Best Blacktop Poems

Slow or fast
we think behind a slip stream,
a contrail of the gone;
of what went by a momentary window
            long ago.

Asleep under a blacktop,
street-cars roll over my me-mind,
the crunch of old bones
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a country blacktop
no dotted lines to divide
making my own way...

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Before The Blacktop Ends
David J Walker

The world wends 
	And extends 
A mile or two before
The blacktop ends 
It ends in dust 

	It ends in rust
Transcends the trust of 
Casuistic treasures

It measures miles 
It humors trials 
And tempers time 
And fills the files
	With pleasures
	Only pleasures

And clings...

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Here's to that black top road
With a faded center line
It can take you place from place,
but can't take you back in time,

My eyes, they paint the sky above,
The stars shining and singing then,
Dust rolls off neglected words,
And I'm tired of this town again....

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