Short Detour Poems
Short Detour Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Detour by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Detour by length and keyword.
robins flying south
detour to stop in wet yards--
a quick meal and bath
© cgh nov 2011 for Deb’s contest
Carefree childhood
School days
Wedding Day
Beautiful girls
Creative seamstress
Met soul mate
Daily Joy
Togetherness
Forever after
Cancer
Detour...
Happenstance meeting -
eyes and lips ignite a race
down romance's one-way street.
Feeling powerless -
is there a detour ahead?
A weak voice entreats, "Slow down".
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Words may detour you, be few, but no day can be poem-free by choice
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Words may be few, when you're not YOU - welcome all poems, colors: black, white, & blue
Payday
Dr. James E. Martin
©April, 2014
He picked up his check today
And was soon on his way.
A detour was taken,
His funds were forsaken,
Now his fuel bill he could not pay.
Often Piglet and Winnie the Pooh
head out to the zoo
a slight detour and they come up to a beehive
for sweet honey it sure is worth a dip and a dive
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
You departed this world
Why? I was only ten!
I miss you so.
Time please make a detour.
Good-bye pain and sufferring
Welcome to the new earth.
Dad I'm not saying bye,
I will see you later.
Philosophical usually means “of the brain”
To this guy it usually means a real brain drain
As we all get older
Our brains still smoulder
But our drive takes a detour to a different plane
Navigating through the recesses
Of my mind, thoughts appear
Out of nowhere like detour signs
Set out in cartoon chases; then, I realize
My pop-up blocker needs updating.
Dedicated to David M.
Blackbelt Instructor
A Sense Of Emptiness - Broken Wings
uncouth butterflies traipse
arduous treks at a colorless pace,
as broken vessels detour
unwelcomed, roaming cure
forsaking loves allure
heartaches fulfilling sorrows darkest space.
On road to growth
Slowly down
To go further.
Be brave to try
Though road is rough
Tempt to do it.
Though road is block
Try the detour
To catch up work.
Road to first walk
Geared to end goal
End to all search.
If you're astray
Or lost your way
Find the main road.
If road is blocked
Wait for rescue
Find a detour.
If life is road
Read sure road signs
Drive safely.
If choose two roads
Think twice and pray
He will guide you.
"No matter where the troubled
roads of life take us -
No matter how far down that
troubled road we travel,
There's always a detour, that
will lead us to a better place."
Poet: Ken Jordan
April/2014
The detour of a certain age
Is quashed in tides of fire
And forever is the youth gone pass
As on the strains of lyre.
Make no whisper none is heard
Amongst the thread-like silk
For sweet is yon meadow-lace
And forever, is the milk.
Trapped in meaningless whirling thoughts
Boundaries draped around the body
Unsaid words confined in laughing gear
Dread sentiment flowing in breadbasket
Trembling uncertainty waving inside the stump
Sealed in anticipation of a utopian epoch...
Distinguished D.
Deeply, deliberately,
Diabolically,
Despicably,
Disturbingly,
Dubious
D.
Daring,
Determination
Dwells
Doubly in
Dangerously,
Dervish
D.
Deeply
Disturbing,
D.
Determines
Dastardly
Deeds.
Don't detour
Determined
Distinquished
D.
A detour, from off her time's
Shop-haggling usage.
Aligns with, through abuses
Working for a wage.
Snaps one back again, into
The old pleasantries.
Child's childish; with these about;
Hoppers; winged for bird!
And for rooks, as rantors heard!
Fun, fun parodies.
Ageing means no turning back the clock
And the road ahead is an uncertain path
Upside is you can drive a chair that rock
Shriek streak freak rambling psychopath
Reedited: 2:27 p.m.
4/1/2021
Florida
USA
As we cross the prairie,
most times alert and wary
You must see the pass,
the way of the mass
There can be no detour,
the tail's straight and sure
Seeing "Scouts" on the bluff,
ask, did I do enough ?
Ride on, there is no retreat,
perhaps the grass is sweet !
The pitch fork in the road lead me too my destination.
Opened up my journey of detour with many difficult other destinations
Became new beginnings of my life full of advantages and disadvantages My beautiful destination, became a dream.
A dream that no bully can take away from me.
Follow the map, they say.
Rules were set to obey
No glitch for us to delay
What if there is another way?
Follow the road, they say
No detour or there will be a plight
Endure, it is just a phase
Don’t fight, for there is no space
No judge will the case.
Follow the map they say
I care I search.
No answers can I find
to what’s ailing me.
Is it lurking in my mind?
I care I search
to know my body’s cure,
but every path I take
leads to one more detour.
I care I search.
Yes, I search because of cares.
But all I know is I remain
just living on my prayers.
In a world of haste and make believe
where time is a most valuable commodity,
do we really want to miss
chasing rainbows and cuddling kittens,
taking the scenic route and
smelling the roses along our way?
Sometimes a detour is the best shortcut.
AP: 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2025
Journey starts
Journey ends
Start with heart
Round the bend
Purpose arts
Purpose trends
End with start
Spark fond end
Passion flings
Passion gains
Stretch each spring
Mark feel plain
Detour here
Detour there
Now seed cheer
End nowhere
Leon Enriquez
28 August 2019
Singapore
We are all headed in the same direction.
We are all travelers.
Why then, with this one way ticket,
must we detour?
Why do we lose focus
of what is really important
and concern ourselves with the
price or color or size of someone else’s ticket?
Why not enjoy the ride.
Who knows if the next stop is yours?