Short Drifter Poems

drifter
raises a glass to the holidays
"all 365 of them"...

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Flood waters rising
Possessions drifting away
Our journey begins...

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Grayish coat of fur....

Of the decrepit he’ll cur
Prairie’s lone drifter...

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I feel eternity slipping away from me as I drift across the universe...

Feb.24.2016...

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Solitary hour
Momentarily adrift
Armchair traveler
Transitory decades pass
Silently animated....

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for but a moment
the moon shall rest on the sea
drifting with the tide

Written for Raul's contest.
I love that picture Raul -...

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Moving on is a process.
 Letting go is a action,
 so u must first move on and once u done 
tht u forget,
 y u did it in the first place.
 This is drifter will....

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Before me is an endless road, 
At a crossroads truth be told. 
I shall wander to and fro, 
Not knowing where I will go. 
An aimless drifter to atone, 
To find a place he calls home....

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Shallow roots, always thumbing a ride on a breeze 
                      A natural born drifter, the west wind is your ticket
                                  A nomad's heart and a gypsy soul...

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Getting to tomorrow
on stairs of yesterday
Each tread of my reluctance
on risers of today

Promising me nothing
but wisdom from afar
Chasing reams of broken dreams
— adrift among the stars

(Dreamsleep: September, 2024) 
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Maintaining his distance,
Dylan felt safe 

A musical drifter
not born for one place 

His words once released,
to live on their own 

The road calling windward
—far from his home  

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)...

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Four o´clock in the morning.

Cold, alone and trying to sleep.

The bench at the railroad ticket office serves as the old boy cradle,

covered just by all the whole dreams of his life as a cooing blanket.

There lies The Drifter...

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thrown back
amidst the liar's ruin
weathered with the reins
wrapped around his hand
pressed on
over dusk flooded fields
should it never lift
and drown the thistle
heard still
phantom hoovesteps pounding
as the drifter accursed
takes flight and is gone...

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Being free, the fun felt good
Clouded, altered, a long way from home 
Hoofed on many roads chosen
And- all about places known
From which to go onward, and roam
Being a drifter, wandering by foot 
After all these past years yonder
Still remembering old times wander...

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I'm  drifting by on a escalator 
spinning in circles like a fan belt.
everyones floating by and 
I can't remember what I felt.

My life is teen tv show and 
I can't remember what happened yesterday.
So how am I supposted to conversate 
when I cant remember people from today....

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he floated in mid air
feet never touching ground
refusing responsibility
for his destiny

a drifter
open to anything
a puppet

never occurring to him
he could
at any moment
grab the reins



AP: Honorable Mention 2022, Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on March 25, 2019...

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Hovering onward
Peaceful, and courtly
Gorgeous, somewhat large
Soar'ng, ever so lordly
Informal feathered friend
This birdie fly
In a cheerful, breezy high

Within misty, sky fogs 
Untamed vigor
Beautiful drifter
Greatness of feathers
Shimmering and golden
For a Swan life, beholden...

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Drifter, vagabond
On the run from his phantom
Nipping at his heels

Shadow in the night
Slipping through the crevices
Of his own two minds

Past the rolling hills
Splashing ‘cross the black river
Into the new world

Men with winged shoulders
Gliding through the mystic clouds
Mutants rapt in smog...

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coolest ecstasies
high noon sun was most cruel
vibrant leaves fall down

the breeze has found me
after searching all the world
among the late blooms

all the season's best
happened in a single day
birds sang in shadows

eternal drifter
underneath the turquoise skies
cool autumn surprise...

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Listen to poem:

meandering
hills and hillocks
the autumn orb
casts its golden glow
across paved paths
the ones less traveled
circumnavigating
childhood memories
borrowed backroads
in the sinews of my heart



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on August 19, 2020 for contest SERENITY AWAKENED sponsored by REGINA MCINTOSH...

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I learned the lesson “let the buyer beware”
When I didn’t have that much money I could spare,
Took by an itinerant grifter
Who was quite a likeable drifter
He took me for a ride and didn’t even care!

written January 13, 2022
for "Latin Lessons Poetry Contest"
sponsored by Margarita Lillico...

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Hovering onward, peaceful and courtly
Gorgeous, somewhat large, soar'ng ever lordly
An informal feathered friend, birdie fly
Completely in a cheerful, breezy, high

Misty fogs, the stars, an untamed vigor
So staggering, a beautiful drifter
Greatness of feathers, shimmering golden
Grand new respect for the life, beholden...

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Emotional drifter ....
Always moving 
From place to 
Place
Emotional drifter ....
Never staying in 
One place for 
Very long
Emotional drifter ....
Never able to 
Find you 
Emotional drifter ....
Your never in the Same
Place twice
Emotional drifter ....
Wish that you would
Stay in the same place
With me forever 
Emotional drifter .......

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In ethereal darkness
A soul drifted in celestial comfort
Content in a cosmic void
Elysian in it's astral slumber
Then, a match struck the spark
And light tore the blackness asunder

Senses scream into his mind
Lungs draw the first breath
Lips cry out to the sky
A beautiful and traumatic gift 
Given to the satisfied
Sensation enveloping, ever relentless....

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Peace in the garden,
And she smells of the rose;
Shes's dreaming.
Dark eyed drifter,
She's got eyes like a rose;
Like velvet...
Hale sweet dreamer,
She's got eyes like a rose;
And captivating!
Lying limp and lovely,
In repose-
A kiss awaiting.
Doves above milady,
She's got eyes like a rose;
So dramatic...
Lying in scented garden
Of deep repose,
She's dreaming......

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