Long Roadways Poems
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Bleeding Before Rome -2
Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenched brutality
with the bodies of...
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Categories:
roadways, culture, heart, war, world war ii,
Form:
Epic
Something Old Something New
In a matter of months, we would experience the greatest economic ...
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Categories:
roadways, change, travel,
Form:
Free verse
The Stranger
*Image of Thunder & Lightning by Pixabay.
The Stranger
My life warps by its beasts of woes
depression dogs my day
at night, stress drains my restless soul
the wrongs have no delay
Myself am I, forsook decreed
hope laid by things...
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Categories:
roadways, allegory, encouraging, faith, meaningful, missing, mother son,
Form:
Rhyme
The Blazing Sun
The sun is burning intensely outside, and it is melting the passion inside, the dogs are running around gasping for breath, and throwing their frivolous bodies on the ground.
They are looking for clean drinking water...
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Categories:
roadways, beauty, business, celebration, city, confidence, emotions, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
Under The Crack
"What are they looking at?" "the crack on the ground," whisper a silent voice from the airy throne; my heart kept spinning around, and the women in colored hats, says it is a...
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Categories:
roadways, bible, business, caregiving, change, city, gender, murder,
Form:
Narrative
We Are Nearly Home My Angel, We Are Nearly Home
My dear, my angel, do not worry, we are not lost,
We will follow the well-worn sacred path at all cost,
And be guided by the star that beckons the hopeful.
We will stay loyal to the course...
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Categories:
roadways, 10th grade,
Form:
ABC
The Elements
See them sitting underneath the tree, they are on a mission to crucify thee, their knife is sharpened and ready to cut out a pound of your flesh from your gut if you do not...
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Categories:
roadways, appreciation, beautiful, best friend, change, destiny, environment,
Form:
Narrative
We Are Nearly Home My Angel We Are Nearly Home
My dear, my angel, do not worry, we are not lost,
We will follow the well-worn sacred path at all cost,
And be guided by the star that beckons the hopeful.
We will stay loyal to the course...
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Categories:
roadways, 10th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Flight 1122
Departing Sacramento, Ca. just past 7:00 AM PT on a nice Saturday morning, we headed for Chicago. All is going well as we take off, as the pilot soon announces that we will ascend up...
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Categories:
roadways, art, beauty, blessing, blue, chicago,
Form:
Narrative
Foggy Nights, Letter To a Friend
Foggy Nights, A Letter To A Friend
By Curtis Johnson
I have driven on snowy and icy roads in Wisconsin and Illinois. In the summer’s heat of the Sacramento Region, I have driven in cars,...
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Categories:
roadways, christian, friendship, god, heart, lost,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Secret Love
I told my secret so dear to the babbling brook.
Across pebbles and stones my secret it took.
It held my secret for miles along its ebb and flow.
Once reaching a raging river, it let my secret...
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Categories:
roadways, love,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
Mail Runners On the Inca Trail
Friends , while reading the History of the Incas , I came across the wonderous story of their
mail runners , the 'chasquis' ! Kindly read their story !
THE MAIL RUNNERS - ON THE INCA...
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Categories:
roadways, history
Form:
Verse
Must Go, Must Do
We lived about a hundred miles Northwest of Chicago ...
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Categories:
roadways, change, confusion, dedication, jobs, wife,
Form:
Narrative
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:
roadways, introspection, me,
Form:
Narrative
The Town of Flibbertyflat
I got a strange urge to travel one day
So I set off a walking on my merry way
I reached a crossing of Roads A and B
Which way would you go? Hmm let me see
I decided...
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Categories:
roadways, fantasy, children, funny, happinessme, me, silly,
Form:
Rhyme
Unless
Unless…
by Odin Roark
Seems just yesterday the sun arced
Over precarious ice
The street’s one elm
Leaned its naked branches with the wind Bringing winter’s announcement
A Coney Island cat crouched puzzled
Gradual...
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Categories:
roadways, environment,
Form:
Free verse
Stonecroft Street
I went on a strange journey this morning
It wasn't planned or arranged
I only responded to the voice ringing in my ear to go to a special place
I circled around the community to avoid this...
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Categories:
roadways, change, community, confusion, desire, destiny, endurance, faith,
Form:
Narrative
I Miss the Days
I miss the days when we could sit
And stare at the screen for hours
The only problem wandering in
Was chores... but that problem wasn’t ours
I miss the days when peace was the baseline
And troubled...
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Categories:
roadways, age, anxiety, depression, loneliness, lost, mental illness,
Form:
Quatrain
No More Pain
No more tears, no more fears.
No more dieing, no more crying.
No more trying, no more failing.
No more dealing with or feeling,
No more pain!
...
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Categories:
roadways, devotion, faith, inspirational, life, love, uplifting,
Form:
Free verse
Servant
Oh , servant of God hear my voice
my purchase price was to set you free
it was to you ...
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Categories:
roadways, dedication, devotion, faith, inspirational, life, love, visionary,
Form:
Rhyme
GNRT DAY 36 FLOWERS
One thing we’ve noticed as we’ve driven across the north…for hours and hours and hours
is how once the frozen grounds of winter thawed…people were busy planting flowers.
Everywhere we’ve been…from the smallest towns to the biggest...
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Categories:
roadways, flower, travel,
Form:
Rhyme
Cerulean Odyssey One, 13-16
13
bayside rumours of war
and flowers blossoming thirst
for sacrificial blood
cut my weeping heart out
ensure another flawless sunrise
confusion moments of despair
deceived beyond deception
their laboured cry heard no more
my voice remains
slower traffic keep right
my fist a burning piston
line...
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Categories:
roadways, allegory, inspirational, life, philosophy, heart, voice, heart,
Form:
Epic
Eutrophication of Golden Pond
February 28th, 1968 marked the date
Boyce Brandon Harris
(my octogenarian widower father)
purchased a small tract of land
Pooh would Winnie
constituting shadowed sliver
once hailing, hallmarking, harkening,
glorious vast "Glen Elm" estate,
which circa 1910...
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Categories:
roadways, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 9th
Form:
Free verse
The Power of Ice
Beautiful to look at;
Glittering, shiny, chilly, sparkling, frosty, freezing ice.
Gently it started, a light mist descending from a leaden sky.
Looking harmless, clinging to grasses, roofs, roadways and branches,
Soon covering power lines, getting thicker and...
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Categories:
roadways, nature, seasonsworld, power,
Form:
Free verse
Untying of a Love Knot
When I used to dream
I used to dream about him
Fantasizing about how it happened and how it could have been
Demons, chasing Nightmares, Happiness on Poles
Tied into a loveknot and dangled in front of me
No matter...
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Categories:
roadways, lost love, me,
Form:
Bio