The Wrong Train
...London fog, harshly early with strained warning,
Looms all over the image of the hectic city
There’s the smell of mists and the taste of
Frozen rain gathered before dawn.
Pulses brake and start,
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Categories:
headlamps, city, journey, london,
Form: Free verse
In This Golden Cage
...In Secret Caverns, we harken to the darkness.
Our headlamps’ shut off, we are anywhere,
we are everywhere, it doesn’t matter where.
No matches, no breeze, no breath to strike
up the light, no...
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Categories:
headlamps, introspection, silence,
Form: Verse
Driving
...I love this road.
Every little mound, and every crevasse,
Flower filled, to the brim.
The moths and mosquitos caught in my headlamps.
Trees of aspen and oak keeping me on track.
And here, the ni...
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Categories:
headlamps, car, emo, love hurts,
Form: Blank verse
Prayer Lifted for my Husband
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Last night I had a worried thought
Come coursing to my mind
Of my husband having car trouble
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Categories:
headlamps, power, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Thru-Hiker
...I wanted to find myself, so I got lost in the woods,
Turns out life’s easier without all the shoulds.
The rhythm of steps was a meditation
Twelve hours a day in God’s lovely creation.
Even ...
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Categories:
headlamps, america, journey, nature,
Form: Lyric
Capsizing the Costa Concordia
...Capsizing the Costa Concordia
Divers wreathe silently through
the submerged corridors of a
140,000-ton wreck. Little fish
dark haphazardly through
the juxtaposition of tilted ballroom,
grani...
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Categories:
headlamps, sea,
Form: Alliteration
Colin the Caped Cabbie
...Colin is a cabby with a proper taxi cab
He drives for all the passengers an Uber didn’t grab
Which means he has a lot of time to kill most every day
And lots of evil folk to deal with if they come...
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Categories:
headlamps, hero, humorous,
Form: Narrative
My Dream Date
...My dream date
A crisp gray night with its musing moon
against a tapestry of woven stars.
The seasonal bloom's fragrance the air.
Dressed up, feeling sexy, I welcome him at my door.
He, with ...
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Categories:
headlamps, dream,
Form: Free verse
Free Verse I
...Lozenge
by Michael R. Burch
When I was closest to love, it did not seem
real at all, but a thing of such tenuous sweetness
it might dissolve in my mouth
like a lozenge of sugar.
When I held...
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Categories:
headlamps, forgiveness, heart, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
Flash Light
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Flashes like rainbow sunlight lit
Shone her belligerent facade
The sheriff headlamps rays
Subsided into quest
Then at last her secret broke out
Like mucus from a stayed baked bread
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Categories:
headlamps, abuse, bereavement, betrayal, murder,
Form: Verse
East Devon Beacon
...East Devon Beacon
by Michael R. Burch
Evening darkens upon the moors,
Forgiveness?a hairless thing
skirting the headlamps, fugitive.
Why have we come,
traversing the long miles
and extre...
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Categories:
headlamps, allegory, analogy, break up,
Form: Free verse
Baby Driver
...They fell into sound slumber
but a baby was awake, monitoring
to driver’s seat the baby dashed
engine blasted and off it went
zigzagging the highway
bumping into other vehicles
the baby driver ...
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Categories:
headlamps, leadership, power, satire,
Form: Free verse
So Long Ago
...With headlamps dark, my car was parked
Where moonbeams bathed a summer night
When fragile fingers found my grasp
And floral fragrance of perfume
Imbued in me a rich desire
To cant my face and ta...
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Categories:
headlamps, first love, growing up,
Form: Blank verse
Sheep, Aliens and Curry
...While Shepherds watched their flocks by night all seated on the ground
The ewes collected up their lambs and gathered them around
"Listen now," the old Ewe said, "you young lambs listen well,
If y...
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Categories:
headlamps, angel, animal, fantasy, horror,
Form: Rhyme
My Mates Car
...My Mate’s Car
It’s a limousine Cadillac with all the luxuries you would want. Check it out as he drives past. He has electric windows for hot July days. A digital stereo to blare his metal music ou...
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Categories:
headlamps, car, desire, funny, happy,
Form: Free verse
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