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Roadworks Poems - Poems about Roadworks

Summer Elegy

...Would you mind if I won’t talk
About what to do
Better sit, relax or walk
Silently subdue
To the sweetness of the day
With the promised rain
That forgot to fall today
Though the sky was grey 
...

Categories: roadworks, bereavement, dedication, loneliness, loss,
Form: Rhyme

ROADWORKS

...
Day after day, week after week, when rush hour traffic’s at its peak,
I’ve had to sit and wait and wait, knowing that once more I’d be late
And have to face the boss’s frown, who lives the other ...

Categories: roadworks, work,
Form: Rhyme

Roadworks

...It has been my observation
While in the northbound traffic queue
That roading companies impose
Nonsense rules to make you stew

The first and most important rule
For Health and Safety regulatio...

Categories: roadworks, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Right

...Right 
where the road ends
rests a house
there 		is Rosa, sunrosed,
			is love, trust, life
A coffee in the morning
right before	marching the roadworks
			scooting the schoolbus
right like th...

Categories: roadworks, for her, friendship,
Form: Free verse

Mystery Hole

...A hole it wasnt there yesterday,
What's it for?,
Where does it go?,
Who made it?,
How deep does it go?,
A hole in the road...,
It holds untold mysteries,
It's not growing,
It's not getting sm...

Categories: roadworks, animal, deep, earth, imagination,
Form: Free verse

Phworrrah

...He’d got the physique of a body builder ... no hint of ‘builders bum’!

Based on observation on roadworks on Douglas Promenade ... I simply had to walk past twice lol:-) 

5/19/19

Categories: roadworks, body, humorous, sexy,
Form: Monoku

Splat

...Splat

Explosions do not always signify combustion but often combustion arrives after many years of layering the layers and tightly packing. Thus meaning that a fried piece of fat could slip and bu...

Categories: roadworks, africa, animal,
Form: I do not know?

The Dab of a Wab

...dab dab wab?
Under the simplified shade of a sparrows wing one does not strut. It is merely there to shield and shields are shapes and shapes are not shifting. Steel blows to a mud are unwelcome and...

Categories: roadworks, blessing,
Form: I do not know?

Bacon Sandwich Carnage Coming

...If I a bare fisted foot that a layered leaf once left undisturbed but amongst the rising becomes a glow and fortress is a finger roll and rolling is a non adventurous activity in a nine metre road. B...

Categories: roadworks, africa, age, america, angel,
Form: I do not know?

Roadworks

...ROAD WORKS AHEAD

FOLLOW THE DIVERSION

Road-works ? I’d rather have potholes !
Or go on foot, on leather soles.

Engines braying, tempers fraying
More gas, more water,
More electric, fibre-...

Categories: roadworks, urban,
Form: Free verse

Bollards In the Market Place

...On the subject of road works in the Market Place, Devizes, England

Stuff’s happening in the Market Place
To really make folk cuss 
Why isn’t there a parking space
And where’s the chuffin’ bus?
...

Categories: roadworks, angst, car, change, community,
Form: Rhyme

Our Day Out

...Our Day Out

Our day out to Wales in the Summer of 1981
In car temperature soars that alike to Lebanon,
Not like the previous year of 1980
When temperatures where more akin to Haiti.
Mark one C...

Categories: roadworks, adventure, appreciation, childhood, summer,
Form: Free verse

'roadworks'

...When the voice in your head says: “move on”
Your heart has its own voice that says: “stick around”

When the pendulum swings 
From one extreme to the next 

Adding fuel to the co...

Categories: roadworks, confusion, love, relationship,
Form: Free verse