Best Crossing(A) Poems

Sometimes with interstate travel,
Your driving plans might just unravel,
For crossing a river
WAZE* might just deliver
The worst way to kick up some gravel.

If you are like me, then your preference
Is taking a bridge, though in deference
To GPS choice
You may stifle your voice
And accept what they know...

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Down a runway skybound
to cross a continent, 
see from a window
a city fall away
with bright beads 
strung along a coast,
then turning inland, 
clumped townships 
shrinking to solitary lights
sunk far apart
into hours
of featureless dark. 

Disconnected
from the earth,
let the mind paint
the blank distances 
and wander landscapes 
of...

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Written: August 26, 2023
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Life's journey has ups and downs.
We strive and grow in harsh storms.
But be calm, dear soul—this will drown.
You have an unwavering will to transform.

In pandemonium, darkness surrounds.
The flashing of pure light astounds.
Accept faulty, distorted, and imperfect conflict.
These trials will reveal your actual...

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Crossing a sea of bitterness, voids curled beneath my ribs lie hidden,
I drank from the cup of vices, chewed on stupidity, laboring in vast fields of error.
My mind lay with disillusionment, embraced by phantoms, boundless in its futile thirst,
To unearth the simple essence, through furnaces...

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