Short Odometer Poems
Short Odometer Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Odometer by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Odometer by length and keyword.
As Dreamers Do
fading light captured
the roadside shimmers
soft shadows fall on ditches
I’ve been here before
I watch numbers change
on the odometer for amusement
to mark the passage of my life
a familiar song on the radio
but outside whispers of silence
sun and the moon in the sky
as they get ready to dance
my life given to reflections
a day given to moonlight...
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Categories:
odometer, memory, night,
Form:
Free verse
A Thousand Miles An Hour
A thousand miles an hour
This fete a break through
I scan the speedometer, inset odometer
Stuck in the traffic Jam a thousand, without a move
I wonder!
Fellow citizen passes on wheel chair
A thousand far cry shy
Overtaking treacherously
Counting his steps is staccato
He stops and wonders, boss
Sorry, he muses, poor boy, he mutters
The Jam’s got to take another thousand
And I stare at the speedometer
A thousand miles an hour
The break through....
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Categories:
odometer, allegory, imagination,
Form:
Free verse