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Layby Poems - Poems about Layby


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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things