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We drive on the left
park in the driveway
and walk on the pavement
over here in the good old U.K.
They drive on the right
and on the parkway
also the pavement
over there in the U.S. of A.
It could be confusing to motorist
and pedestrian alike,
so where should we go
when riding a bike?

Categories: driveway, america, car, england, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Driveway Rainbows

Soft rain had blurred the lines
Softened the edges
Frizzed the sharpness
Of artistic angst

Smiles drooped,
fingers grew thinner,
somehow reaching out.

The eyes caught the raindrops
Blinked them into dappled blues
Noses spread in humor's humidity
Glasses sliding from their tips

They would all leave
Float away on a
Chalky rainbow river

Leaving us to wonder
Where do they go?


John G. Lawless
©7/17/2023

Categories: driveway, art, children, imagination, summer,
Form: Free verse

Now I Have a Driveway and I'Ve Discovered I Can Unlock the Car From Any Room In the House

it's brilliant
i'm writing this in the living room
and i can use the car key
to unlock the car from 'ere

i tried in the kitchen
i tried it on the stairs
i can hear it unlock as it beeps
and when it happens

i can hear liturgical chorals
native drumming
a giant plume
of emotional perception

i tried it in the upstairs wardrobe
i heard the

Categories: driveway, anxiety, baseball,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Icy Driveway

After a snow storm
The snow covers ground
Outside it is cold
Then it starts to warm
The rain pours downwards
It begins to freeze
Sidewalks and driveways
Are very icy
It is hard to walk
Salt is not put down
Walking the small steps
Trying not to fall
The driveways are
dangerous 
This does not seem right
Salt should be put down
For the safety to walk

Categories: driveway, rain, snow, water,
Form: Sonnet

Driveway Memories

DRIVEWAY  MEMORIES




The steep  driveway with my three kids
Outshines all the places I’ve been. People I’ve known.
Successes I’ve had: they are nothing. All the achieving:
Absolutely nothing. Compared with the memory of those three - now grown -
Running down the driveway when I come home in the evening. 
My main purpose and achievement in life
Three

Categories: driveway, childhood, children, father,
Form: Lyric

Don'T Block the Driveway

Don't block the driveway, 
Keep it always wide open; 
Let the cars pass through, 
Reaching the road again.

Driving home from far away, 
To be with the loving wife; 
Completely clear the path
From all the trashes of life.

On leading the household
Toward the one blissful abode; 
Take away dirt and grime, 
As well as unnecessary load.

Any obstruction

Categories: driveway, life,
Form: Verse

Driveway Sex

it was real
like a evening meal
as the car wouldn't start
our passion grew hard
we began to play
i will say
it made up both wet
we had 
DRIVEWAY SEX

Categories: driveway, addiction, adventure,
Form: Light Verse

The Ghost In In My Driveway

I think it’s time for you to leave
I don’t want what’s up your sleeve
Stop jamming your foot in my door
Stop leaving footprints on my floor
Take your needles from my cheek
The feeling’s gone, I got cold feet
I don’t want your numbing kiss
I don’t want your Christmas gift,
You whisper to me while I sleep, 
Into my bones

Categories: driveway, winter,
Form: Rhyme

Running Down the Driveway

RUNNING DOWN THE DRIVEWAY

Three running down the driveway in delight
Or two racing around in one baby walker  near the fence
Or one practising the piano  at night :
They  were the end reason for my privileged existence.

In the garden  planting and sheltering flowers  from the hot sun,
And the struggle with the tree

Categories: driveway, family,
Form: Quatrain

Remains of a Driveway

Through you I seek to know:
What happened once below?

You ferns of resistance, I see you
Mixing it upward with 
A firm stance. 
(Such steely green weeds
Do smirk indeed
Above the empty path of horizon’s eye,
Blackened to nowhere).

What, though, do I see in you?

(A path lies vacant and wanting,
A land once named upon a dream;
A barren place now

Categories: driveway, dedication, education, forgiveness, health,
Form: Free verse

The Carriage, Letter, and Driveway

Oh the damage a simple carriage can do
As can a letter
Or a driveway
For all those may take them further from another
Only miles by land
Oceans by heart
Continents by pure stubbornness
It is not the land that stops them
But the contents of a ghastly letter so carefully left behind
The letter which proclaims mutual lack of affection truly present
Both

Categories: driveway, lost love, sad,
Form: Free verse