Best Stymied Poems

Stymied at the cross roads
choices left to be made,
past succumbed to rot and erode
stifled by a loss in trade.
A trickle left in amble
as climates seem to change,
movements toward a scramble
a time to evolve and interchange.

Sins of others selling soul
scurry power to a slower pace
slum-dogs roam...

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While the church of today continues to wrestle with prominent issues,
like those of leadership, moral credibility, or fidelity of her members;
society remains critical to address certain weakpoints already at hand,
those seeming endless lawsuits against the clergy and religious members.

Moments in time unfold the wreckage of...

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I posted a poem on the Soup
But my smiley face turned to a droop
	For instead of one post
	There were 30 (at most);
Guess the site made a really big bloop.

In trying my best to delete
(For who needs to see poems that repeat?)
	There was some kind of...

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To challenge, to confront, to make a reader squirm
with annoyance, is part of what poetry is about.
Each reaction unpredictable rather than thrust upon.
The poet sows a seed, a catalyst, striking a match,
not to inflame and engulf, but merely to light
the kindling in the mind with...

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