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Best Highway Poems

Below are the all-time best Highway poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of highway poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member Sweet Violets
The path you walk I adore. 
Seeds I’ll scatter around,
Then from earth, blooms will pour 
to grace your precious ground.
A highway I shall lay for...

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Categories: highway, romantic,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Walk Tall
I was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...

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Categories: highway, america, death, drink, drug,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love Has Its Costs
THIS IS A FICTIONAL WRITE THAT EXPLORES THE QUESTION OF WHAT LOVE IS. IT DOES SO IN A DRAMATIC WAY, AFTER ALL THAT IS MY...

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Categories: highway, desire,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Regret
Why I did it, I don’t know
Tornado of regret tortures my heart

On a moonless night, he approached 
Limping toward me as I pumped gas
Why was...

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Categories: highway, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Comb-edy of Hair-ers
My dear brother Butch,

Hair are the highlights of my week:
I got a job at the Hairway to Heaven salon!
Our motto: "We color your hair or...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highway, hair, humor,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Passion
you                 don't            know 


my                  ...

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Categories: highway, passion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spaces
As my thoughts shrink my mind expands
Growing into the spaces between my words
The words of others
Refreshed within the pauses
Dancing inside possibilities
Filling in the blanks

Words suspended
Within...

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Categories: highway, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Because I Live
“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow;
  Is our destined end or way;
  But to act, that each to-morrow
  Find us farther than today.”
A...

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Categories: highway, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Mission of the Yellow Songbird
Mission of the Yellow Songbird

A long highway road stretched its legs before me,
In a place where tumble weeds were conceived,
December evening chasing daylight back to...

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Categories: highway, bird, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Who are we at our core
Line of enquiry:
"We look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay 
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highway, character, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lifes Simplicity Maintained
You were born in a specialist clinic
I was born at the front door of my house
we both came into this world and survived.
You’ve been eating...

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Categories: highway, career, character, cheer up,
Form: Epic
Date Night (And the Day After)
Opening line from "Highway Five Love Poem" by Ruth L. Schwartz


This is a love poem for all the tomatoes
I squished to make our Date-Night spaghetti.
Our...

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© Erin Moss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highway, food, lost love, sad,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Sunsets Are Painted By God, and So
I stopped my car on the highway,
To watch the soft fading sun falling;
The end of another azure sky blue day.
A golden sunset is like a...

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Categories: highway, beautiful, god, peace, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jack
I saw him on the highway
Thought he was insane
Standing with his thumb out 
In the pouring rain
I don't usually stop for hitchhikers
But something said I...

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Categories: highway, faith, life, mystery, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Food For Thought - With Chris Green
Lyrics start 0.05 - timed to the music

Pack your bags dear, there’s a Croc near
And he’s creeping, through the night
With his eye on - on...

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Categories: highway, food, health, scary,
Form: Lyric

Book: Reflection on the Important Things