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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

... 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

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

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

... 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