B Lake
...A HIGHWAY LIES BESIEGED BY A NATURAL LAKE.
About a mile from my abode, there's
a large lake called "B Lake". It gets its name
because it is shaped like the alphabet 'B'.
Without reinforcement, th...
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Categories:
state highway, america, rain,
Form: Narrative
Lines Written In Albany
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On white lines on valiant wheels
I head north leaving behind the City of Sails
with its humourless streets,
its casino steel and glass Sky Tower
built upon the rubble of a gran...
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Categories:
state highway, how i feel, places,
Form: Free verse
Exxon At the Edge of Arcadia
...Strange signpost of circling destiny - an Exxon station,
perched at the crossroads of State Highway 95
and Farm to Market Road 1331.
Almost certainly without its own knowledge
serving as the gate...
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Categories:
state highway, paradise,
Form: Free verse
In America, a Poem
...Every state is a verse, and America is a poem.
Can we still seek a ray of hope in the middle of vast gloom?
This burden of anguish we bear is a sea we must inflame.
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Categories:
state highway, 12th grade, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Political Verse
Summer Hostage
...Our small loop of a street
usually quiet
Today receives a loud grooming
with chain saws
and wood chippers
and diesel trucks slicing
and ruining silence
into anti-solitude.
This is my last d...
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Categories:
state highway, age, childhood, parents, school,
Form: Free verse
The Weathered Old Barn
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A Sequel
To
The Weathered Old Barn
By: Tom Wright
11-3-04
A stranger came by just the other day,
with an offer that set me to thinking.
He had seen my old barn from the state highw...
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Categories:
state highway, age, friendship, health,
Form: Lyric
Resonance
...Earth health-love resonance
is bird song
contrasted to dissonance
of non-ecologos
decaying cars
and non-theomythic truck technologies
of terror
and mismanaged motorcycles
flowing incessantly ...
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Categories:
state highway, community, happiness, health, identity,
Form: Prose Poetry
Saturday Night
...It's another Saturday night
ending this week
as started
alone again.
I came here
almost two years ago
to my retirement hermitage
but oddly,
and often uncomfortably,
shared with my hurt kid...
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Categories:
state highway, age, health, loneliness, meaningful,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cemetery Witnessing
...In the late 1970s I was a bricklayer, and for about half a year we worked in a new housing allotment along a state highway in Ohio. There were towns in the area, and a small city about 10 miles away...
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Categories:
state highway, bereavement, death, farewell, life,
Form: Prose
A Girl Was Raped In a Bus That Night
...A girl was raped in a bus that night
By six men, all drunk, who had lost their minds
Ambrosia was the elixir of gods, it is said
But godlike men in this age aren’t born or made
Alcohol wrecks judgm...
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Categories:
state highway, angst, daughter, men, night,
Form: Narrative
An Unexpected Display of Nature's Beauty
...An Unexpected Display of Nature’s Beauty
By Elton Camp
When the drive commenced, it was windy and wet
But suddenly there appeared an amazing sunset
Clear skies far off toward the west had j...
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Categories:
state highway, nature,
Form: Rhyme