Best Power Line Poems

Night succumbs like a powerless pawn

Melancholy grins the brink of dawn

Hollow skull enshrouds a vacant tomb

A Possum’s fate amid vulture’s plume

The sirens scream as if...

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A songbird dances on a power line;?
a man in white at a market square
sings, swings, ears to a distant drum—?
a tuneful hum from a frenetic...

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The Personification of Success
Success when seen with my eyes looks like quilts, diaries, prayers chastening rods and lots of hugs, off to school and then...

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I will take my Chainsaw and pruners too
Just to see what I might run into
I will ride the trail to the end
Then turn around and...

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Again the raven whose sleek, dark wings shine
sits upon my sagging sleek power line.
His eyes so questioning, he does sure stare.
Does he know something? Do...

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Birds roosting on the power line,
Squirrel can’t cross but he’s trying.

That’s his regular run across this road,
Back to his home with his acorn load.

Squirrel’s always...

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Running through the trail 
I caught a quick glimpse of it 
It ran up a tree 
Ran across a power line 
I've never seen one...

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All around me
Cars driving forms entranced
Their glazed eyes suited for the waiting day
My own sequined senses, faithfully harnessed
Travel
Inside my car
35 miles to empty, 53 degrees
...

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[ In the early 1890's, Henry Lawson tramped to Hungerford  which inspired him to 
write a short story on his reflections.  In the...

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A row of birds on the power line
Workers queue for rush hour buses

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Nineteen eighty-four was a year of forgotten memories. Somewhere in the United States a secret society was started called The Order of the Black Cage....

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She waits, a grounded eagle, eating takeout, passing time,
And stares, a crippled hunter, chasing salmon of the mind.
She courts a passing breeze; hopeless passion
 ...

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dirt twirls and dances between the rows 
in slow curly q archs 
with the same meandering intensity of a lazy summer afternoon as the sun...

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How usurping, how intact
the problem rising from my lack
the power line cord's react
chewed or lightning hit, blew stack!

Installed in '70's, contract
before the codes became exact
with...

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Some people say she was crazy, they think that she was out of her mind.
She paid the price when she decided to use a power...

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