Short Gridlock Poems

Everyone's problem
   
   ~ Migrant Wave ~

    No one's solution...

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Today I saw you.
You drove past me medium speed.
My heart dragged along...

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while congresmmen are bickering,
Americans are appealing:
stop the gridlock, start producing!...

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Makati, Philippines

Burg of hue and cry, lustily hairy gridlock of stiff mortals.


10.04.16


For Silent One's contest
"Where I Live One Liner"...

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  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 more gridlock and strife
...

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Heat grows
Frustration shows
Temper glows
Inhibitions go

Gun unlocks
Trigger cocks
Legislative gridlock
Future shock

God waits
Man hates
Tempts fate
Opens floodgates

Man sins
Murder grins
Jungle din
Death wins...

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Totally ruining a peacful commute
ready to drive my car into the pool
after standing still for 3 hours
facing 10 miles of gridlock, a disaster
feeling like screaming
I want to rip my hair out
carefully I count to 5 hoping to calm down...

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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 video game
avatars turn helplessly
in small jerky circles...

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CHOKE POINT

Our roads are at choke point 
as traffic descends into gridlock chaos. 
Cars, lorries, buses and vans 
all bumper to bumper in a traffic 
jam ten miles long. This is a vision 
of the technological world 
in which we live where both man 
and machine grind to a halt....

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Get off of our roads!
You're obsolete, an antique
Go back to Nineteen-fifty

You're blocking traffic!
What's that? Ha ha. You said that
-- You're a symbol of gridlock?


                                   Image # 4


            July 08, 2019
    Fives and Sevens Poetry Contest
        Sponsor: Joseph May...

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Those wings of the Canadian geese
strap themselves to my heart,
removing the dark barrier of northeast landscape
and where I reside
in a charred picture of scenery,
a modern day reflection of the masses of breath who make more and more,
and evacuation is the norm.
The geese go south and then north again, gliding in a thought independent of
gridlock....

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In her eyes declare early mornings surprise -ship sets sail at sunrise -cargo's lost of soul- No tide insight-deserted nights I walk- As shadow plight carry's low end days never-land - Should have known- this event soon would come- all roads dread gridlock- In her eyes-shipped off I'm sent away- In her eyes I fly by sorrow's  candle in the dark-
- Mark Miller 03/06/2018...

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Weep as you sleep
Peep at dreams deep


Pain in my brain
Grains of lost gain


Glow of odd show
Flow stops I know


Scan fate wreck plan
Can trend feel bland?


Play well this day
May good luck stay


Dash in a flash
Stash your own cash


Knock your fine stock
Shock in gridlock


Fine words once mine
Brine in clear lines




Leon Enriquez 
27 November 2017
Singapore...

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Highway Blues

Oh misery, such misery,
All aboard the Car share queues.
Slow lane, fast lane, going nowhere,
Gridlock on highway blues.

Lines of cones, mile after mile,
Signs warn of speed restriction.
No sight of road workers anywhere,
Adds annoyance to Driver friction.

Twenty hours a week, I lose on this road,
Why can’t I work from home?
Oh misery, such misery,
“Where are you” a text on my phone....

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I am lost without cause to hold, 
Down came the shutters; 
All I see 
Your face 
Behind windows, streets apart, 
In other dimensions. 

I reach out to touch you again, 
Failing bitterly, withdrawing; 
Your back is turned 
Your back 
Seen this before, to others 
In final closure. 

I am left alone with my gridlock, 
No care from you; 
And I ask 
A question 
For which there is no answer: 
What am I to do?...

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The forlorn look upon humanity’s face 
Weary eyes ravaged by pervasive depravity 
Societal treachery weighing upon an exhausted soul 
Insidious indecision poisoning resilience 

Observing the pre-meditated mass murder of compassion 
With horrific hesitation and sickening silence 
Stagnant and catatonic with indifference 
Immobile and and psychologically paralyzed 

Transfixed upon a whim 
To adhere to gridlock 
To embrace the virus as the norm 
And succumb to its degeneracy...

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