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Best Standstill Poems

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Standstill
Strangely bent this journey extends
Surreal at times, yet so real at ends
Each end confronts with a hardship of choices
With an abrupt passing, or an eternity...

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Categories: standstill, brother, death, friendship, loss,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Thinking Out Loud
~writer's notes~

i think out loud
from my fingers to a keyboard 
so forgive me if my speak
is somewhat long winded
if it has swirls and curls
this is...

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Categories: standstill, angel, beauty, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
There Are Days When
The time seems to wander, languishing here and there, jealous of the wind.
Sometimes it flies, to almost find it's end, even when you have barely...

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© Meru Groen  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standstill, remembrance day,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Shhh Dreams Are Dreaming
S tarlit night sky dreams
T o reach for us,
A journey from infinity to finite
I nverse of our dreams,
R eciprocal of zero
W alking down to touch...

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© Kash Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standstill, imagination, night, night, sky,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member For the Years of Tomorrow
She counted the candles
with the arithmetic of an ancient angel,
the impertinent years of her life fuelled the flames slowly
patiently, and prettily,
a flicker for the fast...

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Categories: standstill, love,
Form: Ballad



Ring Full of Daisies
A ring full of daisies weaved in her hair
adorns a white cotton sundress 
as she twirls through the air
a heavenly tune plays only for her
the...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standstill, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Struggling
12/12/19
"Struggling"

I've been struggling
Doing things that are puzzling
It's rather troubling
How much liquor I've been guzzling

Shiiiit
I admit

I'm not proud at all
I got a problem with alcohol
It'll be...

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Categories: standstill, dark, poetry, rap, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Where Only Time's Been
Sol sheds scarlet tears from
His chariot of gold.
And slips off the Earth's edge
to explore depths untold.

Silver clouds hover low,
their bellies painted red.
And treetops gently sway
as...

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Categories: standstill, beautiful, how i feel,
Form: Quatrain
Busybee Me
(enjoy the puns) 

I happen to be a busy bee
always racing with time
since time how it flies for busy bees
Ah wish I could just lasso...

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Categories: standstill, time,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Flights of Passion
You give me a lift
to those heights I once dreamt of.
You support me in your warm embrace
and the heat comes through the silk and lace.
I...

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Categories: standstill, passion,
Form: Lyric
Solitude
I sit in solitude                     ...

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© Lara Zylas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: standstill, depression, sad,
Form: Free verse
The Last Hug
The Last Hug

The day you left, my soul took your side,
My heart felt a real ache, and cried a flood,
All I wanted and wished to...

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Categories: standstill, lost, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse
Rabbit Dna

Hare trigger instincts
always served Roger well
He had an oh, no-no lettuce nose — 
a hyper-keen sense   when to leave
Roger was rabbit good
at knowing...

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Categories: standstill, parents, parody, truth, wisdom,
Form: Ode
No Sunshine Without You
Maybe one of these days I’ll get over you
Start afresh..live anew
But each day now seems cold with little hue
No sunshine my love..No sunshine without you

Everything...

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Categories: standstill, love, me,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Your Face Could Launch a Thousand Ships
Just like Helen of Troy
              your face could launch
   ...

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Categories: standstill, appreciation, beauty, woman,
Form: Free verse

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