Short Impasse Poems

Sun Shines back yard
dark clouds obscures the full moon
cloudy mind foggy vision...

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HOLDING A TUNE

Bad gas
Impasse

11/22/2017
Footle Contest
Sponsor Brian Strand...

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I could tell you if I wanted to what makes me what I am but I don't really want to 
and you don't give a damn....

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Listen to poem:

a threesome
is tricky
odd one out

equal side
triangle
an impasse

for each will
always side
unfairly...

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is merely a mountain trail away ~ with a few hard slaps on the ass 

and if snags get in the way ~ dangle a carrot to break the impasse 


By
David Kavanagh 

hms...

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there was nothing else to talk about
we were at an impasse
our paths diverging here and now
closing in on a bittersweet goodbye



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on December 1, 2022...

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So my private prediction came to pass
A son, a victim of a mind overtaken and harassed
Overwhelmed by fear
The mind is cavalier
Finally broke the spell, made it through the impasse...

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i have freed you
from your torment and mine
yet you still linger
as if thou art thine

we are no more
"us" never existed
yet it's as before
i couldn't have resisted

everything passes
i have been taught
this too will pass
and all that it's wrought...

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Both
Sides
Stubborn
Not budging
Washington impasse
The government shutdown drags on
While the furloughed and unpaid federal workers suffer
When will the captains of complacency in Washington finally end this madness?


Date written and written: 01/21/2019...

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we engage in debate awhile
with the fundamentalistic eristic
he seeks to win and we are here for fun
head and heart lines do not intersect
what is truthful is not convenient 
so let the impasse remain
inked with compassion 

17-December-2022...

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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...

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Seaward cliff
Spilling bath
Tangled nooses
Off the path

On the tracks
Driving fast
Cutting clean
Erase the past

Arcing strife
Drowned in snow
Shooting through
Poisoned woe

Dreamy pills
Shattered glass
At the peak
Of life’s impasse


19-May-2017...

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In the serenity
Of the restless times,
Amidst all chaos
Standstill,
An imposed impasse
That defines 
The priority of 
An emotional world,
The world often makes
Nurtured the wrecked Self,
The self, reluctantly
Suffixing its worthiness,
To sustain 
The perennial conflict....

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after midnight
on the edge,
dawn so far away:

in my dream
platitudes
cravings
concerns
             of the day
             hold sway:
clarity
of images
as vivid
             as day
yet
impasse
           hold sway
and...
         time...
appears
         to stand
still...

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I AM AN I AM

    I  AM  AN  I AM

I am immaculately impudent
I am imprudent
I am impractical
I am impersonal
I am impatient
I am impolite
I am impure
I am imperfection
I am at an impasse
I am immature
I am imbecilic
But most important of all is
I am impotent
    ©2011.…~free cee!~ Phreepoetree...

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Our bells rung 
Our books shut
Our candles blazing

Water will not protect us
Nor houses keep us safe

Love knows no impasse
It's egress assured

The coldest cockle warms
And the most brave shudders

Love demands submission
The answer is to bow

For we revel in its fetters
Delighting in our erotic machinations...

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Untold response
as moistened lips entwine
Intrepid is your slightest touch
Feel my face 
beneath your fingertips
body yearning
for the next impasse
Sweat and musk
shelter in the shame
as language
becomes her name
and detail seems to fail
Grunts and moans
replace the tenderness
and more is never less...

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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! :-)...

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Rise to the trends:
Expound new fears:
Touch on sore plans,
Appease dear seers;
Lose, win or draw:
Keep your head high;
Inch nerves made raw,
Niche empty sighs;
Glimpse crystal ball.
Peep at empty;
Opt just to stall,
Impasse you see;
Now with a twist:
Tell without risk!



Leon Enriquez
10 October 2014
Singapore...

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I am not clairvoyant. 

But even though I’m not-

Does not mean I am innocent. 

As it is me that creates these battles. 

Battles that only serve to make myself heard. 

But they are not clairvoyant. 

This impasse we are at-

Is the one I created. 

None of us are powerful enough. 

To sever the journey between us....

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Don't ever
Lose sight
Today is where
To believe in yourself

Up before our dawn
You perceive the gray
Not realizing for what I long
And You asked me not to stay

Our life, it seems, has come to an impasse
I choose to love you forever
Resetting our shiny compass
Wishing each other the best

To our own endeavors

rlm '11...

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lies and 		obfuscation
revenge politics 
           game of the day

extremists
       s  p  l  i  t 
hold hostage the government

power   money   
	self-aggrandizement
                                    rule

oaths of honor, loyalty
       strewn by the wayside

Congress in disarray
	called to a halt
					impasse

God help
	the American public


...

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Listen to poem:

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

Submitted on March 23, 2023 for contest A BRIAN STRAND PREMIERE sponsored by BRIAN STRAND...

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Unknown

everyday we walk,
into the unknown,
walking through life,
with a lot of worries.

fear of what,
might come our way,
afraid of not being safe,
on that rainy day.

life comes fast,
and you want to last,
even escape from your past,
and you might have, 
reached an impasse.

so every day
we walk through life,
afraid of what is to come,
and afraid of the unknown....

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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 secure the holy grail.

13-November-2020...

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