Impasse Poems - Poems about Impasse

Impasse

they say actions speak louder than innuendos
so true and when you speak in riddles
know that your subtleties are lost on me

i'm left not knowing how to feel

so if my responses seem anything but direct
i admit that it is absolutely so
i'm often in a quandry and have no words to say



AP: 3rd place 2025

House of Cards

The truth is there are
“Very fine people on both sides”
(and of course scoundrels on both sides too)
Because that’s the way people are 
Good and bad, sometimes both
Depending on context.

It’s been this way in every conflict 
From World Wars to local elections,
Family squabbles and schoolyard brawls.
And it’s how it will always be
Which should give us all

Love Impasse

Love Impasse

I am not ashamed to say it—
I trace demons of you in the stars—
perhaps because I cry at your abandon,
for once, you were the riddle in my bones.

But do I blame?
No—I should have known
where our paths split,
where an anxious exit waited slyly—
maybe I, too,
left constellations behind.

I rarely trust
simplicity of things
thanks to your abandon.

All I

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path 
of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage amply 
surges an emphatic YES, 
verboten fruit adrip 
with succulent juices as eggnog,

a legitimately valid 
reason and rhyme to

Impasse

We are at an impasse
There's nothing I can say
at this point I think you're 
better off if I just go away

I tried to talk to you
Just to explain how I feel
I try my best to keep it real

But you don't hear me when
I tell you I'm sad and I miss you
You only see complaints being

A Silent Madness

marooned -- unwhole as i am
a piece of me missing
adrift in its emptiness
throbbing in angst

furious at the impending silence
yet clinging to it like i never want it to lift
hovering in limbo -- life being too short
to be caught in this game of catch-22



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Love Impasse

I am not ashamed to say it—
I revisit you—perhaps because 
you discarded me and you 
meant something to me.

But do I blame?
No—I should have 
seen where there
was an easy exit—
and perhaps it was me 
that discarded 
you.

I am not sure 
of simple things anymore. 

All I am sure of
is that I love you—
and have loved

Wrestling With Impasse To Contentment

Wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along the edge of night doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance ohm my dog,
shocking voltage surges an emphatic YES, 
verboten fruit adrip with succulent juices as eggnog,
a legitimately valid reason and rhyme to flog
reprobate yours truly figuratively emasculate,
thee

Impasse

I
always
imagined
things would have changed
we would have moved on
yet here we are
loggerheads
impasse
still

If
enough
pressure is
applied to a
bad situation
pressure builds up
and sometimes
the dam
breaks


Ninette: 1/2/3/4/5/4/3/2/1
Note: playing with the form, all well here! :-)

Impasse

Painfully shy schoolboy and girl
    break long, awkward silence with small talk.
         The classmates flash sheepish smiles...

         with nervous giggles here and there.
           Both too timid

Impasse

Ego borne conflict having arisen,
no resolution seems to be in sight,
with one participant spewing poison,
the other unwilling to call day, night.
Hearts divided needing the healing light
but the light too is seen by sight divine,
for those and those only who do align
and so the remedy of no avail,
as both souls languish in pain self assigned,
unable to

Impasse To Contentment Part 1

Just me and mine shadow doth blog
passivity, the path of least resistance oh my dog,
an emphatic YES,
a legitimately valid reason and rhyme to flog
yours truly (figurative emasculation),
thee catchword to hog
immediate attention, 
see above named poem title

the best idea to expound upon,
while attempting creative juices to jog
all mein kampf, I felt like a bump on a

Impasse To Contentment Part 2

courtesy sharp pointed objects
(that string of words
doth hoop fully connive fist
(cuffed) around handles of knife

discounting divorce (from wife)
i.e. remaining uncoupled
mandated eventually note hissed
unbridled love and apology

toward thee missus and progeny
who forever did blacklist
das scribe, how objectionable
now, he profusely kissed
mouth of other voluptuous 

(zoftig) older women
(consensually, flatteringly, indiscriminately)
and amazingly enough spouse did insist
to forgive, boot never

Impasse

My oars were broken
I couldn't sail, I was
at an impasse, alone
but you came along
and mended me, with
your craftsmanship,
now we are in sync 
sailing together as
one, in the ocean blue






Contest: Metaphor Of Love Poem
Sponsor: Bobby May

11/5/19

Impasse

Sometimes words fail
As change bleeds blood
Thoughts now derail
In drowning flood


In impasse here
Dry sultry feel
Touch feels unclear
Words fail to thrill


A roadblock sign
Tells tedious streak
A force now blind
Binds yet wit weak


Surge of lost cause
In misty mind
A broken course
Drifts debris grind


A crooked reach
Beyond mere fit
Spikes each to each
Beyond mad wit


And in the end
This broken way
Can now attend
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