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Best Byway Poems

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Premium Member The Byway
The Byway

I may have been a place or two
Where your foot has fallen or wishes to.  
I have known a decibel of fright
And shrieked...

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Categories: byway, care,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member International Women's Day
 As a byway ahead  grows quite dim
late evening ‘s radiance slowly pales away ---
This fiery yet compassionate woman brushes luster 
into her hair...

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Categories: byway, freedom, rights, women,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Wings On Feet
Race with the wind, step up higher
Higher than blues of a sky;
Through an airspeed, mile-long flight 
Chase a smooth or rugged pace,
Wings on feet, be...

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Categories: byway, for him, power, race,
Form: Lyric
The Fork In the Road
In my travels among the roads of life,
I stumbled upon pathos, sadness and strife,
Sometimes I headed down the byway without a thought,
Not caring of the...

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Categories: byway, blessing, endurance, faith, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Stormy As Words' Venom
Beneath kohl sky,  the war of words rattles
As fierce lightning of his voice, my thunderous replies
Pour a lethal elixir,  its venom malignant
Demanding a...

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Categories: byway, relationship, storm,
Form: Free verse



Altered State
Towers collapsed to foundations,
  The planes exploded in air,
To gratify firebrand preachers
  Destruction and death everywhere.

Bus became coffin on byway,
  Train torn...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: byway, death, history, life, social,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Hammock of Dust
It is the eighth hour of fog,
yet she still paces around the churchyard
without a hat on her blown tresses;
an autumn cloak rustling beneath a gray...

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Categories: byway, bereavement, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Stony Staircase
Walk out to ocean, this stony pathway,
Folk story declare, twas a snakes byway.
Climbed from sea, wormed onto the hidden cave,
Men explored and commune, the knowledge...

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Categories: byway, adventure, environment, history, inspiration,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member Walk the Route To the Truth
Walk The Route to the Truth
Should you be seeking the route to the Truth
It’s advisable to follow this route
Start walking on the road to Graciousness...

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Categories: byway, faith, light, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Jeeportunity
In tight and busy parking lots
You can easily get perturbed
Should I back out; take the long way,
Or should I just jump the curb?

Jeeportunity!

The well-worn road...

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© Dean Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: byway, fun, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fable: the Ant and the Boy
A little boy and an ant became great friends one day. 
But how to live drew them apart, and this is how they ran astray:

In...

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Categories: byway, analogy, fantasy, imagination, metaphor,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Guess My Name
I can be anything you like
the one to love you; your esquire,
I can be love’s greatest asset
or the hangman’s noose if of that you require.
I...

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Categories: byway, confusion,
Form: Free verse
Wellington Gate
His walk into town would prove fateful that day,
As his mind wandered idly while finding his way.
His footsteps were brisk like fall chill in the...

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Categories: byway, death, emotions, funeral, goodbye,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Equation of Love's Probabilities
Our world is aligned with deep fervor,
time, and shared geography: a constant
value of random variables where
beneath moonglow, he and I relish soft
cuddles along  evening’s...

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Categories: byway, love, mystery, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Green Light--New
Mom’s old Chrysler is the scourge of my life
driving it, this sedan makes me complain 
forty meters on a ride, the wheels pop--
by that time,...

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Categories: byway, car, green, light,
Form: Rhyme

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