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Best Stopped Poems


Before Her Heart Stopped Beating
Before her heart stops beating
Before it's too late
She has things to say
Things that just can't wait

This pain she's lived with
Has made her push people away
She thought she wasn't worth it
So they weren't allowed to stay

But before her heart stops beating
Before it's too late
She has things...

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Categories: stopped, death, family, forgiveness, life,
Form: Rhyme
My Heart Stopped Beating
Laying her back on the wall of her prison
Why was it different
It hurt more
Shocked more
Chest heavy
Grief affecting her
This terrible ache consuming every pore
Harder to swallow
It was him she's sure

She loons at me
I know the look
She's hiding behind the sofa
Saying he's been back banging on the...

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Categories: stopped, anger, death, depression, family,
Form: Free verse
It's Just Because You Stopped
IT’S JUST BECAUSE YOU STOPPED


Thoughts are your existence, your happiness, and your sorrows

They were your past; your now, and your every tomorrow

You have manifested with thought, your life so far

You have thought your way to who you are

Now ask yourself what you want from here

See...

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Categories: stopped, inspirational
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member When the Wild Bells Stopped
Bells worn on ankles by the tribe's fireside
    Joyful dancing began when smoke signals rose high
A son was born to the chief and his bride
    Ring out wild bells to the wild sky

The young warrior’s time had soon come
...

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Categories: stopped, native americanson, dance, dance,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member When Music Stopped Playing
Searching your voice amid dissonant vibes
I followed your shadow into shiny meadows
Till mild breeze conspired with gusty winds
Turning sunshine into gushing rain showers.

Lost in the rainstorm was my clueless heart
Oblivious of directions to romantic path
Aimlessly zigzagging deserted barren land
When bountiful fields were always at hand.

Glimpsing...

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Categories: stopped, heartbreak, love, metaphor,
Form: Verse
When I Stopped That Day To Pick Death's Rose
I heard a little rumor from
a stranger on the road today;
he wore a heavy veil of dusk
to keep the winter's song at bay.

His face was well concealed; although,
his shriveled hands had drawn my sight;
it seemed like they were withering
and, like the moon, a pallid white.

"A...

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Categories: stopped, adventure, death, life, mystery,
Form: Ballad



Mommy Stopped Being Mommy
Mommy stopped hugging
And replaced it with hitting

Mommy stopped loving 
And replaced it with drinking

Mommy stopped cooking
And replaced it with sex

Mommy stopped being mommy
And I did instead...

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Categories: stopped, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member And Then It Stopped
          I feel it jump
               my heart goes thump;
             ...

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Categories: stopped, fear, horror, sick,
Form: Couplet
Time Stopped For Fear
Time stopped for Fear
she held her breath and then
stepped aside politely and
tiptoed 'round the bend

And 'though she kept on going
she slowed down to a crawl
until it seemed she hadn't
kept going on at all

Thus Fear felt respected-
so powerful and large
that he practically decided
that he would be...

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Categories: stopped, angst, anxiety, courage, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
The Grim Reaper Stopped By
Unwanted visitor knocks at the door
Unwilling my feet that pace the floor
Wanting but not finding the patience of the brave
Peeking around surroundings for what would save
A ghost is still living in a haunted house
The heart slowly answers the would be shout
My after life still fears...

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Categories: stopped, allegory, death, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Sex Trafficking, It Must Be Stopped
Sex Trafficking, It Must Be Stopped!

There are some girls who are brutally betrayed,
Ripped apart from their families who care,
Stolen at knife point, maliciously swayed,
Stolen at night when no one is aware.

Some are promised a life full of laughter,
Jobs in a new world and careers of...

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Categories: stopped, abuse, betrayal, grief, sorrow,
Form: Sonnet
So That Was How the Beautiful Piece of Heaven They Had On Earth Stopped Existing
We live in a world full of anger, hate, mistrust, fear and hypocrisy, but it wasn’t meant that way. Once upon a time, thousands of years ago God created a green, pretty and healthy planet to live in where all the animals could work together...

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Categories: stopped, adventure, animals, death, fear,
Form: Narrative
The Reason I Stopped Growing
I was playing with my favourite toy
One night as I lay in bed 
Grandpa caught me and called me a naughty boy
and this is what he said . 
Darren ,I don't mean to be unkind
if you don't stop. You'll go deaf and blind
then You're gonna...

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Categories: stopped, funny,
Form: Verse
Premium Member I'm Glad I Stopped To Dance
It was an unexpected notion
That came across my mind;
To take you by the hand
Then sway as two entwined.

It was a flood of fond emotion
That compelled my heart to move
And then within a moment,
All distractions were removed.

It was you and me together,
Floating lighter than a dove.
Letting...

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Categories: stopped, anniversary, bereavement, blessing, cry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member And Then It Stopped
There once was a time
Though it's hard to believe
A superhero, of a kind
Could be someone like me

Every language or letter
I could fluently speak
Make everything better
With exaggerated feats

Like kill giant spiders
With the swipe of one hand
Make night dreams quieter
Chasing off, the boogie man

I could enter the...

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Categories: stopped, father, hero,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things