Best Stopping Poems

What is holding you back?
What is stopping you?
What is making you uncomfortable 
about asking?
about wanting?
about dreaming?
about wishing?
about expecting?
about planning?
about setting new goals?
about learning new things?
about figuring out other ways?
about being your most excited self?
about opening yourself up to new opportunities?
New  possibilities? New people? New...

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As quiet blackness deepened
I lay awake my heart in check,
The cool night wind blew
And welcome silence grew…
_______

Unanticipated music exploded
Roused me from bed rest, 
I tiptoed to its source:
Dark sounds from downstairs, 
Nearer, higher, and louder 
Till it reached the hallway.
He grasped my hand, 
Whirled it...

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I just stopped in my tracks
 
hearing those beautiful verses
 
soft, sweet, and a little bit sultry
 
What she called broken English
 
drew me near and
 
ripped my heart to pieces.
 
I came closer and saw 
 
staring...
 
 those rich chestnut eyes
 
roasting on...

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Bleak winter Melbourne morning, 
a cold wind coming in
from across the Bay
and blowing down the street,
past the Esplanade Cafe
with the smell of coffee
and warm air spilling out
from an open door.

I stop, look at the cake
and pastry display through
the window, the basket
of freshly baked croissants,
Danish pastries...

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I believe, I may have missed the boat
The water’s deep, I couldn’t float
Perhaps the marks I set weren’t high
The tide’s in now – I’ll wave bye-bye

I read Thoreau and Frost, I know
Of wilderness and falling snow
Of Roads Not Taken tongue in cheek
Of singing trees and...

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Life ...

'Tis a precious gift
As is the time we're given on this earth
Our world spins at a speed that's hard to keep up with
And it seems no matter how we allot those minutes each day

There's never quite enough of them to fit our needs
Or accomplish...

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This is a love 
that is bitter as citrus
that leaves me burning coldly
bowed head, clenched fists
on a park bench 
in the middle of winter

The people see
but they can't help it
they can't help me from falling
so they walk by with 
shadows spinning 
like spiderwebs in their...

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STOPPING BY BOATS ON A BLOWY EVENING

Whose boat this is I think I know
But still I want to sail it so
He will not see me jumping in
To take it out there for a row

The mountains think the theft’s a sin
The hills watch me with eerie...

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Impromptu night journey into snowy 
wood
Face laced with scarf; head covered 
by hood
Sturdy mare blanketed; each foot 
shod with stud
A swift nod, gentle tap instinctively 
understood
Gallant mare plows forward 
furrowing ice and mud
Chilled air quickens my pulse; 
thickens my blood

The howling wind around the 
swiveling...

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Random Free Write: 

Just flowing - writing
and not stopping to think
or even to lift my pen
I kept going and the words seemed to have no end
Understanding that the process is a simple one
Love everyone and 
stear free of the wicked one

I'm not sure if it...

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New York City came to great Excitement!
                       The people stopped in their tracks to take notice!
       ...

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 Freda's an obnoxious old woman
She‘d say loudly ‘I want it right now’
Her long suffering husband Timothy
covertly called her a bossy old cow!

Each weekend they’d both go shopping
Freda would always jump the queue,
declaring in her brash whiny voice
that she’s bursting to go to the loo!

Poor...

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Encased in this flesh I sense time moving slow
Beyond my eye sight life's tentacles flow
Below a city appears its lights glow
To hear every sound, some I'll never know

Under the sky clouds quietly move
A heart alone when the night turns blue
I'll taste warm droplets when the...

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Why stopping to speak the truths? 
Where there is ignorance 
of the true word of God, 
there is all sorts of evil.

Why stopping to speak the truths? 
People  who really know true God,
 are  not:
unjust, 
          tribalist, 
                        racists, 
                                 discriminators, 
Heartless, 
               Killers, 
                        Robbers,...

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I heard drums kick in. Now I hear that music. Wait, What's THAT?!
(Sung to HELLO, I LOVE YOU by the Doors.)

Oh, yeah, she's swaying, so get out of her way.
Oh, no, she's stopping now, she's looking my way.
Oh, yeah, sashaying and she won't be defied.
Oh,...

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