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Eastbound Poems - Poems about Eastbound

Premium MemberINCIDENT FAKE YOLANDA NICHOLSEN DIES FATALITIES AND INJURIES IN A HYUNDAI

...INCIDENT YOLANDA NICHOLSEN WAS DRIVING A HYUNDIA ACCENT WESTBOUND ON SR 326 HER CAR CROSSED THE CENTER LINE AND SIDE SWIPED A DODGE RAM PICKUP TRUCK TRAVELING EASTBOUND THE HYUNDAI THEN STRUCK A FORD...
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Categories: eastbound, allah,
Form: Naat

Premium MemberWonder

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Listen……hear
the distant hum
of early morning traffic
on Westgate Bridge,
a chorus of birdsong
and that eastbound 
aeroplane flying high 
overhead en route 
to Wellington 
or Christchurch....
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Categories: eastbound, morning, sound,
Form: Free verse



Premium Memberthe green room

...the green room


last night i wondered about the green room
and if you slept alone while the eastbound train fled town

i knew it was too late to call
but my watch was set to pacific ti...
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Categories: eastbound, farewell,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMy Friend Arthur

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We were bused from Sacramento to Reno.
We rode a train from Reno to Salt Lake City.
We then bused from SLC to Kansas City.
Somewhere along the I-80 route,
we crossed the Great Divide.

At t...
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Categories: eastbound, family, friend,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberBuses 16, 38 or 133

...The thing I do to be nearer to him,
Commuting even in weather so grim.
The things I do to have more acceptance,
Cleaning his home for a much better chance.

The bus I go northbound in drives dow...
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Categories: eastbound, for him, longing, lost
Form: Quatrain



Premium MemberPrince's Adoptees

..."I have been a stranger in a strange land."  Bible, Exodus 2:22

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Hungry eyes seek substance, food matters naught--
sees the unpleasan...
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Categories: eastbound, abuse, bullying, corruption, fate,
Form: Ballade

Foxhound Pup - Nursery Rhyme

...I frowned when I found my new pup was gone,
so, I searched all around for my little foxhound,
listening with profound intensity until dawn.
I was gowned but changed; headed to the pound,
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Categories: eastbound, dog,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberHound Most Renowned Nursery Rhyme

...A man, quite renowned, came into our town;
He tried to expound on matters profound.
He frowned when he found as he tried to expound:
drowned by the sound of a hound in the town.

This was indeed...
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Categories: eastbound, children, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWeathering

...for Jim*

Equinox is past, yet the wind
blows cold. From a veranda swing

he watches pansies, daisies, snapdragons
color-up his garden; Smoky Mountains

so far distant he cannot see....
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Categories: eastbound, best friend, husband,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWe Heard a Whistle Blow

...The whistles screamed that cold dark night
                                         Winter, 1903  
                            At least fourteen would perish
                                  Way ...
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Categories: eastbound, memorial, scary, sound,
Form: Rhyme

Mountain Girl

...Sleeping in the corner of a boxcar bound for Boulder 
Got a life I like to leave behind a love I'd like to keep.
With the River passing slowly through the desert night below me
The thunder rips ac...
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Categories: eastbound, absence, divorce, mountains, romance,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberSo I Wrote This Poem

...We boarded a bus on the West coast and rode east to the next state.                                                                We then boarded an Eastbound train and travelled to the next state. ...
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Categories: eastbound, america, football, friendship,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberJust You and I In the Sky

...I want to go to Idaho
I bet you never knew
And Wyoming… and Hawaii…
Oh, and North Dakota too!!
I’ve been to all the other ones
For once there was a time
When I would tease the pull of Earth
An...
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Categories: eastbound, adventure, child, children, dream,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberInterdependence

...‘You are the tea leaves I am the tea pot I the tiny snowflake                                                                                and you the snow’ - Ode to Mum by Maria Williams

I dare...
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Categories: eastbound, appreciation, christian, family, self,
Form: Couplet

The Stage

...The desert sands blow soft and warm
As wispy clouds begin to swarm.
I watch the skies for signs of rain
To ready for a springtime storm.

My mind is numb, my soul in pain;
My love is on an east...
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Categories: eastbound, angst, betrayal, break up,
Form: Rhyme

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