Best Layover Poems

...It looks like a simple brownstone building,
Not much different then any other but it’s residents,
Are of the haunted kind, not made of flesh and bone.
In every window a wind chime stirs, gently ca......

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...The wizened hunter had but one cartridge
remaining this was no trifle matter.
For he’d been attacked by a hungry horde
of rats when he took shelter in this cave.

And now a mordacious wind was m......

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...Long ago, a long layover in Tokyo persuaded 
my flying partner and I to venture out to
visit Disneylando, as the locals called it.
We started out early in the fog about 8 a.m.
We had our map that......

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....

  There she stood
as i had the layover
       Standing 
       Poetically
 And softly peeking

       her hip's
          skin

Only the poetic bum
   Could imagine

       my lips
......

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While working in Seattle for Boeing
Had duty in Florida for six weeks
Just before it was time to be going
Drove from town to town looking at antiques

In St. Augustine, day before my f......

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...Reality is a ***** of a mistress
  everyday feels like a negotiation,
should be like a babbling brook
  over silken-like pebbles instead of
      sucking acrid marrow's gritty pith,
hardly ex......

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...Above the roller-coaster rain clouds, 
there's a moment when the wing tip of the plane 
cuts seamlessly into serene blue as it banks 
over Chicago. It's a layover in the sunlit limbo 
of the hope isl......

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...I once traveled around the U. S. on a Greyhound bus,
My wife thought I was crazy, but she made little fuss,
It was, by far, the most awesome adventure I ever took
Three changes of clothes, lots of......

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...they've been moments in life when you've felt that you were at your wits end
be it spiritually, financially or physically be it in a relationship with family or friends
tired of whenever you've bee......

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...ever since I could remember

an age of mind so tender

a complement to illusory surroundings

came to find out

the world of doubt

crippled from the neck up

hasty from the neck down

......

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...Flight 888
Get ready to soar
Reserved seating
Specialized spiritual cuisine
Buckle up
Welcome Aboard
Sponsored by the Lord
Everlasting Recline
Rejoicing on the mind
Embraced blessing
No tur......

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...Midnight hour was approaching. . .
New Jersey forests hugged each 
Side of the lonely highway.
Tired feet and tired bodies 
Rested upon worn leather seats
In the black stretch limousine 
Contai......

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...Run Away

Ticket counter still open but
	no planes departing
Ticket plus dog scheduled for 7:10 AM
	(Twelve Hours to nowhere)

Bag packed with who knows what.
Sidearm.38 snub-nose holstered o......

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...On a bus leaving Norfolk late Friday night, I was in the last seat in the back
A young and pretty woman boarded with hair so long and black
She was a sailor's dream sitting across from me and slowl......

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...(Snaps fingers, adjusts imaginary beret) Alright, listen up/ hitching a ride on the infinite subway/ strapped in tight/ destinations unknown/ no layover/LSD boosting, pushing past the earthly zone/
......

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