Best Crossings Poems

The sun went down before mid day. 
And left me just walking away.
To feel the darkness cover me.
And wonder if I'll ever see.

The light of...

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When I reached the edge of the abyssal night,
in plain view of the condensation of stars,
when "us" was impossible
to carry rolled in my school backpack,
and...

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Love that curves with curving roads
Emerges on to shining meadows
And looks back for the message it delivers
To the dawn of fragile tomorrow. 

Love that sinks...

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Me cars down at the doctors ‘cause there’s trouble with the coil,
and somewhere I’m losing water so once or twice I’ve had it boil.
It needs...

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Some people can be so ignorant
I know they're not to blame
They see me in my wheelchair
And say “Aw, isn't it a shame”?

I say “Hello, I’m...

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Unquotable Quotes VIIIL : SEXUAL HARASSMENT* - the feminist kind

(*”aggressive pressure or intimidation”: Is it really “any different” in most cases in the act, judging...

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She leaves Southampton
This Titanic ship
Her maiden voyage
New York trip
 
Channel crossings to Cherbourg, France
To Queenstown in Ireland
Where passengers dance
To some, a new life awaits
The future...

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Invisible ladies! You see them ev’rywhere,
In sensible raincoats and Margaret Thatcher hair.
Standing at bus-stops, watching the bus go by:
Waiting at crossings,
Letting the traffic splatter mud...

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She who appreciates the little things 
The effortless gifts that life can bring

She who sees beauty in a stranger’s smile
A hand written letter 
a fresh...

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   "I have seen and heard the vibrancy of dreams, 
and the way 
of the crossings-through the ills 
and through...

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The other day I took a trip to visit uncle Joe
A steam engine was a chugging  oh how I love it so
I went and...

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An Outrageous Case of Illegal Immigration

By Elton Camp

We hear much about invasion from Mexico
But the U.S. northern border is the way to go
Aliens can, and...

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Interconnectedness 
Life with all its twisted 
Train wrecks
Contorted metal
grappled around
steel, disfigurement.
And at the heart 
of it all, I want to crash 
with you. Be a witness 
to your incriminating truth
Twisted...

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I’m drawn to airport departure halls,
to the optimism of leaving.
The suspension of here.
The promise of there.

I like the in-between feeling of transit,
the lightness that comes...

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It is always after days like this one,
of a kind of proverbial snake chasing
its tail, its form flawless, its strength in

numbers of its friends all...

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