Best Pavement Poems

They elude me now ...words
Drinking befits a drowning man possessed
Swimming off this broken page
Baton winning in a relay race
I breached the ribbon sliced with chest
Joy! I gasped


Grown tired of my own riddles
Those halting jagged lines
Conversely I committed 
So disrespectful of my crimes
In dispatchment utter lunacy
Forgiveness...

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You were so 
full of life and
uniqueness and inspiration 
to those like me 
looking for a voice 
to cry out and be 
oneself, shuffle off
such mortal coil 
and fly high above 
the elements of 
repetition.
Yet I saw your 
roots now, they 
run deep, breaking 
free...

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As the street artist draws on pavement tiles
Asking money but getting smiles
The street urchins would offer a hand
Not to greet but to earn a rand

And as the pedestrians would walk
They pass by these fields of withered stalk
And look away or look afar
Unwilling to look upon...

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On the edge of metropolitan midnight
he lays in a breathless silence
rasping the evanescing yesterdays to his windows
both open and locked,
while the unknowing below in stale smoke barrooms,
wait to sear his wounds and retell his life
in putrefied requiem.

Abashed metropolis
echoing of muted voices once adorning the streets
in...

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he eats my toe
bit by bit daily
as his dinner...

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Slowly We Are All Falling, 

Some Just Quicker Than Others, 

Some Will Have An Arm To Grab Before Hitting Bottom, 

Some Never Bothered To Pack A Parashute, 

And The Others Are Just Enjoying The Fresh Air On The Way Down, 

Awaiting To Become A Pavement...

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Walking the path each day
introverted thoughts in 
cased in my skull
a boneyard of ebbing 
memories and thought-processes 
back slightly hunched over 
eyes to the ground 
seeing earth, stone 
cracks, grass, flowers 
bird droppings, dog's as well 
dotting the slick 
pavement of repetition 

I occasionally look...

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Pavement Turd
Brown turd in the sun. Just like the bloody song. Brown turd by the wall. The dog's done a big crap over there. Ready for the unwary. Look at the brown dog turd. It steams in the sun. Freshly laid. Almost a work of...

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I am new lava flow
covered in dense sand,
the Mojave Desert of the soul.
I am the arid places,
the barren areas,
the well packed pebbles
too tight for seeds.
And in rare events,
when rain releases a prayer,
I quickly 
let the waters blow
though my hardened runnels
and glow like a nude vegetable.



Dean...

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PINE BLOSSOM PAVEMENT

 I never left the soft sunshine,

 reflected across the satin smooth pond, deep in the forest,
 with flowered edges of pink ladyslippers, wild roses and daisies,

 to slope old deer trails...... foraging mushrooms, wild garlic and sage,

 I'm still in awe as...

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Reflection
In awe of the lights
Presented in a shimmering show
Rain water accentuates the mighty view
Shining lights glow on pavement
What a grand sight
Reflection

Russell Sivey...

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the laces are caught up
& torn down the side
the words that once held up
have long been discarded
tender silk & flesh,
now covered with lines
let our scars remind us;
we're still alive...

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On the humorless steps 
     of a somber public building,
     I paused awhile,

Looked down and saw
     something mischievous
     that playfully peeped 

Through a dark crack
    ...

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In this hurried, crowded, chaotic world
Many broken and lonely people are hurled
Silent thoughts invade their mind 
Loveless, Unwanted they trail behind.

Can you hear the silence in this crowded place, 
Do you even slow down, to look at his face. 
Stop a little, lessen your haste,...

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Abandoned alone the cold winter night,
Hungry, confused and without a shred to keep him tight,
Head on his knees, alone he weeps,
For a caring lap,
Where his head he can keep,
And gentle patting hands,
To put him to sleep.
And gentle patting hands,
To put him to sleep…....

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