Roadsides Poems - Poems about Roadsides

The Joys of Springtime

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                                        The Joys of Springtime

                      When spring sunshine spreads its carpet of greens 
                           On prairies, meadows, valley...

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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Summer's Curtain Call

...summer's curtain call...

    fall peeks in ... hesitates ... 'til

     ... leaves flaming roadsides...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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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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...

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...

Black Molasses

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"Black Molasses"



Black Molasses 
holds to ransom 
footprints 
sucked into 
Tropic of Capricorn mud
as bushfires bleed
sugar from cane
like...

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...

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...

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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