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Roadsides Poems - Poems about Roadsides

Premium Member The Joys of Springtime
... The Joys of Springtime When spring sunshine spreads its carpet of greens On prairies, meadows, valley......

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Categories: roadsides, appreciation, flower, joy, spring,
Form: Rhyme
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 ......

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Categories: roadsides, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Summer's Curtain Call
...summer's curtain call... fall peeks in ... hesitates ... 'til ... leaves flaming roadsides......

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Categories: roadsides, autumn, leaving, summer, wind,
Form: Haiku
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 bloom......

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Categories: roadsides, color, flower, summer,
Form: Quatrain
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......

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Categories: roadsides, environment, tree,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Lovely Are the Flowers
...Lovely are the flowers that winter over Standing tall and stately in winter’s snow, Along the roadsides this sturdy white clover Lovely are the flowers that winter over, Sometimes it ......

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Categories: roadsides, flower, nature, winter,
Form: Triolet
Remembrance For a Bunch of Bananas
...Joyful are the bunches of bananas, exposed that are on shelves of modern markets, or street stalls, waiting for the greedy mouths of the beauties, or of the famous tennis player... Happier t......

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Categories: roadsides, allegory, allusion, analogy, extended
Form: Light 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
Premium Member Clyde Fails the Roadsides
...Road stop By cop Perceived Car weaved Two Beers Cop jeers Slurs talk Can't walk Clyde weaved And heaved Ker splat Fell flat Clyde drunk As skunk Tests muffed Handcuffed ......

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Categories: roadsides, drink, humorous,
Form: Footle
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......

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Categories: roadsides, appreciation, beautiful, black love,
Form: Blank verse
I Could Not Even Remember When
...The ricefields at the roadsides were gone. I didn’t notice when they started to fade. I felt empty and sick, as sad as dark dawn, when I saw the flock of teeny weeny birds, chasing each o......

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Categories: roadsides, bird, nature,
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......

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Categories: roadsides, death, fire, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Skies Reign
...Blue skies reign o'er freshly manicured lawns Birds chirping merrily hours before dawn Gentle breezes lifting skirts and tousling hair Sprinklers sending water's rainbow-jets here and ther......

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Categories: roadsides, flower, sky, water, wind,
Form: Couplet
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 to us a......

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Categories: roadsides, abuse, america, anger, betrayal,
Form: Haibun
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 ......

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Categories: roadsides, poems,
Form: Free verse

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