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Gridlock Poems - Poems about Gridlock

Confessions to My Architect
...My spirit is forlorn, frightened, and impaired. You’re not hiding here in this hideous hell; no longer your eyes, are broken in a cataract cell, instead, you graze in the free fields, feeding ......

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Categories: gridlock, anger, anxiety, art, care,
Form: Ekphrasis
Problem People: Just Shut up Already
...Oh my god Everything you say is stupid Vacant and unproductive Vapid Gridlock lockjaw jawbone bones to pick Pick and choose and choose your battles Battling everyone Choking on their bitter......

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Categories: gridlock, anger, angst, conflict, satire,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Jam Packed
...Traffic lights flash, but we're far from light Heavy flow on streets, emotions flow tight Horns blare a symphony, tempers blare too We're all packed in, feeling blue Drive me crazy, this gridlo......

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Categories: gridlock, conflict, moving on,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Century Turns: Soviet Union's Life Expectancy: I
...Chapter 1: The End of the Eastern Gilded Age 'Twas thrice yon 'ere time clichés galore, albeit, one two many times, that fairy tale's opening wouldst hitherto a harp. History, the effects of nar......

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Categories: gridlock, analogy, appreciation, death, family,
Form: Other
Premium Member A Feisty Speech
... Mr. Biden gave a feisty speech without once extending his reach across the bipartisan aisle Credit where credit is due the old boy’s still got considerable life ~ expect mor......

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Categories: gridlock, conflict, political, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme



February 29th, 2024
...February 29th, 2024 Alternately titled: 111th leap year since 1582 the year Pope Gregory XIII world leader (i.e. essentially paterfamilias among Roman Catholic flock) timely maneuvered around ......

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Categories: gridlock, 12th grade, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Boxed In
...bottleneck gridlock no go five miles to the rest stops tense grumbling vultures are gathering there are people out of their cars screaming incoherently like zombies inside an in-car vide......

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Categories: gridlock, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Gridlock
...Everyone's problem ~ Migrant Wave ~ No one's solution......

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Categories: gridlock, immigration, irony,
Form: Senryu
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf Minor emendations to following just posted verse oversight to correct dissatisfaction, yours truly I do curse ah... methinks if hands of ti......

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Categories: gridlock, absence, adventure, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme
Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf
...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf Thus writer of these words forever mus lee experiencing craving to eat cheese, a milk product eternally preserved within annals, chroni......

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Categories: gridlock, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reverse Midas Touch
...Stomach-wrenching body blows dog those blighted by endemic fiasco,, grim dervish whirl of death a maybe one day royal flush, predicament that hoodoo mark in frozen ink, cataclysmic episode relen......

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Categories: gridlock, age, angst, august, care,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Grid Locks
...Just another day of obstructions, heartless souls, lack of communication on a daily. Obstructions of gridlock. at a crossroad, at a crossr......

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Categories: gridlock, adventure, business, change, character,
Form: Free verse
Education With Positive Influence
...When education was sitting in the driver's seat of Nigeria's affair The youths were blooming with special skills to solve despair Didn't you read Balewa and his kinds ruled Nigeria in their prime ......

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Categories: gridlock, education,
Form: Rhyme
Just a Voice
...Gridlock on I-75, it's raining heavy. Up ahead somewhere a truck has jackknifed. We are down to one lane and not moving. I switch off the engine and wipers watching the world dissolve inside a w......

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Categories: gridlock, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Getting Everybody On Board
...Getting Everybody on Board, Is not always possible, When boats need to cast off their moorings, Planes need to clear the runway, Trains need to stay on track, Busses need to please more than one......

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Categories: gridlock, baptism, character, cheer up,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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