Guardrails Poems - Poems about Guardrails

We are the Heroes

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First they said that our laws were sufficient 
and the guardrails enough of a force
that the Courts and their Orders would stop him
keep the country and people on course

But the Justice Depar...

Outrage

...There’s no decorum or respect
Within the White House walls
And cameras let us witness
Some behavior that appalls.

Invite a foreign dignitary
Then berate, insult, accuse –
That’s the playbook ...

Balance

...Just as the word applies to a wide variety,
    It extends to a great many portions of our life.
With meanings that derive from its context,
    Along with numerous chances to fall off, just ask a...

Fated

...And so it goes. Seated, contemplative. A sudden cacophony abiding. Many floods ebb then flow; good/bad. Memories distilled, truth distorts. Folly found fair ‘gainst fear flames fanned. Shame igno...

Poughkeepsie To Highland

...over the Hudson River, its heights
my nemesis. I longed to drive
and stay alive. Highland
on the other side. Mid-Hudson
thrill ride for a permitted driver.
my heart would pound
just looking at ...

Guardrails On Scary Roads

...GUARDRAILS ON SCARY ROADS

We all can drive some scary roads that I have often seen,
They’re full of hills and sharpest curves, not smooth and so serene.
One thing I’ve noticed on some roads that...

In Seine

...The Seine river banks,
with their lack of guardrails, freaked
me out in fourth grade:

"Avez-vous entendu?!!"
My best friend rushed to ask it.
"Did you hear?! (the news)"

A woman drowned!!
...

Life

...A patch of dried grass at the side of the road
Rusty guardrails crumbling erosion
A patch of berries a diet for deer
Thankful dinner for their born for a year
Leaves now yellow some orange, many ...

Centralia

...the sun exposed
above mountain's edge
through the folds
of dawn's rise
carmine sky erupts
mimicking fire
that burns beneath

in the crisp morning 
the earth gasps in breaths
of pallid air
...

When the Wind Comes Down Long Lake In October

...WHEN The WIND COMES DOWN LONG LAKE in OCTOBER 
 
(1 AM in the morning  -  Naples, Maine)

When unseasonable lake water balm 
meets you tripping out of Ricks’ Café 
after midnight
you know thos...

The Most Dangerous Roads

...THE MOST DANGEROUS ROADS

i've got the head of a rattle snake
on the front end of my hood
i've got a chilled clorox drink
in my steel-knuckled hand
and we're rolling down I-10 
across the stre...

The Ones That Get Away

...I write some poems, they're not too deep 
but my best ideas come when driving or asleep 

Driving. 
I often have an out of body chuckle 
watching the eureka moment of my mind-blowing idea
one h...

I Try To Establish Understanding

...I try to establish strong mental footholds
In resemblance to fort knox physical strongholds
Through repentance I lost the spiritual blindfold
So every sentence I mock material billfolds

I seek ...

Untitled Love Scribbles From Daze

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Dry eyes open at counter gambling a quarter at a time, looking up to see beauty out of corner smiling. She says hi, iced up stunned could fathom flight. Sigh slightly, love little known ‘bou...

With You By My Side

...Rancho la Joya stretches out for miles
the horses are gone--but not the corrals
with a black dog named Boo, who watches it all
from late in the evening to every breaking dawn

one silver horse i...

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