Long Interstate Poems
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The Highways and the BywaysThe Highways and the Byways
By Franklin Price
10/27/2107
(Inspired by Nancy McIntyre Stepp)
The highways and the byways
Of this life in which we've grown
Bring back many memories
Of places we have known
The Interstates most boring
They bypass most...
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Categories:
interstate, adventure, happiness, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Ghost of Tsali ComesGhost Of Tsali Comes
Lost in mist and maze
Ghost of Tsali in the corn
River water runs
Colors of fall alive
“Til moon replaces sun
That’s when Tsali comes
Corn roots cling to bone
As he tends the empty weirs
This spot...
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Categories:
interstate, animal, autumn, environment,
Form:
Free verse
4x10The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...
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Categories:
interstate, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form:
Free verse
4x10The Killing Field”
Ariana nodded, tremolo fingers,
and they ran across the killing field,
watching the steel-toed kite ascend—
a fleeting instant of triumph in the vacuum.
Josh scoffed as it dipped,
both caught in the pull of the abyss,
falling but...
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Categories:
interstate, absence, allegory, angel, angst,
Form:
Free verse
At Least We See It ComingLiving in California is a brave thing to do, I’m convinced
Any time the ground around you could break into pieces, but residents seem so indifferent
of this threat that the ground they stand on could take...
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Categories:
interstate, home, natural disasters, nature, places, strength, weather,
Form:
Free verse
As For Me I BelieveIt is the winter of 1980.
I’m twenty-eight years young,
Driving a red Mustang with glass T-tops,
Feeling all of my awesome sassiness, from toe
To Afro, when I notice the cards driving ahead of me
Are all slowing...
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Categories:
interstate, adventure, angel, blessing, christian, jesus, miracle, spiritual,
Form:
Metrical Tale
Window PainThree states
in five hours.
Maybe we’ll stop somewhere nice
like a KOA campground.
A kid can hope. It’s hot and it would be great to go for a swim. Instead we stop at the liquor store,
dad buys a...
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Categories:
interstate, addiction, anger, anxiety, child abuse, childhood, father
Form:
Haibun
You Can’t Take What You Can’t GiveI’ll handle the rejection as a merit in my spirit, as I did once when I was a kid.
The townspeople will turn all of the sprinklers on when spring has made its arrival apparent...
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Categories:
interstate, absence, abuse, addiction, anxiety, corruption, deep, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Howling At the Moon
Black market product truckload ...
illegal cargo of tax-free merchandise,
and plenty boxed liquor of trouble
Leather clad tattooed dirty violet blonde
riding shotgun,
with a Rambo knife hugging her thigh
In the cab backseat
sit two mountain men beastie boys
strapped...
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Categories:
interstate, allusion, dark, death, violence,
Form:
Ode
These men who have caused trouble all over the world have now come here Acts 17:6 When the apostles of Jesus Christ, after his ascension into heaven, spread the doctrine
of Christianity throughout the ancient Roman empire. Those who made their profits in
making pagan idols for worship accused the Apostle Paul...
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Categories:
interstate, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Tons of TimeWhen I worked as a carpenter there was an iron clad rule.If you woke up to a drizzling rain you came to work in hopes it would soon abate.
However,if it was pouring and the old...
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Categories:
interstate, for her,
Form:
Free verse
Good Ol' Triple-Six and the Eternal Drive-By - Part 2- and, anyway, who breaks wind over double-M, a. k. a. Manson,
Marilyn?
I'll give a ride on my razor any day to
The-Second-Prime-of-Nine-to-the-Sixth,
who was around long before CD's, DVD's, MTV, and YOU / MYtube,
spitting out the healing...
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Categories:
interstate, hope, inspirational, jesus,
Form:
Free verse
My Personal Ad Part 1Back during a time when I still had a desire to date
I took out the following personal ad, with the hope of finding my mate.
That's no longer on my agenda. I'm very content to be...
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Categories:
interstate, funnyme, car, hope, me,
Form:
Rhyme
We Got AmplifiedHired first as your band's assistant
Adonis with bonus warmest manner
Smile left me gooey, I couldn't resist it
Fluent guitar fingers sparked my enamour
Liasing with music gurus was realms apart
From routine of home, single Mom of two
Denham...
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Categories:
interstate, appreciation, beach, beautiful, boyfriend, business, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Justice Santa StyleThis Holiday collaboration is brought to you from Carolyn Devonshire and Tony Lane. Carolyn wrote all of the even stanzas and I wrote all of the very odd ones.
I was driving the interstate while...
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Categories:
interstate, funny, holiday, christmas, me, christmas, me,
Form:
Light Verse
Eye of the StormEye of the Storm, It was there on a warm, muggy night. That of a dark but black cloud that linger across the sky to which I thought it was going be just another stormy...
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Categories:
interstate, adventureme, night, rain, dark, dark, me, moon,
Form:
Narrative
Mountain ManFrom Chicago to Tampa Bay in a Ford Granada some time in the mid- 70's. Unfortunately, we were not interested in mountains, because we took interstate 75 and drove through Tennessee 'at night'. We felt...
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Categories:
interstate, mountains, travel, vacation,
Form:
Narrative
Life Is a JourneyLife is a Journey
To my brother and sisters as you travel along the high of life, I want you to keep in your mind the road condition. There is going to be rainy days, sunny...
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Categories:
interstate, inspirational, introspection, journey, spiritual, life, people, leaving,
Form:
Free verse
Tedeschi Trucks BandEcono Lodge sign
High
On
Its
Pylon
Best we can do
For...
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Categories:
interstate, emotions, giving, music, song, sound, tribute, voice,
Form:
Free verse
Ins and Outs Part 2Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.
Part 2
act three
in the third act delirious
the laws of physics etc.
he coughs...
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Categories:
interstate, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse
Life Is a JourneyLife is a Journey
To my brother and sisters as you travel along the high of life, I want you to keep in your mind the road condition. There is going to be rainy days, sunny...
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Categories:
interstate, christian, spiritual,
Form:
Prose
The Ballad of the Dry Rest StopsTheir dad had had a heart attack
since they had seen him last.
In May they said, "Let's visit him,
cuz time's a passing fast."
He doesn't drive, he sold his car
so he'll not come to us.
and we...
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Categories:
interstate, nature, places,
Form:
Ballad
Highway 80I was alone
Travelling Interstate 80
Following the route of the early Western pioneers
2900 miles across the midsection of America
Stretching from the East Coast to California
In Utah home to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day...
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Categories:
interstate, lifewoman, old, money, old, , western,
Form:
Narrative
Life Is a JourneyLife is a Journey
To my brother and sisters as you travel along the high of life, I want you to keep in your mind the road condition. There is going to be rainy days, sunny...
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Categories:
interstate, inspirational, introspection, religion, spiritual, people, leaving, life,
Form:
Free verse
My Driving HistoryFor some reason
I really like to drive,
and ever since I was sixteen,
when I get behind the wheel
feel free and alive...
Only once had an accident
when I was seventeen,
pulling out too fast of the driveway,
into my parents...
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Categories:
interstate, car, travel,
Form:
Light Verse