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Byways Poems - Poems about Byways


Byways in Wisconsin
I The friend in the deli of the Piggly Wiggly in Lodi show me her nails strikes up conversations when I come back to town for a second week of work. I tell her about the work on utility lines on county roads where I control traffic and the beauty of the countryside. She tells me about her daughter two years old who brings joy and says she’s...

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Categories: byways, friendship love, travel,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member The Florida of My Youth - Highways and Byways
The Florida of My Youth – Highways and Byways By Franklin Price 10/17/2019 The highways and the byways of Brevard when I was young Were void of any four lanes, no interstates among Highway 50, was the only road that went out to the west Orlando just a little town, where Christmas shopping was the best In Cocoa was the river road,...

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Categories: byways, age, childhood, high school,
Form: Couplet



Byways
Byways We traveled byways of laughter, fain and giddy at the start, but harder roads came after that wore sorely on her heart. There are paved paths of glory that lead to elation's glen; the taking of love's quarry, ledgered by the poet's pen. There are roads one misses and roads fate will deny; saying farewell with kisses, taking love, then one's bye. We shunned byways of sadness, now...

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Categories: byways, emotions, hurt, relationship, sad,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Highways and the Byways
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 places we have known The Interstates most boring They bypass most the towns The back roads way of living And the country sights and sounds We travel now from tank to tank As fast...

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Categories: byways, adventure, happiness, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Rambling the Byways of Landour
I’ve come a long way With the help of a sheen ray I see no vehicle to take me there Seems I’ll have to walk 20 miles more Sauntering through the soggy jungle My shoes get wet & my bag rather heavy that I crumble I lay down seeing the floating clouds hanging low Haze enfolding the valley with its shadow The huge...

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Categories: byways, cool, life, longing, lost,
Form: Free verse



Highways and Byways
Highways And Byways (Rhyming Sands) I traveled many highways wandered many byways with many long miles different styles lovely scenes and greens blue skies many miles traveled in style all joyful worthwhile long distance day or night through beautiful country sight. Erich J.Goller Copyright 11.5.2011 Rhyming Sands" by Ann Marie Mazz First stanza- 6 lines 7/6/5/4/3/2 syllables Second stanza- 6 lines 2/3/4/5/6/7 syllables Rhyming aa/bb/cc/--dd/ee/ff/ any subject ...

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Categories: byways, life,
Form: Rhyme

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