Best Sidewalk Poems

To: the “Timeless” One

Like parallel lines that don’t intersect
Like strangers in subways that never connect
Like messages in bottles that never reach shore
Like a drained stream, I don’t try any more.

Because

You’re like a stormy cloud that dampened my light
Like a blank stare in the dead of...

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The power lines stretch across the sky
moonlight makes a shadowed place uninviting
as a blinking street light
has trouble making up it's mind
what's a daydream called if it's late at night
apart but we're currently immersed in
the atmosphere of a city breathing it's vibe
I'll meet you there 
if...

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My sidewalk exclaims
Off its own wet surface
The lights do reflect beyond its water
As if the stars carry its empty planets
Holding ice within
Its own reflection
Red the light keeps the human condition
Allows me to stop the confusion outside
Rain does illuminate
Brings glorious high
The universe doesn’t understand complexity
Of the...

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The crack in the sidewalk watched me today
as I walked to school alone that one summer day
The Sun was opening its wings for me
Had only two miles to walk among the Grove trees
It seemed to talk to me as knowing what is and could be
why...

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The north wind started to blow 
It matched the coldness that lived in my soul
The sidewalk was icy 
I glanced off beside me
The old man sat there alone
.
I said sir are you cold
Have you someplace to go
Is there something that I can do
He just smiled...

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The pavement
A wonderment comes to mind of this naming of this stand on concrete;
slow paced concrete, hurry start, give me a chance for a chase type of concrete.
Who would chase me?
Who would chase me...
Maybe I should jolt down all these mouthing words in my mind.
...

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The town is eaten by hungry cars
And the all-night-people crowd the bars
Tell them all - they can have my seat
Between the sidewalk - and the busy street

The city lights point your forward path
Through the wild party and the aftermath
The sign on the wall is bittersweet
Between...

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He stepped out of his car and rummaged in his pocket for some coins to feed the meter.  As he stepped up on the sidewalk, he noticed a penny lying near his feet.  He briefly contemplated picking it up before dismissing it. ...

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everywhere I try to walk
The cement is dirty
With the most outrageous talk
Slang here
F YOU's there
Mothers on the street
Obscenities everywhere
The thrill is lude
Trying hard to be rude
I am a Hyprocrite nitwit
it's so easy to conclude
The Cross around me
But my mouth needs some soap
Heckling and swearing
How can...

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Mom's back a crack to caulk
can't knock it in, until it's knocked
them dogs on down the sidewalk
keep on goin', no time for thought

there's rhymes to run
there's cadences to call
there's favors to sun
there's lawns to sprawl

Molly cries aloud the rules
jump a crack 'n' chalk a skip
sneakered...

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Puddles on sidewalk

for children to have fun with

as rain falls on them.

Written 5-24-11...

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on the sidewalk -
while avoiding a banana
I trip on a crack...

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Removal of redundant stone
won't always procreate in sculpture

fixating smile
I'm disintegrating on silicate particles

words planted dams
through my respiratory system
so I can't hide infested clay mold under my breath

pressing that finger between my eyes
won't deprive me of seeing 
miracles often aren't like what you would  imagine
they...

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Love is waiting outside, on the sidewalk,
Surrounded by red and orange petals,
Standing unmovable, still made of gold,
Not lost or found, not bought or sold.
 
A couple came, lips moving as they talk,
Her smile and heartbeat, his two medals.
They surround love with sheer curiosity,
Examining Love with...

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Satin flowers droop
in gray wind, shadows streaming
through a slate forest.
Clouds are smoky foliage
blocking marigold sun rays.

Bright umbrellas bloom
in summer's sudden cloudburst.
Pewter raindrops fall
like pebbles on concrete loam,
dark stems arcing a rainbow....

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