Short Middle Of The Road Poems

Miniscule sparrow
in the middle of the road.
Mini hops, maxi danger....

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"BEIGE"

Middle of the Road
Consomme

(You Know Who/April 2018)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qv6p6pTz5I...

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Sparrows fluttering
One on top of the other
Uninterrupted

By the passing cars
In the middle of the road
Near death, unaware...

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Middle of Road Approach

When my approach  was middle of the road,
Spoke language understood and not in code;
On me  dawned,
A common bond;
Things improved  and have ceased to erode.

Jim Horn...

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The middle of the road
is where people live

The middle of the road
 is where our hearts sing

The middle of the road
it raptures and calls 

The middle of the road
—a home for our wings

(The New Room: March, 2023)...

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My thoughts crawl 
from the gray sky
and sigh through the debris of time
in not so steady form--

Like the muted shadow
in the middle of the road, like the gaze 
of onlookers, who wondered 
why I heard not the incoming death...

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I drove onto a motorway,
70 mph middle of the road me,
Middle lane,
Overtake only when necessary,
Then on the otherside,
Slapping his huge stomach and laughing,
Was Sulaman the magnificent,
Fleeced on either side by elephants....

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i am the wolf
in the middle of three
a gemini by nature
between the young and old
the middle of the road
i walk
alone
but always connected
to the pack
of three
minus me
a distant howl
brings me 
home




*for marvin and aaron. i love you guys...

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Thumb screws its way walking a straight line down the middle of the road hitching a ride on a new page no road kill here life’s a breeze surfing open minds along the torturous wake with all the sweet things




Candide Diderot. ‘24 


Shuggie Otis...

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Don’t do the math/s
Don’t look at the ratios
Don’t do the sums
Don’t consider the odds
Don’t do the math/s
Don’t let the algorithm conclude!
Don’t let the median compute!


You’re no average, you’re no middle of the road.

You’re not a number and no number is you....

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Acorn
By the side of the road

Abandoned 

Bird's nest
In the middle of the road

Each with a story,
They draw my eye to them

Home I furnish for them

........Together

On my shelf...

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I was standing there;
In the middle of the road,
Just staring into space. 
Then suddenly a man came out of nowhere 
And asked me if I was okay?
I told him I was fine,
Not to worry about me.
He then pulled out a gun and said;
'Wrong answer',
Right before he pulled the trigger....

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Sitting in the middle of the road
Surrounded by the cyclone of traffic
Whirring in opposite directions
Windows closed, eyes front, minions
Mindful of the presence of one
Misguided middle of the roader
Unable to understand the
Urgency of either side


John G. Lawless
©12/17/2021...

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It is the same little squirrel,
 little baby squirrel,
 running down the road 
with a acorn in his mouth 
bigger than his head 
he runs in the middle of the street
 dodging the cars tail wagging 
running just zigzagging
Little baby squirrel

8/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020...

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Sometimes I wish
I could be more
middle-of-the-road;
with my politics
with my music
with my writing--
but, then, the question arises,
which neighborhood?
And would that road
be, public or private?

For all centers
are not in the same direction;
none of them a constant--
not even the dead 
left to rest,
recycled into
God knows what?...

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Take not your sight and blind it
Deafen not the ear and hear it
Touch not the hot but the warm
Taste not the sour but the sweet
Smell not the bitter of fragrance

Use the sense that God gave you
Correct the wrong and make it right
Hinder not those with common sense
Let the left be left and the right be right
Go down the middle of the road,

Win, with God holding your hand....

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Two possums fight in the middle of a road
Their pain and fear do not show
Ferociously they fight for the prize
Pushing them to tear at each other's eyes
At the end one must die
Three days they fight
Through the day and the night
Fur now red with knuckles gone white
After all that they bickered
One stands the clear victor
He can't believe his eyes or his luck
And as he looks on so proud
He gets hit by a truck...

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It's dark and i'm tired
dazed with flickering lights.
I see a flowing robe
in the middle of the road,
with a thumb out for a ride.
I slow to see - a car pulls over,
my sister who has been gone
picks up the robe and
goes the other way.
With his hands he gives direction
she pays no attention, and
takes him far away.That is 
why the black cat which ran into
the street turned around with fear
when hit by the light....

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When i go to the shops
I walk down the road
And stop at the place
Where the zebra is lying
Flat on its back
In the middle of the road
Opposite the newsagents

When i step carefully
On its back
All the traffics stops
And the zebra carries me safely
Across the road .

When ive done my shopping
Its still there
Waiting to carry me safely
Back across the road again .

I dont know how 
Id cross the road
Without my zebra ....

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I searched high and low
for years and years
I almost gave up

I can see it at the edge of my eye
in the middle of the road, shimmering
eight arms reaching out
eight hearts beating the rhythm 
eyes streaming tears of joy

there is more to me than this
I can feel its pull, feel it change
I can feel your sadness passing 

love me like a wild thing
like the wind and the sky love the sea
love me for the wild things
for all the things I 'll be...

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I thought it was nothing, it started so fast
and then I began to think it'd never last
-oh, how wrong a girl can be

He smiles his smile when        "I"       smile mine
I can't even                     "think"  when he's next to me
And even though              "I'm"    so short on time
I let myself fall                   "in"     more deeply
I know his                       "love"    for me is divine






MIDDLE OF THE ROAD
J. Dover...

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A dead baby lays in the middle of the road
her mother decapitated, blood seeps into the river -
A piece of bamboo and a broken bayonet
one penetrates the rectum, the other, 
a man's head -

The water is stale, bitter, and putrid
a corpse washes up on shore -
a young boy, his skull smashed in 
blood on the butt of a rifle -

A sword, a decapitated torso
rotten flesh, a mass grave
hands mounted to a poll
spoiled meat, rotting in the sun.......

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Amass comrades,
Tell of your fractured spirit;
They may perhaps share your taste,
But in no way
Hang stick poetry
With Shakespeare,
Like Claude Monnet
Accompanying Renata Bernal
To the ballroom.
There is nothing abstract,
Or occult
In allegories
Of men parting
And women crying
Like clouds
Hanging over Kauai.
If I desire to be pedestrian
I would walk 
The middle-of-the-road.
For Christ sake
Let’s write … gems.
If this charge is too tedious
Our job is to listen....

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He was asking for, at least,
a passive euthanasia.

Rage or hostility
was giving pain to phantom limbs.
Race puts forth,
a trembling version
of ethnic choice.
A piped dream
which never took off.

On middle of the road
a dragon rumbles,
hissing flames.
Something not on the left
not on the right.
Cannot keep the sky open.
Nothing moves now,
not even leaves of a lone tree.

There was a random cry
unheard in the aloneness of fire.


SATISH VERMA...

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He was asking for, at least,
a passive euthanasia.

Rage or hostility
was giving pain to phantom limbs.
Race puts forth,
a trembling version
of ethnic choice.
A piped dream
which never took off.

On middle of the road
a dragon rumbles,
hissing flames.
Something not on the left
not on the right.
Cannot keep the sky open.
Nothing moves now,
not even leaves of a lone tree.

There was a random cry
unheard in the aloneness of fire.


SATISH VERMA...

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