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Best Pedestrian Poems

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


Premium Member Oh Captcha Squares
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
What are these objects in your frames?
Oh captcha squares, oh captcha squares
Why must they gotta be the same?

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Categories: pedestrian, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Smart and Final Prose
Daylight fades, a city pulsates, and traffic is reflected in store windows.  
Hurrying headlights come out of the darkness. 
They crisscross like dueling knights....

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Categories: pedestrian, peoplepeople, red, city, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Mad Love
Flash floods forecast hurrying steps and wheels ahead of foreboding clouds pregnant as eyelids welling with tears of baptismal rain to cleanse earth's skirt of...

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Categories: pedestrian, love,
Form: Haibun
Artless Dissipation - Wdj
30 January 2021

The prodigy has turned prodigal
Making silver spoons out of gold medals
While the hearsay deepens about clandestine meetings
I fix myself a plate of pity...

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Categories: pedestrian, identity, life, retirement,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Seattle Streets
The traffic light
delayed us both
Me driving my car
She driving her cart.

The traffic direction changed, rotated,
making black eyes spark annoyed 
as her walk signal failed to...

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Categories: pedestrian, age, old,
Form: Free verse



The New Myth Makers
My pleasure is in creating my own mythology.
I have read the saga's, the legends the great epics,
and they have made a garden for my spirit...

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Categories: pedestrian, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Hell and Back
When fraught with gloom and mental pain,
     I all alone bemoan my fate,
as one who sinks too low again
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Categories: pedestrian, conflict, dark, depression, hope,
Form: Bio
Premium Member The Ash Can
The Ash Can  ©

I got the call on Sunday night.  I was traveling on business.  When I looked at the caller ID
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Categories: pedestrian, bereavement, introspection, lost love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Horses Are Heroes
I've always admired 
horses
and I guess I most surely 
always will
No legend without em' 
complete
The unsung heroes of 
any heroic battle

Pony, colt, filly or mare
ride...

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Categories: pedestrian, horse
Form: Quatorzain
Premium Member Birth of a Poem
Birth of A Poem

What can be done with these pedestrian morsels?
I have tasted unformed clay before.

Phrases plead to be thrown into
the redeeming realm of manifestation.

Pushing...

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Categories: pedestrian, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Always Centered On You
Your significance in every chapter of me goes beyond
the wonderful art of a creator or the expectations from a deity.
I feel your fatherly soft palms...

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Categories: pedestrian, christian, god, jesus, relationship,
Form: Sapphic stanza
Apostrophe In Time
water weeps wildly
whilst washing away your
jesting foolery.
I saw the sun annihilated
	Against backdrops of liturgy
Lethargic activity that earns
	It’s title as the Earth’s endearing child
Against backdrops of...

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© W. Hunt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pedestrian, sympathy, universe,
Form: Free verse
Paris By Night
this morning is falling
burning into a sunset
an autumn decision
you and I 
will never forget

joy by day
paris by night
i'm there
love by the hour
Paris is ours

evening breeds...

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Categories: pedestrian, adventure, art, life, lost
Form: Free verse
A Gay Sonnet
A Friday of Gayness 

Today I drove to Faro town I wanted a meal of tuna steak with 
onions at the café I used to...

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Categories: pedestrian, art, baby, beach, betrayal,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Poetry and Porcelain
In the still,
in the dark,
each morning
I practice my art.
While I try to go deep,
the daily mundane
I achieve 
approaches the inane.
And if fame 
is what I...

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Categories: pedestrian, allegory,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things