Best Sidewalks Poems

Sidewalks

We walked along the sidewalks
that paralleled the beach,
the ocean roaring in the distance
just beyond the soft sands,
an echo of all the waves
that have ever touched the shore,
beating the land
with a living vibration... of sound.

We slowed our pace,
and then stopped.
We were quiet together,
in awe...
of the moment,
that...

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Observe the bending of tree & flower.
To rages; a gale… in tempestuous hours.!
Rain deep in curtain, makes interplay;
Fresh night skies, await the sun in power.

Morn air stirs, Lady’s chinking; breakfast crocks.
Day-streams 'cross backyards, endless blocks.. 
Splashes as sound; tables, are scrubbed..
Cars all hues; white thru...

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I slog my worn-out feet 
from side to side
picking up dead cigarettes, 
through city sidewalks 
while I wait for a release. 

Like the silhouette
of things to come,
cigarettes,
like a corpse in a mortuary,
lie stomped on
kissed by the lips of 
others, addicts
like me.

My tired eyes, in search
of...

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I watch the squirrels on the wires up high,
I call those lines sidewalks in the sky.
They sit sometimes watching the hussle below,
Every one in a hurry with nowhere to go.
They walk the wires and climb down to the ground,
Find there food and turn back around.
There...

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Backspace
All I seem to do is press erase
Here are my words, caressing Charlotte in dead space
It's against the rules to say her true name
but I needed to this day
Saying Scarlett Jade just wasn't enough
Said her name, saw her face
saw the past and laid down in...

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Sultry city sidewalks, the people come and go.
Some look straight down, some look away.
For no one should they know.
 
The city heat begins to beat the sweat into your brow.
A country song just sounds so wrong under a cafe awning.
As the taxi man devoid of...

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We strolled the broken sidewalks 
Of a little chilly lake town
Caught between mountains
Talking about art and money
Smelling curiously of aged wood
About who cared anymore for culture
And stopped in to lunch at
A corner cafe where two meals 
Cost us twenty because we were hungry
I snapped a...

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The sobriety of others cross
Our paths in shadowed lines

Their blur, a noise, a quiet breeze
Recedes in stretching time

Small permanence of our design
That we exchange in parts

Across the cobbled stone we stride
Hard fashioned, in who we aren’t...

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November sidewalks unsightly grow
   Leaves mingling, sloppy with slush and snow
Where dandelions bloomed between cement cracks
   Now pray bugs that warmth come back...

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Some people use it to get from
One place to another.
Others live day and night on it.
Some are discovered on it,
While others die on it.
But now matter what,
A sidewalk is just that.
No one seems to pay attention
To those cracks and crevices
On that white concrete.
They can't.
Their lives...

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In the mornings, building staff,
Equipped with long green hoses,
Wash sidewalks down, attentive to
What lurks beneath their noses.

Most often, it’s what’s left behind
By dogs which poo or piddle,
With owners who, despite the law,
Obey it very little.

Though yesterday, a homeless man
Sprawled on the sidewalk, sleeping.
Though he was...

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Sidewalks

Sliding through streets, with the slightest of ease;
Life is completed, by the breath of your breeze.
Let the curves go, and relinquish control.
You'll be amazed, by the depth of your flow....

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steaming sidewalks
terrorizing cats and dogs
injuring their paws

my shirt is soaked
sweat running down my back
one hundred degrees

autumn welcome
where is october 
i yearn for her breeze...

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To you who hides your face,
Sitting on cardboard
Asking for change, with your cardboard sign
Is it change you want? Or coins?

I am frustrated by your lack of motion-
Sometimes there is the puppy eye,
The sleeping angel,
The cardboard cut out, tent

Sometimes there's rocking,
I've also heard bothered screams.

What is...

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