Best Rest Area Poems
Incident On I-59 Part Iii
...“What’s going on, what’s next?”
(Medi-Vac on the way, keep pumping!)
A faint roar and whop-whop-whop-whop
(No not there! The south-bound lane! Over...)
The median grass was newly cut but still ......
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Categories:
rest area, life,
Form:
Narrative
Adventures With James My Grandson
...Adventures With James My Grandson
by Joan Donnelly 1995
He doesn't walk but runs to his subject on interest,
and upon arrival, leaps into the air.
With bended knees and flattened feet he ......
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Categories:
rest area, grandson, love,
Form:
Verse
Rest Area On Interstate
...Roadside stop...
Activity...
Humans go...
Ellip...
Unfinished thoughts or coping from another but not finishing
Ellipical is periods or decimal points placed to show that......
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Categories:
rest area, travel,
Form:
Verse
Lost In the Grand Canyon
...I left home in early July, headed to arid Arizona
to explore the Gran Canyon in all its splendor;
the ride went smoothly, stopping at a rest area
to refresh, eating breakfast and hurrying back...
......
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Categories:
rest area, adventure, confusion, dark, hurt,
Form:
Rhyme
Kudzu
...We were riding in the car near the Alabama line,
When I saw all over the trees a strange looking vine.
I wondered what it was, I didn’t have a clue.
I asked my mother what it was and she said, “......
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Categories:
rest area, brother, humor, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
The Ballad of the Dry Rest Stops
...Their dad had had a heart attack
since they had seen him last.
In May they said, "Let's visit him,
cuz time's a passing fast."
He doesn't drive, he sold his car
so he'll not come to us.
and ......
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Categories:
rest area, nature, places,
Form:
Ballad
A Lovely Little Daydream
...Microsleeps vs Powernaps
The boredom of freeway driving is like a hypnotist's sleep talk
The constant drone of the car's engine
The flash of lane markers to and fro, to and fro
You're bored and......
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Categories:
rest area, sleep,
Form:
Free verse
Out of Order!
...Lord! Why me? I try to live a life free of disorder,
Yet I'm forever greeted by signs reading "Out Of Order!"
Invariably, when I'm confronted with some dire emergency,
I'm faced with that leering ......
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Categories:
rest area, angst
Form:
Rhyme
They Know Where I Am
...How do they do it?
I don’t understand;
Where ever I go,
They know where I am.
I was on a college campus
Just the other day;
Looking for the library,
I lost my way.
There in the Quad
I foun......
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Categories:
rest area, funny
Form:
Rhyme
Journey
...I am going on a journey in my mind, and I didn’t save a seat for negativity
I choose to take along a dear friend I like to hang out with called positivity
I will pack my bags full of self-worth and......
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Categories:
rest area, emotions, freedom, imagery, imagination,
Form:
Imagism
Interstate 10 Rest Area
...Oh strange, strange land.
The physics do not fit.
The cord of interstate wends,
Through this place of upside-down rocks.
I climb down from the truck,
And wind and sand and sun and secrets
Ru......
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Categories:
rest area, mystery, nature, places,
Form:
Free verse
That's What I Do
...The alarm goes off and I rise up, for a moment foggy from sleep.
I look through the curtain and stare out at the world in front of me.
Where am I ? My mind is a blank , the cob webs still clinging......
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Categories:
rest area, on work and working,
Form:
Menu-Ettes
...The waiter asked: “Do you want that here or to go.
I replied: “if I eat it here don’t I get to take it with me?”
((oldies but goodies}}
“Waiter! Waiter! There’s a fly in my soup!”
“Well ......
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Categories:
rest area, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Patio Stones
...In a checker board pattern of red and grey
make a small patio near a tree for shade
Enough for two chairs and a short walkway
feeling some pride for the stones you laid
Simple but solid you sit a......
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Categories:
rest area, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
First Encounter
...First Encounter
I first heard its name in passing,
somewhere between Boston and New York, someone
at the rest area mistook it for another Mexican invasion
"That's why we need the wall."
If on......
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Categories:
rest area, angst,
Form:
Free verse