Get Your Premium Membership

Crosswalk Poems - Poems about Crosswalk


THE POOR OLD LADY ON THE CROSSWALK
Busy as a street could ever be Everyone's eyes veiled but me In this busy anthill A poor old lady gave a shrill Struggling on a zebra, a daily drill. As every ant, loaded, hurriedly passed by To the poor lady I gave a wide smile. Met by a worn-out...

Continue reading...
Categories: crosswalk, 12th grade, community,
Form: Free verse
Stalling At the Crosswalk
` stuck between smoke stack volumes in alphabetical order woven metal bodies straight lines leaving little to the imagination some big, some small from exhausted paint rollers leaving their mark just outside of the jewelry store crushed cigarette butts on the ground falling between the cracks of walkways reflecting diamond brooches you can’t afford designer dreams offered at half the price where the sign in the windows reads “anything...

Continue reading...
Categories: crosswalk, lost,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Crosswalk
How can a stranger standing at the corner, leave me breathless, in a trance... I ask you?… What are the chances, in such a moment, one brief encounter could change a life? You were the sunlight, after the rain fell leaving me defenseless. Makes no sense at all. .. So, how to explain it? A spell,...

Continue reading...
Categories: crosswalk, feelings, longing, love, romantic
Form: Lyric
It's a Standstill At the Crosswalk
It tears my heart to see where you're heading I can feel you lying to my face You're not the same girl I once knew I don't know how much longer I can stand to be around I put myself in so much agony as we sit there in lies It's there in black and white yet you turn the...

Continue reading...
Categories: crosswalk, children
Form: Free verse
Crosswalk Encounter
I saw the old Death Angel Walking ‘cross the street, Disguised as a pedestrian, Visage coy and sweet. I rolled up my window, ‘Didn’t pause to wait— I drove right past the lady— “Can’t we have a date…?” “No time to talk…I’m late…”...

Continue reading...
Categories: crosswalk, fantasy
Form: Verse



Crosswalk Encounter
I saw the old Death Angel Walking ‘cross the street, Disguised as a pedestrian, Visage coy and sweet. I rolled up my window, ‘Didn’t pause to wait— I drove right past the lady— “Can’t we have a date…?” “No time to talk…I’m late…”...

Continue reading...
Categories: crosswalk, death
Form: Verse
Guts and Crosswalk
Vantage: the curb and tide beside the curb ...

Continue reading...
Categories: crosswalk, sad
Form: Free verse
Crosswalk Two-Step
Walking down the boulevard early one day Crossing with the light going the right way He stepped into the street On his nimble feet She checked to the left checked to the right No traffic around not a car in sight He did the "cross walk two step run for your life" Everyone it seems wants to make a widow of his...

Continue reading...
Categories: crosswalk, adventure, health, life, places,
Form: Classicism

Book: Reflection on the Important Things