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Best Pothole Poems

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Premium Member Prairie Pothole
Out here, wild rhubarb grows free,
Bitter beauty escapes designs by premiers
And presidents,
Red-veined leaves untouched by the
Denizens of this desert.
Morality endures despite the sins
Of man, mere...

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Categories: pothole, beautiful,
Form: Alliteration



Premium Member Dumb Questions
I was changing a tire and the neighbor walked by
Stood and looked a while, then he said Hi
Got a flat? he asked and this made...

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Categories: pothole, funny, me, wife, me,
Form: Rhyme
Gift To Myself
I spin, faster and faster…    
losing control, I am a propeller rising.
Once, you were my mystery to solve,
my gift to unwrap -
my...

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Categories: pothole, break up, emotions, identity,
Form: Free verse
Its Raining...
Its Raining…

God’s Cleansing Tool
Cloud-Concerto… How Cool !
Plop-Plop Plopping into Pothole Pools
On the Grass, Pavements and On My Own-Sweet- Fools…

who, don’t have Sense enough, to get...

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Categories: pothole, daughter, family, funny, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Building Tension
That night, in a strange place
I was like a fly
Circling a street light
Reeling…Reeling!
I felt so alone
Fear wrenched my throat
Couldn’t predict
When I would be charred to...

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Categories: pothole, angst, fear, lost, night,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Faces, Cheeks, and Eyes
The air thick, like a sweet sticky syrup
Sirens wail, polluting the air with chaos
Voices screaming, obscenities, obscure messages
All the while little children play, in pothole...

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Categories: pothole, angst, life,
Form: Imagism
Dirt Roads
Dirt Roads

Hello ole friend, I’ve visited you before.
What can you tell me, what news is in store?
You read like a book, imprinted and deep.
I know...

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Categories: pothole, introspection, life, nostalgia, day,
Form: Rhyme
Loch River Valley
Where the forest is still virgin and the lyrebirds often call,
the bronze-wing comes to drink, and the ferns are growing tall, 
there are deer prints...

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Categories: pothole, nature, river,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Giant
Summer rain, melting Arctics
and the lipids lining the nerves
in your brain. These are the metrics
of our times. Mere resolve

is not enough to take care
along the...

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Categories: pothole, city, mirror, mountains, pain,
Form: Verse
A Lifetime Blessed
A Lifetime Blessed

Winter fresh crystal clear
Lights adorn a home revered
Angels eternal essence glow 
Mom and Dad your hearts pure gold

Love you always and forever more
Your...

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Categories: pothole, appreciation, love, parents,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Virgil - Slightly Bawdy
Virgil the virgin was eagerly urging
his girlfriend to make him a man
Had nowhere private to go get excited
so he bought an old caravan

The seller in...

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Categories: pothole, humorous, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ring of Truth
The First Round

You are a pothole that I swerve not to hit.

But you follow my trail endlessly and the sniffing.

When I am cornered I lash...

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Categories: pothole, history, introspection, me, me,
Form: Narrative
A Runner's High
One epic Saturday morning
The heavens and winds subduing
To permit my soul to freeing
The escaping on the road enjoying
When I heave and legs pounding
Heart throbbing and...

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Categories: pothole, health, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Potholes and Vines
They leave great potholes, when they pass away.
We tumble in so willingly.
Some are even given names...
like: "god please help me"...
or "I can't go on without...

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Categories: pothole, angst, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Fragile Beauty
Oh, she was so fair
Unblemished skin
Lustrous hair
Everyone would stare

Contempt for all she had
So vain was she 
She spurned a smitten lad
One with love driven mad

One...

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Categories: pothole, beauty, pride,
Form: Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things