The River Will Flow On
...A slow news day.
Some famous people died
of natural causes,
others survived
to about stuff no one cared about.
I turned off the car radio
and parked in a small layby
at the side of the rive...
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Categories:
layby, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Zoo
...One morning I asked my children what they'd like to do
They all shouted at once, "Dad take us to the zoo"
We had an early lunch then headed for the freeway
The sun was high in the sky, t'was...
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Categories:
layby, animal, children, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Fly By
...Past the layby fly
Cars with petrol in their tanks
Going home for tea
We're not going anywhere
Pancake flattened battery
by Gail...
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Categories:
layby, car, food, humorous, irony,
Form: Tanka
The Will
...The Will
The trees down the hillside have taken a more sober hue
yellow, pale green and brown, despite the weather tries
to pretend it is still summer and tourists wear sunglasses
when in ...
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Categories:
layby, autumn, health,
Form: Sonnet
Road Full of Potholes
...The road that I drive
Is riddled with potholes
I can never conceive
That life isnt just a role
A role in making good
Wherever we are
By helping raise food
In a drought area
To help the homeless
Fi...
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Categories:
layby, hope, life,
Form: Light Verse
On First Looking Into Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
...To Eamon
I followed you down that long straight road
Stretched through plain under sky
You with your boy and your bicycle
Me, with Despair in my stare and my sigh.
And we came to the Dante-es...
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Categories:
layby, philosophytime,
Form: Ballad
Sequence-The Circle Turns
...Helped
to dress,
eating less,
shadow of our
prime-
our
wisdom
left unsaid-
off early to
bed,
pushed
into
life's layby-
some no longer
try
and
slowly
fade,and die-
no-one wonders
wh...
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Categories:
layby, sad, social
Form: Lanterne