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Premium Member Stalled Beginning
Stalled Beginning…Beautiful Ending

                I
Like a stalled car
with engine running,

I sat there waiting
to go somewhere.

A tingling bumped
my consciousness;
I became aware
my blank foot-brake
was resting
on my mind’s pad.

Now we have arrived
to where I...

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Categories: stalled, analogy, animal, extended metaphor,
Form: Prose Poetry
Stalled
stalled	

									
she pushed the throttle, her engine roared
yet she stood still

her mind raced like a couple of teenagers- late at night, pushing pedal to the medal
on a lone stretch of beach kicking up dirt, indigo steam pumping out of the exhaust pipes
bright’ s on shinning the...

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Categories: stalled, anxiety, confusion, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Stalled
Push Me
Pull You...

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Categories: stalled, confusion, love
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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Gift of Stalled Time
The tides of time sweep my soul away
from the life anchored in the present
to the distant obscure shore left forever,
that’s the receding past yet to be obliterated,
but lying in the shadow of the perennial future, 
and generating the convivial flood of copious love, 
time carries...

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Categories: stalled, death, dream, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Stalled Time
The wheel of time carries my soul away
from the life rooted in the present
to the distant desolate land  
where I was once, but left forever,
that’s the fading past receding fast,
yet to be abandoned and obliterated. 

Lying in the shadow of the perennial future, 
creating...

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Categories: stalled, analogy, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Immortality In Stalled Time
The wheel of time carries me away
from the listless life rooted in the present
to the distant desolate wilderness,
where I was once, but left forever,
that’s the fading past receding fast,
yet to get abandoned and obliterated. 

Lying in the shadow of the perennial future, 
creating the convivial...

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Categories: stalled, analogy, death, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Blackness Lit Stalled
At midnight black light rules 
Seems as though daylight woes
Eliminator sprites 
lighted
Seems as though daylight woes
Blackness stilled
lighted
Motions stalled can't see to walk 
Blackness stilled 
Eliminator sprites 
Motion stalled 
Can't see to walk 
At midnight black light rules


1/11/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2022...

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Categories: stalled, absence, day, imagery, light,
Form: Pantoum

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry