Short Thoroughfare Poems

D-riving a new car, 
O-n the well-paved thoroughfare, 
M-ileage is so good....

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Bleak black clothing weeps
Tired eyes; Silent thoroughfare
Afternoon mourning...

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C-hoose the righteous road, 
A-void the wide wicked way, 
E-vade the wrong path.



Form: Acrostic Haiku...

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Herd immunity, herd immunity,
corona viruses hence have absurd impunity,
multiply free and spread in spree over triumphant glee, 
along effortless thoroughfare to every defenseless community....

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Internet
Information thoroughfare
Provides remote communication.
Resourceful, erudite, intelligent, information-engorged
Web.

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 22, 2010
Poetic form: Cinquain...

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Happy birthday, Licerie Claire, 
Life is not always a smooth road; 
One passes through rough thoroughfare, 
Having traveled with heavy load. 

Topic: Birthday of Licerie Claire R. Tanggap (March 30)...

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Couples sway along the Champs Elyesses.
Love songs waltz through the thoroughfare.
This Haute Couture week in Paris.
And the Chicest gather there.
A fast peek into Solaris.
At this Fabriq Affair....

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Some friendly advice I'd like to share
Don't live in the past, you're no longer there
Concentrate on what's ahead
On a happier future instead
The choice is yours, traveling life's thoroughfare...

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    the public thoroughfare
      pummeled, profaned
    verbal fists rumble from 
      amped-up throats...  

    a generation or two
      with nothing better to do
    than scream at the intersection 
      of decline and decay
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A highway of regret…
  an avenue of denial

A boulevard of hopes and dreams
  where footsteps have defiled

A thoroughfare of wanton time
  each choice a dead end road

In fated plundered wanderlust
  —dark alleyways of stone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)...

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The pothole on the road
under the lamppost
 filled with nonstop downpour. 
Also, some water spread thoroughfare.
In the evening as the lights turned on
the hole produced
lamp’s beautiful reflection!
The sporadic rain droplets
heightened the scope
by forming startling images of a kaleidoscope....

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A dry wind lifts a damp fringe of
gray hair.
She is wrinkled,
her mouth sunken
over dentures.

She's as thin as dust
but glows
on the edge of her ruin.

The earth aches.
to seed her again with
a long-buried star-shine.

In this concrete thoroughfare
with its cold blind windows,
she is ever fertile
she is Eve....

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My father, teaching me to drive: the stick-shift car stalls crossing the thoroughfare - bus approaching from the left, 18-wheeler storming in from the right, I freak out and squawk, believing we are going to die. My dad is unfazed:

"Don't panic, just drive.
Put the car in gear and drive."
Advice I still use.
...

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S-earch for the real riches,
A-ll of them stored in heaven;
R-ighteousness and peace
A-re concealed or
H-idden.

L-ife eternal and bliss
A-re found in the promised land;
G-old-paved thoroughfare is built
U-nder the Almighty's hand.
E-verlasting glory
R-emains as true happiness,
T-enth of September Sunday,
A-im for the real riches....

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Written: June 02, 2024 For Tania Kitchin Contest

                                  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


I'm
At ease
fortunate
frolicking balls
no need to be scared
drive the life thoroughfare
with each fact stacking in grace
surely, don't run insane or wound
rivet mirth and carry the waves peak
 dear friends who just invigorate my life....

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C-hoose the straight thoroughfare, 
R-efrain from going amiss; 
I-n the long journey of life, 
S-tay focused on glorious bliss.

T-he straight thoroughfare
A-ims to make a promise; 
N-ever let the right path turn
I-nto wrong or wickedness.
A-s the dawn has just broken, 
N-ew day twenty-eighth of December; 
I-t's time to tread on the true
A-nd straight thoroughfare....

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In the midst of what is happening
Sounding brass is seldom heard
A smooth and polished thoroughfare appeared
Shaded by the light
Sensing a song, a breeze of time
I had wandered
As a bird I flew through forests
Heated by the sun and steaming carried along
But where?
I sang hollow song of tangled notes
Almost like despair.
Can you find the road
That leads into the air?...

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My dad always choked when he tried to name, 
His friends and comrades who hadn’t returned, 
From sorties, dogfights and reconnaissance jobs, 
And would motion by his hands about church. 

The service on Remembrance Sunday morning, 
Would let his worn, torn-up, shredded insides out, 
Give him his heart of thoroughfare and ambition, 
Respected his silence on the matter of the mind....

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A dry wind lifts
a damp fringe of
gray hair.

She is wrinkled,
her mouth sunken
over dentures.
She's as thin as dust
but glows
on the edge of her ruin.

The earth aches.
It once made love to her
and still aches to enfold her,
to seed her again with 
its time-buried starshine.

In this concrete thoroughfare
with its crawling steel, blind windows,
and metaled carapaces,
she is Eve....

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Tokyo No Chikatetsu

“Godzilla!” the subway sways
bouncing sideways.    quiet.
bonsai ears cultivated,
thoroughfare of sentient earplugs.

jolted, jubilant hilarity

“SHH!” teeth hush too loud
drunken, diabolical boredom

“Godzilla!” with more intensity.
brilliant windows, Japanese
contortionists amuse bad
very bad               Americans


6/28/2019

Title - Tokyo Subway...

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A new wind blows from Korea to Tanzania,
     the same wind blew from Antioch to Berea
A fresh breeze grace the Peruvian air,
     that same fragrance wafted
through ancient Rome's main thoroughfare
Oh my Lord,
the sweet smell of the gospel is everywhere
In every generation, 
its wonderful aroma abides there
That lifesaving scent is heavenly to inhale;
breathe it in deeply,
it'll make your soul recover well...

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All along the thoroughfare 
To freeways of the metroplex
Weary workers are coming home
They own the road from 4 to 6

Yes that's the worst time of the day 
It's like a harpy's metal zoo
Where chances you could have a wreck
Are ten times greater multiplied by two.

If happens you are passing there 
Upon this warning please reflect
Don't join the harpy's metal fair 
Stay off the road from 4 to 6.


RETA PRUITT
August 29, 2016...

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