Best Switchback Poems

SWITCHBACK SOUL

My love is winter with Christmas eyes,
a circus of shadows.
My love is a chorus in quiet disguise,
cold winds in bright meadows.
He brings barley breezes...

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We loaded up for a Sunday drive
The Ozark Mountains were alive
Wild dogwoods of pink and white
Every shade of green in sight
Blooming jonquils and daffodils
Woodpeckers, blue...

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We don’t run the way we used to
ten kilometers pounding 
hard through switchback trails 
to beat the twilight

Twenty-odd years ago
you wanted marriage 
kids and a...

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The jokes on you 
Flit

As we walk home from the party 
The atmosphere declines
Just you and i alone again 
There’s nowhere left to hide
In and...

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On cumulonimbus wisps,
I lift and twist.
Surfing the switchback flow,
I’m fast, I’m slow, then oh...
I crash into kith and kin,
Punch-drunk, I spin.

Haphazardly I accrete,
Each friend I...

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“Distance lends enchantment...”

They say distance lends enchantment and true love
weathers all seasons; but, sometimes I wonder
whether the distance becomes obscured by changing
winds and billowing clouds.
And...

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Why spoiled misses princess...
never wishes to awaken from pleasant snooze

Appellation (with trailing switchback
and/or additional colorful turns
of phrases) emphasizing assigned
nom de plume "princess goldilocks"
hardly flattering compliment

gently...

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