Best Turnpike Poems
Below are the all-time best Turnpike poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of turnpike poems written by PoetrySoup members
Silent Roosters SleepSILENT ROOSTERS SLEEP
Dads don’t sleep. They drive over-packed cars, and sip coffee from a thermos cup. Kids in backseat mull over grandma’s home ~...
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Categories:
turnpike, family, memory, travel,
Form:
Haibun
Ghost of CainReplace this heart of soiled sedition.
This junkyard filled with ugly treason.
Forgive, o Lord, embattled reason,
at the turnpike, chosen left ...off course.
His smoke went...
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Categories:
turnpike, betrayal,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
You FollowedYo Lauren,
From faith, to fugees, to fantastic lyrics against abortion and the senseless
extermination of black babies under the guise of family values making slave prisons...
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Categories:
turnpike, dedication
Form:
I do not know?
Snow FallSnow Falls.
The street is loosing its battle from the skyward white invaders.
It steady quite rain,
White blankets its white, fluffy, frozen cleaner across the hardened frozen...
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Categories:
turnpike, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
A Memorable BirthdayHe turned twenty-one on that beautiful fall day
Driving to his home from college, he got an early start on his way
The father who raised him...
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Categories:
turnpike, father, history, son, day,
Form:
Rhyme
My First Set of WheelsMY FIRST OF WHEELS
Remember that sense of freedom?
Your keys, you free, in your very own teen-aged kingdom.
If older, like me, seats then, were made of...
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Categories:
turnpike, appreciation, car, fun, high
Form:
Couplet
NirvanaStepping through its beaded door
was like walking into a time cloud,
whiffs of marijuana and hashish pipes
lined up by color in the cabinet
to the...
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Categories:
turnpike, childhood, nostalgia, teen,
Form:
Narrative
Fallen Sea StarThe chilly North Pacific:
we build a fire for the moths,
a lamplight. Their wings, angry
with flames. Sky: dim and small.
In your standing stillness, you are
an old...
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Categories:
turnpike, art, beautiful, farewell, imagination,
Form:
Free verse
Runaway Wheeling HoundA hound bus in the maintenance garage
But it was the thief thinking in his own barrage
When the workers weren’t around
The Thief stole the bus without...
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Categories:
turnpike, adventure, anxiety, business, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Once Upon a TimeIt's raining I look at my window and wonder is it wrong to think so fondly of my youth,
Is it wrong to keep on looking...
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Categories:
turnpike, nostalgia, old, love, me,
Form:
Prose Poetry
New JerseyNew Jersey was just a pass through state
From Boston to Myrtle Beach
Just a turnpike in our rear view mirror
Before the final destination we could reach
We...
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Categories:
turnpike, places, , western,
Form:
Rhyme
Poetic Thoughts On Crossing the Delaware RiverThere were two
Acting role written as ‘cool’
One from the first state
Other an empire whose façade outside looks great
Table chances inside the beachside resorts
A drive through...
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Categories:
turnpike, america, appreciation, patriotic, poems,
Form:
Rhyme
Wright's Tavern, AfternoonGrouping here to plan retreat,
the redcoat officers smelled defeat:
the boards complained beneath their feet,
on entering Wright's Tavern.
They game was up. They...
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Categories:
turnpike, history,
Form:
Quatrain
Thaw Time Tune:A Change In the WeatherI remember the thaw
when I headed South to crawl
through Carnegie's tunnels
in a Saab that would stall
in the mist or the rain...
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Categories:
turnpike, memory, repetition, weather,
Form:
Light Verse
God Only I Could Said Is GodI went at the back at
The most deserted place in the camp
The sun was silent as I am
It slowly descended at the western sky
Red fiery...
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Categories:
turnpike, bird, color, dark, flying,
Form:
Free verse