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Best Stopped Poems

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

Big Girls Do Cry

They expected her to be the jolly fun one.
The one   w e a r i n g   a smile on her...

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Categories: stopped, courage, freedom, growth, moving
Form: Free verse

At the Footbridge - Limerick Collaboration

At the footbridge Sue was meeting her beau
(He was married to a woman called Flo)
Sue soon found out his deception
She dismembered his ********
For his love...

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Categories: stopped, betrayal, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick

Like Zephyr Breeze

Before I ever saw those eyes      How deeply I loved you.

Before you read my first thought    ...

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Categories: stopped, absence,
Form: Free verse

How Do I Love Thee - Let Me Count the Ways

1.
and every time i see you it is for the first time 
still my heart skips a beat
and every time we kiss it is our first 
and...

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Categories: stopped, love,
Form: List

In a Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope

In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
           (The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds...

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Categories: stopped, art, deep, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme

A Chorus Sang Its Last Concerto

I walked in darkness along the shore
seeking only solitude and nothing more
Thunder drummed from somewhere far away
like foreboding timpani as clouds began to play
They competed...

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Categories: stopped, beach, emotions,
Form: Elegy

The Ride

The old man looked a little out of place
Astride his pony on the carousel
A smile from yesterday across his face
As if he were entranced in...

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Categories: stopped, imagination, memory, sad,
Form: Iambic Pentameter

The Land of the Midnight Sun

I went cruising to Norway with my wife across the North Sea
We travelled the route the Vikings took but with added luxury
Our first port of...

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Categories: stopped, boat, friend, holiday, sea,
Form: Narrative

The Saint Patrick's Day Robbery At Milton Creek Bank

In the town of Milton Creek the sun was starting to rise
And Jenna was planning for Ranger David a lovely surprise
Unbeknown to him preparations were...

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Categories: stopped, america, humor, ireland, western,
Form: Rhyme

The Missionary and the Bum

There once was a bum. He was the neighborhood drunk. He had an unkempt demeanor. His salt and pepper hair had not been washed in...

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Categories: stopped, faith, friendship, love,
Form: Prose

The Amorous Mystique - a Collaboration With Robert Lindley

Can it be, into this world we are dropped
from heavenly streams that have never stopped?

With sweet hope gifted to our souls delight,
oceans of love and...

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Categories: stopped, appreciation, romantic love, sensual,
Form: Rhyme

Like Zephyr Breeze

Before I ever saw those eyes     How deeply I loved you 

Before you read my first thought    I...

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Categories: stopped, feelings,
Form: Free verse

A Flower Blooms

While traveling ‘cross such harsh terrain 
     left parched and barren from the sun 
   and weeks without a...

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Categories: stopped, beauty, flower, inspiration,
Form: Quintain (English)

Like Zephyr Breeze

Before I ever saw those eyes

 How deeply I loved you

Before you read my first thought

I found you

Before you  ever dreamt of my lips

I...

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Categories: stopped, absence,
Form: Free verse

Once Upon A Time In Milton Creek The Conclusion

It was still quite dark in Milton Creek, and it had just gone four
When Tom arrived at the sheriff's office, and knocked on his door
The...

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Categories: stopped, america, death, western,
Form: Narrative