My Dear, in Headlights
No one dead is reaching out to you
That's my voice that you hear when you're remembering all the opportunities you let go
This is the lonely road
and not only are you driving it but I watched you pave the way with a thousand different layers
Quick, fashion a zipper mechanism of your lips
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Categories:
headlights, betrayal, emotions, freedom, jealousy,
Form: Free verse
Into the Headlights
To live non-affirming
to live not at all
To hide in the shadows
and creep down the hall
To live uncommitted
new doubts to contend
All time intermittent
repressed till the end
To live without friendship
alone on the rock
A wandering echo
reflections that mock
To live undecided
with doubt your best friend
a future derided
—the present pretend
(Dreamsleep: November, 2022)
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Categories:
headlights, life,
Form: Rhyme
Headlights Dear
Too far from the mojo
—too close to the fire
(Dreamsleep: July, 2021)
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Categories:
headlights, fire,
Form: Free verse
Teens Caught In Headlights
dusk’s love-locked braces —
dad resounds shooting antler
off bucks to detach
1/13/2021
Senryu - Humorous, Satirical or Dark Poetry
Sponsor: Tania Kitchin
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Categories:
headlights, animal, dark, father daughter,
Form: Senryu
Deer In the Headlights Experience
You heard me complain about this and that
Today I glorify in being at the Food Chain's top
Neither sacred bulls, cows, or holy hen are safe
From my predation; they are prey, my target
Until one summer, brother Mosquito terrorized me
Maybe it is Sister Mosquite? Female mosquitos bite -
Not the males, who may not need my blood for
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Categories:
headlights, allegory, creation, endurance, funny,
Form: Burlesque
Headlights
Let's dance in the moonlight
Your eyes shine bright like starlight
Hopefully, you'll stay by my side for a little while
You're like a diamond in the cave in sexy style
Headlights
They sparkle bright
In the dead of night...
Oh! Oh!
In the dead of night...
Oh! Oh!
Streetlights
They shine bright
Like starlight...
Ooh...ooh...
Like moonlight...
Ooh...ooh...
Headlights
They sparkle bright
In the dead of night...
Oh! Oh!
In the dead
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Categories:
headlights, deep, emotions,
Form: Lyric
The Deer Shake Off the Headlights
The deer shake off the headlights
We sat in the car outside the
liquor store peering like deer, our eyes
following Pinky as she went in to
the store for a twelve pack of beer.
Our breathing stops. She's carded. Shucks.
Fake card works. Yes! Pinky time. She
sashays back, with beer and condoms, smiling.
connie pachecho
4/12/17
Note-Kwansaba 7 sentences/lines
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Categories:
headlights, adventure, growing up, youth,
Form: Kwansaba
Headlights
You may have found some love, you may have found some peace?
Do you remember when that didn't matter?
Do you remember what you did to me?
You may find joy and happiness in your baby daughters beautiful blue eyes?
Do you remember the speed and broken bones?
Do you recall your words of lies?
You may have forgiven yourself for
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Categories:
headlights, death, drink, loss, me,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Deer Caught In Headlights
Sadness of my soul
Joy emerges from my heart
My mind uncertain
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Categories:
headlights, anxiety, emotions, joy, sad,
Form: Haiku
Headlights Are Better Than Sunbeams
Buzz buzz purr purr
You think it’s all for you
Rub my ears and scratch my fur
It’s better than a zoo
You think it’s all for you
When I bring in a mouse
It’s better than a zoo
This living in your house
When I bring in mouse
You made me rip your shirt
I’m living in your house
I really was quite hurt
You made
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Categories:
headlights, cat, funny, funny love,
Form: Pantoum
Headlights
Headlights
I’m heading home now to see my Wife;
I’m gonna kiss her and hold her tight.
Because I think she is so wonderful;
My love I love you.
You are so beautiful.
Driving home on a winters night;
All I’m seeing are those damn headlights.
Those blinding lights, those bright, bright lights;
Those killer lights, have taken my life.
(C)2013 Aa Harvey. All Rights
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Categories:
headlights, car, light, love, wife,
Form: I do not know?
Headlights On Dark Roads
HEADLIGHTS ON DARK ROADS
Timid tentative tap on her door at midnight
as she lay expectantly in suspense and the hope
that he would defy all obstacles to prove his love
for her
Like Romeo and Juliet forbidden to date as parents
failed to understand her attraction to him- this soul
connection to his vulnerable rebellion and his love
for her
As house slept
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Categories:
headlights, for him, love, nostalgia,
Form: Narrative
The Boy With Eyes Like Headlights
I went to the Secretary of State's office
to receive my license today.
On the way, I swear
I saw my uncle fresh out of rehab.
I swear
I thought I saw Miguel Pinero's ghost
on the sidewalk
in his classic rags, three-day beard
and fedora ensemble.
My mother and I arrived,
walked in with the right papers.
'I want a burger' is all on
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Categories:
headlights, woman, drug, boy,
Form: Free verse
She's Like Headlights
Red
My face burnt under that stare
Shame
How could she possibly guess?
No one else
No one else would ever guess
No one else could ever tell me what not to do
No one could ever affect me like that
Burning
I have sunshine always at my back
It blurs my form and no one can see the truth
But her eyes are shaded
The glaring,
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Categories:
headlights, angst, confusion, friendship, loss,
Form: Free verse