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Standstill Poems - Poems about Standstill

Standstill Poems - Examples of all types of poems about standstill to share and read. This list of new poems is composed of the works of modern poets of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, and famous examples for standstill.
Premium Member Aftermath of Flood
... Damaging winds whip and slash, whirling wild, drenching rain, Roads decimated come to standstill, as gushing floods reign, Inundating swollen terrains, roiling deluge of a tenebrous day, As tree......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, grief, natural disasters,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member What If ?
...What if tomorrow the sun suddenly stopped to burn All the birds had flown away because they had forgotten their song There were no more days only nights And the world had stopped to turn The ......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, absence, anxiety, conflict, fate,
Form: Free verse
Let the Wind Blow
...Let the wind blow and let’s see how far it will go. Let the wind blow and join me for the next half of the show. Let the wind blow and let it take you where you want to go. I just can’t get ove......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, america, business, care, celebration,
Form: Narrative
Her Valentines Day Bo
...She has been dreaming of the day when her Bo will come home and stay, her Bo has been out at sea since the “thirteen century”, he fought on the pirate’s boat and gorge out the enemy's throat, he capt......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, beautiful, blessing, boat, caregiving,
Form: Narrative
whispers
...The dignitaries are passing through the town in big Limonene and long gowns. They are throwing five hundred dollars bills on the ground and the people are running all around. Children are running ......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, bereavement, break up, change,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Awaking from Stupor
...it’s not desire per se, but the clinging that stifles souls, stops the heart singing enliven silence, give the soul a new day but the clinging, it's not desire per se too transfixed, lost all......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, corruption,
Form: Quatrain
A Recent Change Of Mind
...That stiff-neckedness; that boulder-like stoneness The so-called track-travel; that perfection-proneness The 'looking-down-upon' others as backboneless That sharp surety of sheer, shadowless shall......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, change,
Form: Rhyme
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 ex......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, relationship, truth,
Form: Tetractys
Nature Walking On the Roof
...The rain came busting through the sky like missiles raining in from the East, it was sudden, it was quick and in second if filled up the pit. Water kept flowing from the hill rushing through the gutt......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, absence, change, chocolate, community,
Form: Narrative
Unexplained Miracle
...She woke up this morning with nothing on her plate, staring at the barrel of the gun pointed in her face. She has been wandering up and down the street since October twelve with a small bag, a worn o......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, caregiving, change, community, confidence,
Form: Narrative
Man-Employment
...Man-employment On the way to the bank this morning four workers were shuffling pebbles into big buckets carrying the load down some steps coming up with empty buckets, filling them up again. ......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, absence, anger, anti bullying,
Form: Blank verse
A Diminishing Youth
...He was a man in his youth. covered his manhood. With a musty piece of cloth. Dangling hair with mud and dust Darkened skin with so many scars ......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, fate,
Form: Free verse
The Deal
...See them walking up and down the picketing line with a sign reaching up to the divine; see them shouting from the back of the van and them over there are screaming from the music stand, “we want a de......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, beautiful, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member I Appreciate My River
...in the spring my river has an unusually active flow tearing down her channel as if she is racing herself I stand in the verdant grass with bare toes, watching marveling at what delights might be h......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, water,
Form: Free verse
Ransomware
...A malicious Ransomware is going around squeezing the life out of the town . A malicious Ransomware is going around tearing the covering off the roofs, beating down the doors and shaking the leaves of......Read the rest...
Categories: standstill, africa, america, beauty, best
Form: Narrative

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