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Alibi of the Wolf
laying in the buth tub
\the rubber ducky
reminds me of the yellow clock
right by where mom is cooking
and ticks to her internal heart

substitute to perfection
world what are you to someone perfect
are you looking for me
while im...

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Categories: roadsides, music
Form: Free verse



Black Molasses
"Black Molasses"



Black Molasses 
holds to ransom 
footprints 
sucked into 
Tropic of Capricorn mud
as bushfires bleed
sugar from cane
like molten glucose 
shot into the veins
of Mother Earth gone all
libertine sour 
like Lemon Grass
crushed and burnt 
acrid smoke...

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Categories: roadsides, death, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Further Qualities of the King the Thiruk-Kural Lauds: Iramaadchi - Canto 39, K381 and K382
Further qualities of the King* the THIRUK-KURAL lauds: IRAMAADTCHI - Canto 39, K381 and K382

[*modern-day "kings": presidents, prime and chief ministers, governors, dictators and the like; K381 & K382 have already been posted.]

K383: thuungkaamai kalvi...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roadsides, caregiving, character, leadership, people,
Form: Epigram
Synthetic Selection
Explode the galaxy
iron out this wrinkle in time

Cheapen a poor mans rich taste in fashion
it’s habit to be a creature of design

When the delicate send out the search party
start by scanning the various roadsides
follow the...

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Categories: roadsides, artlost, lost, me, planet,
Form: Free verse
Flecks
Repressed, sombre colours
weep a blurry sadness.
Melancholic, metallic hues
bite a frustrated, untouched lip -
silently surrendering
crimson, golden spheres of promise…
They dissolve, shrinking to watery flakes,
melting to a near oblivion.

Lyrics pin hopes on a pointless map,
touching tender triggers
like...

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© Emma Wells  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roadsides, appreciation, beautiful, black love, dark, forgiveness, lost
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member A Childhood Moment
We were very young and only wanted a few pecans.
We roamed from tree to tree, from West to East.
This time, we were on the West side of town
picking up pecans without fear or trepidation.
That is,...

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Categories: roadsides, childhood,
Form: Free verse
CRACK'S CODE BLUE
Crack kills and that’s no joke!
It once killed my pocket broke
As my luggage wheel struck the sidewalk crack
And my worn-out heel cracked outback!
I wibbled-wobbled on a cracked low-pump heel

As a zoo waddling seal!
I took a...

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Categories: roadsides, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
The Rebirth and Triumph of An Ace Apache Pilot
An Apache pilot once sought for a treasure
In booze, in fun
Sampling leisure and pleasure
Until an Apache chopper gun  

In his attentive ears whispered
Enjoining him to a wound-prone warfront to go
Where the gun the pilot...

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Categories: roadsides, poems,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Joys of Springtime

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Categories: roadsides, appreciation, flower, joy, spring, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
Songs At Midnight
hell bent on hillsides,
alcohol seeping from my skin come 
Monday Morning alarm clock joy.
young, and up all night, drunk, more so than not
and only in love with myself.

narcissistic pessimism: big words overheard in clouded classrooms,
always...

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Categories: roadsides, growing up, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Man In the Moon Gets Twinkle In Eye
Humankind's quest for be bereavement memorials has no bounds.
Headstone or brass plaques used to suffice,
Hidden away in grave yards and draws of ashes on walls.
But now crosses and plaques litter the roadsides,
Like a strange form...

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Categories: roadsides, death, dedication, pollution, , memorial,
Form: Free verse
Time To Deliver
Smug, callous you  stand beneath the smoldering rays of stifling sun, 
to denounce your connection to those more vulnerable than you.   
Have you forgotten the times when desecrated hummers stood smoldering 
against...

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Categories: roadsides, life, loss, peace, sad, social,
Form: Free verse
Environmentally Yours
Environmentally Yours



GLOBAL WARMING, CLIMATE CHANGE, NUCLEAR HOLOCAUSTE- 
very big words; beyond us.
ILLEGAL MINING, RIVER POLLUTION, FOREST DEVASTATION-
not our concern; ordinary mortals.
As decent individuals we barely use one car,
one fridge, one air-conditioner or even none.
Leading a...

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Categories: roadsides, environment,
Form: Prose Poetry
But Be My Love and Be Only Mine
Well! Believe the pathetic liars! 
Or listen to the stylish scoundrel—
Whose speech’s so harmonious
And Ah! Tone as wine!

Leave your long braid dance
As the charmer’s snake,
Or dishevel fly
As in the ancient paintings the flying fairies…
Or Claw...

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© Fayaz Bhat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roadsides, romantic, sensual, sexy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Careless Tosses
I cannot drive from my home to a grocery store without choking back tears that threaten to spill as sourced from my bruised heart.  The gifts of earth as lovingly bestowed from our Father...

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Categories: roadsides, abuse, america, anger, betrayal, earth, emotions, environment,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Daylilies
Bright orange daylilies reach for the sky
Standing at least six or seven feet tall,
Brightening the corner next to the wall
With commanding presence, not at all shy.

After the blooms fall, we cut them back
Knowing they’ll return...

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Categories: roadsides, color, flower, summer,
Form: Quatrain
Composting Maryland Style
What do you do with road kill
Dispose of it you say
So how does one dispose of it
There is always the Maryland way
You see Maryland picks up road kill
To keep their roadsides clear
And turns it into...

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Categories: roadsides, animals, nature, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Della
She doesn't deserve this.
Alone, after fifty-odd years
Married to him.
Alone, too attached to her home
To leave it to live with a son
In a place strange to her.
Alone,  still talking to the husband
Who has been dead...

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© E.J. Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: roadsides, hope, loss,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Quiet Forests
See the trees around us die.
Wind blows and they mutely cry.
By roadsides where they once gave shade,
bare ugliness is all that’s made.
From insect wild or too much man,
in palliative state they naked stand.
Quiet forests of...

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Categories: roadsides, environment, tree,
Form: Couplet
Rain
The petrichor of the first rain on the field
Gets into my nostrils
It is a freedom from the cage of scorching heat
In my exhausted lungs
Into the uncaged shower of moistened fragrance
From the dank dry grass 
My...

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Categories: roadsides, beauty, dance, kiss, ocean, rain,
Form: Free verse

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