Best Gravel Poems

Death will come at you for certain
like a piece of gravel spit from a truck.
After it strikes your windshield soul 
it leaves in a mocking puff
then a spiderweb of grief spreads across the view
never to leave
there's no dodging 
it 
here it comes
a piece of gravel...

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Once, I was trapped behind a dump truck.
It moved like a slug with black lung.
Belched an awful noise. 
Tossing gravel like a widower tosses tears...
Every time a piece struck my grill.
I'd wince and duck like a stray dog cowering.
Before a steel toed world.
I said a...

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One cool summer morning while running upon the gravel road
I listen as the birds happily chirp upon the branches
I imagine myself as a bird
I would fly high above the trees and soar carefree 
I would then sit upon a branch with other birds and watch...

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. . . sunlit drizzle down

             gravelly road back to town

                     up there,...

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accident oil spill
dead fish wash up on seashore
kids build sandcastles

5/29/2018

 We often say that no two oil spills are alike, but one thing spills have in common is that cleaning oil off of shorelines is a messy business. If a ship sinks or an oil...

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I walked barefoot across the gravel and I feel no pain 
Souls have grown hard on tough terrain 
Give me one more day and I will get you what you need 
I don't fall victim to pride, lust or greed 
On the Merry-Go-Round of life...

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Time and Fate conspire
To indict my garden of gravel
Where my tears never run dry
To water the flowers of hell
That bloom in the silence of midnight.

I still want to do something for you
Out of my nihilty..


Oct 27, 2008...

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scattered rocks crackling under a  76 
chevy truck, cumbersom rusty and dented. 

 scattered thoughts of a small child, 
 he peers out the window a pair of headlights
 dance over shadows of trees and mudpuddles.

 a harbinger of anger coming closer and closer
...

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Thursday, we might have some rain;
that would be a treat again.
Need some moisture on the road;
too much and it will erode.
You don’t have to drive real far
before dust gets on the car.
Wife goes to the car wash soon.
Bad for me; for them a boon.
Why a...

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Gravel Roads
 To me, America can be found 
On calloused hands and gravel roads
Where weathered faces
See life through honest eyes
Laboring from sunrise 
Until driven from the fields 
By evening’s fading light
Walking from the fields 
As the moon and stars illuminate the night  
Peaceful and...

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The driveway’s made of gravel,
Preventing slips and skids,
But really, more important,
It’s a magnet for the kids.

They pluck the rocks and toss them,
The pebbles raining down,
Then line them up, creating
Highways in a mini-town.

They scoop them up and let them
Slowly trickle through their hands
And watching them, I...

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Wraps your lips around my pain,

recite the words as if they

were meant to fall from your own.

Some nights, I think you can 

feel the gravel in my mouth,

as if it were beneath your feet.

Stand here with me,

hold the blade.

Twist my memory and 

let it gush...

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Fiercely flipping his tiller tail
The king’s snout turns to point the way 
To lead kin from a briny bay
Up a rustic roiling river
Of flowing falls, rough rocks, and banks
Lined with greeting eagles and bears
Set to embrace with beaks and jaws.

Traveling on a fasting diet
The royal...

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gravel 
crunchy like carrots
except I  like them
can't say the same for 
what's 
grating to shovel
grinding to rake
and there's over a ton 
would've bought Thanksgiving
got that
you have your truck
get me some gravel
sure 
why not
shoveling gravel
like putting up with a fussy baby
except I love the baby
hot...

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Their marriage has to be dissolved,
Nothing again to be resolved,
Twelve good years and problems unsolved, 
Their priest had her of guilt absolved, 
Mark who had thrice their problem solved,
Three is Lord God's Holy Number,
No case against her being sombre,
She'll stay right through the Judge's Gavel,
And...

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