Best Two Lane Poems

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Winter breathes in sepia tones along a lonely two lane street
divided amongst the sweeping frozen dunes
now forced into shouldered amnesty

Street lights shiver in snowcapped bonnets
while...

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The Highways and the Byways
By Franklin Price
10/27/2107
(Inspired by Nancy McIntyre Stepp)

 The highways and the byways
Of this life in which we've grown
Bring back many memories
Of...

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I can remember it like it was yesterday.....

Listening to a hard rock "all-night" radio station,
boppin' back from college to my hometown in the middle
of the...

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FRIENDSHIPS

Friends are the family
You choose for yourself
They're not built on money
Or to improve your health

They add so much to us
It's hard to relay
But disown a...

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The two-lane road stretches
through a shimmering glaze
to the horizon, passing
smokestacks of mesas spewing
clay and maize in vaporous mass.

I hear the sibylline whisper of rain 
through...

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walk me through old memories
days when true love came to be
take me down an old backroad
on a two lane highway fantasy

and paint the picture of...

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Engraved in chromes steel, is benedictions creed
The road warrior's born to be free mentality,
A legacy's name embossed in history, behold
The American Harley Davidson Motorcycle. 
Fires...

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I have the need to feel free
like I've got nothing to lose,
I just want to get into my
blue convertible and cruise.

I'm growing tired and bored
of...

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Hurricane


By Edmund Siejka


There were warnings of a hurricane
People had been through this before
They knew what to do 
Why some of the houses on the water...

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I passed a squirrel
on a two-lane back road
that a car had run over
Some rule was broken...

Its front legs scratched and scraped 
at the pavement but...

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The Hi-ways and the By-ways
By Franklin Price
6/5/2016

The hi-ways and the bi-ways long before the Super-way,
Driving 'round the country different, here are memories of the day

The...

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this one goes out to all you symbolphrenics
wink wink light the fuse and
bow only before your own image
for we are each a TV studio
with really...

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A Southern Road in life

I was driving south along a two lane road between South Carolina and Georgia. 
On the left-hand side of the road...

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Foggy Nights, A Letter To A Friend
By Curtis Johnson

I have driven on  snowy and icy roads in Wisconsin and Illinois.  In the summer’s...

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The younger crowd will not believe this bit of lore I fear,
But operating vehicles was more complicated in yesteryear!
For example, to signal turns you hung...

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