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Best Stalling Poems

Below are the all-time best Stalling poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of stalling poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member At a Funeral
At a funeral we,                     ...

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Categories: stalling, dog, flower, friend, funeral,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Shadows
Shadowed veils of night are falling, as I hear the darkness calling,
all around me time is stalling, but my mind I cannot cure.
As I stoke...

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Categories: stalling, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Eagle and the Dove
Gather around the sacred fire, my children
Let the embers' glow spark your curiosity
as we begin on this journey together;
to the time of how things once...

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Categories: stalling, allegory, bird, hate, love,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Vicissitudes of Spring
Raindrops sprinkle spent dogwood petals on the lawn 
While tiny bluebirds perch in nearby mulberry, stalling, 
Awaiting the drizzle’s end, fussing at a week-old fawn...

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Categories: stalling, change, death, life, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Poe Tree
I stood on a rocky shoal, regret lingering on my mind
Its fingers traced blood-filled lines along my bare arm
as if brittle veins in leaves, fallen...

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Categories: stalling, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Free Will Vs Destiny
I have often wondered about free will vs destiny,                ...

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Categories: stalling, bible, books, destiny, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member October Evolves
Pumpkins smile in the rain of falling leaves
A time of year, beauty is stalling
Apples ripen for people to pick
Halloween comes, a treat or a trick

A...

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Categories: stalling, appreciation, autumn, love, october,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Time
Spindles crash and weave no more
Time it spins across the floor
Yarns mix up, colours bleed
I follow threads, they are the feed
Fingers feel, soles are placed...

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Categories: stalling, time,
Form: Rhyme
Time Elapsed
All those years flew away 
for nothing.
Then of course the headaches 
started when weeping constantly
at the unfairness of my marriage.
You need to know that I...

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Categories: stalling, moving on,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Red Bird
I am a red bird sitting in a huge oak tree,              ...

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Categories: stalling, bird, child, crazy, flying,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Silver Frames
Stalling the hand of age in silver frames
Yesteryears crawling around the edges
As time, falling like November leaves
Across younger eyes, enthralling still
Photographs tell a lifetime's recalling.

11/02/21

Something...

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Categories: stalling, age, memory, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dreams
I am heading off to another dream
Where life and I make the perfect team
 
 
Date Written: 8/17/2020...

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Categories: stalling, dream, emotions, life, together,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Door
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ~ Milton Berle

I needed a job-money and more,          ...

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Categories: stalling, business, class, flower, jobs,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tears
Tears from pain,                      ...

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Categories: stalling, dream, giving, heart, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Wicked Seduction
Her love is a tenacious hurricane
A vicious tide knocking me down
A heavy, steady, angry rain
blanket of water consuming the ground

   Her touch is...

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Categories: stalling, dark, evil, woman,
Form: Free verse

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