Short Detour Poems

A postscript read:
Potholes overhaul
Find a detour....

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Like minded pathos
personification guild 
elucidation...

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broken glass

        detour ahead

            lights flashing...

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Chrysanthemums cheer
Off the beaten path of life
A pleasant detour...

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No road left to take
Hold on, keep going strong
There's way out to make....

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sixth of six children my parents conceived         I was second to survive


written 26 Aug 2020...

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Detour to heaven,
  back road to joy

Change of direction
  —hope redeployed

(Villanova Pennsylvania: May, 2019)...

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robins flying south
detour to stop in wet yards--
a quick meal and bath

© cgh nov 2011 for Deb’s contest...

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Carefree childhood
School days
Wedding Day
Beautiful girls
Creative seamstress
Met soul mate
Daily Joy
Togetherness
Forever after
Cancer
Detour......

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I
Words may detour you, be few, but no day can be poem-free by choice

II ( THINK MONOKU)
Words may be few, when you're not YOU - welcome all poems, colors: black, white, & blue...

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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....

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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....

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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....

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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....

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"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...

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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....

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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...
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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....

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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...

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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 !...

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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...

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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....

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