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Blacktop Poems - Poems about Blacktop

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......

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Categories: blacktop, america, animal, cry,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
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 ......

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Categories: blacktop, city, home,
Form: Free verse



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......

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Categories: blacktop, appreciation, car, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Ode
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 ......

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Categories: blacktop, analogy, friendship love, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: blacktop, beauty, bird, ocean,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Rent and Revived
... 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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Categories: blacktop, bereavement, blessing, encouraging, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
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 ......

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Categories: blacktop, conflict, lost, memory, october,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: blacktop, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: blacktop, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: blacktop, crush, love, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: blacktop, anxiety, beauty, childhood, city,
Form: Rhyme
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......

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Categories: blacktop, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: blacktop, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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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Categories: blacktop, for her, love hurts,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Moonlight and Pyrotechnics Maigc 9
...Hanging like a natural backdrop twilight with a twist of lime; Colored like a red, white, and blue pop the sky sparkles uncontrollably; A brief moment ends with a hard stop moonlight mixed with ......

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Categories: blacktop, feelings, firework, moon,
Form: Other

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