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Stymies Poems - Poems about Stymies


Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter

...Impoverished courtesy scam artists Harvey Specter

Entrapment videre licet fiendish
gnarly hustling scheme erector -
sent me to the poor house, where alms
not forthcoming to ease financial affli...
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Categories: stymies, absence, abuse, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

Desperate Hope

..."In fleeting moments of clarity, a non PM declares 
                                                                    *Quote by The Poet.*

.      Desolate images flood into the passages of my m...
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Categories: stymies, angst,
Form: Quatrain



Premium MemberOne of Those Days

...Some days linger like a song
You cannot rid your brain of
Slow minutes tick all day long,
When push comes to shove
Everything seems to go wrong.

Just getting through is a fight
Su...
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Categories: stymies, day, encouraging, feelings, perspective,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)

Premium MemberThe Frigid Month of February

...The Frigid Month of February

Winter, at its worst, cold and dreary.
When whipped-up brisk winds quake the wary,
With falling temperatures and snow:
Freezing exposed skin, fingers, and to...
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Categories: stymies, february, snow, winter,
Form: Sonnet

Somnolence Stymies Sui Generis Synchronization

...no diminution in tiredness arose
gnome hatter how off tin ma dis bows
Zoe let his bot tee succumb,
     via mental application

     of autogenic phrases
     and/or counting crows
cuz upon aw...
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Categories: stymies, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Light Verse



Elusive But Near

...Elusive But Near

Searched for since the beginning of mankind.
And desired as oxygen for panting lungs.
Pursued by poor, rich and ablest minds
It quenches the restless soul as water a parched to...
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Categories: stymies, peace,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Nap

...The Nap
        by Odin Roark

Through a smudged barroom window
A child stares in at the old man

In his darkened corner spot
He sits on a rickety chair
Head bent downward
Bleary eyes fixed on a weat...
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Categories: stymies, age,
Form: Free verse

Grow

...How backlogged life's assumption
while artists' rogue affair
find landscapes of assertion
in seeing truth - just there.

The artists' honest friendship,
their work, a thought of care,
while op...
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Categories: stymies, art,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things