Short Footbridge Poems

Footbridge spans water.
Japanese garden waits you.
Waterfowl live here....

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Footbridge spans water.
Japanese garden waits you.
Waterfowl live here....

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below
the
Japenese 
footbridge
where
the
water lilies
sing
at 
night
if
i
dare to cross 
the
same river twice...

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While standing on a footbridge, I sang lyrics to our love song.
I felt you take my hand in yours - as if you were at my side.
Raindrops fell on my cheeks, bringing me back to reality.
...

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Purple plumes dangle amid the verdigris
the sweet-scented Wisteria Kapitan
a footbridge of Feng Shui dreams
enraptures my inner child's spirit.

2-21-2023
PREMIER CHOICE no 1190 Poetry Contest
Brian Strand...

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"At the Footbridge"

Now to be completely fair
And to stop every persons stare
Rodger was not actually circumcised
As he was a player, so don’t be surprised
This was from wear and tear and his willingness to share

07/19/2016...

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As harbor lights of Maine glimmered dimly by the pier 
The wooden footbridge reflected my own trail of anguish;
Creating a bony shadow etched like evening's jagged mesh.




6/7/2018
Silent One's Contest: When Three Lines Are So Much Better...

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Mist
Slides forth
From the peak
of curving heights  
slants fade in purity, dismal, and droop 
You're now at the same level as the trees. 
the haze sneaks forth. 
the footbridge 
looming
cloud

Written: February 11, 2022


A Strand (1072) Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Brian Strand...

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Walking across a footbridge, strewn with crimson leaves,
    I watch as they twirl and pirouette in Autumn's chill wind
leading them in a rhythmic dance that it skillfully weaves
   as they plummet, leaving branches naked and chagrinned.




           September 27, 2020  ~  Rithimus Divisa 7
                  Sponsored by Gregory Barden
               A verse from 'I Hear Autumn's Call'...

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At The Footbridge

Two Armies

One shoots off another salvo
The other fires back with gusto
Each offended
At the aggression of the other

At the footbridge
Foot soldiers die
In agony you hear them all bloodied, cry
War is a must and you wonder why?

Kings collect gold
Queens their ladies in waiting
Castles must be filled
With linens and fine silver laden

All with justifications
For the death of serfs and those of the invasion...

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Listen to poem:

So and So

At the footbridge in a backward country,
I give a backward glance to what I know.

At the footbridge I don't need new answers -
just be grateful, so and so.

At commencement of day's new dawning,
I won't rush to prove myself...

merely be glad that I'm not starving
in this new country, so and so.

If you see me here and waving,
come and join me on the bridge.

Even if you are an enemy,
we'll hold hands, and so and so.





7/18/2016...

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At the footbridge I saw a chicken,
trying to keep its balance
as it flapped its wings. It felt dizzy
when it saw the abyss below it,
which swallowed time and matter.

Surprisingly the chicken kept on
with the journey, claw after claw. It
wasn't chicken-hearted like most
chickens. It was ready to walk
on wooden footpaths which cracked
in every step,
until it reached the other end.

It had crossed the road;
now it was crossing a footbridge....


Date: 7/19/2016...

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I met Regret today,
he sat down beside me--
whilst across the creek,
Opportunity circled about

Regret introduced himself,
between my bevy of sighs,
I stated, “I wish I'd never met you, sir”
to which he plainly replied,
“But then you'd never meet him...”
as he glanced beyond the footbridge

So I walked across the cobblestone,
--and we never spoke again


July 22, 2016

Current contest: I Got Zero, Nothing, Nada 2
Former contest: At the Footbridge (judged July 26)...

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