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Best Pavement Poems

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


Premium Member Umbrella
*I Will Cry*

If this world really mattered,
Why does it bleed?

I could tell you how much I love you,
But, that will never heal the pain.
I am...

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Categories: pavement, beautiful, cry, rain,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member The Red Leaf
the raspy whisper

finally
 
gets my full attention -
wistfully I smile
..for its persistence reminds me of you..

the crisp red leaf 
scuttles scrapingly
across the gray pavement
to and...

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Categories: pavement, death, emotions, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
In This Place
I am the weed
Nestled
In a crack in the pavement
Dismantling concrete
Crumbling foundations
In this man made world
Rooted in the earth
Despite the city
I am the seed




11/05/18

Composed for Line...

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Categories: pavement, city, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of----

Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
I sit here alone to forget the taste of air.
Overwhelm by the...

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Categories: pavement, abuse, bullying, color, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Weirdo
Declared an outcast,
shunned by society -
but she's the same
as you and me,
but You can't see her pain
hidden behind her coy smile.
You can't wipe away those...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pavement, abuse, bullying, society,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Can'T Breathe
In memory of---- all lives taken by unfair justice.

 Solely in my room, I can't stomach the sound of my pulse
 I sit here alone...

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Categories: pavement, abuse, community, death, dedication,
Form: Free verse
Your Man
Your man 

O' fallen leaf of barren branch
doth charge my heart, my aching heart
with missing you, needing you
On sun dried earth I lay,
grasping at my...

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Categories: pavement, good night,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Invisible: Co-Written With C Devonshire
clad in rags, he wanders on Wall Street
   he is invisible to hustling stock brokers
       he is...

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Categories: pavement, remember, veterans day,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Talk With Him
Outside, a table awaits idle: I join as though it was my companion
Pondering about life as if it were water appeasable to the deepest canyon
Trees...

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Categories: pavement, faith, life, religion, me,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dark Rainstorm
The chaotic cadence of falling rain
begins striking the pavement in evening's hours.
Up on the roof I hear the steady gain

of drops as sprinkling now becomes...

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Categories: pavement, dark, imagery, rain,
Form: Ottava rima
Premium Member A Look Back At Eighteen Months Here-The Show Is Over
A Look Back at Eighteen Months Here-The Show is Over

When your poems reside in a shoe,
like mine,
pounding the pavement to nowhere.
The onset of blisters isn't...

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Categories: pavement, change, sad, mental health,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Muse In Freedom
I walked through the desert looking for my muse, on barren land so dry
Sand stinging in the wind, across the cliffs, beneath the sky

I walked...

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Categories: pavement, freedom, journey, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Lesson a Dog Taught Me
On a stone wall, by the solitary pavement,
Annoyed and angry, with daggers drawn at everyone,
I saw my neighbor sitting dejected and depressed.
Though known him for...

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Categories: pavement, anger, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Unrequited
Unrequited

The things i think about,
never settle below
they float instead
and fester inside
as I pluck your name in the air
a sacred memory folds over
foaming layers, floating vapors
Creating...

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© Rowe Weiss  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pavement, angst, change, conflict, desire,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let the Rain Fall
I could smell and sense 
the showers coming in the air
with an approaching storm.
I inhale this 
light little scent of heaven.
The rain will never dampen...

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Categories: pavement, how i feel, night,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs