Long Northbound Poems

As a country boy, up in the hills,
Life was tough, not much for frills.
I remember it well, yes, even now,
When spring time came and it was time to plow.
Afore sun up came, I was out...

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Diane was like any other Long Island mother,
but on July twenty six she made an horrible mistake by smoking pot,
resulting in the death of five beautiful kids, as young as five,
and three passengers in a...

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Ah be careful, so careful my friends
be careful before you go getting involved
Isn’t it strange how we sometimes get swept up
swept and sucked into a life event by sheer chance?

After attending to the baby, I...

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In 1967, fresh out of high school at seventeen, I boarded a northbound bus to the metropolis of the mid-west. After arriving in Chicago, while waiting to be picked up by a family member, I...

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The Winter Blues
Robert J. Lindley 

Winter blew in with a scant little whimper 
Fall skulked away with hardly a peep 
Deep cold, blowing winds fit some's temper 
Yet others they sadden enough to weep! 

Snow...

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Brass windchimes
ring melodic time
backed up
and down,
back
and forth
by boisterous breeze voices
blowing somewhat more silent choices
below

Before benighted rejoice
reprise to rise
and fall
wounded fail
yet again

Melodious inside intentions
to ring true
love's restoring stories
of local justice circling
dynamic spirals inside
looking resounding out
virally
conspiratorially
anticipating healthier...

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A little girl played along the railroad tracks. Walking on the rails, playing in the little station house. Waiting for her friend the engineer to blow the whistle as he came around the bend. On...

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Canaries
By LoLa

The afternath of crossing paths
The war that waged; our demons’ wrath
Our minds intwined in broken trust
The dawn of fall; a slave to lust

Weapons turn from phaser to stun
Countless trials we shouldn't have won
savagery done;...

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A man, quite renowned, came into our town;
He tried to expound on matters profound.
He frowned when he found as he tried to expound:
drowned by the sound of a hound in the town.

This was indeed a...

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Looking North, an evening sight,
undulating ribbons, gleaming bright, 
pierce the gloom of darkest night.
Constantly flashing red and white,
snaking slowly till out of sight.
Eager for haste, anxious for flight:
yet held in abeyance, this evening rite,
no longer...

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The new year found me alone at a deserted roadside,
not knowing where to go but thumbing for a ride.
The signposts displayed 2023 South and 2024 North.
Motorists, speeding along in both directions,
saw my two thumbs up...

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...inspired by the song 'Northbound 35' by Jeffrey Foucault



Three hundred miles and counting,
Kansas blacktop, battling snow,
visibility's poor, his sadness is mounting,
from here to there he has nowhere to go.

Lela left, took the kids and the...

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...inspired by the song 'Northbound 35' by Jeffrey Foucault


Two hundred miles and counting,
Kansas blacktop, batttling snow,
visibility's poor, his sadness is mounting,
from here to there he has nowhere to go.

Lela left, took the kids and the...

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I figured out
How to make some bucks,
In this town,
Where you oft hear "Ahhhh, Schucks!"

I rented a tent- erected it on busy Rt. 9
Southbound traffic, 50 cent fine...
Northbound cars,
Well, that's a buck,
Ah, darn, it gal, twice...

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...inspired by the song 'Northbound 35' by Jeffrey Foucault


Two hundred miles and counting,
Kansas blacktop, batttling snow,
visibility's poor, his sadness is mounting,
from here to there he has nowhere to go.

Lela left, took the kids and the...

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...inspired by the song 'Northbound 35' by Jeffrey Foucault


Two hundred miles and counting,
Kansas blacktop, battling snow,
visibility's poor, his sadness is mounting,
from here to there he has nowhere to go.

Lela left, took the kids and the...

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Image of Coyote Animal Snow by Pixabay

Coyote Corner

Coyotes are wolves near cognate brothers,
closer to jackals who are bred o'er seas,
plus, noted slang for smugglers of mothers
and tots who lacked to grasp the ABCs.

Found hereabouts the...

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...inspired by the song 'Northbound 35' by Jeffrey Foucault



Three hundred miles and counting,
Kansas blacktop, battling snow,
visibility's poor, his sadness is mounting,
from here to there he has nowhere to go.

Lela left, took the kids and the...

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It has been my observation
While in the northbound traffic queue
That roading companies impose
Nonsense rules to make you stew

The first and most important rule
For Health and Safety regulation 
Is to put out a thousand road cones
To...

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A northbound river and a southbound train
for we're moving to a more clement clime
and swear we're never coming back again.

Sun’s low on horizon of the Great West Plain
you always said sunset was so sublime
on a...

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Birds winging.
Harleys singing. 
Rain is falling.
Barbeques are calling.

Lawn mowers. 
Leaf blowers.
And the presence 
of new flowers.

Squirrels running around. 
Convertible tops down.
Trees are in bloom. 
No more winters’ gloom.

Snow is gone.
Replaced by a green lawn.
Blossoms in...

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We ourselves must walk the path.
     Buddha

We ourselves must dance Earth's revolving
evolving
revolutionary viral path
empowering and disempowering
healing violence 
and hurting peace,

Compassion
wandering toward multilateral peace
restoring cooperatively just ways,
co-invested means

We ourselves must sing
global gospel...

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For a few weeks they descend upon central park greens
to refresh and feed after a long northbound journey
flying through thousands of gray and blue miles
arriving in feathered shawls in every color and style
Pasty-eyed birders come...

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cold wars
and silvery spoons
make me solemn
in the self-closing eyes

always priggish
as a desolate diver
I blindly follow
the northbound shoals

hoarse in the black iris
I'm a tipsy toad
howling in heaven
with frigid manners

resurrected again
in a parquet parlour
of colliding sighs

the highland...

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