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
The Highway of RegretThe storms are raging on the rollin' sea, and on the highway of regret
Yes, I played around, was unfaithful to you, I'd change it all...
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Categories:
highway, death, depression, drink, lost
Form:
Rhyme
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
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
RegretWhy 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
A Comb-edy of Hair-ersMy 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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Categories:
highway, hair, humor,
Form:
Light Verse
Categories:
highway, passion,
Form:
Free verse
SpacesAs 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
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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Categories:
highway, food, lost love, sad,
Form:
Villanelle
Lifes Simplicity MaintainedYou 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
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
Food for thought - with Chris GreenLyrics 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
JackI 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
The CallThe Call
For as long as I can remember, I have been phoning my mom. Even before leaving home when I was a teenager. Whenever I...
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Categories:
highway, angst, blessing, courage, death,
Form:
Free verse
APPLES - MULTIPLE HAIKUIt bounced off the truck
And then rolled down the highway
Apple turnover
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How 'bout them apples
When Jonathan McIntosh
Won the spelling bee
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Apple of my eye
Jenny had the sweetest...
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Categories:
highway, food, funny
Form:
Haiku
White Lace and Snowflakes
Nervous as a harried hen, Mom was in a dither
Would wedding guests be kept away by the winter weather?
My cheeks so rosy from the sting...
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Categories:
highway, weddingeaster,
Form:
Narrative
Puppy love vs true loveOnce love, or rather, that which I thought was love
Swept me over
And had me racing up on a highway
I raced up and up
Till I reached...
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Categories:
highway, love,
Form:
Free verse
My wayAnd now as I hold her near
I turn and draw the bedroom curtain
She made what she wants so clear
She's going to get it tonight...
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Categories:
highway, funny,
Form:
Verse
THE HEADLESS HORSEMEN
On the black stallion of death,
Its red crimson eyes pierce through the night,
And the hell's beast breathes its hot brazen breath
Blazing against the darkness's chilling...
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Categories:
highway, adventure, dark, evil, halloween,
Form:
Free verse
SunlightSometimes I believe you
to be a vision, fading,
only a reflection of the
warmth I used to feel.
Today my memory of you
locked away within a
clenched mind, like...
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Categories:
highway, memory,
Form:
Free verse
The Giant of LisbellawStood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow
Momentarily paused -
To contently...
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Categories:
highway, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
LOOSENING THE AIR BAG
Slipping into my silver-gray SUV
Nicknamed " Sly Buster Cruiser”
I speed off down the rocky, off-highway road.
Twisting and reeling like my wired mind,
windows down, sunroof...
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Categories:
highway, adventure,
Form:
Free verse
A Christmas SnowNervous as a harried hen, Mom was in a dither
Would wedding guests be kept away by December weather?
My cheeks so rosy from the sting of...
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Categories:
highway, christmas, wedding,
Form:
Rhyme
I Wanna Be FreeI wanna walk up a mountain
swim in the wide blue sea,
walk across life’s busy highway
just to taste of that which is me.
I wanna drive on...
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Categories:
highway, angst, health,
Form:
Rhyme
Turned OffIn the deepest of sad emotions
My mind as been turned off
Exiting off the highway of life
The turn off of all time
As I rot in ...
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Categories:
highway, crazy, cry, imagery, introspection,
Form:
Free verse
Friends For LifeI hold three magic rocks, in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this reality behind, far behind
The door seems far, far away
Little steps...
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Categories:
highway, friendship
Form:
Lyric