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Best Stalemate Poems

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Premium Member Stalemate
in the game of life
please don’t treat me like a pawn
the next move is yours

12/29/17...

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Categories: stalemate, games, life,
Form: Senryu



Premium Member Stalemate
The early days were bubbles
When days passed in moments 
And the air between us
Never escaped.
Soon after something died
As if it was all normal
Like you blow...

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Categories: stalemate, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Stalemate
This universe is a chequered board
Where facts are sacrificed as pawns
To defend ideas antediluvian.

Our horizon is constantly receding
Knowledge and ignorance clash
Ending in a stalemate....

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Categories: stalemate, world, universe,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Our Life Is a Poem
life is a guesthouse,
no one overstays their welcome.

As background music
slowly muffles into softer tones,
breaths struggle to appease.
Deep painful faint sighs,
fall like crumbling leaves -
I'm vulnerable...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stalemate, assonance, death, goodbye, sad,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Waiting
                       Spring awaits...

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Categories: stalemate, longing, missing,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Joe the Plumber
Joe The Plumber announced he was runnin' fer Congress the other day!
Congratulations, Joe!  You the man!  Fer you I shout, "Hooray!"
Tell 'em like...

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Categories: stalemate, funny, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Battle Begins
The battle begins with an assault on the hill
Our men respond knowing my will
The white warriors continue their drill as before
My men are confident to...

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Categories: stalemate, games, war,
Form: Narrative
To My Super Souper Friends
Alot of you folks have been able to say what you feel this holyday season with exquisite 
wording and beautiful sentiments. I can't do that....

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Categories: stalemate, friendshipteacher, me, write, class,
Form: Free verse
Algae Bloom
The dance commences, I retreat a step
Shattered from archaic engulfing patterns

You cha cha your storm forward in
Swirls of ancient abandonment and as

I skip back another,...

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Categories: stalemate, allegory, humanity, imagery, relationship,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member I Am An Old Man
i am an old man
when i look in the mirror 
i don’t see me
a resemblance of my past
but know things aren’t 
always what they seem
	my...

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Categories: stalemate, change, nostalgia, old,
Form: Free verse
Game of Love
Birth is a copy of who you will be
Life is the creations of all you will see
Love is the soul that searches for another
Sight shows...

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© Bobby May  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stalemate, games, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Inner Self Renowned
Inner self renowned free; owned only by me in the thicket of the woods which is ticket to the 
goods. Lovely dew drop, tear drop...

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Categories: stalemate, healthself, me, self,
Form: Free verse
The Temptress of the Cliff
The heaven's lanterns she commands,
The harmony of ocean's harp.
Her moonlit shadow firmly stands,
And merges at the hem of scarp.

As I approach, afraid to speak,
Her illustration...

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© Gael Attal  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stalemate, allegory, death, devotion, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Believing In Angels
I woke up in the front yard this morning.
I had built a statue to all that is 
Made from materials from my garage
Garden hoses, barbecue...

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Categories: stalemate, addiction, drink,
Form: Free verse
Alien Invasion
Predator drone recording:- 6.00am
 
The dawn sky dramatic 
Multi-coloured in rainbow array
Mutating flares of crimson reds
One portent Wednesday.

Overhead the predator drone motionless
Metallic silver it's planed...

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Categories: stalemate, science fiction,
Form: Free verse

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