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Best Highways Poems

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Solitude
Incessant din of jammed highways
suddenly lulled to deserted streets
quiet of rustle forlorn breeze plays
laughter of birds, smiling sun greets

diamond dews glisten ruby petals
on a palette...

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Categories: highways, self, solitude,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member To My Children
Drive mindfully, dear children, as you traverse hurdled highways of life,
Cognizant that adjacent to an oasis of joy, lies a desert brooding strife;
Assume charge of...

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Categories: highways, children, encouraging, family, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shattering Rose Glasses
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was coloured blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting 
of the ones I find

Yet my blindness 
Is that of...

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Categories: highways, education, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Shattering Rose Coloured Glasses
Uncomplicated me
I thought I was colour blind
free thinking and kind
with an evolved mind
Loving and accepting 
of the ones I find

Yet my blindness 
Is that of...

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Categories: highways, betrayal, black african american,
Form: Political 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: highways, introspection,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Wind Talker
‘neath the halo of a full moon
Wind Talker gives music to the night
flute carved from a fallen tree
 
he plays to the dwindling forest
trees that...

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Categories: highways, native american,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Leelanau Calling
Just as bees squeeze like watermelon seeds
Spit across apricot fields
My wife and I on Friday
Join the lines of highways up north

Pulled by hilltops to the...

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Categories: highways, beauty, desire, destiny, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What a Privilege
As a child, I mistakenly believed that older people chose to have stiff backs, wrinkles on their faces, and veins like small, fat snakes on...

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Categories: highways, age, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Other
Premium Member Amid Drizzle
Written: May 3rd, 2024

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© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highways, analogy, rain,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Lady In Red
Yesterdays love
Buries me in memories
I long for times
When a kiss was truly an exotic marvel
I hug the sorrows of treasured losses
I, a man weep, silently...

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Categories: highways, beauty, heart, life, love,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Jesus - King of the Jews
In His eyes was the wisdom of the ages.
In His hands was kindness and love.
His manner was tender and quiet.
In His smile was a light...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: highways, inspirational,
Form: Quatrain
Night Driving
I want to take a drive tonight
through a maze of half-lit roads
paved in onyx shadows.
I want to follow starry streets
that roll in waves of cold...

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Categories: highways, city,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Are Days When
Jewel-colored butterflies flutter in scarlet sage
Hovering hummingbirds on a red tubular stage

Highways they navigate apparently their own
Invisible to humans as they stay in their zone

These...

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Categories: highways, aubade, beautiful, bird, butterfly,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Navigating Through Life's Highway
Life has many highways,                     ...

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Categories: highways, fun, house, humor, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member River's Arisin'
River’s Arising
By Michelle Waters

River’s arising. Danger’s on hand.
Gather up your kinfolk and get to high land.

The campgrounds are empty, RVs are all gone
Tourists packed up...

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Categories: highways, environment, heartbreak, home, leaving,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things