Long Guardrails Poems
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When the Wind Comes Down Long Lake In OctoberWHEN The WIND COMES DOWN LONG LAKE in OCTOBER
(1 AM in the morning - Naples, Maine)
When unseasonable lake water balm
meets you tripping out of Ricks’ Café
after midnight
you know those...
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Categories:
guardrails, autumn, farewell, feelings, water, wind,
Form:
Free verse
DefensesThese are poems about war and defenses.
Defenses
by Michael R. Burch
Beyond the silhouettes of trees
stark, naked and defenseless
there stand long rows of sentinels:
these pert white picket fences.
Now whom they guard and how they guard,
the good Lord...
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Categories:
guardrails, conflict, evil, fear, prejudice, race, violence, war,
Form:
Quatrain
The Ones That Get AwayI write some poems, they're not too deep
but my best ideas come when driving or asleep
Driving.
I often have an out of body chuckle
watching the eureka moment of my mind-blowing idea
one hand...
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Categories:
guardrails, car, funny, me, poetry, song, spoken word,
Form:
Light Verse
Plotting Tzah Holes Like Insider Trading Duringa Double Oh ChristmasObject to crave
hands off me
i find myself
looking at the keys in the stars in my space
warlords of times of slavery
tortured innocents
never ending labour for underpaid children
smelling burnt flesh
because someone taught her how to swim
he came
we...
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Categories:
guardrails,
Form:
I do not know?
Centraliathe sun exposed
above mountain's edge
through the folds
of dawn's rise
carmine sky erupts
mimicking fire
that burns beneath
in the crisp morning
the earth gasps in breaths
of pallid air
as it rises from the cracks
of asphalt and dirt
the smell of sulfur...
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Categories:
guardrails, fire, mountains,
Form:
Free verse
Guardrails On Scary RoadsGUARDRAILS ON SCARY ROADS
We all can drive some scary roads that I have often seen,
They’re full of hills and sharpest curves, not smooth and so serene.
One thing I’ve noticed on some roads that really caused...
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Categories:
guardrails, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
Untitled Love Scribbles From Daze
Dry eyes open at counter gambling a quarter at a time, looking up to see beauty out of corner smiling. She says hi, iced up stunned could fathom flight. Sigh slightly, love little known ‘bout...
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Categories:
guardrails, love, romance,
Form:
I do not know?
In SeineThe Seine river banks,
with their lack of guardrails, freaked
me out in fourth grade:
"Avez-vous entendu?!!"
My best friend rushed to ask it.
"Did you hear?! (the news)"
A woman drowned!!
She gushed - the horror tale
punch line delivered.
My eyes were...
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Categories:
guardrails, 11th grade, angst, best friend, brother, childhood,
Form:
Senryu
Not Driving In My Sleep.....Trying to ride the sunshine
as it bends a winding road
at the end i'm hoping to find
a pathway paved with gold
where the truth is all but too kind
.......the only version told,
God's healin to my souls mind
as...
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Categories:
guardrails, faith, hope,
Form:
Free verse
I Try To Establish UnderstandingI try to establish strong mental footholds
In resemblance to fort knox physical strongholds
Through repentance I lost the spiritual blindfold
So every sentence I mock material billfolds
I seek an understanding of answers beyond the proven
Discreet but demanding...
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Categories:
guardrails, faith, inspirational,
Form:
Free verse
FatedAnd so it goes. Seated, contemplative. A sudden cacophony abiding. Many floods ebb then flow; good/bad. Memories distilled, truth distorts. Folly found fair ‘gainst fear flames fanned. Shame ignorance opened, book bound veracity logged. Guardrails...
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Categories:
guardrails, age, anxiety, depression, future,
Form:
Haibun
The Most Dangerous RoadsTHE MOST DANGEROUS ROADS
i've got the head of a rattle snake
on the front end of my hood
i've got a chilled clorox drink
in my steel-knuckled hand
and we're rolling down I-10
across the stretch between Phoenix
to the...
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Categories:
guardrails, poems, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
With You By My SideRancho la Joya stretches out for miles
the horses are gone--but not the corrals
with a black dog named Boo, who watches it all
from late in the evening to every breaking dawn
one silver horse is all that...
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Categories:
guardrails, love
Form:
Couplet
LifeA patch of dried grass at the side of the road
Rusty guardrails crumbling erosion
A patch of berries a diet for deer
Thankful dinner for their born for a year
Leaves now yellow some orange, many dead
Dried veins...
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Categories:
guardrails, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, autumn,
Form:
Rhyme
Poughkeepsie To Highlandover the Hudson River, its heights
my nemesis. I longed to drive
and stay alive. Highland
on the other side. Mid-Hudson
thrill ride for a permitted driver.
my heart would pound
just looking at the gothic steel
and the watergrave - my...
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Categories:
guardrails, fear,
Form:
Free verse