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Best Stopper Poems

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Premium Member Heart Stopper
My heart stopped as you took my breath away
You are the brightest part of every day

Years do not matter you are still sublime
The best part...

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Categories: stopper, love, memory, heart, heart,
Form: Couplet



My Oppressor and I
The parched sycamore leaf
Walked across the patio
Past the portal of my dwelling

The alder slab was immobilized
By a decorative door stopper
Arranged to let the warm
November day...

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Categories: stopper, allusion, books, how i
Form: Free verse
Est'Bel Strolls
Urges ushered Est’bel out of her abode –
a cottage cobbled together from cobwebs and clapboard – 
and she scuttled forth,
her nesty hair tousled
by a leaf-laced...

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Categories: stopper, magic, moon, night, woman,
Form: Free verse
One Time At the Beach
I went to a nude beach one time
Where tanning was filling their needs
Ronald MacDonald in his prime
Showed his buns of sesame seeds

That's a crazy way...

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© Pat Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stopper, beach, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
City of the Bean People and Giantvillism: the Yellow Orange
It is crop time in Beantown.
The people of the City have the seeds to plant.
Their best harvest is the orange that is yellow.
Jake Castle is...

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Categories: stopper, character, children, environment, faith,
Form: Lay



Premium Member Wheeler Dealer
Boy those wheeler dealers sure work hard
just look at Ed slaving away sorting things.
First he sorts out the electrics and switches
then he turns his attention...

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Categories: stopper, car,
Form: Verse
Big Band Spanning Trees - a Tribute To Adele and Lady Gaga
Nobody knows why the sun shine.
But it does every day it is not pouring outside.
What a life to excite?
I got my man on my mind.

Everybody...

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Categories: stopper, tribute,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Ancient Footles
1. Walls of Jericho:
Giddy
City
 

2. Moses:
Hopper
Stopper


3. The Egyptians:
Water
Fodder


4. Jael:
Hammer 
Slammer


5. Sampson:
Pillar
Killer


6. Laban:
Fuzzin'
Cousin


References: 
1. Joshua 6:20
2. Exodus 10:17-19
3. Exodus 14:28
4. Judges 4:21
5. Judges 16:29-30
6. Genesis 31:41

Written...

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Categories: stopper, bible, christian, funny, silly,
Form: Footle
Premium Member Swerving Through Springtime's Shine
Shorelines toss her sweet sensation
with saucy flair, sealing fresh soil
of a season’s shape, so divine;
where songs submit to a bird notes' smiles.
My, show stopper swerving...

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Categories: stopper, sensual, spring,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Dead Drunk and Pickled
From the dark vaults of Nottinghamshire's rich history
Full of intrigue folklaw and mystery
Comes a rather gruesome tale 
About a unlucky drunkard who drank too much...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stopper, drink,
Form: Free verse
Hot Water Heater Woes
My faucets run cold, what IS this about?
My hot-water-heater-tank pilot light's out!
Press down that red button and click 'til I pout
Then spew out a string...

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Categories: stopper, angst,
Form: Light Verse
Hillbilly Redneck Sonnet
This redneck is fixin' to go dancin'
You reckon we get gussied up and go?
I'll be a high flutin' and a prancin'
Is the honky-tonk puttin' on...

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Categories: stopper, crazy, dance, drink, humor,
Form: Sonnet
Hats
Hats are such a marvel,
   when the weather is so garbled,
A multitude of quick coverlets to warm the brain
   protect the...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stopper, cool, february, wind,
Form: Couplet
My Childhood
My childhood
Limicolous nomic but limpid or propper,
Hard lines limb, non violent and passage stopper,  
Vegetarian, nonchalant, compliance or observant,
Prepotent prepositor, jannock jangler and importunate...

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Categories: stopper, devotion
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Saw a Duck the Other Day
“Saw a Duck the Other Day.”


“Saw a duck the other day.”
That was all she said.
An invitation?  A question?
A glimpse  into another world?

“Saw a...

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Categories: stopper, children, family, father daughter,
Form: Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs