Roads Poems

We're different roads

We walk divergent paths, you and I,
Two distinct journeys, like parallel lines in the sky,
Our minds, a dichotomy, a clash of thought and deed,
I navigate logic's realm, while you follow feelings' creed.

Our communication, a discordant symphony,
I'm measured, you're impulsive, a contrast in harmony,
My words, a calculated risk, yours, an emotional release,
We're worlds apart, in every
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Categories: roads, funny love, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberForks in the Less Walked Roads

I learn to hold a rose’s thorn,
without a flinch, without the scorn,
To withdraw warmth from tempered spring,
Coiled within a cold, hard steel ring.

In alleys closed by brick and stone,
I press my ear for echoes’ tome.
Sometimes the stone rings hollow—
Hidden behind a door I can't follow.

I set my old names down, one by one.
Confronting eyes I
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Categories: roads, emotions, fate, freedom,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberAll Roads Lead You Home

The memories of ties that bind
Are rooted deep within the mind
Though we might wish for something new
Down in the heart we know it’s true
	We travel so long and so far
	Here we can be just who we are

Step by step we’re all moving down the road
Take me home…. Take me home…
In our lives we all need
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Categories: roads, home,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberTanka-Haiku Surprise

On a sunny day,
we went to get a dogie.
Driving the back roads,
Excitement was in the air.
Would our new pet be waiting?

We looked all over,
surprise ~ there sat my angel,
heaven had touched earth.
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Categories: roads, car, day, family, fun,
Form: Other

Premium MemberCross roads of choice'

Here you are.. As am I.' This Intesection of
The internet is where todays (crossroads lie)
On the highway of the internet.' Here I call out
And cry..' Save your soul turn to Jesus He gave
All for you don't pass by.' Call Him into your being, His will is
That not all shall die.'
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Categories: roads, bible, confidence,
Form: Didactic


Premium MemberRoads We Chose

Roads We Chose


If you travel down the wrong Lane
where humanity is swept away
with hate and viral diatribes
well then you know
Tom Petty
has inseminated his seed
they knock on all doors
if a narrow mind will answer
ring ring
oh ,my hatred sings

do not be a little mind
unless genocide is your thing
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Categories: roads, hate,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Roads Behind Me

     The roads behind me veer
         off onto disappointments
            and dead-ends  

      Dare I revisit them
          tempted
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Categories: roads, angst, loneliness, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

LOVE ROADS

Love roads are all around, we can pick the best road. 
Sometimes we travel on a road of love, we find it nice and sunny and smooth. 
Sometimes we pick a road that looks unsure, not easy to see the end. 
Sometimes we are on a road that feels and looks good but turns out
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Categories: roads, love, wisdom, words,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberRoads on Time's Landscape

We navigate life's stanza's quirky rhyme,
as through obscuring fog we strain to see 
two well worn roads on the landscape of time. 
One leads through the mist of what's yet to be,
revealing lofty mountains we will climb, 
and a grown prince and princess, you and me. 
Images, sometimes false and sometimes true,
we discern what will
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Categories: roads, dream, life, love, remember,
Form: Ottava rima

Premium MemberDusty Roads Take Me Out

Dusty roads take me out
   To the furthest reaches -
To places not thought of
   Way off highway stretches -

To the rocky vales where
   A lonely thrasher calls
And scarcely people hear
   His excitable songs -

To where a streamlet flows -
   Whatever it be named -
Where a
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Categories: roads, mountains, river, tree,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Main Roads

The main road lies dormant, its houses seemingly asleep. But at 6 a.m., life bursts forth in a flurry of activity. The heavy traffic that streams towards Jack in the Box Gully is relentless, a so-called alternative route. No rest for the weary, as the relentless tempo of modern life takes its toll.
Balance seems irrelevant,
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Categories: roads, addiction, allusion, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Country Roads

Dust on my boots, sun in my eyes,
Rollin’ down a road where freedom flies.
Fields of gold, wind hums a tune,
Sky so wide, it swallows the moon.

Country roads, take me home,
Where the river sings and the tall pines roam.
Rolling hills, a southern breeze,
Ain't no place I'd rather be.

Mama’s voice calls soft and sweet,
Dinner’s on, and the
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Categories: roads, home, song,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberCountry roads

It’s always been a dream of mine
To walk down country roads with you
With sunshine on my shoulders 
back home again to what I knew

I grew up in the mountains
The Rocky Mountains high
Where every day was diamond
Neath the wide Montana sky

We all would visit grandma
In a much loved old homestead
Where grandpa played his old guitar
 To
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Categories: roads, music, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberConverging Roads

Two friends converge along life's stormy road 
as destiny is whispering in their ears, 
"Don't wander past this gift I have bestowed, 
the love that you've been seeking all these years." 

They halt within their tracks and contemplate 
upon the voice and what they hear it say. 
It softly tells them of that one soul
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Categories: roads, desire, longing, love, sweet
Form: Rhyme

Roads

Roads

When it was over we had to go.
There was no turning back and for a brief moment
 there was a void between the past and the future.
Our paths lay before us as many long roads each demanding a choice

Some knew exactly where they wanted to go, some had no idea 
Some went where they were
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Categories: roads, perspective,
Form: Free verse

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