Expressway Poems

Premium MemberRoad to heaven

...Drop a plumb line from crown to root
This corresponds to the central vein
Staff of power, the rod of initiation
For pure childlike hearts free from stain 

Divine magnetism prefers this route
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Categories: expressway, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

THE HEART IS A NARROW PATHWAY

...The heart is a narrow pathway  
Where emotions tread  
Love, dread, pain, sorrow, and hatred 
Journey towards heaven's gateway.  

Like a two-way traffic lane
Vessels surf with joy and pain
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Categories: expressway, feelings, heart,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberAutobiographical Poet

...As I sit wandering about the south 
side of Chicago captured effortlessly 
by the tall dandelions watching the 
lightening bugs rest on sunken cattails 
we often lit them just before the sun 
se...
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Categories: expressway, allah,
Form: Triolet

A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway

...A harrowing drive on the Schuylkill Expressway
(route 76) both heading into
(and a small number of hours later
exiting) center city Philadelphia
to Schwenksville on May 19th, 2024.

Yours truly...
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Categories: expressway, adventure, america, angel, anger,
Form: Free verse

Love Is Not Always Love, Part II

......In fact, these truths are nothing new,
the Jews and the Christians knew well
that love disordered is nothing
more than an expressway to Hell.
That evil will misuse your live,
something that w...
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Categories: expressway, emotions, evil, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberLabyrinthine

...“The pathless path beckons us ~
To get aboard God’s bliss bus”
            ~ quote by poet


Energy highways in form
carry currents cool and warm,
through a network amazing,
more com...
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Categories: expressway, mystery, spiritual,
Form: Jueju

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf

...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Minor emendations to following
just posted verse
oversight to correct dissatisfaction,
yours truly I do curse
ah... methinks if hands of ti...
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Categories: expressway, absence, adventure, age, birth,
Form: Rhyme

Ink Roached Infestation Didst Derive Within Mice Elf

...Ink roached infestation didst derive within mice elf

Thus writer of these words
forever mus lee experiencing 
craving to eat cheese,
a milk product 
eternally preserved within 
annals, chroni...
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Categories: expressway, adventure, america, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTouch Therapy - 1

...As sanskrit simmers
upon the splintered mind
of savaged souls
the evolution of emotion
eloquently enters the environ
of your vulnerable virtue,
entreating the crying heat of your heart
to hast...
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Categories: expressway, love, mental health,
Form: Epic

Non Labor Relations Day September 1st 2023 Poem

...Non labor (relations) day September 1st, 2023 poem

Aye dream of Genie (as a lad din)
Schwenksville, Pennsylvania -
keystone state abbreviated as Pea Yay,
this stupid non huge poem
deployed cou...
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Categories: expressway, 12th grade, adventure, angst,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLa Ferme

...It was a cool, overcast and windy Sunday afternoon in March 2014. We were about 50 miles from Paris, at my Grandmère’s (grandmother’s) farm. She lives in Paris, but she owns a Château and surrounding...
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Categories: expressway, 4th grade, easter, family,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberDown the Roads of Pride-

...Down the roads of pride
The street of greed
The path of wrath
The avenue of Envy
Transport  causeway on the thruway
 I'll pass the corridor of by pass on the superhigh
In the alleyw...
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Categories: expressway, allusion, analogy,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberFlighting

...midnight rendezvous
lonely rider's expressway
we crash together....
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Categories: expressway, age, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberCorners

...Last night, Lisa, Peter, Leeza and I were in her father’s 50th floor study watching New York City. It’s a corner room with glass walls from floor to ceiling. He likes to watch the city himself and ha...
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Categories: expressway, holiday, humor, new york,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLost Car

...beginning the day down the highway 
blue sky, as evergreen pillars sway
both side, light filters though our way
beautiful drive through winding expressway

both my girlfriend and I play,
beamin...
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Categories: expressway, car, lost,
Form: Free verse

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