Long Blacktop Poems
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The Wound That Never Heals
Science can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
I was teaching Shakespeare’s 92nd ridiculous sonnet
to my...
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Categories:
blacktop, christian, husband, mother, music, night, prayer, snow,
Form:
Verse
The Doghouse
when I met you, I was dying. for the very first time in my life, but certainly not the last- you made sure of that
when I met you I was dying. I hadn’t eaten in...
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Categories:
blacktop, for her, love hurts, miss you, symbolism,
Form:
Free verse
Temporary Insanity
Afternoon musing, not quite content,
Wondering where the time all went -
The time not really given, only lent.
The first day of fourth grade,
In the next desk a new girl stayed,
With honey colored hair all in a...
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Categories:
blacktop, crush, love, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Beauty In Disguise
My parents had both passed and I felt orphaned, alone --
Although I was married and lived hours away with a family of my own.
And today was a day I had dreaded for months
Silently traveling the...
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Categories:
blacktop, age, beauty, childhood, death, home, love, memory,
Form:
Free verse
The Adventure
"Walk" - a simple word uttered.
The dogs jump at the door,
that old, creaky, wooden door,
at the mere mention of the word.
Open mouthed with tongues hanging out of the side,
panting and whining with glee,
they wait impatiently,...
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Categories:
blacktop, adventure, best friend, dog, memory, nature, nostalgia,
Form:
Free verse
Hopeless Nomadic Part 1
Cracked beer bottles and detached baby rattles in slightly untidy, black plastic wrappers.
No garbage can nor box or bag is exempt from the burrower’s thorough ransack.
Rancid rubbish, rich with unwanted tidbits,
And the bounty -...
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Categories:
blacktop, autumn, community, corruption, imagery, life, lonely, people,
Form:
Rhyme
Learning to swim
Sitting on the hot asphalt blacktop in miles of traffic, feeling lost and alone.
People around me doing the same, everyone seems so sullen and confused.
Cell phone junkies don't know if its day or night in...
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Categories:
blacktop, beauty, bird, ocean,
Form:
Free verse
Contemplation of a White Line---Drunken Pen
Look, there's a white line, dead center of this empty road
Wow, that sun is hot out here...
and here I am sitting on the edge of this blacktop world
waiting for a tow .......crying out loud......why, Lord,...
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Categories:
blacktop, introspection, me,
Form:
Narrative
Canvey Island Summers 1951-1957
Each time my Auntie Rosa went to shop in the High Street,
She’d bring us back a pink-iced bun; it was our special treat.
We’d take them up to Grandad’s (we preferred to eat them there)
We’d scoff...
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Categories:
blacktop, childhood, nostalgiahouse, old, garden, house, old,
Form:
Narrative
Cosmic Shoeshine
this one goes out to all you symbolphrenics
wink wink light the fuse and
bow only before your own image
for we are each a TV studio
with really huge detector molecules
recall that consciousness is tunable
you need only space...
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Categories:
blacktop, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
A Winter Walk
I needed some time, some space to think
And it was either take a walk or drink
And since I knew drinking would solve nothing
I put on my shoes and I started walking
The wind blew the chilly...
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Categories:
blacktop, angst, confusion, health, introspection, sad, me, funny,
Form:
Free verse
Like a New Day
Like a New Day
Every day is, the same...
and not.
I long to go to work.
I have lost my mind?
What a crazy statement.
I used to hate my job.
I used to long to be home....
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Categories:
blacktop, abortion, absence, abuse, addiction, allah, america, angel,
Form:
Narrative
Red Rose
Red rose
A blacktop cracked, one planted a seed and something sprouted. This seed-like a muscle it kept getting stronger, and the rain poured down on it, and in the morning the suns light showed its...
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Categories:
blacktop, beautiful, blessing, courage, encouraging, seasons,
Form:
Lyric
Our Ship of Life
The unpredictable yaw of rolling seas,
as in life pummels us from side to side
randomly dictating its capricious ways
lacking logic the tossing grips us and seeks to take our lives
Death,...
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Categories:
blacktop, life, perspective,
Form:
Didactic
Fury For the Masses IV
Weapons of mass destruction
a time for mass production
this is the way the world will end
in silence, this is the way the world
is ending in violence
chaos, religion, and super media
stars in...
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Categories:
blacktop, allegory, allusion, anger, art, beautiful, bereavement, conflict,
Form:
Rhyme
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-esque crossroads
And watched...
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Categories:
blacktop, philosophytime,
Form:
Ballad
Highway in the Rain
First light’s cracking, night still grips,
to the blacktop rider's gleaming wings.
Wipers thumping the old two-by-two beat,
Tyres hissing down rain-slick street.
I’m breathing deep, holding on tight,
Shocks are pumping; the ride's just right—
Every curve’s whipping like a...
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Categories:
blacktop, car,
Form:
Lyric
Tale From the City
The cob webbed city sticks to my dirty skin,
as I pass through its predator strings.
On the corners are hustlers, men with wigs and worn heels,
selling their wares, fighting with women,
over property rights.
Traffic moves slow, crawling...
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Categories:
blacktop, paradise, drug,
Form:
Free verse
Colloquialism Fun
Up here in Canada we have our own words
Everywhere does, some think ours are absurd
Between toques, hosers and rhyming currency
Like loonies and toonies, we do speak uniquely
But narrow it down to one province specific
Our Saskatchewan...
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Categories:
blacktop, humor, nostalgia,
Form:
Couplet
California Cold
California Cold
Rented cars…
every month the cost?
Bread and milk.
Why?
To go get my kids.
I had to.
My own car was bad,
unreliable, and dangerous.
Custody, and Judges decided,
the penalty I was to pay...
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Categories:
blacktop, anti bullying, conflict, divorce, forgiveness, funeral, grief,
Form:
Narrative
Crossroads
These roads have always been here. Wood to brick, brick to stone, changes with the coming times. Modernity but where did it come from? All of a sudden, walking along different paths that lead to...
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Categories:
blacktop, conflict, lost, memory, october, psychological, solitude, winter,
Form:
Free verse
Leverse
A Special Dark Run
A Pile of Fetty For Fun
Crystal Natures and a Ton of Bad Jokes
I said it all but thats not all I had to Say poke.
I had To Stay broke Huh.
To see how...
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Categories:
blacktop, analogy, friendship love, metaphor, wife,
Form:
Free verse
Truck Stop Time
Truck Stop Time
The frozen wind cracks its whip
And slits my darkened lips
One on top of the other, dry.
The warm blood hardens scabs crusty on my
Four o’clock shadow
Four o’clock a week ago.
Eyes half open
Two thirds...
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Categories:
blacktop, drink, loneliness,
Form:
Free verse
A Gift , a Curse
the sun beams its beautiful warm rays down onto us . ask nearly
anyone, what their favorite weather is , sunny would be the answer.
every plant , animal and human needs the sun ... and enjoys...
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Categories:
blacktop, adventure, confusion, death, life, loss, nature, seasons,
Form:
I do not know?
Desolations Boulevard Ii
a bar door is ajar, only fading voices
echo into the void, from nowhere...and afar!
Here n there, trash drifts
ghosts in flickering neon.
Broken, floating, bloated
dead down eons halls
a last of white.
Crimson taillights roar along...
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Categories:
blacktop, allegory, allusion, analogy, anger, angst, art, bereavement,
Form:
Free verse