Stoplight Poems - Poems about Stoplight

Caution

...Yellow
Caution
Watch out
The leaf
The leaf painted on my bag
The stoplight says, "Proceed with caution."

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Parking Space

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Metro auto wipes against my glass muck,
fog and rain crush the inside out of me —

There part of her appearing windshield down; 
this myself, a glitter in the stoplight —

Now the slick and s...

Empty

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There’s a lot of empty space.
In the car.
In the passenger seat.
The next stoplight.
Everything stops.
Except one honking horn.
Then it continues. 

There’s a lot of empty space.
Except on...

The PistonTrain

...Monday morning comes alive with the piston train speeding by, thousands of people gather at the gate and crowd the platform before it was too late.

Monday morning full of passion with hangover lin...

Blood Moon

...There is a moon stuck inside the stoplight
A still unblinking gaze controlling blood tides
Circulatory system like New York City in the seventies
The thrashing of my tire fire heart led
To the tr...

Homeless

...foggy morning
at the stoplight 
he talks to himself
again...

We Wont Act Like That

...Newlyweds in Michigan City trailng tin cans pause at the stoplight.
Car hauling distraught looking man on a rope races out of sight
You don’t suppose that’s her husband! The new groom said.
Oh yes...

Men Beware

...Jarvis was a goner the second he saw her bouncy hair
She recognized this and reeled him right into her lair
Her amber eyes gave him the stoplight green.
Jarvis from that moment was never again see...

Hurry Up and Wait

...Here is my life. Hurry up and wait.
Rush. Rush. Rush.
Try not to wreck your car.

Yesterday I nearly had a heart attack.
I was the fifth car off the exit ramp.
My meeting was right around the c...

Sam Adams Drunk Driver Same, Same But Different

...Sam Adams Drunk Driver Same, Same but Different 

Sam Adams was drunk driving 
Too fast down an English rural country lane
He ran at a stoplight he did not see 
Blew threw a roundabout
Was rubb...

Rule of Threes Five

...Pride negatory
Better to share His glory
God writes your story

Special kind of gain
We can only learn through pain
God may not explain

Treasure has a source
Wisdom is treasure, of course
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Summers Love

...We fell in love in a one stoplight town
During a summer right out of a dream
Exploring each other under a full summers moon
Making love until we ran out of steam

You were gorgeous late in the e...

Always

...ALWAYS. ********

Understand.  I MUST go
On these clearing acts of
Instinct and inspiration, these flashings
As they come.  For a blizzard has
Been moving in and the snow is
Piling up by the f...

Star Gazing

...~ Star Gazing ~

A star shone bright in my window one night
   I leaped from my bed and I sang it a tune
It grinned at me, then took off like a flash
   I sprinted after it madly, a 100-yard das...

Gratitude

...I am grateful for a dancer's flow, gravity unhinged 
                        for the bubble laugh of infants
                        for the stoplight on unsustainable war
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