Short Standstill Poems

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Premium Member Softly

Time is in motion and time will standstill
Softly I'll come to you, Softly I will



9/23/21
contest...Best Rhyming Couplet...two lines only
Form: Couplet


Still

Life is as a picture

it feels like it's at an standstill

but it's forever changing scenes

Dying each day

only to be reborn

created by fire

ascending higher and higher
art

Premium Member Verselets Footles Posed

VERSELETS footles posed

POSE 1
cut down
showdown

POSE 2
wound-rot
one-up

POSE 3
ill kill
standstill

2020 December 17
*5th Place*
FOOTLE-me
~~Brian Strand
Form: Footle

Premium Member One with Nature

a deep breath
takes me back
to a world

where time
and beauty
are at a standstill

where peace
and silence
clear my mind



AP: 2nd place 2026, Honorable Mention 2025

Momentum

momentum 
is at a 
momentary 
standstill  
state of 
frustration 
has snuck 
up behind 
my back 
so it seems 
at the moment 
causing a pref 
laps within 
this present 
state of 
being
Form: Lyric


Standstill

Have a great birthday, dear Syril, 
The day of judgment is so close; 
Life will be brought to a standstill, 
There will be no more highs and lows. 

Topic: Birthday of Syril Monica DR. Aviles (March 28)
Form: Quatrain

Premium Member not a whisper of a breeze

sun greets me warmly
extra humid this morning
air feels muggy

trees at a standstill
not a whisper of a breeze
horrible august

nothing is breathing
flowers praying for some dew
pink crepe myrtle nods
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Passing of Time

comes another season
i don't know what to make of it
time flies while at a standstill
feeling empty living this illusion
i feel you near yet cannot touch you



AP: Honorable Mention 2021, Honorable Mention 2021

Halt

We only care what the preacher preaches
As the congregation shouts in our direction
When we are hungry, angry, lonely, tired...
Because we see them out and about, around,
Realizing they are more at a standstill than us...

Shy

Taken as an instinct of being

Causing a reluctant air of silence

And coming with forms of mood

Without any sense of control

Bringing mind and body to standstill

Leaving you pacified by your own self

Is a word called shy!
Form: Narrative

It's My Wish

The sky 
evanescent
Lit by the oblivions
Of twinkles and wishes
The entrancing state of space
Truly beautiful
Falling stars
My enrapture to a standstill
A crevor embedded in the earth
A fallen star
Brightly lit
Its my wish

Premium Member Winter

one by one
the days turn into blurs
my head feels like hamburger scrambled
my whole body aches right down to my jelly legs
and tingling toes
and i know that winter has come
feeling numb
at a standstill
like a statue
frozen in time

Premium Member The Size of a Moan

aah…
you say
a tensed note  
almost unheard
but in that one moan
time comes to a standstill
for rapture forgets the past
needs no future to give it hope
it simply is, expands, fills, abducts
takes us to an edgeless place and beyond
Form: Etheree

Premium Member Conjuring a Mule Deer

Faerie fawn did not realize she was being watched I am sure.
With a wave of her wand, she conjured a mule deer pure.
He leapt in the air and took off with a dash down the hill.
In amazement I felt that leap; my surprised heart was at a standstill.
Form: Rhyme

Indigestion and Congestion

Indigestion and Congestion

Trump always suffered from indigestion
When traffic contained much congestion
Discovered poor became his driving skill
He drives best if traffic is at a standstill 
Church plate never puts into collection.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Strapped In

We’re at a standstill—
a standoff of semi-automatic emotion, knowing

in our instability, we pull each other’s triggers
and cannot truly be capable of loving one another.

But I’m still begging him not to give up 
like I'm begging him not to shoot.

Premium Member Miracle Worker

Dallas baking sun water shortage July temps record highs Houston heat wave closes stores cities shut down threatens emergency standstill Texas Governor produces water from big limestone boulder they wish!
Written July 18, 2022
Form: Cinqku

Premium Member Strangers With Memories

I cannot know if we shall meet again, when next we share sore secrets, solemn truths, a tidbit here or there. Standstill in time, shared between two strangers who never met. An exchange of sorrowful memories too intimate for loved ones to hear yet.
Form: Tetractys

Serenity

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.
Form: Narrative

Premium Member Summers Come--

The winters gone; It's was spring, now it's sprung; Spring now is gone, it's summer; At days light temperatures high; While at night the moon winks its eye... As the stars standstill in awe; Summers come;
6/24/19 written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©

Perfect

PERFECT!!!!!!
Standing solemnly in standstill,
Aah how awesome and amazing,
Stirring at the splendor of space,
I fall flat on the face,
Frolicking fervently as I watch the flow of His glory,
I crouch to the creator of the creatures,
And I smiled for everything fit exactly in its environment.
© Ritty Ann  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Shroud Of Dusk


Seven By Seven Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
4/16/2026


Shroud Of Dusk

sun in shadows late at dusk
through my city's fall on me
from skies and within windows
perhaps as the dark would be*
where some streetlight will survive
this unrelenting day's search
for moving and for standstill
© Paige Hind  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Verse

Premium Member A Standstill

creamiest bouquet
white daisies touched by red sun
in aged day's glow

marvelous mauve walls
tell stories of sun's passing
birds whistle blithely

glass lake reveals moon 
that's peeping at the window
raising dark drama

plum shadows, fireflies
pink sun's travels never cease
blue butterflies sleep
Form: Haiku

Pie Pie

The light that shines in my darkness
My own treasure
To love, to hold, to care for
Her eyes bring the sky to life
He hands, a reminiscence of God's touch
And when she smiles,
The earth comes to a standstill
In awe,in adoration, admiration
Of this my little pie pie!
I love you gal.

                    Mama
© Ann Okotha  Create an image from this poem.

On St Patrick's Day

Today there won’t be a parade;
Concessions that Covid has made.
With no bagpipes or fifes
It’s befitting, since life’s
At a standstill from which we’ve not swayed.

Still, I’m wearing a bit o’ the green
Though, of course, if I had to come clean,
Being Irish I’m not
But I’ve never forgot
On St. Pat’s to become a colleen.
Form: Limerick

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