Best Stoppage Poems
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I live not far from humankind the cradle that is of
what and where we are all coming from Johannesburg
so they say and going to one human race of every colour
no need for power domin......
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Categories:
stoppage, write,
Form:
Free verse
The Chicago Haymarket Riot of 1886...
It was in eighteen eighty-six in the streets of Chicago,
where the greatest miscarriage of justice people would know
transpired in an infamous labor-police rendezvous.
Albert Parsons led eig......
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Categories:
stoppage, history, death, men, work,
Form:
Rhyme
The Wait...Its taking Longer than it
seemed;
Harder than I dreamed;
Different from what I
themed;
My heart yearns for its
stoppage;
But life creates its everyday
new page;
My mind is engulfed wit......
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Categories:
stoppage, depression
Form:
Elegy
Graduating...she now knows love
love, not a lifeless thing
that she used to talk about those days
while carrying a backpack
full of books and binders
a mustang she wanted to drive
symbol of success and sp......
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Categories:
stoppage, beautiful, career, caregiving, celebration,
Form:
Free verse
I Got It...8/30/16
Plotted
Lines connected no longer dotted
I got it
Took so much more than logic
And being honest
Hard work, pain, sweat, blood and tears is what it costed
From here to beyond t......
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Categories:
stoppage, poetry, rap, word play,
Form:
Rhyme
Lies...Lies lies lies
Easily and swiftly they flow out
And never will they stop
Until the stoppage of life
Like the blood from the jugular
They have no potency
Rather are they independent
Bu......
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Categories:
stoppage, poetry
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Discussion, Confusion and Separation...Two friends talked over a term
While travelling by a tram
One: What a life in me!
Full with happiness, luxury, satisfaction
Other: Are you happy?
One: No
Other: What a life in me!
Full with m......
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Categories:
stoppage, confusion,
Form:
Rhyme
Grace Under Presure...I bring you a live commentary match between Sin and Grace
Sin are inches away to the box
Lust shots, Self-Control reacts well and blocks
Longsuffering has been fouled at the 18-yard
Pride has been b......
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Categories:
stoppage, bible, character, christian, jesus,
Form:
Quatrain
2018 Fifa World Cup - Brazil Vs Costa Rica...two stoppage-time goals
the good the bad the Neymar-
Los Ticos homebound
Copyright © 2018 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.
Published 2018 in "2018 World Cup Senryu" via wattpad.com......
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Categories:
stoppage, emotions, football, international, joy,
Form:
Senryu
If I Ruled the World...There have been multiple attempts at dictatorial rulership of the world. There are those today who would certainly be glad to rule if they only could.......
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Categories:
stoppage, leadership, love, world,
Form:
Verse
That Fickle Friday Feeling...The forty-hour work week
kept same its firm streak,
but aging held a revealing
of different Friday feelings.
Beginning work at eighteen,
Monday became a wait thing,
a crawl to Friday night’s sc......
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Categories:
stoppage, age, change, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
A Knot of Shoe Lace...Happiness and gloom, interlinked.
When a smile decorates a face,
Other remains sad possessed.
I hate to say, it's like a knot of shoe lace.
At the moment of grateful joy for one,
May be for the ......
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Categories:
stoppage, destiny, happiness, inspirational, life,
Form:
Free verse
Life, a Paradox...This morning as I woke up,
smiling at a new day,
thinking I’m a day older,
I looked forward to another birthday,
but my mind quailed at the aftertaste
before I shared my joy
with friends and ki......
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Categories:
stoppage, symbolism,
Form:
Didactic
Dragonfly...Jet,
yeas, it is mean clearly full ahead,
helicopter,
well, another oddly iron Robocopter.
But look for dragonfly
for his camouflaged flying
when he chased the flies and mosquitoes
and other......
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Categories:
stoppage, nature,
Form:
Verse
One - Way Ticket...ONE-WAY TICKET
Whoever wrote the adage -
Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage -
Obviously never spent a life-sentence in solitary - an age.
With nothing to act as time’......
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Categories:
stoppage, depressionlonging,
Form:
Monorhyme