Best Flyover Poems
Below are the all-time best Flyover poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of flyover poems written by PoetrySoup members
Reflections On a Flyover For My Dad At ArlingtonAbove the clouds in many splendored hues of blue and white
This view beheld by an honored and rarest few
A nations treasure...
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Categories:
flyover, dad, eulogy, flying, funeral,
Form:
Free verse
Flyover...And, now, six geese fly
by, low over the treetops,
leaving the lake at dusk
in Daylight Saving Time, as if
they said, too dark, too soon.
And, as long...
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Categories:
flyover, bird,
Form:
Ballad
Don'T Ask Me About My EducationFrom time to time, people ask me
About my education.
Only then, I remember
I have no degrees or diplomas.
I attended no university either.
I hated textbooks and exams.
I...
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Categories:
flyover, angel, anger, angst, anniversary,
Form:
Narrative
Walls and FencesThey're all talking walls and fences,
words meant to force us apart,
the world has lost all it's senses,
where did this craziness start?
I'm walking up here on...
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Categories:
flyover, endurance, heart, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
MagufulizationSlenderly community
The land of sobers
Enough for plunderers
Ground of Ivory
Home of diamond and gold
Is now Magufulized
No more embezzling
Lazy are working
Respecting their roles
No more...
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Categories:
flyover, africa, appreciation,
Form:
Ballad
A FuneralDeath and its mournful tidings
Obituaries and eulogies, read
Black ties and black veils, all in rows
Surround this shell and the open earth
The cold, damp wind sashays...
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Categories:
flyover, dark, death, death of
Form:
Free verse
Gods, Rains and TrafficA new day arrives; I'm waiting for the morning sun.
Rains pissing on me, God must be having fun.
I crawl myself out of bed & move...
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Categories:
flyover, emotions, god, rain,
Form:
Rhyme
Trip To MadrasStepping down from the AC coach
on to the railway platform
A hot wave of salty moist air
drenches me
On my customary visit
to this city I'm tethered...
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Categories:
flyover, childhood, city, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Cliffs of Dover Horn HaikuCliffs of Dover Horn Haiku
This is kind of about North Korea.
Play death on demand
Thing is getting out of hand
And was poorly planned.
His name was Say...
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Categories:
flyover, allegory, analogy, anxiety,
Form:
Haiku
Bags of LeftoversThings happen. Life unravels
The earth spins, perpetuating processes
And as we recount our travels
Our hearers marvel
Stories of prophets' heads on silver platters
Representations of old things
And...
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Categories:
flyover, allegory, analogy, conflict, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Angels
flyover collapsed -
your ego under rubble -
Angels came to help
04.04.16
P.S. : on 31/03/16 my city Kolkata experienced this disaster. An under construction fly over collapsed...
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Categories:
flyover, angel,
Form:
Senryu
UntitledDo you feel alone,
like you were better off dead
the battlefield in your head.
A no flyover zone.
Do you feel ashamed,
the bitterness to blame
I can't...
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Categories:
flyover, depression,
Form:
Lyric
Covert OpportunitiesCovert Opportunities
The Council covered the bridge in diagonal meshing not be trashed
Too many souls had digressed from...
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Categories:
flyover, river,
Form:
Free verse
Those and ThemThose, who work this country,
ride private planes and limousines
or other cars for hire.
Them, who make the country work,
drive big rigs and pick-up trucks
and actually perspire.
Those,...
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Categories:
flyover, america, christian, class, community,
Form:
Free verse
Rapid City NowhereLast summer
We drove across the country
Just the wife and me
10,000 miles
31 states
Three months on the road
I now know why people don’t live
In South Dakota
Hot,...
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Categories:
flyover, solitude, travel,
Form:
Free verse