility, appreciation, august, autumn, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Pass It Foward
Having guided a young man through a tough time in life
It came time for him to move on;
Before he left he shook my hand, and...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impossibility, inspirational, lifeme, time,
Form: Rhyme
A Chair and Music
A Chair and Music

How deep in pain I met the day,
Yesterday’s old emotions had gone into play,
To top the mood, the skies were gray,
My mind...

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Categories: impossibility, perspective,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member My Father's Hands
I remember my father’s hands as a plumber’s hands—fiercely strong, calloused, rough, knuckle-battered, and dirty after a long-day’s work. Those hands shoveled; unclogged drains and...

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Categories: impossibility, family, father, love,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Kissing For the Killing of Can'T -
Destinies departing from one another
like memories falling asleep as new experience births the extremes of Eternity,
striding past ourselves with fingers extended wildly
trying terribly to grab...

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Categories: impossibility, angel,
Form: Romanticism
My Orion
Last night I awoke to the sign of Orion, and the big dipper pouring beauty into her
countenance.

Though the stars say she is a Capricorn, a...

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Categories: impossibility, loveme, time, me, time,
Form: Blank verse
Children of Paradise
Heaven must yield to glory
Accept our orphaned children
Come light gentle bathe
These black forgotten corridors

Distorted images of death
Dance imperious before our eyes
Struggling to live right
Surviving the...

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Categories: impossibility, africa,
Form: Free verse
Dr Rams Words Are Better Than Gold Contest
Gazing over the sponsers searching for what they seek
I find "Dr Rams words are better than gold"
I note this contest is slow to accumulate its...

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© Judy Konos  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: impossibility, inspirationalwords,
Form: Free verse
Driven To Distraction
Driven to Distraction

Can’t help it
Can’t do anything about it
An innocent photo
Fantasizes
Her word repeated
Re-read and re-initiated
Touches
Swims me through 
Her soul
Finds my spirit
Traversing the spaces
Hanging with kisses

She...

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Categories: impossibility, fantasy, loveme, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Mystical Temple of Poetry

Once freed of boring prodigious 
questions.
Once freed of all poetic forms.
Once freed of trying to impress
 you with imagery.
Once freed of following all norms.

Then and only...

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Categories: impossibility, confidence, inspiration, poetry, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Forbidden
Untouchable, yet close enough to touch.
It's wrong, I know but I want you so much.
You are the compliment to who I am supposed to be.
You...

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Categories: impossibility, angst, confusion, life, loss,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Improbable Thoughts
improbable thoughts 
leading me
impossibility thinking
detours me in every alleyway
sheer blind faith
belief in the goodness of the universe
saving me 
guiding me
toward the bliss of myself...

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Categories: impossibility, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wishing For 1984
Wishing for 1984

'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance 
is Strength Big Brother…'

is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibility,...

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Categories: impossibility, dedication,
Form: Haibun

Book: Reflection on the Important Things