Blacktop Poems

Highway in the Rain

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First light’s cracking, night still grips,
to the blacktop rider's gleaming wings.
Wipers thumping the old two-by-two beat,
Tyres hissing down rain-slick street.
I’m breathing deep, holding on ...

The Soft Goodbye of a Mountain Bear

...He woke to the hush of a mountain thaw,  
Where snow gave way to pine and claw,  
The breath of spring in the alpine air,  
Stirred the long slumber of the highland bear.  

His coat still thick...

Home

...Early summer evening in the city
has its hypnotic hold on me
The way humidity mixes with warm blacktop and it's lines of lush trees
 I got a miles wide view of painted storm clouds rolling around ...

Midnight Chrome

...In the hush of dusk when streetlights flicker alive,
obsidian sheet metal catching dying light,
A black Chevy Impala – Detroit steel poetry in motion.
They don’t make ‘em like this anymore,
All a...

Leverse

...A Special Dark Run
A Pile of Fetty For Fun
Crystal Natures and a Ton of Bad Jokes
I said it all but thats not all I had to Say poke.
I had To Stay broke Huh.
To see how rich the fix is
I had a ...

Learning to swim

...Sitting on the hot asphalt blacktop in miles of traffic, feeling lost and alone.
People around me doing the same, everyone seems so sullen and confused.
Cell phone junkies don't know if its day or ...

Rent and Revived

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damaged vase ~ mosaic stepping stone
shattered glass ~ polished penant pieces 
tattered jeans ~ recycled patchwork art
cracked blacktop ~ dandelion thriving
broken heart ~ amended forgiver 

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Crossroads

...These roads have always been here. Wood to brick, brick to stone, changes with the coming times. Modernity but where did it come from? All of a sudden, walking along different paths that lead to the ...

An Uncool Poem about Melting Beers

...Red cones on the blacktop
August is a burning blanket.
Dusty crows perch on long dead armadillos.

The Chevys' air-con
chokes up a warm blow.
A Navaho in Ohio has phoned.
he needs to talk abou...

On Route

...When Whitetails are roadkill
someone must hurry
(I presume they hurry),
to pull the carcass off the blacktop.

A dead deer makes quite the road bump.
It's a sobering thought
as I head along th...

Temporary Insanity

...Afternoon musing, not quite content,
Wondering where the time all went -
The time not really given, only lent.

The first day of fourth grade,
In the next desk a new girl stayed,
With honey col...

London

...They see it as aesthetically pleasing 
The interconnection of a cultural clash
Making diverse diasporas meet
Distinctive city made out of filthy cash
They see the blacktop streets absorb the spri...

Resurfacing

...Raised Iron works
thrust out of the blacktop.
Women-hole covers
appear; the tip of the spear
above new drilled silos.

Rubber slugs concrete.
Debora steers her way
through a slalom of
gender...

Where the Ice Runs Hot

...Slow flames under the blacktop,
simmer-ghost rise
from the sloughing road.

Rubber scorches its skin
shedding blackened snakes.

It's a hot day,
creeping turtles fill pot-holes
with their ho...

The Doghouse

...when I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when I met you I was dying. I hadn’t eaten in three months and my body was a vandal...

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