Best Heading Poems

Dark hour of morning green and jealous sun.
Flag’s red, white, and blue leans over the porch.

Oak branches, bored, and skeleton but wood.
The leaves too still, no breath of life, no sigh.

M a h o g a n y - s a t u r a...

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heading home at dusk
gliding into melting sun
graceful blue heron



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on September 20, 2020...

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I'm heading west tomorrow
For a wedding Sunday eve
And very early is the hour
When I have to leave.

When I arrive, though, it will seem
Much later than it is
So by the evening I'll be like
A Coke without the fizz.

For bodies sometimes need some time
Before they can adjust
And...

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Off into the deepest North
At the pole an arrow points.
Santa's village this way it says.
Tiny figures franticly bustling'

Only five months left
and mountains of presents
still to be made and wrapped
then loaded onto Santa's sleigh.

All the children dreaming blissfully
seeing that red nose sparkling
and hearing the whoosh 
watch...

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(I'm Heading) Over the Rainbow (which is how the title's supposed to look!)

It was fun while it lasted
In spite of being lambasted
For original, unpopular views
That folks would not choose
To agree with or to share
Because they would not dare
To go against the flow:
Can't do that, oh...

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Trees growing so high,
and stones resting down below-
 but moss climbing both....

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Are you heading downwards, 
Your life out of control, 
No longer on the up and up, 
No longer on a roll? 

For life is a scary ride, 
So you’d better hold on tight, 
But the good news is; 
For every bit of darkness, 
There usually...

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I can't pay my bills
He steals from me as he strips
Now I'm troubled stiff...

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There comes a time in my life when I have to admit I’m a failure
 I speak with forked tongue, I simply can’t hide it
Yesterday I made a promise and I’ve broken it again
Are my marriage vows now heading down the drain

I will confess I...

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Rat a tat tat - train on slow track
Each day takes me - to work and back
My mind it tune - clickety clack
Its hypnotic - repeating sound
Resonating - within my mind
Rat a tat tat - it goes around
But it must go - hear squeal below
Tis...

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She’ll be leaving soon I see
The ambulance has arrived,
Waiting for another guest 
To take a long, hard ride.   

A malicious, microscopic serpent 
Invaded blood and bones 
Leaving this sweet young lady 
Ravaged, scared and ominously alone. 
 
Looking out her window now
At the...

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"Everybody deserves a change in life and hope for a better one....even a pebble"


Heading for a new home now
I am sinking down and down,
touching the aquatic plants around
got to reach the bottom somehow.

I am sinking down and down
after creating a ripple in water,
got to reach...

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You've got me tripping on my tongue,

I think it's time I'm heading South.

A rough journey I fear will be,

With foot placed firmly in my mouth....

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a tsunami catapulted cruising skiff
skyward landing with quiet thud
across undulating infinite granular waves
formerly solid state rocks and minerals

optimism vibrant upon initial unforeseen
crash asper for test dummies
foundered as undertow fostered diminishing hope
initial faith for survival quickly ebbed

nsync with retreating tidal wave
pessimism dreamt fantastical holograms
farther from beached...

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         The moon was full
                the stars were bright
             ...

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