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Best Sidetrack Poems

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Seasonal Color
Summer, delightful smells of fresh lilac
lavender, mind beginning to sidetrack,

melodious sounds,  busy honey bees
circling around blossoming Lemon trees,

clear fresh aquamarine slow flowing stream
reflecting sky...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidetrack, color, imagery, summer,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Back Track
Near my house in the back,
bit lost on a sidetrack,
along the grassy track.

Turned a bit to backtrack,
closer is the right tack,
near my house in the...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidetrack, allusion, analogy, fate, growing
Form: Villanelle
The Craft
This Craft
My Little Sidetrack

The Hair of the Equine
So Beautifully Strong
A Symbol of their Noble Worth
From which I fashion Creations for your Adornment

For some a Humble...

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© Chris Hagy  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidetrack, animal, creation, fashion, horse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ecopolitics of Time
Fr. Time is with us today, again, or still, I guess I should say.

No, you just did.  
That would be redundant, 
to say it...

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Categories: sidetrack, destiny, earth, god, humor,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Gret of Regret, Soliloquy
*Image of Hellboy II: The Golden Army by Wallpaper Flare.
AUDIO: Tip; Right-click on volume then click on Loop of the drop-down menu for continuous play.

The...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: sidetrack, angst, character, evil, fate,
Form: Narrative



The Walk
It was a long walk, with time heeling at my shadow. 
(and somewhere miles away the garage door closed, and the exhaust flowed,
and a small...

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Categories: sidetrack, bird, imagination, passion, senses,
Form: Prose Poetry
Universal Sisterhood
The world can sputter around us,
deject and confound us
topple us up one side and right down the other
but I'll still be me and you'll still...

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Categories: sidetrack, friendship, life, love, people,
Form: Rhyme
His Favourite Song
Was his theme song to his life story
An old record...from present to history
A soundtrack
To any sidetrack...on his block
To his black...and back from his black

He knew...

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Categories: sidetrack, fathers day,
Form: Free verse
A New Day
Rise to the challenge of the new day and don’t let your spirit go astray
Rise to the challenge of a new day and always remember...

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Categories: sidetrack, community, confidence, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Eyes Wide Open
Knick Knack Paddy Whack
Can’t take back a wisecrack
If you wanna be a crackerjack
Earn a greenback from blackjack

Gotta buyback your backpack
Need to blister pack your flapjacks
Evident...

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Categories: sidetrack, confusion, humor, society,
Form: Rhyme
For My Love She Stands
What on her disgruntle to sidetrack my dear love-
When by all means all hers are the mainspring of my joy?
Her face; yea, hers, is the...

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Categories: sidetrack, girlfriend, love, true love,
Form: Free verse
Lumina Cypher
The origins of light born through the dark velvet,
Linger in the outer stratospheres of air.
Reaching out to the cosmic bodies connecting,
Pure sources of energy.

Expanding with...

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Categories: sidetrack, black african american, life,
Form: Free verse
Blind Realization To See
I need to quit wasting my time and letting people distract me people who try to Sidetrack me they are not my friends nothing gets...

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Categories: sidetrack, appreciation, baptism, faith, growth,
Form: ABC
Armchair Qua Laptop Traveler
Pennilessness disallows me
     luxury tubby globe trekker
hence, my imagination
     takes me random places minus
   ...

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Categories: sidetrack, adventure, africa, america, chicago,
Form: Free verse
Help Us Lord Jesus
In a world of filled of hate
Love is not the enough
We need a clean slate 
We need to keep the Black life Matters
Movement, going to...

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Categories: sidetrack, america, anxiety, assonance, betrayal,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things