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Dead Ahead Poems - Poems about Dead Ahead

Dead Ahead Poems - Examples of all types of poems about dead ahead to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for dead ahead.
Goethe and Schiller translations
...These are modern English translations of the "Xenia" epigrams written in collaboration by the German poets Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, plus an elegy Goethe wrote for Schiller........Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, beauty, desire, earth, friendship,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Dead sled ahead
...So its sled dead..Ahead! E V's get ice'd with outage The tortoise smiles long.'......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, appreciation, confusion, education,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member I shall find a way or make one
...(Inveniam viam) Far beyond these eerie things, where limits have no scales Fish are replacing gills, with turbine aerated tails Sea level’s losing all meaning, for the humpback whales Ships p......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, dark, dream, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pondering Sideways Glances
...While walking I saw something move in the corner of my eye. When I gazed straight at it, it was gone. But, on second glance, askance, there it was, again. To and fro, direct and peripheral, i......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wreck On the Highway
...cold sea fog shrouds the road corn whiskey breath permeates truck/s cab flashing lights dead ahead break too late - crash certain, glass shatters, blood splatters like red paint I didn't hear......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, drink, loss, prayer,
Form: Nonet



The Dancing: the Last Dance
...Was it a cruel twist of fate? Sneering, laughing chance? Perhaps something I ate? A bad bout of happenstance? It wrenched and tore at my gut, A sickening, sober, foreboding sign. Wretched cha......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Dormant Seeds
...The kamikaze martyr steels his nerves To seal the sacred mission of his life. He loves the all-important cause he serves, Yet dreams about his mother and his wife. Though long endured, the loving......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, psychological, war,
Form: Sonnet
Open Your Heart and Soul
...open up your heart as well as your soul a winged figure about to answer your call a wish is a wish no matter how big or how small some things are so wrong yet they feel so right a restless so......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, angel, beautiful, bird, fairy,
Form: ABC
Too Old For Love
...Experience has taught Lessons been learned Turned off that part That bad love had burned A strange attraction And unexpected call A spark of affection Won't make me fall It hurts too much......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, angst, dark,
Form: Free verse
The Bailout Ballad - the Layman's Lament
...One day not long past our economy faltered And wouldn’t improve if our course were unaltered. 'Cause we buy stuff at Wal-Mart (where things are dirt cheap) 'Cause they buy from China (treats wor......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, business, humor, humorous, money,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Those Were the Days, I'M Telling You
...High School ~ Being asked to search my memory of school 'daze' gone by is asking quite a lot of me but I promise to give it a try. A country high school can't compare to a fancy scho......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, introspection, school, , cute,
Form: Rhyme
Curves and Corners
...Curves and corners where the mysterious life awaits oh yes, the appealing curves and corners that lures you forward, expectant unlike the hooks and snags and stubbed toe that keeps you right her......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Whore Edwin Hofert
...Whore Edwin Hofert Sure I'm on the right track both eyes set dead ahead. The big threat to my future came from back behind instead. Many of the ones I loved had launched their own attack. You ......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, absence, betrayal, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Crack House
...CRACK HOUSE? They come most ofen two at a time Dressed all in black, with hoods I call ‘em black knights With hoods? Fer crap, it’s summer time! In-‘n-out o’ this house next door House ......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, society,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Copla Cincuenta Y Cinco This Bad Guy World
...COPLA CINCUENTA Y CINCO: This Bad Guy World Centre-half’s the heart of defence Danger comes from the Right and Left: Ball politics When heart’s corrupt fickle sans sense Enemy dribble......Read the rest...
Categories: dead ahead, conflict, courage,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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