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Standoff Poems - Poems about Standoff

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...you have been waving your big whip over the vulnerable and the sick, you have been using your unauthorized power to walk over the affluent and the weak claiming that you are the man of the hour. ......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, community, cry, endurance, environment,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member A Viking's Void
..."This is ours! All you can see." A Scandinavian fleet crashing on the waters Apprehensive on bringing him closer "By first light, I'll have vanished into the mist" "The jarl will have your heart.......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, imagery, journey, love, pain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member world peace
... when an impenetrable shield ~ is struck by an unbreakable sword in the collision not one atom is lost ~ and stalemate gets restored far better to have a standoff truce ~ than fight an unwinn......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, peace, perspective, war,
Form: Monoku
Sarah’s Origin
...My eyes stare straight, fixated on something in the distance, humming a song that would send chills, if you ever got the chance to listen. A padded cell and a straitjacket, the doctor giving ......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, dark, death, gothic,
Form: Epic
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958. date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix. date of expiration:? January i, emi......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cezanne's the Basket of Apples
...it's all about perspective illusion held in place, solidly visually suggestive of reality who are you to argue with what's in front of you? they're tum......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member End of Summer
...August is fading lushest blooms kiss a fierce sun sudden surprise chills standoff of seasons spicy fragrance thrills both sides butterfly bliss hides skies still berry blue melancholy wak......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, august, beautiful, color, flower,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Unbridgeable Chasm
...I cannot count the physical bridges that I have crossed, but there are two that I have crossed repeatedly over a period of 40 years. My two most crossed bridges are The Golden Gate Bridge and The ......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, fear, poverty,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Whose Idea Was It Anyway
...I have nothing to say I tell myself Inside my brain is empty Swept clean! Nothing being thought Let alone clever Then I sense a tension I know I have walled in Several thoughts But it's so ......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958. date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix. date of expiration:? January i, eminem. A gangly, meas......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Watch That Thought
...behold heart contractions appear in consciousness it shouldn’t be so but is leaving us astonished so we witness tremors just looking nonchalantly the thought’s self-conscious f......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, anxiety, introspection, joy, peace,
Form: Free verse
Wildren Chronicle
...There are tales of the Old Days Of a time of trial and glory So we gather around the fire as The Old Ones tell their story Wildren Wood may be dying. For the last few weeks it seems We, it’s......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, allegory, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Yes Or No
...While assisting a friend in a cleanup project, Our physical heads united in the worst way. My friend and I were moving heavy concrete that had the design of tombstones. Too heavy to move one of t......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, angst, anxiety, destiny,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Standoff
...During my younger years, that young squirrel would not have had a ......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, animal, pets,
Form: Personification
Raid Versus Woe
...Raid versus woe Black flag(s) show up on social media platforms when potential homicidal maniac(s) communicate(s) intent to strike with ambush and ready read - able, eager, and willing to em......Read the rest...
Categories: standoff, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

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